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We continued our attendance at the Global Lens film series by the Global Film Initiative, a foundation that promotes cross cultural understanding through cinema.

Fuse
The movie takes place in a small town in Bosnia. The people in the town are trying to rebuild their society after years of civil war and unbridled corruption. They find out that the President of the United States is going to visit the town. The mayor and the civil servants have to do everything they can to clean up the town in time for the visit.

Corruption, bribery, prostitution & dead spirits are everywhere in town and they all have to be cleaned up ASAP. The movie is very funny but there are parts that remind you that this was a war zone and those wounds heal very very slowly.

Unlike other movies, this ending is riveting. I mean, the movie builds suspense to the point you just can't freaking stand it. Then, at the cinematic orgasmic point, you don't know if to laugh or cry at the poor mayor.

Great flick.


Whisky
The president of an old sock factory in Uruguay needs to impress his brother who is coming for a visit. He asks his employee, Marta, to play the part of his wife for the duration of the visit. The factory owner is a dry, sad old man and his brother is a talkative, friendly guy.

I had no idea that humor could be soooo understated. I mean, I have never, never seen so much deadpan humor. After a while you're thinking to yourself, "That was funny right? Yeah, I think that was funny...Ha ha ha ha" I KNEW this was going on because after a few instances of that train of thought going on in my head, I began to laugh. A few times, I was the first one to laugh and then the other people in the theater also began to laugh. In other cases, I took the cue from others in the audience and I followed their laughter.

We decided to rent a few movies also.

The Professional
The guy at the video store said it was the best movie he has ever seen. He also said he had a crush on Natalie Portman. She's 12 in this movie! Freaking pedophile!!

The movie sucked. Skip it. Freaking pedophile...

Bad Boy Bubby
We were wandering around the aisles and I saw this DVD cover, after reading it I thought it would be an interesting flick.

The movie is a bout a man who has been kept in a small room by his mother for his entire life (reminds me of Old Boy). He escapes after a while and then has to deal with a completely foreign world he has never imagined existed.

We were finishing dinner as we put on this movie, about 15 minutes in to it, I suggest that we pause it to put away the dishes. Jeanne says, "No. This is like watching a train wreck. I can't stand to pull myself away from it."

Yeah, 15 minutes into the film and you're already glued to the screen. The movie is just soooo bizarre that you have no idea what's going to happen next.

Bubby (the guy in the room for 30 years) has to be taken care of because although he seems retarded, he isn't he just has the mental age of a little kid. There are some pretty distasteful things that go in that room.

Bubby has a pet cat. Not that he knows how to treat the cat well, but he does play with it. Bubby's favorite toy is cling wrap. The cat becomes intimately familiar with cling warp...dark comedy at it's best!!!

The the various adventures that Bubby has with a rock band, another cat, an adult living facility, and a brief jail term are just so disparate that you really can't figure out what's next. You'll watch this movie in a slight daze of confusion as you just can't believe what you're seeing. I mean, how can a guy who can only repeat sentence fragments he hears be a star member of a rock band? Yup, it happens.

Toward the end, on of the band members give a great monologue to Bubby about humanity's history of 'not getting along' was awesome. Of course, it came out of the blue and was completely unexpected...like everything else! Bizarre, bizarre movie...

Definitely, definitely rent this movie. You JUST HAVE to see the cat & the cling wrap! Man that was funny....