I am back!!!!!!! Lufthansa and Never Let Me Go
Moscow trip was great, but contained some quite extreme weather. We were lucky to fly from Heathrow on the very early morning of the fateful 18th of December. Heathrow was closed at the midday of the same day for 3 days.
We used Lufthansa this year and weren’t at all pleased with this company. The tickets were really cheap but I am not flying by Lufthansa anymore, NO WAY, not ever, because:
- Our luggage was delayed for three days on our way to Moscow (due to our transition in Munich, the luggage somehow got stuck in Munich) , leaving us without essentials for three days. I was not happy! I admit that reports about the 3-day closing of Heathrow and realisation of how lucky we were to be able to successfully fly out of London at all (rather than spend 3 nights in Heathrow) improved my mood considerably, but still - Lufthansa! This is not right!
- Berlin is officially the worst airport I have ever been in. We had a transition in Berlin on the way back from Moscow to London. We were made to go through passport control, walk for what seemed as miles outside (in the cold outdoors) to another building, and queue for full check-in, security and passport control again. Besides, the airport had most confusing signs. I am a bit of a logic freak, but still: A4 and A04 are NOT the same. If you show "A04" on the information displays you must mark the gate as A04, not as A4. And as the icing on the cake, I was pawed by some security lady ALL OVER. I must have had an unpleasant face. BRRRRRRRR!
Complaining aside, the trip was wonderful and I promise to post the pictures. I generally promise proper regular posting (at least 2 times a week).
Fannish life:
I have been catching up on some shows, mainly "Mentalist" and "Good Wife". My daughter discovered a big passion for Mentalist as she generally loves police shows with quirky main characters (Monk, Columbo, etc.), so we had some catching up to do
Films: I haven't seen anything standing out, apart from "Never Let Me Go". The film is definitely beautiful and haunting, and makes one think, BUT there were big buts for me! I have hidden my thoughts behind the spoiler cut, but I must say: the ending is spelled out in the first 2 minutes of the film, so there isn't too much spoilery damage one can do.
Never let me go:
I found the blurbs for "Never Let me go" to be very confusing (the film is absulutely different from what I expected from the blurbs), so here is my short synopsis, just in case:
"Never Let me Go" is about human clones brought up in a sheltered boarding school located in the British countryside. The clones live to do two things: donate their organs and die. The film focuses on the love triangle between three young clones: Kathy, Tommy and Ruth. Kathy is played by Carey Mulligan who did a fabulous job in the film.
I can’t help but admire the wistful melancholy of "Never let me go" (I am a big fan of "Remains of the day"), but I have few things to say to the creators:
Dear creators! Why do you think all humans are weak-minded idiots? Why? Why do you think people would just melancholically comply (as the protagonists of the film did) if they were told that they exist solely for the purpose of donor donations and that they will die from the donations by the age of 30? This situation is extremely unrealistic, and unrealistic not only in the "science fiction" sense, but also in the psychological sense. I know some people in the history lived (or live ) their lives as slaves. But they weren’t all that happy to be slaves! They rebelled! They didn’t just go on living as zombie spare parts without will! I wanted to see at least one character in the firm who disgareed with her or his destiny. There were none! All the clone children acted as if they indeed had no soul!
It feels as if there is some political agenda behind the film, but I can’t quite figure out what it is. Is the film against cloning and organ donations? Or is it against the class system?
Besides, I did not like Tommy. I accept that we don’t choose who we fall in love with, but why would a strong (well, as strong as it gets in the film) girl like Kathy continue loving a cheating weakling like him? Who spent the best years of his life with another girl, and after all this dared to tell Kathy that he loved Kathy all along??
We used Lufthansa this year and weren’t at all pleased with this company. The tickets were really cheap but I am not flying by Lufthansa anymore, NO WAY, not ever, because:
- Our luggage was delayed for three days on our way to Moscow (due to our transition in Munich, the luggage somehow got stuck in Munich) , leaving us without essentials for three days. I was not happy! I admit that reports about the 3-day closing of Heathrow and realisation of how lucky we were to be able to successfully fly out of London at all (rather than spend 3 nights in Heathrow) improved my mood considerably, but still - Lufthansa! This is not right!
- Berlin is officially the worst airport I have ever been in. We had a transition in Berlin on the way back from Moscow to London. We were made to go through passport control, walk for what seemed as miles outside (in the cold outdoors) to another building, and queue for full check-in, security and passport control again. Besides, the airport had most confusing signs. I am a bit of a logic freak, but still: A4 and A04 are NOT the same. If you show "A04" on the information displays you must mark the gate as A04, not as A4. And as the icing on the cake, I was pawed by some security lady ALL OVER. I must have had an unpleasant face. BRRRRRRRR!
Complaining aside, the trip was wonderful and I promise to post the pictures. I generally promise proper regular posting (at least 2 times a week).
Fannish life:
I have been catching up on some shows, mainly "Mentalist" and "Good Wife". My daughter discovered a big passion for Mentalist as she generally loves police shows with quirky main characters (Monk, Columbo, etc.), so we had some catching up to do
Films: I haven't seen anything standing out, apart from "Never Let Me Go". The film is definitely beautiful and haunting, and makes one think, BUT there were big buts for me! I have hidden my thoughts behind the spoiler cut, but I must say: the ending is spelled out in the first 2 minutes of the film, so there isn't too much spoilery damage one can do.
Never let me go:
I found the blurbs for "Never Let me go" to be very confusing (the film is absulutely different from what I expected from the blurbs), so here is my short synopsis, just in case:
"Never Let me Go" is about human clones brought up in a sheltered boarding school located in the British countryside. The clones live to do two things: donate their organs and die. The film focuses on the love triangle between three young clones: Kathy, Tommy and Ruth. Kathy is played by Carey Mulligan who did a fabulous job in the film.
I can’t help but admire the wistful melancholy of "Never let me go" (I am a big fan of "Remains of the day"), but I have few things to say to the creators:
Dear creators! Why do you think all humans are weak-minded idiots? Why? Why do you think people would just melancholically comply (as the protagonists of the film did) if they were told that they exist solely for the purpose of donor donations and that they will die from the donations by the age of 30? This situation is extremely unrealistic, and unrealistic not only in the "science fiction" sense, but also in the psychological sense. I know some people in the history lived (or live ) their lives as slaves. But they weren’t all that happy to be slaves! They rebelled! They didn’t just go on living as zombie spare parts without will! I wanted to see at least one character in the firm who disgareed with her or his destiny. There were none! All the clone children acted as if they indeed had no soul!
It feels as if there is some political agenda behind the film, but I can’t quite figure out what it is. Is the film against cloning and organ donations? Or is it against the class system?
Besides, I did not like Tommy. I accept that we don’t choose who we fall in love with, but why would a strong (well, as strong as it gets in the film) girl like Kathy continue loving a cheating weakling like him? Who spent the best years of his life with another girl, and after all this dared to tell Kathy that he loved Kathy all along??