I can't believe I'm working on a Sunday
Last night I got so despondent about spending the evening reading that dissertation I ended up going out to buy a six-pack and rent Spiderman and Scotland, PA. The former movie because I haven't seen it and heard that it was pretty good, and the latter because I have wated to see it for a long time--it is an interpretation of MacBeth set in a Pennsylvania steel town. I watched Spiderman when I finished the first chapter, and I have to say that I enjoyed it. I liked how they didn't just try to make a cheesy action movie, but really caught some of the angst that surrounds growing up into a world dominated by science. I guess this could be argued, but I thought Toby M did a swell job of making Peter Parker's/Spiderman's moral dilemma seem plausable--he wasn't just some sort of superhero like the popular version of Spiderman. Though I claim no sort of special knowledge of comics, one thing I do know it is that Stan Lee's heroes, at least, have moral conflicts/secrets that they deal with in serving societies that hve an ambivalent relationship to them at best. Anyhow, I'll watch the other video tonight.
Well,back to work with me.
Well,back to work with me.