a bird in the hand is worth a duck in the bush?

[literallyjohn]

for those who've been asking...this is my update on tammy duckworth. yes, i think she does have a chance. (kyoppolife feel free to jump in at any time.) much will depend on how much support she can gain...including financial donations for her campaign. mike honda wrote a letter endorsing her as well: Read more... )

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[fig_aruna]

but still, like the stock market, it doesn't depend so much on how things look on paper as does image and potential--and duckworth is holding some hefty cards that make her look good.

Yeah, that's what the.. the, uh, "head guy" said. (Sorry, I wasn't paying enough attention to remember his name :/)

But anyways, I just totally got schooled! (not making fun, it was a read I really appreciated actually). Although I've never read Heart of Darkness, that's kinda what I thought PJ was trying to get at in the film. ...It was just the representation of the natives that really struck me as disturbing though... Because they (imo) never are "humanized"... They're just really inhuman and scary and remain inhuman and SCARY. (And yes, I meant "scary" in the "omg, I won't ever sleep again, I swear ;__;" type scary, ehehe.)

There's a scene later in the film where Carl Denham tries to recreate the "Skull Island experience" for a high-brow NY audience that makes me think that PJ tried to 'warn' the actual movie audience of the distorted representation of the natives earlier in the film, but to be honest, that scene freaked me out about as much as the first one :/ (this one was freaky more in the conceptual sense though)

Anyways, I'll stop talking about this, so you can watch it yourself. I thought it was well worth the $5.50 I paid to watch it -- because the genre's kinda hard to pinpoint (at least for me), it was like watching 8 different movies.