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I went and reordered my netflix queue, going on a little Michelangelo Antonioni kick (which I'd been planning to do for a while now) and then onto some Giuseppe Tornatore....apparently, I did it too late for them to be sent out for the weekend.

Ah well, I'm sure the movies coming to me will be good anyway.

I watched two Brazillian movies this weekend- Black Orpheus last night and Midnight: 2000 Seen By... tonight
Black Orpheus is a 1950's retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Euridyce. If I didn't know the myth, I would have had no clue what was going on. The first 45 minutes or so was...eh...the rest of it though, was rather surreal and quite well done. Orpheus's search for Euridyce was actually quite heartbreaking. I could have done without the last two mintues or so though.

Midnight: 2000 Seen By was a sorta interesting one. The Netflix description was kinda sucky. The movie was really short- less than an hour and a half. Basically about two people on the last two days of 1999- one getting dumped by her boyfriend, one escaping from prison to kill a snitch. She becomes suicidal and goes up on her roof to jump and meets him up there. No, the movie doesn't end all sappy-happy. Actually, it's really only the last 10 mintues or so of the movie that are really all that good. It was pretty obvious to me what was going to happen, but I still like the way they carried it out.

Back to work tomorrow. Time to sleep soon.