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May. 8th, 2009 11:27 pmToday I saw two movies in the theatre and paid to rent a season of TV, which makes it the most money I've spent on media in a really long time.
1. First I saw Wilby Wonderful with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
china_shop. I actually have a copy of this movie and I've seen it two or three times but it's still great on the big screen and made me feel a lot less guilty about all the cancon I have stolen. I feel a lot more guilty about stealing Canadian stuff than I ever do stealing USA stuff because I feel lke Canadian arts are a lot more like NZ arts - poorly funded industries tottering along on government support fighting The Man, and by The Man I mean Hollywood. So that was fun. Callum Keith Rennie: still adorable. Paul Gross: still a hotass.
2. Then I went to see Tapologo, which was part of the Human Rights Film Festival (which is screening in Wellington for the next two weeks, check it out, it's also going to CHCH and Auckland.) I'm trying to develop a movie-going philosophy where I stop being part of the problem with mass media - i.e. I'm trying to spend as kuch money on arthouse shit as possible and create an environment where independent films can get made and be seen. So last year I saw a bunch of films at the international film festival and this year, well, i'm working all. the. time but I'm going to try to get to a film next Friday too.
Tapologo was pretty good. It had some of the pacing problems that I think can be typical of documentaries but, you know, pacing isn't really the point of docos so I get over it. It is about a community-based home care programme for HIV/AIDS sufferers in a shantytown in South Africa. Some issues raised were: dependence of women upon men and how it forces basically all the women in this shantytown into sex work. The way access to healthcare can affect the quality of your life and the life of people around you in dramatic ways. The way volunteering to do this nursing work helped empower these women. Bottom-up education and community development. How Western people ought to interact with local people to be productive - to come as equals, not as saviours. The role of the Catholic church in aid across Africa (there were two white me who were part of the Catholic church who spoke out against the Catholic church's stance on condoms.) etc. I recommend seeing it.
3. Then I paid to rent Season 7 of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. As I think I've mentioned I've been self-medicating myself with Buffy to save myself from Dollhouse, basically. I'm enjoying it tremendously, I'll probably watch season 3 straight through next - I was picking totally random episodes but I'm watching S7 all the way through. Things I have been surprised by how much I didn't hate: Spuffy! Sometimes I even think that James Marsters is not bad, which is funny b/c I saw him in Torchwood last year and he sucked, but! Hey, neat. (I was saying tochina_shop that I think this is because in between seeing Buffy the first time and seeing it now, I've watched Angel, and so now I'm not so worried about Buffy/Angel because, hey, Angel/Cordelia = hardcore awesome.) Things I still hate: Tara being dead (I skipped the whole of Season 6), Xander and Anya being broken up.
1. First I saw Wilby Wonderful with
china_shop. I actually have a copy of this movie and I've seen it two or three times but it's still great on the big screen and made me feel a lot less guilty about all the cancon I have stolen. I feel a lot more guilty about stealing Canadian stuff than I ever do stealing USA stuff because I feel lke Canadian arts are a lot more like NZ arts - poorly funded industries tottering along on government support fighting The Man, and by The Man I mean Hollywood. So that was fun. Callum Keith Rennie: still adorable. Paul Gross: still a hotass. 2. Then I went to see Tapologo, which was part of the Human Rights Film Festival (which is screening in Wellington for the next two weeks, check it out, it's also going to CHCH and Auckland.) I'm trying to develop a movie-going philosophy where I stop being part of the problem with mass media - i.e. I'm trying to spend as kuch money on arthouse shit as possible and create an environment where independent films can get made and be seen. So last year I saw a bunch of films at the international film festival and this year, well, i'm working all. the. time but I'm going to try to get to a film next Friday too.
Tapologo was pretty good. It had some of the pacing problems that I think can be typical of documentaries but, you know, pacing isn't really the point of docos so I get over it. It is about a community-based home care programme for HIV/AIDS sufferers in a shantytown in South Africa. Some issues raised were: dependence of women upon men and how it forces basically all the women in this shantytown into sex work. The way access to healthcare can affect the quality of your life and the life of people around you in dramatic ways. The way volunteering to do this nursing work helped empower these women. Bottom-up education and community development. How Western people ought to interact with local people to be productive - to come as equals, not as saviours. The role of the Catholic church in aid across Africa (there were two white me who were part of the Catholic church who spoke out against the Catholic church's stance on condoms.) etc. I recommend seeing it.
3. Then I paid to rent Season 7 of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. As I think I've mentioned I've been self-medicating myself with Buffy to save myself from Dollhouse, basically. I'm enjoying it tremendously, I'll probably watch season 3 straight through next - I was picking totally random episodes but I'm watching S7 all the way through. Things I have been surprised by how much I didn't hate: Spuffy! Sometimes I even think that James Marsters is not bad, which is funny b/c I saw him in Torchwood last year and he sucked, but! Hey, neat. (I was saying to
china_shop that I think this is because in between seeing Buffy the first time and seeing it now, I've watched Angel, and so now I'm not so worried about Buffy/Angel because, hey, Angel/Cordelia = hardcore awesome.) Things I still hate: Tara being dead (I skipped the whole of Season 6), Xander and Anya being broken up.
