Forgot to mention that I’d watched The Take (imdb | rotten tomatoes) this week. Obviously it appealed to my ultra-lefty sensibilities, and it was interesting to see the other side of an notion which has been so forcefully presented to me throughout my commerce degree and MBA: that the World Bank and IMF are wonderful & benevolent bodies, and that unrestrained free market capitalism is a near-perfect model. Does it do more ood than harm? Perhaps. But Avi Lewis and Noami Klein, whose personal views were clear long before this movie was filmed, are intent on showing us the harm. And they should; it’s a failing of academia that people are considered part of the system, and the harmful impact on the unfortunates who fall through the gaps in the system should be front and centre in the minds of everyone involved in making monetary decisions. Too often, though, those decisions are being made by rich, greedy men in palaces and luxurious hotels.
Last night I watched I Heart Huckabees (imdb | rotten tomatoes), a movie so weird that it made last weekend’s screening of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy seem straightforward. I didn’t hate it, but I’m fairly certain that I didn’t much like it either. It’s pretty much the first movie that I’ve seen aim for “ironically deep” and end up with “cutesy”. Unless you go out of your way to watch movies which you think other people won’t like, so that you can sneer and mock and nattering masses for “not getting it”, don’t bother.
