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Wednesday, July 28, 2004

Mixed reviews

If my life over the last 3 months was a ridiculous overblown telemovie I suppose you could say that it was a coming of age story (but I'm too old for that right?) of a young woman wearing beige in a foreign land, battling corrupt officials and struggling with the devestating realities of poverty and environmental destruction, whilst looking inwards for answers and finding herself along the way.

Then again we could depict it through the metaphore of a teen movie. Effervescent frizzy haired girl lives with conservative religious family and tries to meet their expectations yet at the same time listen to loud music, have a life, not dress like a dork and occasionally let slip a four lettered word. She tries to appreciate the love and support of the family unit yet at the same struggles with finding her own space, tries to respect their beliefs but also find room to express her own.
I think they'd show that one on Hallmark channel and there's be a lot of door slamming, bad jumpers and kitchen hug scenes.

Finally, my life here could be expressed through an avant garde French Hal Hartleyesque film, where lots of people with cool t-shirts discuss random themes, in monotones, in almost indecipherable subtitle English, through cigarette smoke, whilst walking in parks or sitting in post apocolyptic punk parties. The tone would be cerebral, disjoint and contradictory, stylistically restricted, introspective but ultimately liberating.
The conversations could go like this
"I just don't think there is a moral imperitive for aid. The whole system is designed to perpetuate the construction of North-versus-South for the benefit of the big corporations. If you think about it, the poor are the last people to benefit from aid. So where's the moral imperitive? It is no more than westen capitalism beinfg forced down the throats of the hungry" 
 "Oh Jean, you cling to the deontoligical argument like a piper to a rat, why can not you just let it go. Is there no room for virtue ethics in your world? The snow does not blame the cloud when it lands in a field, you must open your heart to the giving"
[Enter Kiki] "Does anyone want to go running naked in the park? I grow so tired of all this intellectualism. You students don't know what it is to scream in the moment. You know that Adrienne has been taken by the police for his involvement in the movement, I cannot bear this place anymore. Are these your cigarettes?"
The End.

Or (ok ok last one I promise)...

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