Mads Blog

First, read the above review.

Now, I haven't seen Open Hearts yet (if you haven't read the linked review above, it's by the same director and writer team), because although it got Canadian distribution late last year IIRC, I haven't seen it at the video store, and to be honest I have not been in the headspace to deal with watching a movie about a man who leaves his wife for a younger woman, must less a man whose daughter says something like "you bought her a whole house full of furniture, and you won't even buy me a dress!" I'd be SQUARELY on the wife and daughter's side. I'd slap that younger woman so freaking hard her head would spin and she'd have the tinnitus I now happen to have.

However, Bombay orphanages? Rich guys named Jorgen? I'm SO there! I wonder if I get to see the red carpet walk. I've never been to one of these things before.

Permit me to be smug for just a moment. And then let your jaw drop over how much the tickets cost.

On another personal note (yes, two in the same post), my parents are going to be very happy to see me sooner than Thanksgiving (my traditional trip, second weekend of October). They live outside Toronto and I've been hounding them to come and visit me, but my mum's health is not so good.