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It has become obvious to me that I am getting some visitors. Not family nor friends, however. I think this must be a "rule". The people you are closest to will have no interest in your blog unless you live far, far away from them. Maybe, THEN they will have an interest in it. . . So I have installed a stat counter. It's suppose to be free unless you get like 500 visitor's a week. I think I'm pretty safe in that regard.;).

I was very bad this week and saw two movies. 1st., LARS AND THE REAL GIRL, the second ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE. LARS AND THE REAL GIRL was extremely enjoyable. I expected it to be a total comedy, but no, it was sensitive and I teared up at the end, when Bianca was "buried". I also liked how his brother "looked" at himself and saw how he had contributed to Lars's mental illness. It also made me think about what a person is, and whether they are real or not keeps them from being a "person". Certainly, Bianca became a real person to the town's people, not just because she had a real physical present, but because of the way they were required to respond to her for Lars's sake. I also spend some time trying to figure out whether Lars was delusional, or pretending to be. I mean he knew she came in a box. Living people don't come in boxes. But he gussied himself up, while stealing glances at the box that held Bianca. Never came to a firm conclusion either way. I just accepted the doctor's diagnose.I truly enjoyed how this movie made me think about the perception of personhood is determined by the viewer. [As in slavery, where the slave can think of himself, or herself as a person all they want, but to the owner{s} they are property, a thing, not a person, and that's how the owner{s} treat them. Notice how I'm placing this in present tense, we are not rid of slavery yet.]

Today I saw ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE. I understand why it has not done so well. It was not focused. The story line was divided into two, the A. story, Walter Raleigh, and B. the Spanish Invasion. Neither was told well and both were truncated. Elizabeth was portrayed as an ageing woman obsessed with finding true love before it was too late, who has to be shot at, before she awakes to the danger to herself and her country. Yaa right. . . Elizabeth had several romantic interests during her life, Raleigh was just one of them. Like she wouldn't have married him if she wanted. One of her attachment was her horse master. She raised him to the nobility (and supposedly she almost married him). She was also dotty for his son (grandson?) as well. So, I really don't think she was that desperate for man love. Angry, yes at him and Bess for disobeying her, but not totally out of her mind desperate, like the movie betrays her. Nice costumes, and Clive Owens, yum. Clive kept it from being a total waste.