Movie Watching
Sep. 18th, 2006 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebI attended today's screening of Cinemakids 2006, all films by kids from around the world.
My favorite one was probably "Rich Girl." It starts with a teenaged girl in a winter coat walking through a nice store and out the door onto the street and down the street, balancing along concrete edging. Then she admits that actually she is from a shelter. She asks if we could tell.
Then she says people don't know a lot about shelters. Some people think they are just large rooms full of cots. Then they show her in front of a building saying that this shelter is like that, but her family was only there for three days. Then she shows us the bus that took her to the next shelter. Then she shows us the shelter where she's living now. She explains that in this shelter each family gets its own apartment. But no one in the neighborhood knows it's a shelter. And no video cameras are allowed inside. And no guests are allowed beyond the lobby.
Then she explains how she likes to do things. For example, she helped build a robot.
She shows us photos but not film of her family because they are camera shy.
Finally she decides that because of all her activities, friends, and family, she really is a rich girl after all.
Another one I really liked was "New and Improved," spoofing credit card commercials. The first vignette was a lot like a regular commercial, but in the end he's using his parents' credit card, not his own.
In another one he shows different parts of town until finally we come to a homeless person with a cardboard sign advertising "Will dance for money." And we learn that she doesn't take credit cards.
One showed a camera, with the price. Then a film cartridge, going into the camera, with the price. Then a tripod, with the camera going on top, with the price. "Film of your dad impersonating Tom Cruise sliding down the hallway in his socks? Priceless." Then we see the film of this. And we see the cartridge with the title "Dad impersonating Tom Cruise," then we see a hand adding this to a stack of three other films with titles beginning "Dad impersonating ..." Then he explains how being able to blackmail your dad is also priceless.
"Snakes and Ladders" was too impressionistic for my tastes but had a really good life lesson in it. That lesson is that even if it's hard or you're really not in the mood, you just have to learn to take care of yourself, otherwise other people will take control over you. You may be institutionalized, for example. I've been very fortunate to never have been in a place where this lesson was relevant to me, but it's a good one.
My favorite one was probably "Rich Girl." It starts with a teenaged girl in a winter coat walking through a nice store and out the door onto the street and down the street, balancing along concrete edging. Then she admits that actually she is from a shelter. She asks if we could tell.
Then she says people don't know a lot about shelters. Some people think they are just large rooms full of cots. Then they show her in front of a building saying that this shelter is like that, but her family was only there for three days. Then she shows us the bus that took her to the next shelter. Then she shows us the shelter where she's living now. She explains that in this shelter each family gets its own apartment. But no one in the neighborhood knows it's a shelter. And no video cameras are allowed inside. And no guests are allowed beyond the lobby.
Then she explains how she likes to do things. For example, she helped build a robot.
She shows us photos but not film of her family because they are camera shy.
Finally she decides that because of all her activities, friends, and family, she really is a rich girl after all.
Another one I really liked was "New and Improved," spoofing credit card commercials. The first vignette was a lot like a regular commercial, but in the end he's using his parents' credit card, not his own.
In another one he shows different parts of town until finally we come to a homeless person with a cardboard sign advertising "Will dance for money." And we learn that she doesn't take credit cards.
One showed a camera, with the price. Then a film cartridge, going into the camera, with the price. Then a tripod, with the camera going on top, with the price. "Film of your dad impersonating Tom Cruise sliding down the hallway in his socks? Priceless." Then we see the film of this. And we see the cartridge with the title "Dad impersonating Tom Cruise," then we see a hand adding this to a stack of three other films with titles beginning "Dad impersonating ..." Then he explains how being able to blackmail your dad is also priceless.
"Snakes and Ladders" was too impressionistic for my tastes but had a really good life lesson in it. That lesson is that even if it's hard or you're really not in the mood, you just have to learn to take care of yourself, otherwise other people will take control over you. You may be institutionalized, for example. I've been very fortunate to never have been in a place where this lesson was relevant to me, but it's a good one.