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Jul. 27th, 2013 08:45 amI went over to R's last night, partly to give him his birthday presents, partly to play Wheel of Fortune on his new Wii. Well, new to him. Apparently his mother bought it from one of her students. I don't even know.
We couldn't get his wii to interact with the controllers, so we ended up having beers and watching a movie. For some reason he'd rented The Help from the library, which doesn't really seem like his kind of film, but was intriguing to watch. The narrative is pretty flawed, in terms of how it treats race -- it's about African-American women in the deep south, but told from a white woman's perspective and heavy on the "Magic Negro" trope -- but halfway through the film I turned to R and said "Have you even heard a man talk so far?" and his eyes got really big.
There's really only one male character who has more than a single line or scene. It's not an objection; I think if anything it's good evidence that you can make a drama about serious subjects without getting a male character involved. It was just the first time in ages either of us had seen that many women in a movie at one time.
I'm staying in today, I think. It's been a rough week. As indicated by the fact I haven't really posted since Tuesday. (I did a post yesterday but it failed to crosspost, goddammit livejournal *fistshake*)
I've been looking at the progress of a few projects and I don't think I'll manage to finish a novel this year. It's a shame; I've done one a year for four years, and five would have rounded it out, but maybe I'm meant to write in fours.
Come to think of it, I think I have four projects running now....
We couldn't get his wii to interact with the controllers, so we ended up having beers and watching a movie. For some reason he'd rented The Help from the library, which doesn't really seem like his kind of film, but was intriguing to watch. The narrative is pretty flawed, in terms of how it treats race -- it's about African-American women in the deep south, but told from a white woman's perspective and heavy on the "Magic Negro" trope -- but halfway through the film I turned to R and said "Have you even heard a man talk so far?" and his eyes got really big.
There's really only one male character who has more than a single line or scene. It's not an objection; I think if anything it's good evidence that you can make a drama about serious subjects without getting a male character involved. It was just the first time in ages either of us had seen that many women in a movie at one time.
I'm staying in today, I think. It's been a rough week. As indicated by the fact I haven't really posted since Tuesday. (I did a post yesterday but it failed to crosspost, goddammit livejournal *fistshake*)
I've been looking at the progress of a few projects and I don't think I'll manage to finish a novel this year. It's a shame; I've done one a year for four years, and five would have rounded it out, but maybe I'm meant to write in fours.
Come to think of it, I think I have four projects running now....
