El Secreto

Photo by Draken

Congratulations to Juan José Campanella and the brilliant El Secreto de sus Ojos, which won Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. I saw this film a few months back and it really stayed with me. I've been urging my friends to see it ever since. It has an unforgettable sequence in the middle. Not sure it is better than Das weisse Band or Un Prophète, but neither of those films need the publicity El Secreto will now get. The lead, Ricardo Darín, stars in Nueve Reinas, which is good fun and also worth checking out.

Been waylaid in scriptwriting to do any drawing, but now we're done (!!!), I'll make an effort. Any spare time I've had recently has been spent doing this:



10 miles in 01:37:28.

It felt A LOT longer.

Avatarded

Feel cheated? Bitter that you were cajoled into contributing to Avatar's repugnant box-office takings? Well, put those glasses, which you numbly clutched as you staggered out of the theatre, to better use: chopping onions!
It's in proper old-school 3D, costs less, takes up far less of your time and has a better story. For the full experience add your own voice-over of unnecessary exposition as you chop:

"Chopping the onion's cells creates propanethiol-S-oxide-ium. This wafts upwards, mixing with the water in your eyes to form sulfuric acid, which burns and causes tears."

Yeah, OK - but what's for dinner?