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Having managed unintentionally to avoid it since its release in 1992, I finally came around to seeing Baraka this evening. Being entirely without dialogue, though bursting with visual and aural atmosphere, enjoyment of this film is probably a great deal more subjective than it is for the majority of feature length pieces. It's enough to say that I enjoyed it without going into what it "said to me" -- again, entirely subjective, and I'm not about to spring a spiritualist monologue on anyone at this hour of the morning -- and that there were certain sequences that I'd love to watch again. On a 50" plasma screen. With 120 watt bass speakers. Or failing that, at an IMAX cinema.

Better yet would be to see, in person, as much of all that there is to see in the world before I'm inevitably run over and killed by a bicycle.*

* This statement is far less random than it seems to those that know me.

I appreciate the kind words; I'm doing just fine now that my shoulder is back in one piece, though the soreness is keeping me on pills and my arm in a sling. An assessment in the next week or two will govern whether or not surgery will be carried out to stabilise the joint in the long term, a distinct possibility since this dislocation is a more severe repeat of one I had in 1998 whilst climbing in Borneo.

EDIT: caught The Incredibles today and enjoyed it immensely, so if you've enjoyed any of the Pixar productions, I suggest you take a look. I don't think I'm off the mark in thinking that it was largely inspired by the classic graphic novel, Watchmen, as anyone who has read it will be reminded of various similarities there (the anti-superhero political movement, the cape thing, the criminal who gets off on being beaten up, the villain who sets up his own stunts to achieve fame), not to mention the influence of Lee and Kirby's Fantastic Four. And if I ever have kids, I want my baby to pull the same trick that theirs does. At least on Hallowe'en.