Friday evening

it is PURE EVIL to make a class watch Amores Perros (2000) on Friday afternoon/evening.

EVILEVILEVIL

it is one heck of a violent film. not just in terms of people hurting other people (and bloody scenes of a car accident) but dogs fighting other dogs. dogs that have been trained to kill other dogs in fights.

and blood is simply mopped up and the next fight goes on.

i can understand how it is effective and contributes greatly to the point that the film is trying to make but i had to stop myself from walking out of the film to see how it was "essential".

though half the class was too disgusted and walked out anyway.

after the film we gathered outside and everyone looked dazed. and depressed that we actually HAVE to watch it again on Monday.

to add to the situation, next term's films are pretty violent as well. case in point: Irreversible (2002).

what a way to start the weekend - and because the film was longer than the class time, i could not make it to Westwood in time for Lyrical class so i ended up going for Body Conditioning instead.

which in the general scheme of things (i.e. getting fit), isnt too bad. but still...