Which is to say, after spending a very pleasant afternoon with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
iulia tromping around the park and totally not going to the lake or even thinking about going to the lake I mean who would try to go to the lake on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend when it's 80 degrees and there's so many people at the lake they've got half the Sheriff's Department directing traffic at the parking lot? Not us.
Ahem. Anyway, after a lovely afternoon with Iulia, I thought, hm, I'm kind of bored, I think I'll watch a movie. Maybe a movie about women! Women who form strong bonds with each other! In the face of adversity even!
Yeah, so then I watched Paradise Road, about women in a Japanese internment camp on Sumatra. It's a rather great movie, lots of triumphing of the human spirit, except when the human spirit runs up against, uh, dysentery and starvation and despair. Um. But! It is definitely a movie about the triumph of women being a bit sneaky and resourceful and sometimes just crazily brave and helping each other out.
Aaaaand also, uh, now I'm slashing Dr. Verstak (played by Frances McDormand) and Susan (played by Cate Blanchett) like crazy. And totally not considering digging up one or the other of the primary source books written by survivors to see if there is an actual person upon whom Dr. Verstak may have been based so I may choose a first name for her.
My Yuletide list is now, like:John and Claire fic from Echo in the Bone, sculpture fic, Paradise Road fic. Wonder Boys can be my, um, big safety fandom? *facepalm*
iulia tromping around the park and totally not going to the lake or even thinking about going to the lake I mean who would try to go to the lake on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend when it's 80 degrees and there's so many people at the lake they've got half the Sheriff's Department directing traffic at the parking lot? Not us. Ahem. Anyway, after a lovely afternoon with Iulia, I thought, hm, I'm kind of bored, I think I'll watch a movie. Maybe a movie about women! Women who form strong bonds with each other! In the face of adversity even!
Yeah, so then I watched Paradise Road, about women in a Japanese internment camp on Sumatra. It's a rather great movie, lots of triumphing of the human spirit, except when the human spirit runs up against, uh, dysentery and starvation and despair. Um. But! It is definitely a movie about the triumph of women being a bit sneaky and resourceful and sometimes just crazily brave and helping each other out.
Aaaaand also, uh, now I'm slashing Dr. Verstak (played by Frances McDormand) and Susan (played by Cate Blanchett) like crazy. And totally not considering digging up one or the other of the primary source books written by survivors to see if there is an actual person upon whom Dr. Verstak may have been based so I may choose a first name for her.
My Yuletide list is now, like: