The Lonesome Road

I was dragged by my sister to see Alexander yesterday. Will have to repay the “favour” someday. The movie was awful. It’s a period drama consisting of scenes of melodrama interspersed with battles full of blood and gore and scenes that wouldn’t be out of place in a soap opera. By the time the movie was over I was so, so bored. The character of Alexander did not come across as a great leader or a good general. He seemed to be a very confused person in life. In all these period movies there seems to be a tendency to idolize the protagonist. Seems wierd. Also there are several historical liberties taken in the film. For example, Alexander is supposed to have dies of disease - here he dies of an arrow to the chest. I actually felt worse for his horse when it was killed. Also there was no battle with the forces of Porus. Anyway, I guess these liberties are required to make the movie work. All in all a very dull film.

If this wasn’t bad enough, I had an amateur historian next to me who kept explaining all aspects of the movie to his girlfriend in sufficient detail to put a classroom to sleep. Also, the bane of all performances - the cell phone was in action. I don’t get it - almost every phone has a vibrator mode these days - but no - the ringtones must be heard by all the people around. Grow up guys - everyone has a phone now.

Nothing much in college today. Basic introduction to Parallel Processing Systems and that’s all. Will keep posting.

That’s all for now…