A shoe in...

Friday night, we had the first of our Cine-meducation nights at Union. We started a group to watch culturally significant films and discuss them informally, at the movie and during the week. Many of the films will be fairly controversial and quite intense. We'll be trying to alternate these with fun, or at least slightly less intense, films.

This week, we watched Birth of a Nation. It was intense. Besides, a 3 hour movie from 1915 with no dialogue or narration is hard to take. i made the comment about 2 hours in, "i've hit my quota of silent productions for the next 10 years."

i forgot that ballets are silent. We went to see Cinderella last night. It was good. The music was excellent. It was pretty hard though with no dialogue or narration for the second night in a row.

By far, the best part was when Cinderella turned into Star Wars for a few minutes in the second act. The "clock dwarfs" came out with Father Time. They were tiny dancers in hooded brown robes. i nearly shouted, "Look, JAWAS!" And right then, they all began turning on their glowing red lights. They looked just like Jawas! The husband in the couple next to us said the same thing during the intermission and we were both clearly more excited for act 3.