Trainspotting was one of my favourite movies, it came at a time that I starting to ‘explore’ the world of drugs and alcohol and it most definitely put paid to any silly ideas I may have had of trying the ‘wonders’ of heroin. I instead in my foolish youth stuck to the shitty weed one finds in Sri Lanka and plenty of Screwdrivers and Rum/Cokes. I watched another Danny Boyle movie recently called Millions, I vaguely remember seeing a trailer for this on a DVD I rented a couple of years ago and saw it recently rather blurrily on the Captain’s projector. I missed half the action due to ambient light conditions not being optimal for viewing a projector at midday so ended up renting it from Netflix for a rerun.

 
Watching Millions was an experience akin to reading God of Small Things, albeit in a much different context. The film captured the outlook of 5-year old Damian perfectly, the visitations of the saints wasn’t weird at all, his reasoning captured childhood realities and he doesn’t grate on one’s nerves like some precocious child stars. The cinematography was spot-on, quirky and sometimes almost fairytale like, there’s an interesting mix between reality and the world through Damien’s eyes and some moments that leave you guessing as to which viewpoint it is. There are also some interesting moral messages and the end, even if it is a bit overly ’sweet’ (for a cynical soul like mine) is a good one, something gained, something lost. All in all a stellar movie that’s quite unexpected from the guy who’s made films about shooting up, diving headfirst into toilets, zombies and burying dead people poorly. Oh yeah it also has this amazing song by El Bosco called Nirvana, definite download material.
 
I also watched a rather randomly watched Loose Change which alleged that 9/11 instead of being an expression of crazy Islamic Jihadists was actually a Neocon/government conspiracy. Now I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist, more of a realist but I did find the movie quite interesting. While the entire premise of the movie seems a bit unbelievable there are certain aspects that do raise some questions, why was the Pentagon lawn untouched if Flight 77 slid across it, what were those secondary explosions so many witnesses heard, how did Flight 93 get so thoroughly disintegrated, what’s the deal with all those airline short profits, etc, etc. I would recommend watching it, at least to see the other side of the coin. These days with muppets leading most countries in the world, the MSM by and large owned by corporations, who knows who to trust?
 
 
 
I personally don’t believe the US administration carried out the attacks, I mean really I doubt Bush could tie his shoe laces without parental supervision much less mastermind 9/11. An operation that scale would have had so many people involved that whistleblowers, fuck ups would have been inevitable. After all this was the same US administration who accidently bombed the Chinese embassy in Iraq, which was to say the least a bit of a fuck up. What I do think however is that those devil’s incarnate, Cheney and Rumsfield knew about the attack but stood by and turned a blind eye. They knew this would give them a blank check to instill the fear of god in the US public, line the pockets of Bechtel, pass draconian laws and generally go on a power trip. As I said before watch it, think for yourself and come to an opinion.