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Tuesday, 30 August 2005
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I did a clever thing. I organised
a day at home, sort of in lieu of the weekend in Robe. This meant I
could sleep in after the hectic weekend, do some work for TAFE, do some
practice, and, in the middle of the day, take Felicity to the cinema.
Good idea, right?
Yes it was. But I'm so stupid.
I often wonder whether I am
slightly autistic. I don't seem to understand human emotion, or feel
emotions that others do when in the same situation I'm in. I also often
fail to see how people will react emotionally to my actions. And when
people do experience any emotion whatsoever, I might not understand it,
or recognise that an emotion has been expressed. I'm so stupid; or is
it that I'm emotionally retarded?
It's all about the film I took Felicity to, Look Both Ways. Don't get
me wrong, it's a lovely film. Actually, it's a perfect film.
It's set near where I live. It's a beautiful, mature, warm story, using animation in a really unusual and intelligent way.
The cinematographer was Ray Argall, whom I knew briefly in the
mid-eighties. In fact I was in one of his movies, part of a television
series he did. I think the one I was in was called Rock School. It was
about work I was doing at the time writing and being MD for musicals
for kids. One of the kids in that film was a student of mine, the 14 year old Bruna Papandrea, who later
went on to become a producer, nominated for an AFI award no less, for
Better than Sex. She got into the industry directly by association with
Ray.
So if Look Both Ways is such a great film, why am I an inconsiderate, semi-autistic piece of dirt for taking Felicity to it?
Because, at heart it's about death, cancer, death by cancer, how death
affects people, how cancer affects people, unwanted and wanted
childbirth, new relationships, the breakup of old relationships and
more death.
Considering what she has been through in the last year, that is, just
about every theme of the movie, only an idiot would have taken her to
this film.
6:17:08 PM 
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I can't believe i missed this! Years after swearing he would never buy another, Dave Winer has bought a Mac.
6:03:55 PM
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