I just came back from screening Comandante. A ridiculous take on Fidel Castro by Oliver Stone. Besides the many shots of the "Revolutionary's" hands and ass kissing that goes on by Stone throughout the movie you don't get much. I loved the Castro quote about education, saying that when he came to power the number of people who went to University in Cuba was 10,000 but now it's 400,000 and get this, "we have prostitutes here, but at least they are prostitutes that have gone to University!" excuses me? - thanks Castro, i always hoped that i live in a country where i can discuss the finer points of post-modernism theory with my prostitute! The whole movie ends with Castro calling Stone "brave" and comparing Stone's experience in Vietnam to his visit to Cuba.
Let's just say i didn't like the film. However it was the first film that i helped load and project. So that was quite exciting. And i found a sexier place than the library stacks - the projection space is quite romantic. It's weird that i find places that interest me professionally tend to co-exist with some weird romantic (ok sexual) association as well.
The projector is a magical machine and i could have just stared at it for hours. I get to do it all over again on Thursday, quite excited.
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