Blindness

This is the story of the total breakdown of society following a natural disaster, an unexplained epidemic of blindness that affects an entire city (or nation, it’s not clear). People start committing every sort of despicable actions, but are also capable of acts of generosity unheard of before the epidemic.



Obviously, the story is very relevant today, when we think of possible consequences of a possible mutation of the H1N1 (swine) flu to be very deadly (like the Influenza of 1929).
But in general, I liked the story back when I read the book in 2001, and yesterday when I watched the movie, because firstly, it gives an amazing example for what humanity, leadership, team work, and responsibility are, secondly, my grandparents were among the very few survivals of the Holocaust and the story describes similar situations to what they had to handle with.
Maybe the most important reasons is that, unfortunately, I believe that our society is still blind in many ways.

I recommend.

* The movie is very good, but if you can, try to read the book itself.
http://www.amazon.com/Blindness-Harvest-Book-Jose-Saramago/dp/0156007754

The Brothers Bloom

Clever and Funny. I really recommend!

I LOVE animated movies!

These days the animation, graphics, and general production of these movies is just AMAZING.
We just saw Bolt and enjoyed it very much.
Here's the trailer -

Israel was 61 years old today :)

Hi,

Here is a 3 minutes video taken from one of the funniest Israeli-parody-movies that is always on TV in Israel on our Indepenence Day.  This video has English subtitles, so you can enjoy it even if you're not an Hebrew speaker. 

Defiance

My grandfather was only 13 years old when the Nazies and their helpers attacked his villege in Belorussia and killed 99% of my family and his villege. 

After this, instead of going to school, playing with friends, and imagining what he will do as a grown up, my grandfather was living in the woods, trying to survive from one day to the other. As a part of his survival efforts, he joined the Bielskies and inside the group, he joined the fighters. He wasn't with them all the time because he was afraid of being a part of a big group, but he did find a shalter there, which definately helped him survive the 4 years of death horror.

When I was 12 years old, my grandparents took me to Belarussia to see everything. 

I saw the villeges and the forests and I have many stories from there. 

One view that is burned inside my head is the long-long rows of short green hills. 

I really recommend you to see the movie. You can start with this great trailer - 

Fun with Dick and Jane - the first post-Enron comedy

I love VOD; especially when I workout on my stationary bikes. My tip for motivation is to pick a good movie, and workout every time until the commercials. The next time that you bike, just continue the movie from where you stopped it (the VOD box saves it). That way you'll have a motivation to actually come back to the workout a few hours later, or a day afterwards.

There are not many good movies in Comcast's VOD, but there are some nice comedies. The problem with many of the comedies (especially those in the VOD) is that they are too stupid that they are boring.

Today I saw a movie that surprised me, and had an interesting bottom line.

I took small parts of the review from the New York Times, by By MANOHLA DARGIS, Published: December 21, 2005 that summarize the movie pretty well and that will help me explain you why it interested me while making me laugh.

Here it is -
The documentary "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" wrested only tragedy from the corporate scandal of its title, but it probably should come as no great surprise that now Hollywood is looking to mine big laughs from the same. Hence the sort-of-new Jim Carrey vehicle "Fun With Dick and Jane," what may be the first post-Enron comedy. Based on the 1977 Me Generation laugh-in of the same title with Jane Fonda and George Segal, this comic redo doesn't so much update the plight of its fast-sinking upwardly mobile couple as dust off the story's central conceit: namely, the flip side of the American dream is a nightmare but, you know, also kind of funny.

BTW - the credits at the end of the movie are also cynic and funny. Remember to look at them.