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Thursday, May 09, 2002 Food Sounds and Momento I can understand the chips, the carrots, and the celery. Heck, I even make exception for cereal, cucumbers, and those weird chex-mix-like condiments you put on top of salads. They're crunchy and you simply can't help but make sounds when you chew on them. What I don't forgive (or perhaps I'm just growing more and more intolerant as I grow older) is the making of food sounds that aren't necessary. Slurping soup? Sucking noodles? Sloshing and snorting and swallowing other various food particles audibly? Don't give me the excuse that eating with gusto heightens your appreciation of the food. It's plain irritating and noisy like polka music at a wedding reception. In fact, in some ways it is worse. It's not terribly polite and the sound of smacking lips gives me horrible visions. I don't want to be mentally picturing liposuction surgery or the squishy-ness of something nasty that accidentally caught underneath someone's shoe while I'm trying to eat lunch. I'm also wary of people who recommend too many movies. I tend to ignore them eventually because they're always going around telling people, "This is one awesome movie!" while their eyes bug out and their lips purse. Please don't try scaring me into seeing something. And then of course they have to say, "You've got to see it, so-and-so is so hot!" Arg! Why do people mistake me for someone who goes to theaters to see some skin? I'm not some teenybopper with posters of cute guys pasted all over my walls. (The only posters that I do have are by Gil Bruvel.) Well, despite being the middle of the week, I got to watch Momento. Normally after hearing such an enthusiastic review as above, I tend to avoid the said movie like the plague. Unfortunately, this movie was "required". Homework is going to be based on it. (No, this is not similar to the film appreciation class I took a year back. This is a neuroscience class where the prof gets to rant about consciousness both philosophically and physiologically.) So what do I have to say about it? To my surprise, I actually liked it. Definitely one of those "thinking" movies. Now I'll have to see it a second time before I forget everything. [posted by S. Y. Affolee on 5:29 PM : ]
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