Movies, Thoughts and Walks in May

 

A photo from a walk near home this past Monday. The landscapes are getting the late spring green as summer settles into place. Though I enjoy gardening and being out in nature in the warmer months, summer's heat and humidity is not as much fun as when I was a child.

I reread Tom Wolfe's Radical Chic from 1970 this week. It is relevant again in modern life among the poseurs of society.

Recent movies I watched:

The old mansion in Silent Night, Bloody Night

 

Silent Night, Bloody Night - I probably saw this on television in the seventies when old movies regularly played on the Atlanta independent stations. The movie is from 1972 and it captures how I remember the seventies as dark, rural and quiet. The 70s were not all about disco despite what people may think. I enjoyed the movie for what it was.

Westler -This is a 1985 West German gay movie about two lovers divided by the Berlin Wall. I'm obsessed with the GDR and Berlin so this movie appealed to me for it's footage shot on both sides of the wall. The plot and acting weren't the best, but it had enough appeal for me. The East German film, Coming Out, released in 1989 is a more complete and interesting film.