Movies and Trauma

Movies
I watched an excellent movie last night - Goodbye Lenin! It takes place in East Germany in late 1989/early 1990. Alex's mother is devoted Socialist, who falls into a coma, and "sleeps through" the fall of the Berlin wall. She wakes up 8 months later and the doctor says any kind of shock could kill her, so Alex puts together an elaborate scheme to keep the mother in the dark and let her believe she is still living in a Socialist society. There are so many great moments: the friend doing the fake news broadcasts was hilarious, as was Alex's desperate search for Spreewald pickles and triumphant discovery of Mokkafix instant coffee. It turned a little serious in the final third of the movie as these foreign comedies tend to do (I'm thinking of Muriel's Wedding), but it was still very well acted and fun to watch.

And then The Man in the Moon was on TV this morning. I remember renting this when it first came out and loving it right away. The girl who plays the older sister was in the TV show "Rags to Riches" and Reese Witherspoon was suddenly my new favorite actress. I love it just as much today, although the overly poignant coming of age theme is a little more obvious this time around.

And then, we went to the park tonight to watch The Sandlot. Can I just say the movie in the park thing is the best idea ever!! And can I also say, I love The Sandlot! We of course talked along with the dialogue - "I've swum here every summer of my adult life. And every summer there she is, lotioning, oiling, oiling, lotioning, smiling. Smiling! I can't take this anymore!" I love Squints!

and Trauma
Ants on/in my car - all over the place... such a nightmare! Ok, I am exaggerating a bit. But when you freak out about bugs as much as I do, such a nuisance does become a nightmare. I must have parked right on an ant hill on Friday, because when I opened the hood Saturday morning, they were all over the inside. I went crazy with the bug spray and the Windex, and have been on edge ever since because there were at least 10 or 15 that got inside the car too. And that just creeps me out!