Confessions of a cat

So there is this series “24″. It has been running for a while in the States. I have never had the opportunity to watch it (nor that I wanted). I wasted my weekend watching its sixth period.

In a nutshell: it is like a constant 24 hour action movie like Die Hard. Substitute Kiefer Sutherland with Bruce Willies and there you have it.

Things interesting to note:

- Every part is approximately 35-40 minutes with the remaining time of an hour filled with 4 part of ads. Every time an ad comes a timer shows up on the screen showing the time in the film. Then - I guess - the ads come (I never saw them as I got them from the net). And when they’re over we’re back to the timer or a few seconds and it continues. Lots of ad money could be generated with this Imagine every 10-15 minute there’s a 5 minute ad block.

- In this series they were having some problems with some bald arab terorist. Now never ever the country of that terrorist was spoken in the film. I can understand that, but it sounds a bit silly to always refer to the country in question as “Fayad’s country”. Being politically very correct, right? As I said I can understand this but it still sounds stupid. Otherwise I do not think too many people have noted it at all.

- The people oh my god. There’s a woman called Chloe? who always looks like she’s very disturbed. quite pessimistic of course - in a way. Why the need?

- And again: The black prime minister (commander in chief / mr. president ). The chinese who play the bad guys part. The arabs who are bad again - but there is one very good (and nice too) arab girl who works for the good guys. All in all: I liked that the characters change over time. People who start out being black and white with their opinions turn out to be more grey in the end. Which is good. You cannot always be right.

Anyways: Sutherland is good.

This movie just got me. It is so very true and infinite. I just kept smiling at times watching it.  As a word of warning though: do not watch it if you cannot understand homosexuals / lesbians… and some more

Well. I had a kind of harsh opinion about America and Americans in general. In the past. Of course I knew it is a stupid thing as not all Americans are the same - just the same way as not all Hungarians are the same (despite the prejudices and all).

Now it all seems to be changing thanks to a documentary-travel-kinda movie (in 12 parts, cca. 50 minutes each) created a few years before (my estimate is 2004-2005) that I happened to watch in the last two days. It was created by the well known Hungarian showman, Fábry Sándor and his friend Wahorn András. The reason why they made the movie was Wahorn’s Cadillac which he wanted to take back to Hungary, as he was moving back here. The Caddy was an old red Eldorado (nice big car btw.). So they planned to travel from L.A. through Canada, Alaska, Syberia and Russia. I am now at the Syberian parts.

All in all Wahorn is the more philosophical type of guy (50+ years) and he invites us to a few friends of his in L.A., they visit a few interesting places and so on. There were a few ideas expressed by him that hit me hard:

- In America you cannot blame anyone else except you. If you are doing good - that’s because of You - and if you are doing bad that’s also because of You. Take responsibility. I strongly suggest this idea to all my readers as well.

- Fear makes no sense. Especially fear of death. When your “time’s up” it’s up. If you fear - be it anything - you just make your life experience taste bad. Who needs that?