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Since today--soon to be yesterday--is (was) the first day of that fatal month mentioned in the subject of this post, I thought I'd cheer myself up by seeing a couple of movies I had been wanting to see for some time. This was probably a bad idea, as these movies happened to be WALL-E and Le hussard sur le toit, neither of which is particularly uplifting. I found them both to be very good movies--in extremely different ways. The first, ironically for an animated film requiring so much suspension of disbelief, was much more depressing than the second. This is probably because it's a given that lots of people died of cholera in 1832, whereas the nightmare vision of a future in which the earth is destroyed and everything is controlled by a giant corporation is (I hope!) still not inevitable. -___-; 

In any case, I did notice some lovely Maxime and Saint-Justian parallels in Le hussard sur le toit, which were absolutely adorable. And the movie does have rather a lot of amusing lines. Though I'm almost sorry I've seen it already now, oddly: I'll never be able to see it for the first time again. D: 

...I realize this post is near incoherency already, but I'd like to use this opportunity to decry the US movie rating system. Le hussard sur le toit is rated "R" under this system, which is the highest possible rating that a movie can get and still be marketable. Why? "For a scene of nudity." My Supreme Being! It wasn't even sexual! Sure, there was sexual tension between the protagonists, but that was as true of their (fully clothed) conversation as the scene in question. I mean, WTF, seriously. If you want to get upset about exposing children to something in that movie, at least make it the horrible deaths of cholera. The nude scene may have been the emotional climax of the movie, but that doesn't mean it wasn't tame compared to a lot of the other imagery. There's just no good reason that movie should be rated "R." None. /rant 

But since I did promise I would continue with That Book About Le Bas in this post...