06.15.06
These are a few of my favorite things…
On Saturday, I watched Casablanca and The Sound of Music with two friends from church. One of them had never seen Casablanca, and the other had never seen The Sound of Music, so we decided to remedy the situation. (I had seen both, but it had been a few years. And besides, one of the measures of a good movie is its rewatchability.) I didn’t realize (or remember) until well into The Sound of Music that we had chosen two movies about Nazis. If I were a more eloquent writer, or more profound thinker, I would say something about how holding on to the music of your culture can be one of the most powerful signs of resistance, and how evil does not seem to be able to appreciate beauty (or maybe evil resents beauty, since it knows it cannot produce it).
But as I am neither very eloquent nor profound, I am not sure how to follow up on those thoughts. so I will just say that eating lunch and watching movies with friends is an enjoyable way to spend a Saturday afternoon.