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The Cold Weather and More Movies

The temperature plummeted over the last few days - well, actually just yesterday and today. Today, the temperatures pretty much remained sub-zero, which is quite abnormally cold. However, real snow continues to elude me (I don’t want no “flurries”).

I used to wonder why weather channels and widgets and applications were important. But ever since fall came about and then winter, I understood. The temperatures were vital to knowing what sort of clothes to wear when going out. They could vary, no matter the season. Back home, you only checked the weather for rain or sun. The temperature was always 33 high, 26 low, give or take 1 or 2 degrees Celsius.

More Movies. Yes.
Cinema Paradiso (no picture, sadly. I’m lazy)
Italian movie. Josh Groban sang the theme song in his first cd. Today I got around to watching it. It was a little different from my expectations. I thought it would be another full-blown love story which will have me switching it off halfway through. But no. It follows the life of Toto, or Salvatore, and his friendship with Alfredo, who works with the projector in the cinema. And of course, there is a love story between Toto and a girl.

All in all, kind of charming, as we watch how the movies influenced the rural Italian society and bring together a little boy and old man. The way the people cry and laugh watching the black-and-whites is quite amazing. As a rule, I usually dislike little kids in movies who enjoy torturing adults, but thankfully the cute little Toto did not turn out to be that way, which made the movie much more bearable. Be cautioned, though, the movie contains perhaps a scene or two which are not family-appropriate. Other than that, great movie to laugh and cry with. And for the older folks, perhaps a time to reminisce about the first black-and-white movies in cinemas that changed the world (in a way).

Oh, and the soundtrack features the same theme over and over again, and after listening to it all throughout the movie, and then Josh Groban’s version, it’s stuck in my head. Melancholy tune, definitely.

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