As you may have known, we live in Austin. We moved here a little over a month ago and I must say it still feels very new to me, but I'm loving it. We are still trying to find our favorite stores and restaurants, but it's been a very pleasurable move from living in Houston. We have been to more outings since moving here and for me, yesterday was the best outing. We attended the Austin Pet Expo. We had gone to the expo when it we were in Houston, but sadly, it was a great disappointment. There weren't a lot of pets and the area in which it was held in was more empty than full. So, I kept my fingers crossed on this one. Austin is a dog-loving place, among other pets. So when we walked into the Palmer Events Center, my eyes bugged out. Doggies everywhere!!! Big, small, scruffy, happy, excited, some scared...they were everywhere and SOOOO adorable. Sadly, we don't have a dog yet (damn my hubby! =P), but it was fun to go. There were treats (some free) for dogs and I got my petting on so much. All this excitement made me miss my Daisy, but I held my head up high. We found a wooden frame with her name on it, and I'm quite sure after seeing my "oh my gawd! We HAVE to get this for Daisy", my hubby pulled out his wallet and bought it. I love my husband for being so tolerable about my cheesiness excitement on basic things. Oh, did I forget to mention that this Dog Expo was free? Parking is not, but who the fuck cares, you get to see doggies and other pets!
Okay, enough about what we did, let's get stared with movie reviews.
- Tsotsie: This is a South African movie with subtitles. I had heard about this movie years ago, so I decided to record it. Oh my fucken god! This guy is ruthless, at first anyway. Tsotsie is a street thug that decides to steal a car and doesn't realize that there is a baby in the back seat. When he hears the baby make noise, he panics and crashes into a street sign. Now, at this point, I would either abandon the car and baby, or leave the baby by the roadside and call the cops but take the car. No, instead Tsotsie leaves the car and takes the baby. Now, this guy doesn't know anything about caring for a baby. He carries it in a paper bag and feeds it condensed milk (which was a BAD idea cause you don't feed that to babies and when he came back after being gone, there were ants all over the baby's face and in his mouth.). In the slums of where he lives, he sees a young mom and follows her to her place. He threatens to kill her if she does not breast feed the baby, which she does. After Tsotsie leaves, he comes back days later threatening her again if she doesn't feed him. She does so and bonds with the baby. After some time, she tells Tsotsie to leave the baby with her, but he insists it's his baby. She then tells him that she knows who the baby really belongs to, that it is in newspaper and the news. He freaks out and takes the baby. He then realizes that no matter what he does, he will get caught. He decides to take the baby back to his home and there is a cop there, who calls for backup. During the movie, Tsotsie has flashbacks of his childhood and how he lost his mom at a young age, so he felt guilty at times about what he has done. In the end, we see Tsotsie dressed nice and leaving the slums behind him to start a new life. I give this movie 5 Daisy-girls.
- Your Sister's Sister: Man, this movie is messed up. Not really as fucked up as other movies I've seen, but really messed up. After the death of his brother, Jack is still feeling lost. His deceased brother's girlfriend, Iris, suggests he goes and clears his mind at her parents getaway island home. So, he goes for it, but he's not alone. Iris's sister, Hannah is there. There is an awkward moment because they have never met each other and Jack thought he would be there by himself. Well, they start talking and drinking, more drinking than talking. Turns out Hannah left her 7 year relationship to a woman and has been living in the cabin. After some time, the talk leads to sex talk (of course) and Jack keeps talking. She interrupts him by saying ok, let's do it. Jack is stunned, but jumps at the chance to fuck a lesbian. They make their way into the bedroom and he realizes he doesn't have condoms. She goes and finds one and they proceed. The next morning, Iris unexpectedly shows up to surprise Jack, only she didn't know Hannah was going to be there. After hugs and everything else, all three start joking around and everyone is at ease, except for Jack. Every chance he gets, he tries to tell Hannah not to mention anything to Iris about what happened. Iris couldn't care less and is very calm about the whole situation, while Jack is trying to find excuses for things. Well, it turns out that Iris tells Hannah that she really likes Jack, that over the year of her boyfriend's passing, she has gotten closer to him... and she wants to tell him. Hannah is a bit hesitant and tries to convince her otherwise. Finally, Hannah can't take it anymore and she tells her that she fucked Jack. Iris, being pissed and hurt confronts Jack and accuses him of taking advantage of her heart-broken lesbian sister. Hannah then yells out that she didn't know Iris is in love with Jack. Jack was stunned. Then Jack goes to find the trashcan where he threw the used condom away. Turns out there were several holes in the condom. (A bit earlier that day, Iris had mentioned that since now Hannah is single, she can have a baby seeing as her ex-partner was against it.) Jack brings it up during the arguing and Iris confronts Hannah, where Hannah confesses that she really wants a baby. This shocks Iris even more because not only has her lesbian sister fucked the guy she loves, but she may also be pregnant by him. I felt bad for poor Jack because he didn't take advantage of Hannah, she suggested having sex. But he was fucked as in being tricked into having sex for the purpose of impregnating someone. There is more discussion and at the end of the movie, all three of them are holding a pregnancy tests and see the result. We don't know what the result is. I yelled out, "NoOooooooooo." My hubby jumped and I kept shaking my head going, "no, no, no, nooooo agk!!!" So yeah, I give this movie 4 Daisy-girls.
- Melancholia: Movie starring Kirsten Dunst, Kieffer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgard, and Charlotte Gaisnbourg. Hmm, I'm going to be very bad at describing this movie, but if you want to see a dark, depressing, artistic movie, watch this one. Kirsten and Alexander are late 2 hours to their wedding receptionist, the family is pretty pissed off, mostly the sister and brother-in-law who paid for the wedding. During the festivities, Kirsten slips in and out of the party because something is not right. (She had noticed a new star earlier). Her mom insults her, her boss tells her to be a better employee, her sister insists she be happier considering she paid for everything. Kirsten cries a lot and I can see why. After one of Alexander's attempts to bed her, she pulls away and goes to the gold course, where she fucks her boss's son in a sand trap. Alexander realizes that he can't go on with Kirsten and her moods, leaves her (still wedding party night) and she is once again miserable. The next day, Kirsten is seen extremely miserable and her sister tries to help her take a bath. Kirsten is feeling so out of it that she cringes and cries saying she can't do it. Later on, her mood seems to be lifted and she begins to be her normal self. But then the sister starts feeling as if something is not right. Remember the new star Kirsten saw? Well, it turns out that it's a blue planet that is inching its way toward Earth. Kieffer is an astronomer, and Charlotte's husband, who is keeping an eye on this planet. During this time, we see that it has taken affect on Charlotte and not so much on Kirsten, as if she has already accepted that the end may be near. The planet missed Earth and all is well. The next day, we see Charlotte looking at the planet and it seems pretty far. Later on, we see that the planet is getting closer and closer. Charlotte tries to find Kieffer and when she does, he is in the stable dead from a pill overdose. Charlotte panics, grabs her kid and tries to drive off, except the cars are all dead. Kirsten is following her asking what's going on. Kirsten has accepted that death is luring around the corner, Charlotte doesn't want it to happen and is scared (wouldn't you be?!). They build a make-shift teepee and all three sit in it blindfolded as the blue planet closes in on them and the movie ends. This is a long movie, be prepared to sit for a while. I liked it, but it felt it was a bit slow at times, either way, I give this movie 4 Daisy-girls.
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