rainy reflection

It’s Monday morning and the sun is coming out after two days of rain. I had kind of thought that we were through with that kind of weather. I like stormy weather, but it meant that we were pretty cooped up on the weekend, a time when we usually both get out of the house.

We did go to brunch on Sunday. We went to Casablanca, which is in a old white house (obviously) with a nice view of the (yesterday, roiling) sea. On the way home we went to a DVD rental store that we had never been to because we heard they have a lot of new bootlegs. We rented “Syriana” and Ethan got some zombie movie. We watched “Syriana” and found that while the quality was quite good (it was a copy of an advance copy, one of those that they send out to awards show judges so they can make sure to watch it), the audio was way too low. Maybe Ethan will write about all of his experiments in sound, but the end result was that we couldn’t always hear everything, so found ourselves confused much of the time.

We were curious about how accurate the Beirut scenes would look, knowing that it was not filmed in Beirut. It looked pretty good. The corniche was different- probably they filmed it in Casablanca (?). The part where they are in the “Hezbollah controlled area” seemed over the top. I have spent a fair amount of time in those neighborhoods (sorry, Dad) and never saw gunmen on the tops of every building or anywhere for that matter. Also, there was nowhere near enough traffic.