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[dancerjodi]

We finally saw Bowling for Columbine last night (yeah, we're 4 years late - I'm really behind on movies). I was expecting Michael Moore's over the top, in your face tactics from having seen his first movie, the one about Flint Michigan and the impact of factory closings. I did enjoy Bowling quite a bit, and the different elements he tried to tie together was definitely thought provoking.

Unrelated, BRIAN, you know how I told you about a movie we used to watch each year in elementary school in the library, about a kid chasing a balloon? Here it is http://imdb.com/title/tt0048980/ (thanks Dee Cee!). I knew I didn't imagine it. :)

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[tk7602.livejournal.com]

heh. wacky. but he only had one... that german girl had 99 of them ;)

YAY!

[dee-cee.livejournal.com]

Someone else who watched this movie every year! I cried every time I saw it. Then again, I cried at "Pete's Dragon," "The Incredible Journey," and all those other movies they had us watch in school.

[iterum.livejournal.com]

From the IMDB user comments: "In a way, the balloon is a Christ like figure that is rejected by mankind -- finally murdered -- and then resurrects."

Huh.

That was on my elementary school's yearly movie-watching agenda as well.

[stormcloud9.livejournal.com]

i LOVED the red balloon! i don't even nremember where my mom tok us to see it, but i did see it multiple times over the course of a few years.

[rantarn.livejournal.com]

I remember that watching that movie in elementary school too, so I guess it's really old. :) We also had to watch one where a boy carves a wooden Indian in a canoe and tries to get it to the ocean on its own.

[protogeek.livejournal.com]

The Red Balloon! I think everyone had to watch that movie, though I'm really not sure why...