The Chipper Orange Shoe - Further Note to Self:

06:20 pm - Further Note to Self:

Self,

In what universe does it make sense to make spaghetti with tomato sauce and ground hamburger the week when you're watching a movie called Cannibal Holocaust for class?

Not in this one, that's for sure.

Love,
Yourself

So I survived the movie. I spent a good portion of it with my fingers in my ears and watching my classmates instead of the screen. Watching the reactions was pretty interesting actually, and it didn't make me want to barf.

My favorite part was the bit at the very beginning, where the camera's flying over the (presumably) Amazon rain forest, and this lovely idyllic-sounding music is playing...and then the words "CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST" appear on the screen. In plain white font too, no blood-dripping red or dead body silhouettes. The incongruity amused me. Also, the bit where the anthropologist was talking to the TV station executive and trying to explain why he disapproved of the now-dead film crew's behavior. "blah blah blah, that pig they shot was food for the tribe, how would you feel if you were hungry and someone came into your home and flushed some of your food down the toilet?" Um, you just watched the film crew herd a portion of the tribe into a hut and then LIGHT IT ON FIRE. Why the hell are you talking about the pig?

Also, I really, really feel skeeved out that they actually killed animals on-screen for this film. I know that exploitation films are all about excess, but was that really necessary?!

Auuuugh, I only have a couple of weeks of classes left before I'm done with my undergraduate career! It is both exciting and frantic-making.

...And I really don't want to pack up. That's going to suuuuuuuck.

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