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Brüno

I’m on Sacha Baron Cohen’s side, I really am. Well, I want to be. He seems to be a smart, brilliant comic, if not a good actor. But when I saw Borat, Culture Learnings of America… I was horrified. 

As a minority who spent 8 years in the United States, I am all for exposing the cultural naiiveness of Americans. Exposing them to other cultures and ways of life, I believe would help Americans set better local and foreign policies. 

Borat, however funny and insightful at times it was, seemed to be nothing more than a European teenager’s crude recording of his idea of a good time: punking Americans. That particular European teenager had ambitions to eradicate racism in American (Europe too?) but I just thought it was done in such an uncouth way that the message did not get through. Did it? Are Americans better off now for having seen Borat?

After reading this review by Anthony Lane in The New Yorker about Brüno, it seems that Brüno is going the same way. 

“Could that be Baron Cohen’s cunning plan? Might he actually be in the business of revealing our cauterized senses, and the wound where our finer judgments are meant to be? A nice idea, but I’m afraid that “Brüno” feels hopelessly complicit in the prejudices that it presumes to deride”, said Lane. 

“wholly unsuitable for children, yet propelled by a nagging puerility that will appeal only to those in the vortex of puberty, or to adults who have failed to progress beyond it. Call it, at best, a gaudy celebration of free speech”. 

Will you be going down to watch Brüno?

Maybe I’m taking it too seriously, you say. It’s all in jest, isn’t it? Ah, I guess I’m a little old fashioned that way - for I think Sacha Baron Cohen’s brilliance and his mighty good intentions are lost in his crude execution.

Brüno

I’m on Sacha Baron Cohen’s side, I really am. Well, I want to be. He seems to be a smart, brilliant comic, if not a good actor. But when I saw Borat, Culture Learnings of America… I was horrified.

As a minority who spent 8 years in the United States, I am all for exposing the cultural naiiveness of Americans. Exposing them to other cultures and ways of life, I believe would help Americans set better local and foreign policies.

Borat, however funny and insightful at times it was, seemed to be nothing more than a European teenager’s crude recording of his idea of a good time: punking Americans. That particular European teenager had ambitions to eradicate racism in American (Europe too?) but I just thought it was done in such an uncouth way that the message did not get through. Did it? Are Americans better off now for having seen Borat?

After reading this review by Anthony Lane in The New Yorker about Brüno, it seems that Brüno is going the same way.

“Could that be Baron Cohen’s cunning plan? Might he actually be in the business of revealing our cauterized senses, and the wound where our finer judgments are meant to be? A nice idea, but I’m afraid that “Brüno” feels hopelessly complicit in the prejudices that it presumes to deride”, said Lane.

“wholly unsuitable for children, yet propelled by a nagging puerility that will appeal only to those in the vortex of puberty, or to adults who have failed to progress beyond it. Call it, at best, a gaudy celebration of free speech”.

Will you be going down to watch Brüno?

Maybe I’m taking it too seriously, you say. It’s all in jest, isn’t it? Ah, I guess I’m a little old fashioned that way - for I think Sacha Baron Cohen’s brilliance and his mighty good intentions are lost in his crude execution.


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We exist but we’re taking it slow.

Maybe it was the swim today, or the peacefulness of the world outside at this current moment, but I just wanted to write that I’ve been having a good time lately. Things aren’t that much different. It’s same ole sh*t, different day. BUT, I think I’m definitely coping better with it.

No, my cousin did not sprinkle my Raspberry Poptart with prozac - it’s just me. things somehow feel clearer - or less urgent - less “life or death” like.

That’s all. I leave you with a song called Who’d Have Known by Lilly Allen. All I do is listen to her album.


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June
25

Shepard Fairey, the creator of the iconic Barack Obama “HOPE” image, is back with a beautiful representation of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, imprisoned Burmese leader.
The image says “Freedom To Lead” with the messages “Support Human Rights” and “Democracy in Burma” at the bottom.
Read the article here

Shepard Fairey, the creator of the iconic Barack Obama “HOPE” image, is back with a beautiful representation of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, imprisoned Burmese leader.

The image says “Freedom To Lead” with the messages “Support Human Rights” and “Democracy in Burma” at the bottom.

Read the article here


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June
16

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“ (412): Why are there hot girls at the dollar store?
(410): The recession has changed everything man. ”
— I don’t think I can sleep tonight, I just want to read Texts from last night all night long. hahahahahaha   http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/

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June
07
  • I'm that girl - the one you wonder about what might have happened - if you had picked me instead. Sigh, I don't want to be that girl. I want to be the girl you picked and where we live happily (ok, so we squabble and fight and have fantastic make up sex, always making up and never being that bad to each other) ever after.
  • Dialogue from Before Sunrise:
  • Jesse: Alright, I have an admittedly insane idea, but if I don't ask you this it's just, uh, you know, it's gonna haunt me the rest of my life
  • Celine: What?
  • Jesse: Um... I want to keep talking to you, y'know. I have no idea what your situation is, but, uh, but I feel like we have some kind of, uh, connection. Right?
  • Celine: Yeah, me too.
  • Jesse: Yeah, right, well, great. So listen, so here's the deal. This is what we should do. You should get off the train with me here in Vienna, and come check out the capital.
  • Celine: What?
  • Jesse: Come on. It'll be fun. Come on.
  • Celine: What would we do?
  • Jesse: Umm, I don't know. All I know is I have to catch an Austrian Airlines flight tomorrow morning at 9:30 and I don't really have enough money for a hotel, so I was just going to walk around, and it would be a lot more fun if you came with me. And if I turn out to be some kind of psycho, you know, you just get on the next train.
  • Jesse: Alright, alright. Think of it like this: jump ahead, ten, twenty years, okay, and you're married. Only your marriage doesn't have that same energy that it used to have, y'know. You start to blame your husband. You start to think about all those guys you've met in your life and what might have happened if you'd picked up with one of them, right? Well, I'm one of those guys. That's me y'know, so think of this as time travel, from then, to now, to find out what you're missing out on. See, what this really could be is a gigantic favor to both you and your future husband to find out that you're not missing out on anything. I'm just as big a loser as he is, totally unmotivated, totally boring, and, uh, you made the right choice, and you're really happy.
  • Celine: Let me get my bag.
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