Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Location: Dagmara's House
Task #6 - Watch a Foreign Film
Sometimes things don't go as planned. Sometimes they turn out better than you expect anyway. Last Wednesday the plan was to meet at 9 at Dagmara's to watch a foreign film of our choice from Netflix. It just so happened customs was jammed, putting our schedule behind a bit.
But we were determined not to let that derail the plan altogether. After all I was running low on days to meet my January 20th deadline. SO we modified the plan. Abbie was to meet us at the house when Dagmara and I got back from the airport, and we would pick the shortest foreign film selection possible.
In the end we chose quality over lack of quanity, and picked Recién Cazado, which looked entertaining, despite it's 1hr plus running time. We didn't start until about 10:30, but let's face it, I'm a night owl anyway.
The best way to describe the genre of movie this was, aside from "foreign", would be romantic comedy. At first it was difficult not to stare at the subtitles, and pay attention to what was actually going on on-screen. But after a while I was able to adjust, the subtitles moved slow enough - and I am sure the translations were abbreviated - and I learned to just skim instead of reading each line word for word.
The movie itself was hilarious. Like Abbie said, it probably wasn't meant to be as funny as we took it, but we sure got a few good laughs. Well, Abbie and I did; Dagmara pulled a Nelly and fell asleep about 10 minutes in.
The plot went a little something like this:
A promiscuous, party-loving bachelor gets wasted one night and marries a girl he met at the bar. He wakes up the next morning, and not remembering anything from the night before, freaks out to find that he married to the girl next to him in bed. She convinces him to let her stay for 3 weeks until she gets her period, to make sure that she is not pregnant. Time passes blah blah blah , they start to get along, learn about eachother and then obviously fall in love.
Later the guy learns that this was all one huge joke. That his mother thought he needed to learn a lesson and the girl wanted revenge for her friend he hurt. The couple was never married ( well duh, only in Vegas can you get married in one day and be completely drunk while doing so), and "supposedly" the girl never loved him.
But he has changed his ways for her and then falls into depression, tries to tell her to come back, he takes a job in Paris, she goes there to find him but can't, then randomly she shows up at the beach of his house and decides to stay. And everyone lives happily ever after, THE END.
Basically it was like an American Romantic Comedy, silly and improbable, but taken to the utmost extreme. His mother was a tarot card reader and thought the cards told her all of this must happen, the girl convinces him to let her stay just to make sure she is not pregnant, there are three attempts to reconnect before they actually end up together - I mean how do you go to Paris to find someone and just happen to miss them everytime, wouldn't there be an address for his office?
Not that the movies I watch are at all realistic or believeable, but the over dramatization of events in Recién Cazado made it hysterical. It was more like an extended soap opera. And I LOVED it!
Location: Dagmara's House
Task #6 - Watch a Foreign Film
Sometimes things don't go as planned. Sometimes they turn out better than you expect anyway. Last Wednesday the plan was to meet at 9 at Dagmara's to watch a foreign film of our choice from Netflix. It just so happened customs was jammed, putting our schedule behind a bit.
But we were determined not to let that derail the plan altogether. After all I was running low on days to meet my January 20th deadline. SO we modified the plan. Abbie was to meet us at the house when Dagmara and I got back from the airport, and we would pick the shortest foreign film selection possible.
In the end we chose quality over lack of quanity, and picked Recién Cazado, which looked entertaining, despite it's 1hr plus running time. We didn't start until about 10:30, but let's face it, I'm a night owl anyway.
The best way to describe the genre of movie this was, aside from "foreign", would be romantic comedy. At first it was difficult not to stare at the subtitles, and pay attention to what was actually going on on-screen. But after a while I was able to adjust, the subtitles moved slow enough - and I am sure the translations were abbreviated - and I learned to just skim instead of reading each line word for word.
The movie itself was hilarious. Like Abbie said, it probably wasn't meant to be as funny as we took it, but we sure got a few good laughs. Well, Abbie and I did; Dagmara pulled a Nelly and fell asleep about 10 minutes in.
The plot went a little something like this:
A promiscuous, party-loving bachelor gets wasted one night and marries a girl he met at the bar. He wakes up the next morning, and not remembering anything from the night before, freaks out to find that he married to the girl next to him in bed. She convinces him to let her stay for 3 weeks until she gets her period, to make sure that she is not pregnant. Time passes blah blah blah , they start to get along, learn about eachother and then obviously fall in love.
Later the guy learns that this was all one huge joke. That his mother thought he needed to learn a lesson and the girl wanted revenge for her friend he hurt. The couple was never married ( well duh, only in Vegas can you get married in one day and be completely drunk while doing so), and "supposedly" the girl never loved him.
But he has changed his ways for her and then falls into depression, tries to tell her to come back, he takes a job in Paris, she goes there to find him but can't, then randomly she shows up at the beach of his house and decides to stay. And everyone lives happily ever after, THE END.
Basically it was like an American Romantic Comedy, silly and improbable, but taken to the utmost extreme. His mother was a tarot card reader and thought the cards told her all of this must happen, the girl convinces him to let her stay just to make sure she is not pregnant, there are three attempts to reconnect before they actually end up together - I mean how do you go to Paris to find someone and just happen to miss them everytime, wouldn't there be an address for his office?
Not that the movies I watch are at all realistic or believeable, but the over dramatization of events in Recién Cazado made it hysterical. It was more like an extended soap opera. And I LOVED it!
I just want to say for the record, that it was more like an hour in that I fell asleep, not ten minutes! lol. And thanks for the recap, now I know what happened at the end :)
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