after 5 winters in the desert, much of it spent on sidewinder road i was beginning to think that they should have named it Lizard lane or Rodent road...but NO! there along the edge of the dry wash there was a sidewinder stretched out enjoying the morning sun...at last! perhaps 14 to16 inches long
so i watched a film a few days ago...actually finished watching it...i watched it over several days...i think it is one of the best films i have ever seen...i had never heard of it and it was released in 2009 i think and it was produced by peter jackson a very well known guy in the film industry...but mr jackson was not the genius behind this film..."District 9" by name...i watched the first half hour and went shopping the next day...i bought some crawfish...i think that the "Prawns" in the film were in my sub-conscious as they look a lot like crawfish...the genius in this film is probably the result of guy potgieter the lead set director and mike berg and emilia weavind the art directors and trent opaloch the director of photography...the director was neill blomkamp...and sharlto copley was the main actor...at least the main actor that was not a 'prawn"...they way i felt about the "prawns" in the beginning of the film changed by the end of the film...prawns need loving too... i recommend that you watch the additional interviews with the film makers as it sheds a lot of light on how the film was made near Johannesburg south africa...it was shot in a large landfill (dump) and the set has a distinctive look...of decay!
"I do not know the man so bold/ He dare in lonely Place/ That awful stranger Consciousness/ Deliberately face/ Emily Dickenson (1874)
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