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Various ponderings
Sep. 2nd, 2003 12:58 amJust saw Pirates of the Caribbean. It opened in Norway this weekend, and I went (yes, I find Orlando Bloom attractive. Stop sniggering) with mum and bro. Rather enjoyed it. Mum liked it as well, and saw a trailer for The League of Extraordinary Gentlement (with Sean Connery. Purrrr) and at once suggested we go see when it opened. Me thinks mum likes Sean. I applaud her taste (and shut up ye 'ew, he's OLD!' complainers. He's not old, he's vintage). RotK posters were up at the cinema as well. Not very long now... Happy days.
On a not so happy note... Also just watched with mum this French acclaimed documentary about a trial in Florida on telly. Yiaks. We were just sitting there, shaking our heads. If that is the stadard of police and prosection skills in the US... Smegging hell. (It concerned a 15 year old boy who was charged with killing a tourist. The defence showed a lot of flaws and quite frankly, very questionable behaviour on the part of the police. The boy is found not guilty - then, some months later the real killer is arrested.) I mean, I have read and heard about problems with law enforcement and the judicial process in the US before (and I strongly oppose the death penalty, but that's another matter) but this was such an up-close look and it was not flattering. Obviously, this is not true for all cases, probably not for the majority either, but that it is there... This in a country where people can be executed. It makes me very troubled indeed.
Also makes me realise how sheltered I have lived and just how much good faith I've been raised to have in humanity and the state and law enforcement and so forth. Yes, I know there are bad versions of these things in the world, but I also think it's actually fixable and that in general, it's good.
It's quite odd to realise I'm actually hopelessly naive - and I bloody well know it. I know bad things are out in the world and that there are so many problems we may never fix them - yet I believe. Not in God or some higher force to fix it, really. Just in life. And the endurance of it. And with endurance I suppose I believe wisdom and change will come.
I'm either a hopeless optimistic bleeding heart or a self-delusional idiot dreamer.
I think I shall - in true Norwegian fashion - believe it to be the latter, thus unable to be disappointed if so is the case, and happily surprised if I'm actually the former option. Or so I will tell myself. (Norwegians have a tendency to claim to be pessimists, yet are really eternal optimists with patience)
Sometimes I think I'm a very, very odd person. But then, Norway is an odd little country in an odd little world.
On a not so happy note... Also just watched with mum this French acclaimed documentary about a trial in Florida on telly. Yiaks. We were just sitting there, shaking our heads. If that is the stadard of police and prosection skills in the US... Smegging hell. (It concerned a 15 year old boy who was charged with killing a tourist. The defence showed a lot of flaws and quite frankly, very questionable behaviour on the part of the police. The boy is found not guilty - then, some months later the real killer is arrested.) I mean, I have read and heard about problems with law enforcement and the judicial process in the US before (and I strongly oppose the death penalty, but that's another matter) but this was such an up-close look and it was not flattering. Obviously, this is not true for all cases, probably not for the majority either, but that it is there... This in a country where people can be executed. It makes me very troubled indeed.
Also makes me realise how sheltered I have lived and just how much good faith I've been raised to have in humanity and the state and law enforcement and so forth. Yes, I know there are bad versions of these things in the world, but I also think it's actually fixable and that in general, it's good.
It's quite odd to realise I'm actually hopelessly naive - and I bloody well know it. I know bad things are out in the world and that there are so many problems we may never fix them - yet I believe. Not in God or some higher force to fix it, really. Just in life. And the endurance of it. And with endurance I suppose I believe wisdom and change will come.
I'm either a hopeless optimistic bleeding heart or a self-delusional idiot dreamer.
I think I shall - in true Norwegian fashion - believe it to be the latter, thus unable to be disappointed if so is the case, and happily surprised if I'm actually the former option. Or so I will tell myself. (Norwegians have a tendency to claim to be pessimists, yet are really eternal optimists with patience)
Sometimes I think I'm a very, very odd person. But then, Norway is an odd little country in an odd little world.
