Something’s Up, Movie Notes

March 25th, 2006

Seems like this week represented a shift — change is in the air. Supposedly the economy in the Bay Area has finally stabilized and is back to pre-.com-bubble days, which kind of makes sense as I hear about certain people getting new jobs. Second, there is definitely a lot of loopy Web 2.0 bubble stuff getting tossed about, start-ups being created and bought by Google, Yahoo!, or Microsoft. The mainstream media is picking up on this situation as well. The catalyst for this moving into high gear is likely going to be the Fed stopping their steady interest rate hikes sometime this year. That situation happened in the mid-nineties.

This however coincides with the housing market finally tipping over a cliff, and I feel bad for all the people who bought at the top, especially those with a ridiculous interest-only mortgage, or those that use their homes as ATMs in the past couple of years.

Saw V for Vendetta; thought it was pretty excellent. There were only a few parts that bugged me, and the middle section is a bit slow. The political satire was almost too pointed and some scenes oddly parallel the more shocking images of today, most notably avian flu, Guantanamo, and terrorists blowing up national landmarks. The most sneaky aspect of the film is the way it makes you see a terrorist as a revolutionary that you root for. A pretty good thing to remember as the current administration tries to control vocabulary and symbols to push their agenda.