Broccoli

I loved Broccoli.

Because it is easy to cook,

Because it is delicious with just simple seasoning,

Because it is healthy,

Because it becomes that pretty, healthy green after boiled,

Because it is really a flower,

Because my boyfriend likes it too,

Because I don't have to feel guilty when I eat alot of it.

I cooked broccoli today, and floating right along with the foam after it boiled, was a few hundred little bugs.

I don't love Broccoli anymore.

爸,我回来了。

Sometimes when you get too immersed in a situation, the things that should matter more, start to matter less, and the lesser things, mean more.

Right, I am back, have been doing well, just online alot less.



I just saw a little bit of Dogville on TV, before I got distracted by the phone. It starrs Nicole Kidman, and is about an isolated town, and she was taken in as a refugee, but later became Dogville's prisoner. She is chained to a big and heavy wheel, which she drags around, connected to her by a chain which in turn is connected to a cuff around her neck. In the most inhuman way, a bell (much like the one below, except shaddier) is attached to the cuff. As if dragging the rusty wheel would not make enough noise for her to be noticed should she try to escape.



The movie is shot in theatre-like scenarios, and all the walls of Dogville are "eliminated" on screen, in order for multiple things to be seen on screen simultaneously. For example, we'd be watching Nicole Kidman sleep exhaustedly in her small space, while in the background the town is plotting her imprisonment in the townhouse meeting. Also, spaces are minimised to the maximum (ahem), and the entire Elm Street on Dogville fits into a stage-like set, where the entire film is shot. White lines on the floor with words to indicate spaces replace walls, and the whole place's surface is dark chalkboard green. Sort of like the Marauder's Map from Harry Potter, except you see real life people in 3 dimension. The background also becomes plain, when it is day, they live in a white box, and at night, a black one.


Here is a shot from the movie "koped" off the show's website, tvropa.com. Beside Nicole Kidman (Grace, in the show), you see the metaphoric drawing of BUSHES on her left, and two GOOSEBERRY(s) on her left. Kind of fresh, seeing what we would otherwise think as visual enhancements (but in this film are distractions to what matters) flattened, or coloured over. The music is also clean and wordless, and sound effects (if any) seem to be kept to the minimal.

The show has an enigmatic charisma to it, fresh, yet kind of depressing.