So Monday night, Ali, Kelly, David, Chris and I went to the
movie theatre where I bought a poster earlier to see a Czech film with English
subtitles. It’s not something tourists normally do, so the theatre was mostly
empty, but everyone else who was there was Czech. There don’t appear to be
concessions like there are at movie theatres in America.
I was going to link the IMDB for this film, but it doesn’t
really seem to be there…in fact there is very little on the internet about it
at all. I guess it might be too new (as of this year) so it might be under the
US radar.
This movie is about 2 teenage guys who are part of the punk
movement in the 80s in Prague. It’s really cool because most of the locations
are places we’ve been. The trams and everything are as familiar as if I was
watching a movie filmed in Phoenix or Scottsdale. The movie was funny but still
dramatic and had an open ending like most Czech film. The main character was
adorable and the story was told through his eyes. He and his best friend try to
form a punk band while the main character struggles with his parents and
girlfriend who want him to stay in school. The Clash was the band that the main
character and his friend enjoyed most. In the 80s under Communism, music like
this was illegal and the movie did a good job of showing the subversiveness of
the punk movement. After the movie was over, I asked myself, “How am I going to
go back to watching American movies?”
We went to Boom after the movie to get ice cream and when we
were walking there, we passed a guy playing this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caisa_(instrument).
It was one of the coolest things I’ve ever heard. It was surprisingly loud even
in a busy square, and it made many notes at once. It sounded like the kind of
music I imagine faeries to play.
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