war is hell

Nothing over the transom this morning, a little setback on a Monday morning.  You know I never got that thing about Monday being a horrible day.  I always rather liked it, even when I was working and like most people I hated working.  But Sunday, right around five o'clock I would get the Sunday blues.  The whole weekend was gone, and like summers, I hadn't got the most I'd planned on getting out of it and forty hours of work awaited me on the other side of night and nothing I could do about it.  Depressing.  But Monday morning as soon as I sat down in my chair and turned on the computer I was beginning to eat away at that forty hours.  Fifteen minutes in there were only thirty-nine hours and forty five minutes to go.

Anyway this gives me a chance to break away from politics, because Beagles would have said something and I would have to say something back.  That commentor who sadly has never again commented, said that she liked my reviews, so I think I will give a couple of those.

This weekend I watched Wasp Network.  It's based on a true story.  which I normally hate to see because I am always wondering what really happened and what they just threw in to move the plot along.  Anyway it's set thirty years ago with a couple defectors from Cuba arriving in Miami and hooking up with anti-Castro elements there.  Well Cuba, not so great on human rights and lots of poor people, but then isn't that the same case with a lot of the islands and central American countries, and at least the poor people in Cuba learn to read, I am a lefty so I have a soft spot for Cuba, and those anti-Cuban groups have a pretty nefarious reputation.

But anyway the movie seems to be on the anti Castro side.  The anti Castro groups are seen as a bit sleazy, but you know it is all in a greater cause, and the movie is moving along at boring path, and  then it is revealed that those defectors are actually double agents and are working against the anti Castros.  This makes the movie a lot more interesting because you can see how the defectors who seemed at first to be drawn into the Miami net are actually digging their way in.  Suddenly they are seen in a different heroic light.

The weekend before I watched Da Five Bloods, directed by Spike Lee who almost always gives a good movie, and this one is pretty good though I think it gets hijacked by a search for gold plot and a lot of silly action scenes.  But the central thing is these four black guys who come back to Vietnam in the present day,  In an early scene they are at some bar in Saigon and they notice some Asian guys about their age eyeing them and they are thinking maybe these guys killed our buddies.  But then their guide says that they are his uncles, oddly enough one of whom fought for the north and the other who fought for the south, and they have just bought the ex GI's a round of drinks.  Of course they still could have killed their buddies, and come to think of it the uncles could have killed each others' buddies.  Well war is hell.

A one legged Vietnamese beggar kid (the leg likely lost to land mines) comes by and one of the GI's gives him a twenty.  Later. as they are leaving the kid throws firecrackers at them and they hit the dirt while the kid hops around in front of them shouting.  "You killed my father.  You killed my father."  Well more likely the kid's grandfather but you know, it is just a figure of speech.