Memorial Weekend Viewing

Apart from the aquarium thingy (read below), we also spent a few hours in front of the boob tube and the theater.

This documentary is a re-telling of letters written by a group of Western expatriates who lived in Nanking during the on-set of the Japanese invasion of China. Over-shadowed by the Holocaust in Europe, this is a forgotten event of great human monstrosity committed by the Japanese soldiers, within such a short period of time, to women, men, children and babies. You will be moved to tears by their stories - a little girl being split into two for resisting rape, a boy who saw his mother killed and his baby brother being skewered and flung away, etc. It also has interviews with former perpetrators/Japanese soldiers and their bitter admission to these atrocities. Read more.

If you haven't watched the above movie, just wait for the DVD release. If you can't, go to a weekend matinee. Indiana Jones meets sci-fi. Some really funny scenes but that's it. Towards the end of the movie, we thought we were watching National Treasure: Book of Secrets all over again! Quite a blah. I should have listened to the reviews but I was being stubborn. I think that's the price a lot of people pay for being an Indiana Jones fan of the 80s. What's my favorite Indi movie? Temple of Doom!!!