Feb. 03, 2003 - 12:37 am

*what? no subtitles?

well i didn't get to watch anything last night since we all went to see Corpus Christi at the lab theater. there weren't as many protestors outside the play as i had imagined there might be last night, but they were still singing and shouting to a certain extent. i think the numerous rent-a-cops were helping to keep things under wraps. anyway, so tonight i finally sat down to watch this famous foreign film that i've been trying like forever to see.

it's called Amorres Perros (2000). as i say, i've been working for probably a couple of months now on tracking this one down. i knew that the public library had a copy downtown, but it was categorized as being repaired for at least 3 weeks of that. then the rest of the time it was just checked out always. but i finally got it this week. and as you can probably guess from the subject of this entry, there were no freaking subtitles on the tape!

when i first put it into the vcr it was in the middle of the movie. ok, so yeah, half the time you get something from the public library, the last drooling moron who rented it forgot to rewind it. so i'm rewinding, but it only takes a minute to finish up. aparently the last person who checked it out only watched the first 6 minutes of it. i wonder why. i watched only 4 minutes of it. i guess i figured out 2 minutes sooner that this tape was USELESS. i mean, very few people that check out videos from the library speak Spanish. and those that do would not very be offended by the addition of English subtitles added to the film. it's totally fine if we have this version of the tape, but it would be so much insanely more useful for us to have one with subtitles as well. oh man this is upsetting to me. i hate the person who ordered this copy of the film for the library. what were they thinking? i guess they weren't.

this is going to turn into another Day For Night (1973) for me. no, i still haven't seen that film because the only version that is available to me is the dubbed version. i hate dubbing with a passion. want some proof? read this entry.