mildly improved

so i neatened up a little. i cleaned up my desk, took out my trash, and actually attempted to do something with my day. i procrastinated a lot. when i finally sat down to get some work done, the website i need to do the project wasn't working. so i attempted some of my other homework, eventually giving up on that too.

i ended the day with my new netflix movie. delicatessen. a french film about a post war society that is slowly running out of food. people have become so desperate they have started to eat other people. the whole movie centers around an apartment building owned by a butcher, whose shop is on the first floor. he has an ad in a newspaper asking for a handyman. after they stay about a week, the butcher kills them and distributes the meat amongst the building's residents. main characters are a man who shows up for the position and the butcher's daughter who falls in love with said man.

as french movies go this one was on par. incredibly creepy, but also incredibly endearing, in true french form. the director creates this separate world in which these characters live. i'd liken it to amelie, but with sweeney todd mixed in. this was a definite improvement after m. hulot's holiday (my last netflix movie), which while endearing can be painfully quiet and slow when not expected. i give this movie 4 out of 5 stars.