Side note advice <3

Random tip to all the women out there who ask for advice when a long-distance-guy doesn’t answer their email.

Ladies,

Here are the possibilities to explain this phenomenon in increasing order of probability:

either you wrote the wrong email, 
your email is in his junk mail, 
he doesn't know what to answer, 
he decided not to answer, 
he didn't think you would write that soon, 
he doesn’t know how to type, 
he doesn’t have internet, 
he is an alien, 
he is gay, 
he is pretty, 
he doesn’t deserve you, 
he pretends he’s rich, 
he doesn’t tan, 
his house burned down, 
he has aphasia, 
he is drunk, no, 
he is not drunk, 
he can type when drunk, 
he has a headache now, 
he has dissociative amnesia,  
he is studying, 
he is a girl, 
he is further than you thought, 
he doesn’t understand English or French, 
he is scared of you, 
he forgot your name, 
he truly believes in the bug of 2010,  
he is shy, 
he is stupid, 
find yourself a Montrealer (i.e. local)!

PS: If none of these explanations are satisfactory, check your junk mail.

It Rains Oranges in a Dali Painting: Movie Review

NB: The following does not spoil the movie if you didn’t watch it yet. However, I strongly encourage you to do so as you probably guessed.

The Fall (2006) walks on a thin line between the surrealistic style of it's landscapes and the authenticity of its main characters. The title is a simple but clever choice for this movie, since it first suggest the fall of Alexandria (Catinca Untaru, yes a talented little Romanian girl) from an orange tree. This resulted in a broken arm and her being hospitalized for a while. Alexandria soon wonders around the hospital and meets this young man called Roy (Lee Pace) that is paralyzed in his bottom limbs and that starts to tell her wondrous adventure tales. Another meaning to the title is the fall of governor Odius, in the story’s plot, but it can also refer to the fall of human kind after the original sin. {I was actually surprised to the amount of blood spilled in this movie.}

I found the movie to be an artistic masterpiece! In one scene, the Indian’s wife is trapped in the Labyrinth of Despair that looked familiar (not that I’ve been there of course!) and it suddenly reminded me of a surrealistic painting of labyrinth I saw at an exhibition. When I searched, I found M. C. Escher’s painting of Relativity (the one below); I’m still not quite sure that's the one, but it’s close enough.

In any case, The Fall was also psychologically realistic. Thus, it is done in such a way that we, viewers, see everything and know what Alexandria doesn’t, such as the fact that Roy is quite mentally unwell too. As the story he’s telling her shapes around his state of mind, little Alexandria hopes for a happy ending…