As you will have realized, I am rather busy and not posting very much. Of course, you also know the reasons. So I will just say that I had a nice dinner, although the food wasn't good, and friendly gathering at someone's house on Friday night. Saturday night the plan was go to see the German film, Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others), which is a supposedly fantastic film about the Stasi in the old DDR, but it was sold out! So we casted about for a spell until deciding that we would go see an equally suitable date movie, Breach, about Robert Hanssen. It was very good, and did an extremely good job creating Hanssen as a sympathetic character before knocking him down--it really humanized him and made you realize the sadness and corruptibility of man that could turn this outwardly devout and solid man into such a monster. Of course, many people in the theatre were extremely dismissive of the scenes that showed him to be something admirable since they usually involved him being very Catholic or conservative. Two major no-no's with the DC, we-are-so-important-because-we-live-in-DC-and-are-progressive set. The only thing I had to quibble with is that in one scene they showed the change over from the Clinton/Reno pictures in the FBI building to the Bush/Ashcroft pictures. The Bush and Ashcroft pictures didn't look very good and I wonder if they really used the same pictures--Bush's head was huge and Ashcroft's mouth was agape. They might be the same, but they really were not good pictures--and of course the crowd hissed.
But go see this movie. Oh, I also had tapas for dinner.