Out of the Blue

[meddow]

True to my procrastinating nature, I buggered off to the movies this morning rather than do work and saw Out of the Blue. On the off chance it gets an overseas distribution deal and you get a chance to see it, do. It’s a New Zealand movie about the 1990 Aramoana massacre in which 13 people were killed when David Grey, an isolated and possibly mentally ill man, armed with a rifle opened fire on his neighbours. It’s a great movie. It over dramatise the events; the music doesn’t swell when the first shot is about to be fired, true to life it just happens. It also doesn’t dehumanise David Grey nor turn the local cops into gung-ho gun swingers. What it does is focus on the general good nature of people and the simple heroics of those involved, including Lois Lawn who crawled through a ditch multiple times between an injured stranger and her phone. Lois Lawn was 73 at the time and just had hip replacement surgery. Seeing that's going to stick we me for a while.

I was going to see Little Miss Sunshine as well, but it just didn’t seem to be appropriate to watch a comedy so soon afterwards. That'll have to wait until next week.