I have started watching THE NET with the director’s and producer’s commentry. The movie is now so dated. The movie was shot in 1993/4 so things are so different. There are so many strange things in the movie, like sending a Floppy Disk by Fedex with a program on it. These days people would usually just email something like that, or download it.

And certainly they would not normally use a floppy disk. A memory stick or a CD would be more common. I have a floppy drive for my laptop but I rarely use it. It is external, and I do not even normally have it plugged in. In the movie she also had a computer screen to act as a ‘log fire’, but the graphics were done by an artist. These days it would have been at least photo-realistic, if not actual video. All in all it is funny to look back at what was cutting edge technology at the time, which is certainly not so cutting edge now.

I have looked at a few minutes of ‘The Mission’ and I am really impressed by the cinematography. It is really impressive, and I can only imagine how dangerous some of the initial scenes were for the actors involved. I hope that stuntmen were used, because it certainly looked like Jeremy Irons was scaling a water soaked cliff without any protection.

12 Months

Yesterday was an anniversary for two events. Firstly it was 12 months since my mother finished Chemotherapy for Lymphoma in her bone, for which she is in remission having made a great recovery. Secondly it was 12 months since her mother died, following being in hospital with a broken hip. At that time Mum was not well enough to go to the funeral which was hard for her. The nursing home where she died has a memorial service for those who died coming up, so mum will be going to that