First of I’d like to thank Mom, Dad and Sallie Mae for making it possible for me to go on this trip. As my first study (kinda) abroad trip from Eckerd this has been a great one. Living in Park City, just minutes from Main Street for 10 days was a great growing experience. Attending the film festival and participating in all of the activities that goes with it was amazing. Never have I seen so many BlackBerrys and iPhones in one place. When new President Obama was sworn the theatre I was sitting in at 10am lit up with a blueish LCD glow from all the text messages and emails from happy friends all over the country. (more…)

The story of Britain’s most infamous prisoner is awkwardly & poetically depicted by Nicolas Refn’s film Bronson. When I first heard the synopsis, I thought it would be another pseudo-documentary type film with the usual ‘based on a true story’ message, of course not necessarily sticking to all the facts. Although I was partially correct in my assumption, (”based on true events”), the movie blew me away with its artistic take on the weird life and unique personality of Charlie Bronson.

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If I told you that the phrase of choice for the main character (Sorry, Prof. Andersen) was “f***ing c**t”, that Bronson is commonly nude and extremely violent, or that in one particular scene a loony man takes a dump in his hand and proceeds to use the excrement as face paint, maybe you wouldn’t want to see it. You might even think I’m freakish for liking it! But honestly, in my opinion, it was a great piece of performance art.

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