Page 12 — Over The Edge ~ February 17, 1997 The Reel World Film Festival The Reel World Film Festival was on the weekend. It started Friday evening at 8:00. There were three movies, “Dinner for Two”, “Producing Miracles Every Day” and “Prisoner of the Mountains”. All three movies were excelient. I have never been to a Film Festival before and I didn’t know what to expect. I was amazed. “Dinner for Two”, was a cute animated comedy made by the National Film Board. It took place in a jungle and there were these two chameleons on shore and a frog on a lily pad. The frog is trying mightily to get a fly and keeps missing it and falling in the water. Meanwhile, the chameleons are catching flies left, right and centre. But then they both catch the same fly and neither want to give it up. The rest of the movie shows the two chameleons fighting over it and their various expressions , and plus the poor little frog still keeps falling in the water! Eventually it ends up as the chameleons still fighting for the one fly while sitting on a branch with two crocodiles in the water below just waiting for one of them to make that fatal mistake and fall in! It was resolved however when the two decided to use cooperation to get off the tree, but then they lost their fty and the frog ended up getting it. He looked at the two chameleons and decided to share it with all of them. It was quite cute and had a really good moral-which was about resolving conflicts. The next one was a documentary about ‘Bolivia, and it was very interesting. “Producing Miracles Every Day,” was look at the Bolivian economy. It opened my eyes about their economy and it got me to thinking about it. So I decided to look up some facts about the Bolivian economy on the Internet. Bolivian people, I found out are the poorest of all South American countries. Eighty-eight percent of the population is in poverty, and 90% of those people are in extreme poverty. Their annual income is about $770.00 US Their currency is. 5.11 Boliviano’s to $1 US, their inflation rate is 12.6%. Most of the citizens are involved in the informal economy, and are very creative and inventive in the types of jobs they do. There were sidewalk secretaries, people who would help the sidewalk vendors pack up and go home, and all kinds of other ingenious ideas. The Unemployment Rate is 50%. It was an interesting and eye- opening documentary. The last movie I watched that night was called “Prisoner of the Mountains”; it was very moving. “Prisoner of the Mountain”, was a movie about the conflict in Russia with the Chechnyan army. Two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by a Muslim man. They are taken to his village and kept in his barn. The old man (Abdul), is kind hearted and who seems to grow fond of his prisoners. Abdul did not want to kill his two “hostages”, because he wants to use them to get his son back from a Russian prison. However: something goes wrong and the two prisoners (Sasha and Vanya), are held longer than was planned. Abduls daughter Dina, and _ Vanya grow attached to each other but because of who they are and that they are ina war, they cannot even think of a relationship with each other. It is sad that two people cannot be with each other because of a war. I decided to do some research about this movie as well and found out some interesting things. The director Sergei Bodrov adapted this movie from “Leo Tolstoy’s- ‘Prisoner of the Cuaucaus’”. It was from 150 years ago but the story line was just about the same. It was a touching story about humanity and how love, in reality does not always conquer all.. 4 All in all I was extremely impressed and thought that everyone who put this festival on did an excellent job. Stay tuned next issue for Saturdays reviews. I'll let you in on a little secret-Saturday was even better! See ya next week! Saga by Jason SABINA: Well, down to work. Student Success? The ME: Yup, got my first assignment. It’s a paper for my Organizational Behavior course. SABINA: What kind of paper? ME: What do you mean, “what kind of paper?” A paper, paper. You know, where you look through a bunch of stuff and write down what you find. SABINA: You mean a report? ME: Well, the assignment says, “write a research paper analyzing an aspect of Organizational Behavior.” SABINA: A research paper is not simply writing what you find in books. That is only part of it. ME: What else do you have to do? SABINA: Well, a report is where you survey and present the evidence, while an interpretive paper is where you examine different views of a topic and draw your own views on the topic, but an analyzing paper is when you isolate an unsolved or unansered question and attempt to solve it by looking at what has been written. ME: How do I know which one I am supposed to be writing? SABINA: It tells yoy right in the assignment. Look: “write a research paper analyzing an aspect...” ME: Okay, so I am writing an analysis type paper. That won’t be as easy, there are so many different points of view on some of these topics, how do you know who is right? SABINA: That’s the point. With a research paper, you choose the point of view that you agree with and back it up with what others have written. You get to have your say, too. CRAZY GUY ON BUS: Oh, yeah, having a point of view is so important. From my point of view levitation is possible...as a matter of fact, I bet if we all concentrated hard enough... ME: Okay, back to me...How do you know about all of this? SABINA: Women’s intuition. ME: I bet you got this from the Learning Skills Centre. SABINA: You’re so smart. ME: I should go check it out. Maybe you could help me too? SABINA: Love to. The Trout Quintet At St. Michael’s Anglican Church by Rhys Pugh The Trout Quintet was the title of an evening of chamber music in the Prince George Symphony’s “Spotlight on the Arts” series. Apart from Schubert’s famous work, the evening offered string sonatas by Rossini and Teteman, all played by up to five regular symphony members. The venue was St. Michael’s Anglican church—right downtown— which gave a feeling of tranquillity to the audience, like being in the eye of a storm. We were listening to soothing string music as sirens and traffic moved by on Victoria. First on the programme was a Trio Sonata in C minor by George Telemann (which fit my personal stereotype for Baroque chamber music) with beautiful counterpoint and harmony on two violins. This was followed by Rossini’s longish String Sonata in C minor which slowly built up to a fantastic fourth movement, with a solo melody started on the violin, variations on the double bass. After a brief intermission, the keynote performance, Schubert’s Trout Quintet performers. I was familiar with ‘The Trout, but not so much the quintet as the: duet for piano. Thus, I was sitting eagerly throughout the first three movements awaiting the part I knew for piano. Having said that, however, the first, and (in particular) the slower second and third movements were calm, picturesque, and well worth waiting through. My fourth movement, with the trout variations and the fifth, were defined by excellent piano followed by work by Tanya gre, i Ribnitska, which showed off her great technique. Like the Rossini, everything came together in the last movement for a climatic finish. For me, this was undoubtedly worth an hour and a half of my time on a Thursday night. The atmosphere was mellow and informal, and not even the musicians dressed up: As a matter of fact, the bassist, Wayne Schimidt, wore a shirt with bright multicolored jungle animals on it. The shirt even ‘buttoned up with yellow ducks and green turtles. After the — performance, and during the intermission, the musicians chatted with some of the forty or so patrons. It was a fun and - inexpensive way to see great live chamber music. Another chamber concert is coming up, so news of that be available in the next few weeks.