09.17.2001 || 12h04

Willy Wonka andf the tightened Canadian Immigration system

You know, I once read an article in a large US newspaper's entertainment section that Canadian filmmakers create works of perversity because there was nothing to do but wait out snowstorms for several months of the year, and this gave us hours upon hours to do nothing but come up with bizarre sex. This was right after Kissed appeared in theatres. You know, the one where Molly Parker is a morgue worker who gets off on corpses? The other examples cited were Atom Egoyan's Exotica and Cronenberg's Crash.

The problem I had with this at the time was the same as it is now: Not all Canadian films are about dirt.

Another problem is that Cronenberg's career shows that he's into the bizarre *way* more than he's into the perverse, and all you have to do is look at his take on the Fly or see Shivers, Rabid, Scanners, Videodrome, Dead Zone, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, or eXistenz to see what I'm talking about.

Rider Clause: I was idly talking about this article with Mysteria one day, and she brought up a good point that I had completely forgotten: Crash was based on a book that was not written by a Canadian.

Atom Egoyan's film career has not exaclty read like a series of pornos, either.

If I could remember the author of that article and I really cared at all, I'd give him a bit of a tongue-lashing; just you see if I wouldn't, consarn it.

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Last night, Blues asked me why I didn't just grab ahold of Mystie and move somewhere so we could be together. I told her about the fact that Her Majesty's ministers in Canada have set things up so that immigration requires a whole swack of hoop-jumping, and that emigrating to the US is even harder.

This morning I read that Canadian immigration will be tightened up a whole lot over the next little while. Life gets more stinkular every day, it seems.

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For some reason, I always mix up Mordecai Richler's Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang with Dahl's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I wonder why I do that? It doesn't make sense. Not at all.

I think I will meditate on this...



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