I watched Double Indemnity by myself last night. That Barbara Stanwick was something else! It's really a gorgeous movie, with a complicated plot, unlikeable characters who are obsessive to the point of self destruction, and a sense of the comedy underneath our human frailty. Fred MacMurray is handsome one minute, but the next you see that weak jaw, and you know he's not going to make it. It makes a grand allegory of Los Angeles and the types who are pulled there and thrive or not. I love Stanwick's smirk. Her mouth turns down no matter what is coming out of it.
Afterward I bettered myself by watching a HBO series on India, and learned a lot about the prehistoric period. I had no idea that the Himalayas were caused when India which was an island, slammed up against the continent a few million years ago. Or that after a climate change, the Indus Valley which was a complex civilization with cities of up to 200,000, became a desert and the people moved down to what is now India. Or that the Aryans came most likely from Turkey, and brought Sanscrit with them. What an amazing, fascinating country.
So that is my night last night - the high and the low. A blend that suits me to a T!
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