The weather hut...
Was it all a dream?
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There was a pervasive sense of unreality in the wether hut scene, I was reminded of the work of David Lynch, particularly Mulholland Drive. The way the two men were rendered unconcious (or killed!) by a minor tumble from the weather hut roof reinforces the idea that this is a heightened reality, somewhat removed from our own.
Curt Seaver's taunting of Diana through the gap in the weather hut door is also clearly supposed to recall the "here's Johnny!" scene from The Shining - another film with a disturbingly vague sense of reality, where the villain is highly energetic and crazed.
First of all, I have to reveal that as a cheap bastard, I get my satellite television for free.
One of my antennas points to Hispasat at 30W which carries, among other gems, several cuban television stations, including Cubavision and Multivision.
The beauty of these two is that they do the pirating for you: I've seen stuff originally broadcast on CityTV (with the City bug STILL showing), FOX1, Bio, Animal Planet, Discovery, HBO and others. I've seen episodes of Fringe ripped off from Fox 29. Not sure if that's Buffalo or not and they downloaded the torrent. Tonight, they showed "SNOWMAN'S PASS" on Cubavision.
I watched the first few minutes... who the hell climbs up an UNKNOWN rope ladder while your friend takes bare rock? So, of course when it broke, Brian did a tumble worthy of Ronny Cox in the original Robocop.
The ending was particularly heart-wrenching. Watching Marc Singer's fall from "V" Grace to this Ca-turkey* was too much. From the astroturf/plastic grass rug on the roof (to dampen the racket), to the crap satellite dish (which obviously had to communicate with something having CIRCULAR polarisation having no skew on its LNB), and the incredible array of equipment apparently operating on batteries(!?) with no visible source of electrical supply. I mean, if you're going to run a weather station for weeks or months at a time, you certainly don't leave things like CRT monitors running -- not to mention those blinkenlights running on that oldstyle patchboard. Imagine what the Cubans must think of good old Canadian technology.
I wish I got such good phone reception.
*Canadian Thanksgiving is celebrated in October.
You, Sir, are a winner.
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