Intermission Part II
Some day, I will get around to posting photos and impressions of Budapest. There might even be a small movie or two. But right now I'm in Bellevue, I am kind of sleepy, and I am desperately wracking my brain trying to think of a good lesson to teach for a multigrade classroom I am visiting on Monday (it's stage 2 of some sort of hiring gauntlet for this lab school that I am afraid I am not good enough for).
Meanwhile, I wanted to say something about UP. We went to see it in its fully gloried 3Dness. What most struck me about it is how maudlin it gets at some points. Without spoiling the movie too much, I had read reviews that let me know that something sad happens in the movie early on, and yet when it happened, I cried anyway. That isn't to say that the movie lacks for lighthearted moments. There are plenty of those, it's just that between the beginning of the movie, and the ending, I could probably classify this Pixar movie as "bittersweet" (thanks Chris, for suggesting that word, it very much fits the movie), even as its uplifting message is pretty much "It's never too late to ...". This isn't to say I didn't enjoy it, I quite did.
