Prescription Puppets

Another year in which we were forced to bid farewell to many things I imagine we hold dear. Are there any historians who can put the fundamental cultural changes we are going through in some sort of perspective? I wonder: did the 1910s hurt the same way?

Passwords, psychoanalysis, the postal service, print journalism, and "privacy" have all been placed on permanent obsolescence notice once more, while the Singularity has entered the mainstream via a CBS sitcom. (Remind me to be long dead when it finally arrives on our shores. I do not want to be around the chosen ones.)

Yet, in today's society or society today, as it were, I hardly ever went to the movies again -- my liturgy in the church of the poison mind, for solace, that is, rook to queen bishop and all that. OK. xin lỗi. But in the few instances when I did, here are some of the films in 2011 that mattered to me:

1. Welt am Draht
2. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
3. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
4. The Descendants
5. The Beaver
6. Joschka und Herr Fischer
7. Drei
8. Eine Insel namens Udo
9. Bridesmaids
10. One Day

Also: Double Hour, Hanna, Contagion, Martha Marcy May Marlene.

Disappointing: Hugo, My Perestroika, the Mill and the Cross, Winter in Wartime.

Still did not bother to see, despite my best efforts and intentions: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Tintin, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Tree of Life, Under Control, Melancholia.

Worst movie of the year: Crazy, Stupid, Love.

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