Having a few days off from all things work-related. Went to see a couple of films at the cinema. The first, "Crash", was mostly excellent -- an on-the-ball study of race relations and problems. It painted quite a bleak picture of the world, but offered glimmers of hope, often in the unlikeliest of places. It had some of the best moments I've seen in films recently, though it might have maybe benefitted from cutting a few of the minor characters and sub-plots.

"Dear Wendy", the second film, was about a weird guy who falls in love with a gun. He gathers together a group of fellow gun-lovers, leading to an inevitable shoot-out with the local authorities. This was written by Lars Von Trier, one of my favourite directors, so I had high hopes for it, but despite being fascinating on a very strange level, it didn't quite grab me the way I'd wished. Not a bad movie, and definitely worth a look if you like your films twisted and atypical, but no classic.