So, H and I watched "While You Were Sleeping" tonight. It is one of my favorite guilty pleasures, and H was a good sport to watch it as he's not the biggest fan of fomulaic Hollywood movies. A couple of interesting observations were made though... There is a scene where Jack Callaghan is telling his father that he doesn't want to take over his business, and this is a Big Deal. H noted that this is a common plot device in US movies, but does not resonate even slightly with the Quebec market.
Towards the end, H started getting a tiny bit disturbed because he actually thought Snadra Bullock was going to end up with the wankknob brother. He started earnestly telling me that he didn't really think that Lucy should marry Peter, because she seemed much more suited to his brother, Jack. I thought it was nice that he was so unfamiliar with the hamhanded psychological manipulation of Hollywood films that he didn't realize that he was being hit in the back of the head with a plot-shaped shovel.
We are now watching Taking Lives, mostly because it was shot across from H's old flat. But the Quebecois characters in the movie are hilariously badly written...all played by French actors, and doing what I would say are stereotypical French behaviours. It is clearer all the time how very different the Quebecois are from anyone else, up to and including the French.
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