I watched a Portuguese film in class the other day... in translation of course. I don't think that I have ever experienced so much eyestrain in my life. The film was kind of modern, but the director decided to do the film in black and white. Okay, I'm fine with that, but the subtitles were in white too. Not a very good formula, since there was a plethora of occasions where those painfully white subtitles were on painfully white backgrounds so I couldn't even read them. And I sit on the front row. At one point, I simply gave up and pretended to understand Portuguese.

As for the plot of the film, I found it to be somewhat cliche, from what I understood of it anyway. The only part I really enjoyed was when the antagonist got stabbed in the neck with a fork and subsequently smacked in the head with a plate. Good stuff.

- Nelson Liu

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