The 'summer' 'weather' continues here in Brisbane. I'm not complaining, per se. It gets hot. Very hot. It gets humid. Very humid. There's only one thing you can do really. Go to the movies.*
*OK, there are probably plenty of things you can do but in the absence of the immediate availability of a pool or similar large body of water, movies in cool, air-conditioned cinemas suffice.
And so it was, a friend and I decided to head to the cinema for the best part of the day where 'which' movie took second place to 'time' and the mere opportunity to be indoors.
That's how we ended up seeing 'Into the Woods' first up followed by 'The Imitation Game'. Both interesting in their own ways: 'Woods' for Streep and Sondheim, 'Imitation' for the story of Alan Turing and the breaking of the German Enigma code during World War Two.
Work is never far away and 'The Imitation Game' provided some very interesting possibilities for one of my courses I'll be teaching later this year...the dilemmas which face decisionmakers in a war or security situation...stay tuned.
By the time the movies had finished (and the crowds and crowds which also thought a day in the cinema would be the thing to do) we came out to an even bigger crowd walking, pausing, heading to a round ball game at Lang Park. How big? Well, it took 23 minutes to get out of the car park. By which time, when we reached the surface, the twilight colours were setting in.
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| Twilight clouds |
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| It's a bonsai, but not as we know it |
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| Imitation Woods |
Same again tomorrow weather-wise it seems. More movies? Perhaps.
[Camera : Canon A490, 6.53pm, 7.34pm, 7.35pm]
