Typical Saturday night for me. No dates. Alone again. So what do I do? Get on AOL and Gay.com and watch the screens fly by. I did have a great chat with Patrick. He’s the iMovie guru who taught me everything I know. Too bad he’s on the other coast. So then I let the computer sit there while I decided to watch the DVD I rented on Friday, Goodbye, Lenin!

I mentioned it in my post on Friday but I got the description wrong. Here’s the description from IMDB:

East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot.

I really enjoyed the movie. It was German with English subtitles. The music was typically period East German music. I really liked the length at which the main character, Alex (played by cutie Daniel Brühl), went to convince his mother that East Germany was still alive and well during her 8 month coma. He truly loved his mother and didn’t want the fall of the Wall cause her death. He could have also been feeling guilty because his mother had the heart attack when she saw him protesting the regime. He was determined to make sure the rest of her life was filled with the memories of East Germany. I think he succeeded. There were a few funny parts. Once when she looked out the window and saw a Coca Cola banner hanging from a near by building. Another humorous time was when they were trying to re-create a news show from East Germany and a poster in the back ground fell off the wall. Mostly this was a serious movie. There was some great historical footage of the Wall coming down. If you are looking for a decent foreign film to rent, check out Goodbye, Lenin!

Here are the results from my fourth poll. The poll was the brain child of my friend David. He was convinced that gay men who are good friends help each other with their manscaping. Now I believe him. It’s nice to have good friends who will help you get through an emotional crisis as well as wax the hair off your back.