dancing_naked Reviews

Random Passage (2002)

face the facts ignorant people

[28 March 2004]

Believe it or not, this was what it was like. In those times the Newfies were ignorant, poor people, easily manipulated by the monopoly of the St. John's merchants. They lived their entire lives on scraps, poverty and disease stricken whose ancesters can tell you more stories just as estranged that really did happen.

if anyone knows anything about the history of Newfoundland they will apprechiate this story. The story was not overzellius in any respect. People like Lavinia Andrews and Mary Bundle existed in those times. Women were utilized like Mary Bundle (I know another commenter stated that women didn't cook on vessels. Tell that to my ancesters that came to Newfoundland from England fishing off the french coast.) Women were raped, and really had no choice but to allow things to unfold in front of them. They had no rights. Bernice Morgan illustrated the greatest example of the history of Newfoundland in both Random Passage AND Waiting For Time. The only complaint I have about the series is that it didn't stay completely true to the story.

But still didn't stretch far from reality.

John and the Missus (1987)

it's about newfoundland people...

[26 January 2004]

a truely amazing story about newfoundland's history, moreso than that of Canada. it's about resettlement, after confederation, when joey smallwood decided that small outport towns like that in this movie, were unnecessary and unuseful to the economy, so people in my province actually would cross their houses on the oceans to move them. people left their legacys because they had no choice.

it is a newfoundlanders history. it's the sacrifices we made to be a part of canada. not that we wanted to make them. there are houses here where i live from small communities across the bay that came here during resettlement. families that still have summer homes in those communities and revisit them ever summer religiously.

please don't refer to this as 'canada's east coast'. this isn't the history of canada, and considering the fact that gordon pinsent is a homegrown newfoundlander, i doubt that he, like many other people from our province would apprechiate our history referred to as that of the entire nation. it changed our lives and no one elses.

Braceface (2001–2006)

I Had Braces, and you know...

[28 May 2003]

I find this show intriguing. I mean, here's this girl who has braces and feels that life is ending, but she can only see the bad side and not the good. The braces give her a conscience, a sense of direction. Sure, they get her into trouble sometimes, but they help show here wrong from right in some weird way. Sharon is like most (not all) girls at 13. Boy crazy, struggling to fit in and feeling like a loser. She deals with real issues, has real beliefs, but at the same time struggles with conformity. Its not all about the Braces, but trying to fit in when it seems impossible. But she learns her lessons and when she gets them off she'll be grateful, like me, and all the other former "bracefaces" out there. :) Go Sharon.