Not Again

Last night. Tired as hell, my brain can't think. My boss tells me, as I'm about to leave, to send the invoices for two of our billing clients. Irritatedly, I ask, "You want me to do it tonight?"

He says yes. I open up the database and spend 20 minutes getting the invoices together and sending them out. Done.

This morning, after his third call interrupting me since I've been in and I've been unable to brew a pot of coffee. He asks, "Brett. Can you get a couple of invoices together?"

"Which ones," I ask, knowing very well which ones he's going to ask.

"For Josephson and the Surgery Center."

"I faxed those last night."

"Both of them?"

"Yes."

"What were the prices."

I tell him.

"You should've not sent those. Sometimes...."

"Sean, you told me to send them last night. You told me to put it together and fax it. At no time did you say to put it together and let you see it before I send it."
It's as if he doesn't even remember ever saying that; like he blanked out.

Anyhow, I watched this last night. Very great! It's about two and a half hours, but the story flows really well. It takes place in Byelorussia during World War II and shows the atrocities of the Germans on them. This young boy joins the Army and is made to stay back at camp. He's sad/mad so he wanders off and meets this girl. The camp gets blown away by the Germans.

He goes back to his village and his family's gone along with the rest of the village. He goes through all these intense events. You're on the edge of you seat throughout the entire film.

The directing is amazing too. And the effects in it are incredible. Like when the camp is getting blown up over and over again by huge bombs, by the end, there's a ringing noise that gets louder and the explosions' sound die down just as if you were there a got bombed.

There's this mood dampering barn scene towards the end where they stuff all the towns people in a barn and set it on fire and shoot it.

A lot of scenes in this was drawn out and you get the real feel of actually being there and it pulls you into it so much that you feel that you're there with them.

And they robbed this guy and stole his cow.

I kept making fun of the girl in the beginning, because she looked wierd, but Jeanne said she was pretty. I said she fell off the ugly tree.

I think this movie appealed to me more because it reminded me of the Painted Bird. A book about a Polish kid sent to wander off alone in an unfriendly Eastern Europe.