It has been a while since I have sat down to write a post to this blog. I have been madly trying to get things ready for our dig in Jordan, less than two weeks away, as well as prepare 10 students adequately for what is about to come.
The other night the kids and I sat down to watch 'The Road'. This is a film adaptation of a book by the same name by Cormac McCarthy that came out a couple of years ago. I really liked the book, and thought I would like the movie as well. However, while the stark, dire, grey, punishing post-apocalyptic world of the book was somehow bearable, after two hours of watching the film adaptation, I had had enough. In fact, it took some time to process what I had seen. While the movie making was marvelous, I'll neither watch the film again, nor will I recommend it to anyone else. I am not convinced that we must necessarily experience something so starkly different in order to appreciate all we have in our own reality.
