Minnesota summer movie thing

[arkuat]

So, for the third year in a row now, I'm doing this summer in Minnesota arrangement which involves my getting to see a lot more movies per week than I'm used to seeing. The last 24 hours involved Trek, a homebrew documentary about doing all 2189 miles of the Appalachian Trail in the summer of 2001, and The Lives of Others, a German-language film (yes, I did rely on subtitles) which had me sobbing and bawling with tears streaming from my eyes right after it ended. Even though I got to see that last in privacy with an audience of one, I'm not so sure I wouldn't have been crying if I'd seen it for the first time in a public movie theater. I saw the Frida biopic in a public movie theater, and sobbed during it, after all.

The night before I watched a recently (1997) declassified US military training film about Operation Tumbler Snapper (1952?). I was too bemused to sob (and besides, that military-sounding snare-drum soundtrack is designed to prevent sobbing), but hey, that was weird too.