amber5

Glad to hear things are working out in the karma department. It's always nice running into girls with smiles in their eyes. Sometimes I fear I've built up quite a karmic debt; repaying said karmic debt is going to be hell.

Perhaps subconciously I desire to tell my father, but I really don't have any concious thoughts that I'm hiding a part of myself; it's not causing me any pain or stress that he doesn't know. Of course, as you said, it did pop up in a dream, so perhaps I have buried issues.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that Good Will Hunting sucked real bad. It was a simplisitic, unsubtle film that nonetheless seemed to achieve its rather unambitious goals in a fairly enjoyable fashion. I'd say the film was competently made. Same with Finding Forrester. I got the impression that it was made by people who knew what they were doing, did it reasonably well, and didn't stray from the formula that they knew would be satisfying to most audiences. I can certainly see where one could have major problems with both films, but I found them pretty enjoyable. I don't think I've ever seen all of To Die For, and I kinda avoided the Psycho remake because I never really liked the Hitchcock version anyway. In a few years, after a few more films, I think I'm probably going to have to have a van Sant marathon and really form an opinion about him and his work. As it stands, I really agree with you in that he's really hit or miss to me.