With a particular lazy day yesterday (and by "particularly lazy" I meant "recovering from a hangover"), I watched two movies that I thought were peculiar. The first I watched was "Europa, Europa," a German language film by Agnieszka Holland in 1990. It is based on a true story about a teenaged Polish Jew named Soloman who escapes Nazi persecution by living among the Hitlerjunge. Not to give the film away, but this was a tremendously well done piece of art. I thought Marco Hofschneider did an amazing job as Solly. I can't imagine living incognito within a sect who are told that your people are ethnically inferior. :/
The second film I watched was the two part "Nymphomaniac." Made in 2013 and directed by Lars von Trier, it tells the life of Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) who is a self-described nymphomaniac. Thpugh many might see being a "nympho" is sexually intriguing, Joe suffers from it as it destroys her family, maiming herself, and having to perform an at-home abortion. I won't lie, I wasn't prepared for the extremely graphic scene of Joe performing the scene and started to get light headed and fainted. Luckily, I was on my bed sitting down watching the scene so I didn't get hurt. The scene made me even more sympathetic for women who desire and seek an abortion.
These two movies has made me donate money to charities for the Holocaust memorial in Auschwitz and Planned Parenthood. Eduacation in these two diverse subjects for women's health and safety and the dangers of genocide gives me purpose to live and to leave my carbon footprint on society. :-)