My English Is All Out

Those who´ve been there know where this is and recognize it happily, no?
(I don´t wanna come over as arrogant!!! I just feel proud to know the world-oldest open-air-cinema... the WORLD-oldest! Pay a visit sometime, if you come to Broome)


Australian Journey VII

OR!!! Oscar

Sometimes it just hits ya in the face, huh?! Sweet, sweet memories, so many, when I could barely see, see last post!

I could not read anymore with my sore eyes and - though not interested much - watched a show around the coming Academy Award, which in Germany is simply called the Oscar cause that golden guy looked just like her Uncle Oscar to German secretary Margaret Herrick. So, if you come to Germany and hear people talking 'bout THE Oscar these days, you know what is meant!

Anyways!
Certainly - and I so waited for this! - Roberto Benigni was shown when he got his and ran over the rows of seats directly. The scene stopped with blablabla - but didn´t he just scream something like: "thank you, thank you... my English is all out now"?

Anyhows. Being German... I refused to watch Life Is Beautiful the moment a colleague mentioned the word "Nazi".
GAH.
School... TV... everywhere, anytime we´re reminded and hence blamed for that past.
It shall not be forgotten, never. And never repeated again!
BUT.. give us a break in real life!!!! I´m SO fed up!

We came to Broome again in '99.
And certainly we couldn´t wait to visit Sun Pictures!
"Great" memories of '95, I´ll post sometime later.

We watched movie after movie until only one was left. Said "Life is beautiful".
OK, then.

My ears nearly fell off when they spoke Italian!

For Germans, everything - EVERY-THING is translated to German. A movie in cinema subtitled?! Impossible!!!

So there we sit, speaking no Italian, being German, reading English.

And after just some moments we were just watching a movie!!!

You might think, uh, so-what?! But I thought it´s just amazing what the brain can do!

We kinda "blew our cover" when that German army officer screamed in German - and it was not subtitled!!! - "if you don´t follow my rules - I´ll SIMPLY KILL you!!!"

Which was translated by the Dad (Roberto Benigni) as: "I´ll EAT ALL YOUR GUMMI BEARS" (originally a German product).

Can´t remember if we just GASPed in despair or LAUGHed crazily, but people suddenly knew we´re German and some whispered. And I felt ashamed. Thanks, German education..

Anyhows.

You can see that movie - great as it is after all! - it has so many facets to me, to Ingo and me... to us.

Bad ones of "fake?" guilt and great ones of how our brains work and of this:

And hence of the best months in my life ever.

I´m so thankful my parents - and Ingo! - made this possible!

6 months in '95,
"Open End" - that turned out to be just 7 months in '99 -
and a lifetime

of sweet, amazing, bad, funny, glorious.... you name it (stinky, too - Carnarvon´s Fish-Bin at the old Prawn Jetty will always be a part of it)

... memories I can go back to ANYTIME - i get thrown into even when I´m feeling really bad cause I temporarily cannot see...

Yes. You read right. I finish this post at shortly after 6am on a Sat morning.

Ingo came back in again to kiss me goodbye. At 05.05. Has to work again. For too little money... this is another subject we´re fighting - probably later than other countries, hurts none-the-less.

My English is all out, have a great weekend :-)
After all... We love this life, no?!