Assorted topics

One thing that came to mind the other evening while I was watching a movie was the similarity between a scene in Requiem for a Dream and the poster for the movie An Education: 

Note the posing. Interesting, right? If I were to make a movie or something, it would be interesting to incorporate a pose like this as an allusion/homage to these movies/scenes. 

Also, I read a news today about a new record set by a Canadian sniper in Iraq, who shot and killed a terrorist from a distance of over 2 miles. Something else, eh? It made me think of some movies that I've seen recently that involved snipers. One was a Jason Bourne movie with Matt Damon in which a sniper is attempting to kill Bourne. Every so often there would be a scene of the sniper training his rifle on Jason Bourne. The other one was that war movie with Peter Sarsgaard, which was interesting. So, my thoughts began to go to the thought of what if I got killed by a sniper? I have no idea why that would happen, but I thought about that prospect. It made me want to close my blinds and get away from the windows so that theoretically a sniper would not be able to see me and kill me. I imagined a bullet ripping through my bedroom window and killing me as I sat/laid in bed. Eek! As of now, there is no plausible reason for a sniper to kill me, but here are some possible theoretical reasons: a) a sniper serial killer b) the democratic government of the US has been overthrown and is now a totalitarian regime, and I am a wanted political criminal. Thus, the regime decides to send a sniper to kill me. I do wonder how I come up with these ideas sometimes. Let's hope that neither of those theoretical scenarios come to pass and my experience with snipers stays relegated to watching them in movies or reading news about them. 

While we're on this topic, I guess I should mention again how it theoretically could be interesting to be a sniper. If I had to be in a war, I think I would want to be a sniper because I like the precision of it, I guess. I would not want to be a translator like the poor guy in Saving Private Ryan, even though in other situations I might not mind being a translator. Regardless, I'd rather not be in a war at all, or if I weren't a sniper, it would be interesting to be a journalist covering a war although I could still get killed doing that. Anderson has done a bit of covering wars. It's too bad he hasn't done more of that recently, I think. They've got him covering politics all the time. That's pretty much all anyone's covering these days.