SAFARI
Watchable. A documentary about Austrians hunting in Namibia which shows the process of making the shopping list i.e. which animals to shoot, actual shooting, taking pictures with the trophies, skinning them and cleaning after the dirty job - by paid Namibians. The title - safari - meaning journey in Swahili appears to emphasize the class division but fails to do so to anyone familiar with the business or world economics. General public found the film horrifying. I wonder if they are vegetarian because much more horrible things take place in slaughterhouses but that stays hidden. While the film is true to what foreign hunting looks like, it fails to show a bigger picture or to give any insight apart from that that hunters are ones who have come to terms with the inevitability of death while most people are scared of the very thought.
T2 TRAINSPOTTING
Recommended. Mind-blowing cinematography - the movie deserves a large screen to do it justice, riveting music, the same world's most likeable junkies, Scottish accent, Edinburgh setting and lots of snippets from part one masterfully inserted into a contemporary story which strongly draws from the past but involves several original scenes as ingenious as in the predecessor. Irvine Welsh supervised the production and you can see his style retained. The same actors who have slipped into their roles after 20 years as smoothly as if they hd never left them. Fans of "Trainspotting" are in for a treat.
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