Prozac Nation

I just watched a really amazing movie on DVD – “Prozac Nation“. It is based on a best-selling book by Elizabeth Wurtzel, which tells the story of a depressed young girl, daughter of devorced parents. The interesting part is in the perspective. This girl does not realize that she has a depression and needs to be treated, which is the problem that a lot of people are having. I don’t know how accurate the movie was done, since I haven’t read the book, yet. So I won’t comment on that.

Apart from the perspective, another different side of the film was casting. There were plenty of celebrities, but mostly all of them are young Hollywood stars – Christina Ricci, Anne Heche, Michelle Williams, Jason Biggs and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. Older generation was represented by Jessica Lange. All of them weren’t for nothing. There were plenty of excellent acting.

Excellent photography and good soundtrack do compliment the movie.

Directing was rather weak, I think. There wasn’t enough drama and cast wasn’t pushed to the limit, although some of them went pretty far.

Overall, an excellent film – 9 out of 10.

Jacket button

Jacket button

Today’s ‘Picture of the day’ submission portraits a piece of my jacket. I find it a bit amuzing that I was wearing this jacket for many years, also at times when I was trying to find a subject to photograph, and I never looked at it. It turned out to be pretty photogenic. Mostly it is due to the many interesting colors (a combination of white, greenish cyan, blue and black) and textures (it is combined of slightly different fabrics too).

Once again I am convinced that pictures are all around us and all we have to do is just stop for a fraction of the second and look.

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-01-18_POTD

News from Fedora front

The preliminary schedule for Fedora Linux Core 4 has been released. In short:

  • test1 is scheduled for February 21
  • test2 is scheduled for March 21
  • test3 is scheduled for April 18
  • final release is scheduled for May 16

In terms of features we can expect GCC 4, Xen integration, more Java, more SELinux, and a bunch of usual updates – KDE 3.4, Gnome 2.10, Xorg 6.8.2, etc. You can read the copy of the mailinglist message from Bill Nottingham for more details.

Also, Fedora Core 2 will most probably be transfered to Fedora Legacy project around the time of test2 release, which is currently scheduled for March 21.
And on the minor notes, Gimp 2.2.2 has been released to Fedora Core 3 updates. Here is an announcement you might want to read. In short: new directory .gimp-2.2 will be created in your home, so you might want to check your preferences, plugins, and other stuff. Also, not all fonts could have been distributed due to the licensing. You can download them by yourself from here. (freefonts) and here (sharefonts).

Plan your upgrades.