On Christmas afternoon I went to Laura's place and we watched a ridiculous Swiss film about the trials and tribulations of a young jewish boy from a fairly traditional if not stereotypical family in I guess Berne or perhaps Zurich who was attracted to a shiksa called Laura. I guess it engaged us but to be fair, it was also fairly crummy. The next day we went to the NGV for the Triennial which was actually pretty amazing but I found it overwhelming after a while and then had to sit down. Later we went to see a film I was very keen to view, Promising Young Woman, and I have to say I was deeply disappointed by the fact that she died in the end. That is not my idea of revenge, 'black comedy' or otherwise: part of vengeance is you don't get killed, and the people you seek vengeance on punished not for the original crime but for the crime of killing you.
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