Entry 4

I'll admit, I was more than a bit disapointed when we did not watch Aladdin last week. I was looking forward to watching, and picking apart that movie. not to mention that catchy songs were just what I needed to deal with my work load for this week. But hopefully we'll see Aladdin this week instead. The film about the Coolies was insteresting and disturbing. I learned more about the subject in one hour than I had known before. What sticks out to me is when the captain of a ship recorded the various deaths at sea. When he wrote it down, he added descriptions and other things which suggested that he had had at least passing familiarity with these people. But what I found disturbing was the mention of old laws in what I think was Tahiti being enforced once again. Laws that had essentially been debunked decades before. It raised the question of what had been happening in that country which would lead to something like that. The documentary did not mention the cause of these laws being reinstated, and did not have the time to do so, however to bring the subject up and then not explain it fully was disapointing. It seemed as if nearly a century was skipped over very quickly at the end of the documentary, and perhaps they should have found some other way to do that. Or have made the documentary into two hours instead of just one hour.