Frogs and Superman

[louiselux]

The baby frogs have started coming in the house at night if we leave the back door open. Yesterday we found six, and one of them had got as far as the coat room, which is near my desk. Gah! They are still all stuck at the bottom of the steps. To help them get back up to the garden we made them ladder. Actually it's a bamboo pole that runs up the edge of the steps, but they use it. I think. It's hard to tell, there are so many of them. I saw three of them travelling up it yesterday evening though.

daegaer is coming to stay tomorrow! I might put her on frog duties.

Frogs aside, I saw the new Superman film . Superman is very pretty. Lois Lane is very pretty indeed. Kevin Spacey was clearly born to play Lex Luthor. And is not quite so pretty, but you can't have everything.

It all looked good, and it was entertaining enough, but but! I don't know. It was unmemorable. Apart from the scene where Superman lands on Luthor's kryptonite island and is robbed of his strength. The violence and humiliation in that scene was brutal and made me cringe away. I am pretty sure it was meant to look like it did - like a rape scene. The intensity of it sat oddly with the rest of the film.

Superman stalks Lois Lane a little, which is nice. His chasing of her comes across as more than a little selfish. She's married, with a child! You can't waltz back into her life and take her for midnight rides up into the sky pressed up close to your tight, tight costume and rippling muscles. No wonder she looked so tortured all the time.

Comments

[bladderwrack.livejournal.com]

Hee, frogs. I like frogs. Disturbed two adult ones with orange and black markings the other day when I was clearing out the pond, and then some other tiny ones elsewhere. They've stopped going in the lawn; it's all crispy burnt-off by the summer. They don't come in - just toads in the sheds. *happy*. I like your frog posts also.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks :) Having toads in the sheds sounds nice.