The Darjeeling Limited

I saw another few epispdes of The Twilight Zone last night: One was "The Arrival" about a plane that lands at an airport with no passengers or crew, "The Passersby" about a widow of the American Civil War who lives next to a road travelled by the ghosts of the war dead, "A Game of Pool" about a pool player who longs to be the best ever and challenges the ghost of a legendary player to a game with very high stakes, and "The Mirror" about a Central American dictator (played by a very young Peter Falk)who owns a magical mirror in which he can see would-be assassins.

It was another very dull day at work today, but it was at least short. I left work early to go up to the Cineworld cinema to meet my mum. I usually meet my mum at the Cafe/Bar on the upper level of the cinema but it was closed when I arrived at about quarter to five, although it is supposed to open up at half past four, and so I went and had a mocha coffee at a small coffee stand next to the cinema. Mum arrived about quarter past five. The film we saw was The Darjeeling Limited, directed by Wes Anderson, which starred Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody and Owen Wilson as three brothers whose father died a year previously and whose mother has left the family, and who decide to take a spiritual journey through India by train (on the "Darjeeling Limited") in order to reconnect with each other and themselves. I really like Wes Anderson's films and I really liked this one, which had the usual blend of quirkiness, humour, heart and intelligence. There was a short film before it called Hotel Chevalier, also directed by Anderson, which starred Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman as a couple who meet in a hotel in Paris and serves as something of a prequel to The Darjeeling Limited.

I went back to my parent's house for dinner and we had meatloaf in onion gravy, mashed potatoes with peas, and a chocolate eclair with cream for dessert, and a glass of red wine. It was a very nice evening. My Dad gave me a lift home, and I was really worried there might be another run-in with the robber, if he was hanging around but luckily he was nowhere to be seen, this time.