On Sunday, we went out for Thai food and take in a movie. We checked out the Tiger Thai restaurant across from Potomac Mills Mall. Last year, I visited this restaurant with another friend, but the weather was so cold that I didn't have an opportunity to enjoy my meal of pad thai.
We started with a typical chicken satay appetizer. It had a respectable flavor. Then, we ordered the mildly spicy duck curry and staff recommended Tiger Beef. The food wasn't bad. We both thought the duck was much better than the beef, and the service staff were quite attentive. The restaurant seems to be owned by a native Thai expatriate and her Caucasian husband. Last time I was here, their son, or we guessed as their son, served as wait staff and bartender.
At the last minute, we decided to watch The Interpreter. He didn't enjoy it, but I thought the movie had the traditional rhythm of an old style thriller, a classic "whodunit". It was slow in some spots, but I thought Nicole Kidman's acting carried the movie very well. And, I'm NOT usually a fan of her work. Her "African" accent was believable. Sean Penn plays a used man recovering from a personal tragedy. I haven't seen him lately in a movie, but you can really see his age in this movie. What interested me are the scenes of Africa. How hauntingly beautiful and magnificent and sad and derelict did the scenes show the land itself.
She plays a language interpreter for the UN, and he portrays a federal agent (liaison officer) working with UN staff. At night, when she returns to the UN to fetch her bag, Nicole's character hears whispers in a local dialect about a potential assassination of an African head of state, but she doesn't realize what the situation wholly entails, until it is too late. His character suspects she is lying and hiding a past. I wished the movie had more intrigue. I expected more "cat and mouse" type of interaction between the characters, but the movie was focused on the characters' sorrowful past, which binds them from moving forward in their own lives. Later, the movie attempts to tie the characters "connection" together by their individual tragedies. They later both learn something from each other and learn how to start healing, but it takes awhile when they finally get to that moment of "insight".
This is film is not geared for younger audiences. There are number of things to note. There are violent scenes, some language, and there is a brief single scene including nudity at a club.
In real life, I hope it is never too late to get that "insight" from our interactions with God and people, just like between my brother and me. God created us to relate to Him and to relate to others. We should never forget that.
Today's verse: 1 John 4:19-21 (New American Standard Bible)
We love, because He first loved us.
If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.
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