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There was no chance of getting back to sleep at that point, so I went to a matinee. It was too late for start times on either movie I actually wanted to see, so I went to see Book of Eli. If you are thinking of seeing Book of Eli, may I suggest seeing The Road instead. With The Road, you get beautifully shot and acted accurate depiction of the post apocalyptic novel. Unlike Eli, it isn't full of painful logical problems and religious proselytizing. Seriously, The Road does all the good things Eli dies only better and more subtly, with all the things that pissed me off about Eli, blessedly gone. Viggo for the win, trust me. Also, this is still bugging me about Eli, even though I know it's a small problem compared to, like the whole plot, but how did enough infected people from Papa new Guinea make it to North America after the Apocalypse to make Kuru an endemic North American disease? Kuru doesn't spontaneously generate. I know it's a relatively small thing, but I'm having trouble understanding how that could reasonably happen. Most of the other crazy improbable stuff can at least be grouped under christian style magic, but there was now mention of the mass post-apocalyptic kuru infected New Guinean migration the film and given what a strange thing that would be, you think someone would mention how it happened or even that it happened. Are there even enough kuru infected Fore left to infect so many Americans? Wouldn't it have been less trouble to migrate to somewhere closer to new Guinea?

Wouldn't the mass post-apocalyptic kuru infected Fore migration have made a more interesting film than the one actually presented? How did all those sick people make it all the way to California after the near destruction of everything? Imagine the epic struggle to make the water and supplies last on that long voyage. The people with a crippling movement disorder struggling to sail all those ships thorough storms only to land on the shores of California to me slaughtered by healthier American survivors too dumb not to eat the brains. I bet there'd be a lot less christian proselytizing too, although I suppose you could add some in for irony the end as the Christians eat the flesh and brains of those poor new Guineans. It would all be a metaphor for how we grind up immigrants in this country and to a certain extent for how colonialism and racism poison our national character, only I wouldn't say it outright, unlike Book of Eli. Clearly the Hughes brothers have never heard of subtext. Seriously, my movie explaining the kuru epidemic would be a lot more fun than Eli. Failing a trip to the theater of my brain, see The Road instead. At least I could sleep when I got home.