bilingual French-English cop buddy movie comedy thingy microreview

Last night, dilletante and I watched Bon Cop, Bad Cop, an unexpectedly awesome bilingual Canadian cop buddy flick. One of the main characters was a francophone from Montreal and the other was a square English speaker from Toronto, though of course both were perfectly bilingual. A huge chunk of the movie was spent on the linguistic and cultural divide between the two (the square cop, for example, spoke French because he'd spent time in Paris, not because he knew anything about Quebecois). The movie split its time pretty evenly between French and English, and some of the language bits were funny enough to bring tears to my eyes. dilletante seemed to be laughing along with me, so you should see it even if you don't expect to understand all the French. :)

If you do speak both languages, though, it is wildly entertaining to hear so much code-switching. There were also several scenes where the French speakers mostly spoke French, and the English speakers mostly spoke English -- while having conversations with each other. This must happen all the time, but I've never had a relationship like that, and it felt so comfortable to watch that now I want one.

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I have buttons! I do not like having them pressed. Things that will help you not press my buttons:

* Knowledge and intelligence are different things. Don't assume they're the same. It makes you look like an asshole.
* I'm smart. You probably think you know this about me, but most of you are wrong.
* If we're having a conversation, feel free to assume I know what you're talking about. If I don't, I'll ask, and then you can excitedly explain it to me. It'll be fun! I promise.
* I seriously, seriously will want to punch you in the face if you come off as condescending. Seriously.
* If you want to offer me basic advice about something, ask first, THEN offer. I might want it! I probably don't, though.

People, I love you. You are fantastic. Please, keep having ideas and thought processes and fascinations and hobbies that are different from my own, so I can keep hearing about them all and learning from you. Just, for the love of all that's good in the world, give me a bit of credit sometimes. Christ almighty, it's like I'm NINE.