Un Conte de Noël

On Tuesday, December 9, 2008, I went to see the movie Un Conte de Noël, starring Catherine Deneuve.

This movie is about a family with three siblings. Well, they had four, but the first one died from this sort of rare cancer. Unfortunately, they could not find a bone marrow donor for him, so he ended up dying. So, it was about three siblings.

The eldest sibling and the youngest sibling was in a partnership with a theatre, where the youngest sibling, Henri, would run the finances, and do the plays for the eldest sister, Elisabeth. However, things went awry, and Henri found himself owing people money. Elisabeth somehow managed to find the money to pay the three people that are suing him for the damages, but she made the condition that she would never see Henri again, or hear from him.

For five years, that condition was upheld. She never saw her brother Henri, or had any interaction with her. However, that was not to last. Her mother, Junon had a rare disease which required a bone marrow transplant. Junon has a rare blood type, almost the rarest of the rare, which means that finding a donor is very very difficult. Even in her family, there's a 1 in 16 chance that it would be a match. It turns out that Paul, Elisabeth's son is a match. However, as we later find out in the movie, Henri is also a match.

Anyway, the movie is about a family who spends a very awkward Christmas together, and we also see the secrets that have been hidden away.

Now, onwards to my "journey" this evening.

I finished watching the movie with my friend at about 12:45 a.m.. We go to the metro station. There was a problem, some idiot was walking on the tracks. Eventually, this problem was resolved, and we got on the green line at about 1:08 a.m., and I was at the metro station at 1:10 a.m.. However, nobody told all the clients that there was no more service on the orange line. At about 1:15 a.m., I said to my friend that, "If there's no metro at 1:25 a.m., then I am going to walk and take the night bus."

Sure enough, 1:25 a.m. arrived, and I started to walk out of the station, but my friend insisted on staying in the metro station and waiting for the metro. The person who worked at the counter for the STM assured the passengers that there will be one more metro. At about 1:30 a.m., we got a message that informed us that there was no more service of the metro, and requested us to go towards the exits of the station. This caused me to waste an hour of my time, because I could no longer take the bus at 1:30 a.m., and I had to wait for the night bus at 2:30 a.m..

That is why I am home now and writing my review this late. What bugs me the most about this situation is that it could have been AVOIDED. If my friend and I actually took the night bus and left the station at 1:25 a.m., then we would have been home in our respective rooms sooner. However, this friend decided not to listen to me, and listen to someone who worked for the STM. People who work for the STM cannot be trusted... They have the same reliability as Environment Canada, who cannot predict themselves out of a cave.