Nice post. I did find the Argentineans to be movie-obsessed.
One random Tuesday night in BA I went out looking for something interesting
to do and saw a bunch of people filing into a bar. I figured there was going
to be some music or something, so I wandered in.
Turns out that they were there to watch a movie. They hung a sheet at one
end of the bar and watched a film using a projector, so they had to stop
every 20 minutes or so because they only had the one projector.
That was helpful, because it was an old
film noir classic, in French,
with Spanish Subtitles. So every 20 minutes I got to ask for some
translation help.
The guy who helped me was originally from BA. He went to school in Europe,
had worked at the UN in New York. Very bright guy, and could work anywhere
in the world but he chose to live in BA.
They have some serious economic problems there now, but people really love
it so I have hope they will figure them out.
http://ben.casnocha.com/2009/07/impressions-and-lessons-from-argentina.html
