Event 2: Student Organization Meeting

I attended a movie showing that was hosted by the Johnston scholar program. This is not the typical student organization, but it still is a a particular group of students that come together for events from time to time. I myself am not a Johnston scholar, but my roommate happens to be one. He invited me to attend the movie with him because he said that they can bring guests and that there was free pizza. A movie and pizza.... how could I refuse, especially since I am running out of meals for the semester. The movie was a film done on one of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novels called "The Chronicles of a Death Foretold." The movie was in Spanish and had no subtitles so I was pretty lost and could not understand a word being said. I do not take or know Spanish so it was difficult for me to understand. However, my roommate speaks some Spanish and would fill me in on the dialogue from every now and then. The plot was pretty easy to follow without the subtitles anyway. I really enjoyed the film; it was very interesting and entertaining. Apparently the version we were watching was a bootleg version from Cuba because the actual film is locked away in a vault in Italy and was never really released to be sold. The movie was about a rich man who goes to this Latin American village to find a woman to marry. He chooses one of the most beautiful women in the village and marries her. On their wedding night, he discovers that she may not be a virgin so he returns her to her family and leaves the village. The family is outraged at the woman and asks who took her virginity. The girl names Santiago Azar, the "bachelor" of the village I guess you could say. The girl's brothers decide to kill Santiago. The odd thing about this part of the movie is that everyone in the village hears of the brothers plan to kill Santiago except him. The whole village fails to warn Santiago accordingly, and he is murdered in the village square.
This was an extremely interesting film to go to, and I am glad that I attended. All of the Johnston scholars that were there all discussed the movie afterward and how they felt about it. It made me want to go to more events similar to this one because it was a good time, and I got free food.