now, tastes more like real life

I'm watching To Catch a Thief, which, now I'm watching it, I realize I've totally seen before. But I really like it. I am not a film nerd but you can't argue with lines like "Germaine has very sensitive hands and an exceedingly light touch. She strangled a German general - without a sound."

Since it's from 1955, it reminds me of the United States of Arugula which I haven't read but which is all about the gourmet-ization of the U.S. I'm just amused because at one point in the movie Cary Grant says "This is a quiche lorraine. Have you heard of it?" Imagine when a quiche lorraine was exotic! Amusing. Does it have something to do simply with the glamorization of Europe in America? After all, Cary Grant is the smooth French resistance fighter, essentially a European with his scarves and his villa, and Grace Kelly's mom is the new money, straight shooter, stumbled into oil in her backyard American type.

Maybe I should have been a film studies major or something, I'm enjoying this too much.

Also, Cary Grant is bright orange. Look: