Movie Review: The Wave

The Wave is based on a story that I read a very long time ago (way back in primary school, if memory serves), which is in turn based on an actual experiment which took place in a California school in the sixties. There's a lovely irony in this: Hollywood loves to take exciting events that happened on some other continent and set the movie in California or New York - this film does the opposite, taking events that happened in California and setting the film in a German school. Given the subject matter, if a Hollywod producer chose to set this story in Germany I'd be crying racism, but this is a German film. As a result the story is changed somewhat from the one I remember, but the core has a lot more power than it might otherwise have.

The story takes place over a week in this fictional, small-town school. It's "project week", in which students sign up for intensive study of some political/sociological subject. Mr Wegner was looking forward to teaching a class on Anarchy for project week but is instead assigned to teach Autocracy. He's surprised by the number of students who sign up for that class, but it's clear they signed up because he's a popular teacher. On the first day, he takes a traditional approach to the subject and when the discussion turns inevitably to Nazism the kids protest that they're sick of being guilt-tripped over something that happened in their grandparents' day and could never happen again.

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FIC: Divided Loyalties (Adult)

Title: Divided Loyalties
Rating: Adult
Pairing: John/Ellen
Summary: You concentrated on the game, because it was a thing you could control. There was no pleasure in it, neither satisfaction in your skill nor triumph in clearing the table. Only this: what you could control, because it kept the chaos in your mind at bay. Only the familiar, simple action of the pool cue in your hand, keeping you from screaming the pain in your heart.
Notes: Written for tvaddictgurl in spn_summerlove. This fic assumes that the story Demon!Sam told Jo about Bill Harvelle's death was a lie.

( Divided Loyalties )

Also posted on AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/works/5655

Fic: Thicker Than Water (Gen, Adult)

Title: Thicker Than Water
Rating: Adult (for bloody violence and some NSFW language).
Warnings: This is darkfic. Dark as in "the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlamp of an oncoming train". Character death is implied (but open to interpretation).
Prompt: Either Sam or Dean gets turned into either a vampire or a werewolf, and how the other deals with it.
Summary: In the dreams, it never happened the same way twice. Two things in the dream were always the same: Dean always asked Sam to kill him and Sam never could.
Notes: Timeline - Fresh Blood took place in early November and Dean's deal was due on May 2nd. Written for cho_malfoy in spn_summergen. Beta read by krazykipper and raynedanser - thanks guys!

( Thicker Than Water )

Also posted on AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/works/5654