Just watched a cute and funny
documentary called "Being Canadian" written and hosted by
Canadian writer and director Robert Cohen, featuring an array of
Canadian-born celebrities, such as Mike Myers, Martin Short, Rush, Bare Naked
Ladies, Alannis Morissette, Dan Akroyd, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, William
Shatner and many more.
The host and his guests examine
the same questions that have intrigued me since my arrival. Actual segment
titles include:
*Why do we have such an
inferiority complex?
*Why is Canadian TV so bad? (Followed by examples of really,
really bad TV. Can we talk about The Beachcombers?)
*What's with the Love-Hate
Relationship with the US? (Best response -Jan Brady's lament: 'Marcia Marcia Marcia!')
*Why are Canadians so nice? (Followed
by a "Canadian Content" segment featuring all the Canadian celebs
saying "sorry" and confessionals describing times they've said
'sorry' to inanimate objects such as Catherine O'Hara relating how she
says 'sorry' to her keyboard when she makes a typo.)
*Maybe we're NOT so nice. (Apparently
"sorry" can be the passive-aggressive equivalent of US Southerners' "bless your heart")
Worth a watch - btw, none of
these questions really get answered.
There is an interesting pattern
to the questions, though, and the film begins with the title-slide statement:
All of this is, sadly, true.
