Less Choice

 

I've been noticing for a while now that there is less choice of product in the grocery stores. (Certainly in the many grocery stores I patronize in downtown Toronto.)

Some brands such as Kleenex and Stouffer's Frozen Entrees have disappeared altogether. (Both of which I miss.)

Campbell's soups have far fewer varieties that they used to.

I have written before about the difficulty in finding powder type laundry detergent.  The only store I can find now that carries the powdered form of Tide is Canadian Tire.  

The latest loss I have noticed is in the variety of jams.  There used to be all sorts of interesting options and now there are very few.  

Movies: Train to Busan (and its sequel) Peninsula

I don't know why zombies movies are so popular - I'm sure lots of people have come up with reasons- but,  bottom line, they're fun to watch.

I've been thinking about why I liked Train to Busan more and I think it's because, once you accept the zombies, the film is about ordinary people reacting in believable ways to a terrible situation.  Some are braver or more moral than others, but they're just people. You can relate to them. I cared about many of them and the ending was very emotional.  (Personally, I think it's one of the best zombie films ever made.)

In Peninsula there's some of that but many of the characters are anything but ordinary.  Extremely capable, extremely smart, extremely stupid, extremely evil.  I think I'm trying to say that I can relate to the people in the first film but in Peninsula the story and people are just a little too extreme to feel relatable the way they did in Train to Busan.   Not that Peninsula is a bad movie -  it's well done, well produced, well acted, a lot of fun to watch.