So the other night I was feeling this strange craving for an old Bette Davis movie. I went over to the really great Gramophone video store on Polk Street and rented "The Letter." It was quite an interesting movie. Bette was terrificly bad and fun to watch. The other interesting thing to watch was how the movie dealt with Asian issues. Little did I know when I rented it that the story was set in Singapore. The directing and lighting of the movie were of particular note, in that, even though the white people in the movie were the ones acting devilish, it was obviously sympathetic to their concerns. But whenever the Asian people were on screen, even though they were law-abiding (while the white people were killing people and breaking other laws), the Asian people were covered in dark shadows and shown to be somehow sinister. Anyway, it was a pretty good old movie and I had fun watching it.