Odysseys of George

I saw another Samuel L Jackson movie today on DVD.
The title : Freedomland.
The story: A distressed white woman walks into a hospital with blood on her hands. She claims that a black guy pulled her out of her car and drove the car away with her 4 year old son. The location is at the borders of two Northern New Jersey towns; Dempsy, predominant afro-american poor working class community and Gannon, largely white blue-collared commuinity.
The question or rather the questions: What actually took place? Why?
This thriller acted out very well by Samuel and his costar Julianne Moore brings to mind of what one is capable of.
Apart from the bad language with the f*** word being used ever so often, the movie was an entertaining one. Maybe a 6 or 7 out of 10.
Never realised that it was released in late last year or early this year.

Well I generally enjoy watching Samuel L Jacksons movies and since there were snakes in it that was an extra reason to catch this movie. However, I was a little dissapointed. The story line and script were satisfactory and the main cast in the movie are the snakes. Samuel L Jackson could not come out strong as all the other actors who played an important role were mediocre. But, I must say they managed to get good scenes from the snakes. They also portrayed a not-recommended- anymore technique of removing the venom. The lady drinks a cup of olive oil to prevent the venom from hurting her and then makes an incision over the swollen forearm of the small boy and sucks the venom.

Most of the world’s most deadliest snakes actually resides in Australia.
Check out this link : http://www.flyingdoctor.net/monographs/snakebite.pdf
This is about the management of snake bites in Australia and Papua New Guinea by Dr S.K.Sutherland and Dr. J.Tibballs
Some extract from there are :

Potency of venoms
Some Australian snake venoms are more potent than those of notable snakes in India, Asia, Africa and North America. Eleven Australian snakes have venoms that are more potent than the venom of the Indian Cobra (Naja naja) which causes many thousands of deaths each year in India and Asia.

Table 2 Snake venom potencies

Small-scaled Snake (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) 0.025 Australia
Common Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis) 0.053 Australia
Taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus) 0.099 Australia
Mainland (Eastern) Tiger Snake (Notechis scutatus) 0.118 Australia
Reevesby Tiger Snake (Notechis ater niger) 0.131 Australia
Beaked Sea Snake (Enhydrina schistosa) 0.164 Australia
Western Tiger Snake (Notechis ater occidentalis) 0.194 Australia
Chappell Island Tiger Snake (Notechis ater serventyi) 0.338 Australia
Common Death Adder (Acanthophis antarcticus) 0.400 Australia
Western Brown Snake (Pseudonaja nuchalis) 0.473 Australia
Lowland Copperhead (Austrelaps superbus) 0.560 Australia
Indian Cobra (Naja naja) 0.565 Indo-Asia
Dugite (Pseudonaja affinis) 0.660 Australia
Papuan Black Snake (Pseudechis papuanus) 1.09 Papua New Guinea
Stephen’s Banded Snake (Hoplocephalus stephensii) 1.36 Australia
Rough-scaled Snake (Tropidechis carinatus) 1.36 Australia
King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) 1.80 Indo-Asia

1. Taipan
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2.Small-scaled Snake (Oxyuranus microlepidotus)

3.Common Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis)

4.Mainland (Eastern) Tiger Snake (Notechis scutatus)

5.Indian Cobra (Naja naja)

Maybe next time I will write about how to treat snake bites.