Movieswise
A Single Man

February 2010.

Looks amazing, the trailer has me at the first tick.


Nicholas Hoult and Lee Pace are both in this,further justifying any reason to see this.

That does not look like Colin Firth for he is looking...less family comedy friendly in a long time.

Schoolwise

School is ending, finishing up exams. Exams do not, as a rule, carry the same thrill as they used to back in Singapore.

Case in Point: Feeling bored at the 2 1/2hr point in a 3hr English exam, I sit back and let myself be quietly impressed with my ability to be both pretentious and logic making.

Yes, I am also beginning to wonder how hard it might be to say good bye to people and if they'll at all remember me /ego


Sunshinewise

The word sun gets thrown around here so often, but only because ITS EVERYWHERE.

I like it though. Legitimate excuse to actually use words like 'languidly' and 'lazily' they way they should be. That is, lying around on grass and sleeping.

Whatiamdoingnowwise

Silly neurotic moths softly humming against my window. I have light, that is true. It is also true that I have a fly netting mesh so they can't get in. Ha.

Have math in front of me, eyes drooping, headache. Want to actually remove comforter but can't quite figure out how to get it out from blanket cover.

Wearing short sleeves in a long time.

Moths are actually flies, explains the buzzing.

OhBeverlyistrendywise

No one uses the word trendy anymore do they.

Anyways, I can't get a twitter for data usage here is crazy expensive and have gut feeling nobody wants to listen to 120 characters of me being disgruntled. Like the world needs another teenager right?

www.glowbracelets.tumblr.com

But I did get a tumblr because I like the idea of reposting things from other people's blog with the click of a button. Saves copying and pasting and time and money. It is also social evolution and I like being part of any evolution even if it doesn't involve pikachu:D

Also place where I can be properly 17 like the rest of you and pretend to be cryptic and moan about maybe existent teen angst (you'll never find me admitting to it.NEVER!)

Otherwise

Buzzing of flies are my lullaby.

I don't talk about Moonshine enough, it is quite nice really.

And this is media class

I made my first ever film guys. Wish it were amazingly clever and witty with earth shattering revelations but it's not really. I'm just happy that I managed to film/edit/make music sync together and put it on disc.




From Youtube description:
"There is nothing to writing, all you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."-Ernest Hemingway

Just how much do you love/loathe the auto save function on Microsoft word and wouldn't you rather indulge in someone else's anguish over unsaved work for a change?

Melding stateliness with a desperate effort to be funny, there are a lot of ways in which a first 'serious' film attempt can be done wrong. This is just one of them.
Enjoy!

Pre Production time:2 weeks
Production Time: 14 Hours
Editing: 10 hours
Worrying about ever completing the film: Throughout the entire process
Bitching about the editing program:15 hours
Satisfaction about completed Product: Now-?

Music(by order):
Exploration-Coraline OST
Si Tu N'Etais Pas La-Amelie OST
Victor Narrowmore-Pushing Daisies OST
Unstoppable-E. S. Posthumus
The Final Countdown-Europe
Pas Si Simple-Amelie OST

Dear Sunshine,

How do you suppose I'm going to get ANY work done if you keep dappling the tree outside my room with GOLD.

Screw you.

Love,
Bev

weird dreams lately. changing landscapes, hiding and running, lots of running.

there are people too, old ones who i wave to and want to talk to but never do and new ones who are not quite as i know or imagine them to be.

i remember them too, but mostly in fragments. don't actually know if i want to remember.

disorientation.

The sky is the precise reflection of the Late Sunset gradient background option in Powerpoint.

It is ironic for a person who is so inept at small talk to be obsessed with the weather (18 degrees and raining tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and the day after tomorrow's tomorrow.)

charlie: You guys do realise that candy mountain isn't real.
friends: Shun the non-believer. SHUN! shuuuunnnnahhhhh.

In Short: Loved it. Now excuse me while i relive the film through the soundtrack.

"500 Days of summer", I say a little too happily

For a beat, my temporary enthusiasm is considered and judged a sane one.

"Isn't that a rom-com?" he says, with a little distaste and unmistakable trepidation (boys pfftt)

"No," I am a indignant while someone else chimes in "Yes."

I shoot her a look. "But," she amended, " it has a sad ending."

For all my acquired elitist sensibilities against romantic comedies, there is no way around it. 500 Days of Summer is a romantic comedy although it very cleverly twists the genre. In fact, the entire movie is just that:endlessly clever and delightful.

If I write a proper review, I will run out of synonyms for charming by the second sentence. Let's just do a roll call of adjectives shall we? Quirky, Offbeat, Whimsical, Adorable, Slightly Eccentric, Refreshing, Hey Original surprised you're here, Satirical turns up late but it's been trying.

The premise of the film, unrequited love is not a new one but I don't think it has ever been this doused in sepia toned nostalgia. By that I mean, the movie flounces taking you on a figurative frolicking under summer sunshine.

From the casting of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel to the calculated whimsy of a happy jig down the streets complete with a colour coordinated marching band and animated disney birds, there is no denying that is effusively charming. Even (help us all.) the swearing is precocious.

I loved the film, really I did.

I loved how it's not rom com aimed specifically at me but volleys it primarily to the other gender as well. I liked how the dialogue treaded on the thin line between saccharine sweetness and saving itself with precise randomness [ "Honey,I don't know how to tell you this but there is a chinese family in our kitchen] and the soundtrack isn't going anywhere off my Ipod anytime soon. I appreciated how various film techniques, non-linear story lines, animation, stop motion were all incorporated without seeming too gimmicky.

At the same time, there was something lacking. It was perceptive on it's take on the most difficult aspect of modern love, defining it [although, i will not claim to know anything of romance] and the non-linear retelling of the relationship through 500 days is genius, analogical to hapaharzadly flipping through old photo books.

The film breezes tripping only slightly because there wasn't gravity to the film to hold all the fluff together. It's deconstruction on the themes of unrequited love, disillusionment of youth , moving on, taking hold of destiny was done too briefly with too little depth. The culmination of these themes was also done in a disappointing manner with the lead taking an easy pot shot at how greeting cards were creating fairy tales for us to believe in and a supposedly epic storming out of an office

It also suffers from what I like to think of as Garden State syndrome whereby the ending just fails miserably in contrast to the rest of the movie. There is no definable climax or a clever, dead pan anti-climax. Sure, leave the movie open but there must be some sort of stylistic closure like flourishing a doodle with your signature.

POLAROIDS:D BETTER THAN I COULD HAVE EVER DREAMED.

and i dream a lot.

Room not clean, Biology notes not done, unbalanced psyche, need to exercise, too much rain.

Life is long,messy and unmanageable. Like my hair.

I have mysteriously acquired a iPod touch. Its quite fun to leave finger imprints and slide through the high techy diginess of it all.

*fetish*

Now, to shatter its very core and soul for my own manipulative purposes (third party applications yey! )

Night all:D