Hanger enlightenment!!

If a boy scores the winning goal in a high school football tournament, he is a legend to all his class mates and could probably take a pick from any girl with highlights and Maybellene Dream Matte Mouse Foundation. The euphoric scene of him being held up by a sea of blue and white stripy shirts is a great and accessible example of how the world we have created can make people happy, and in this case, 'the man'! 

The establishment of money can give people Jacuzzis and remote controls but it also brings interest rates, and debt which has been known to provoke some pretty nasty manic depression. Nothing kills soul like poverty, just ask Elizabeth Bennet about her tough decisions. 

In addition University can educate, improve and churn out some of the best relationships in a person's life. It can leave others feeling alienated undermined and well skint. 

The complex web of 21st century human existence has established opportunities for people to be proud, egotistical and elated. It has also given us the possibility of being dragged through a cloud of quite the opposite, just take the antitheses of the orgasmic affects of heroin against the catastrophic impact the monster has on lives everyday, for a chilling example. If this was a rhetorical piece of (pretty pointless) writing I would have put the positive tripling last, but this is no propaganda. I'm merely pointing out the fascinating weight our lives are laced with. 

Is depression a result of understanding this too well? Or not well enough? And if unhappiness has to exist if anyone ever wishes to appreciate the positive parts of life then are unhappy people just making up all the good and beauty in the world? 

I would write a novel about this, but I've got a lecture. 

And I'm actually really happy by the way. 

The Reader

How Far Would You Go To Keep A Secret?

Do you ever wonder what people have done in their pasts? 

What is left unsaid, what they might be hiding?

This story maps the devastatingly radical affect one person can have on another. Our character's affair only lasted one summer, yet Hannah's impact on Michael was life changing. Issues of morality and justice make the depths of this film unmeasurable, impenetrable, and timeless. The Reader does not claim to answer all of the questions it raises with a simple tangible answer, but explores them with thought provoking elegance that is a joy to watch.

Kate Winslet achieved exceptional realism without avoiding a pimple or wrinkle, her performance brought life to this story and breath to a cold and complex character, enhancing the sinister irony and manipulation that lies in the excellent screenplay. Which however, I did find a bit weak in parts, some of the dialogue was distracting and waffly, maybe, perhaps a little..I don't know!

Any film which sparks discussion about the world around us not just costume or cinematography should be applauded. 

I'm going to find the book and hope there is an appendix. I need to know more about the story.

I really want to see Revolutionary Road as well. 

Awesome.

guided tours

guided tours 

hearing aids

walking stick

i’ll sit. 

i’ll dwell.

I’ll never grow up

keep me fat

keep me quiet

keep me worthless

secret safety

I didn’t want to open up or confide

the secrets are safe with me

I’ll lock away this shame inside 

let it burn and pine and punish me

This is all temporary and so are you

its a drop of frosty winter rain

under the bridge of nowhere one and two

i don’t trust you with my pain

oh yeah and um..

boys are mean

mind reader

Its not like I'm asking for the world

I'm just asking for the key to it

the know how

i want to tell the future

I want to read your mind

I don't want to live forever

I don't want your ins and outs

I've gotta get out of here

I've gotta get in there

Its not like I'm asking for the world

I'm just asking for the key to it

procrastination

I wanna write a film that this fits into. 

That isn't sickly. And the actors will be imperfect looking and the characters insightful, amazing and very well read.

Its a freezing cold December evening. A girl and boy (about 20 years old) leave a coffee shop in a busy street and they walk home. Camera follows them they don't speak Bright eyes is playing (or maybe the maccabees) plays over but is interrupted by sounds of traffic and conversation from passers by. 

Girl " I know a short cut here actually.."

Boy "Ok yeah, lead the way"

45 minutes later

Boy "Is it me or did that seem to take a while?

Big pause

Girl "You make me want to take the long way home INSERT NICE NAME HERE"

No, I wouldn't call it Love Actually 2, probably more like 'It won't last' or something.