ReFreshing New Reflections
ok! week 4 lessons are over.Wow time sure flies. We watched a movie during lesson.How cool is that? haha.It was titled Election. It was a really different movie i must say. It wasnt your typically perfect live,gorgeous people sort of movie. It was just your regular life with almost regular looking people acting in it.The exception would be Resee Witherspoon who acted as Tracy in the movie.
This movie shows the nitty gritty details of life that usual Hollywood films tend to leave out.One example that i can still remember until today is when Mccalister went to Diane’s house to help her unclog her bathtub and took out a whole chunk of hair. This scene just left me disgusted. It wasn’t exactly the most visually pleasing scene I must say.
After watching the film I realized why Hollywood tend to portray a rather perfect life of a perfectly gorgeous perfect teens/people. Besides it being visually pleasing it provides us an escape from reality during the two hours or so.
I am one of those who would rather see the usual type of hollywood films.I mean i do not mind variety but at least give me something that is pleasing to the eyes.One or two awkward reality-type scenes are ok but the whole film is just a bit too much.
After watching the film i was speechless as i really had nothing to say about the film.I mean there werent exactly morals there since Tracy who did something bad still manged to wint he elections and moved on to be sucessful in life.I mean if you’re making this kind of show at least give us some morals to look for.Don’t let the bad guy win.
Ok call me old-fashioned or whatever but i still like happy endings most of the time.It gives me some sort of satisfifaction that good always still prevails even though we all know that it doesn’t really happen all the time in life.This is especially true now with the after effects of the war in iraq, the many many natural disasters etc…
Sorry i am not exactly a big fan of the news as i personally feel it is very depressing.Have you ever noticed that there is hardly anything good in the news? Anything happy? There is always deaths,violence ,natural disasters and what nots.The only good thing perhaps would be that they found a new solution for some problem and soon after a new probelm will arise and the cycle goes on.
Yes you may say that it is their job to keep us updated on what is happening around the world while the magazines do the job of entertaining us. They are doing a mighty fine job i must say.Too good a job with the constant updates during major events.
However i do read the news and no its not for contemporary issues or anything.Just a quick scan of updates but mostly its to check out the more happening and happier news thats covered under Lifestyle Section Of our Wonderful Newspaper.:D
I wonder if anyone else feels the same way?
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I am not sure if i drifted off too much though but i remember ryan said to talk about outside class and im just expressing my opinions:D Oh and i did reflect over class… ok maybe more on the movie…but it is still part of class:D
misterryan said,
November 23, 2006 at 12:37 am
This is a great reflection. It’s almost a model reflection.
I don’t agree with a lot of the things you wrote. I enjoy movies for sharing the human experience with me. Sometimes the human experience is angry or sad or cruel or hilarious. I love experiencing all those emotions because it reminds me how great it is to be alive. I know you’re not saying you want everything to be happy all the time, but to be believe the solution to all problems should be happy wouldn’t provide me the satisfaction that complex endings do.
If it makes you feel any better, all three of the movies I’ve written have happy endings.
Thanks for this reflection. It made my day.