Depressing Day
1) Gattaca
For our 2-hour GP lesson today, we watched "Gattaca". A movie starring Ethan Hawke and Jude Law. It's a really good movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat at certain scenes. Furthermore, it was really fun to watch it in the AVA with, I think, 2 other Arts classes. It really felt like we were in a cinema watching a movie...
Why is this part of the Depressing Day? WELL, *spoiler alert* Jude Law dies in the end. And it's really very sad because he burnt himself alive just to save Ethan Hawke. It didn't make it any better that Jude Law was the most entertaining character in the story, and probably the most handsome one too besides Ethan Hawke. WHY DID HE HAVE TO DIE.
It was really sad and depressing. My dearest Tina Mama cried. And later got our GP teacher crying too because she saw Tina crying (Sorry Tina, I just have to include this in my entry;) )!
As for the reason as to why he chose to kill himself is a rather long story, Jien had to explain it to me even after I'd watched the show... Oh well. Go catch it if you haven't!
2) Long Day's Journey Into Night
I'm studying this play by Eugene O'Neill, which will be tested in Lit Paper 8. This is one book that puts you in a reflective mode, and also gets you down and depressed because it's quite a tragic story, not that anybody dies, but I still have to say it's quite... tragic. It's the best word I can think of right now.
Today at the lecture with our Lit teacher who's preparing us for Lit Paper 8, he talked about how the characters quoted from other plays and poems to describe how they actually feel. He focused on one character in the play called Jamie, someone who wants to be loved by his mother. But his mother seems to avoid him all the time and instead pays all attention and affection to his younger brother, Edmund.
The 2 saddest lines were highlighted today. They highlight Jamie's sense of rejection and self-mockery:
It didn't help that my Lit teacher read it out so nicely...
I love Long Day's Journey Into Night, but at the same time, I'm afraid to read it because it always makes me feel so downcast and depressed.
For our 2-hour GP lesson today, we watched "Gattaca". A movie starring Ethan Hawke and Jude Law. It's a really good movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat at certain scenes. Furthermore, it was really fun to watch it in the AVA with, I think, 2 other Arts classes. It really felt like we were in a cinema watching a movie...
Why is this part of the Depressing Day? WELL, *spoiler alert* Jude Law dies in the end. And it's really very sad because he burnt himself alive just to save Ethan Hawke. It didn't make it any better that Jude Law was the most entertaining character in the story, and probably the most handsome one too besides Ethan Hawke. WHY DID HE HAVE TO DIE.
It was really sad and depressing. My dearest Tina Mama cried. And later got our GP teacher crying too because she saw Tina crying (Sorry Tina, I just have to include this in my entry;) )!
As for the reason as to why he chose to kill himself is a rather long story, Jien had to explain it to me even after I'd watched the show... Oh well. Go catch it if you haven't!
2) Long Day's Journey Into Night
I'm studying this play by Eugene O'Neill, which will be tested in Lit Paper 8. This is one book that puts you in a reflective mode, and also gets you down and depressed because it's quite a tragic story, not that anybody dies, but I still have to say it's quite... tragic. It's the best word I can think of right now.
Today at the lecture with our Lit teacher who's preparing us for Lit Paper 8, he talked about how the characters quoted from other plays and poems to describe how they actually feel. He focused on one character in the play called Jamie, someone who wants to be loved by his mother. But his mother seems to avoid him all the time and instead pays all attention and affection to his younger brother, Edmund.
The 2 saddest lines were highlighted today. They highlight Jamie's sense of rejection and self-mockery:
"Look in my face. My name is Might-Have-Been;
I am also called No More, Too Late, Farewell."
Another poem Jamie quoted from is a poem that consists of 6 stanzas, of which he quotes 3 stanzas in the play, but I shall just say the last stanza of the poem. The "she" in the poem refers to his mother. She is lost in her own world, lost in her Past, as she relapses into a case of morphine addiction. She is oblivious to her husband's and 2 sons' efforts to reach out to her and to pull her back into the "Real World", away from her addiction to morphine. They try very hard, but to no avail:
"Let us go hence, go hence; she will not see.
Sing all once more together; surely she,
She too, remembering days and words that were,
Will turn a little toward us, sighing; but we,
We are hence, we are gone, as though we had not been there.
Nay, and though all men seeing had pity on me,
She would not see"
It didn't help that my Lit teacher read it out so nicely...
I love Long Day's Journey Into Night, but at the same time, I'm afraid to read it because it always makes me feel so downcast and depressed.
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