Changing Paths

I am sitting here in my room in Nijmegen, surrounded by clothes, books, and a random bag filled with clothes hangers. So yeah guess what, I am moving soon!

Normally I would start out this blog by apologising for not updating, or giving the reasons for being absent, but let's just skip all that stuff right now because it is boring and I do not want to even think about it.

But yeah, moving. I am so so keen to actually move because I have this weird obsession with putting stuff in boxes and just generally packing- it's weird. Moreover, the day when I actually move is right after my last exam (or well not last because I got one ticket straight to the resits but let's just yeah, just no.) so I am really looking forward to that. I am so glad when this school year is over. It has stressed me out majorly and I just want to be done with it at this point. I'm doing that thing again were I write negative stuff right? Enough of that.

Well, there are these pretty awesome things I have to look forward to. Firstly: Pinkpop! I AM SO EXCITED. I was really bummed out earlier when I could not get tickets for the whole weekend, but I am over that now (lies). I am really looking forward to seeing Ed Sheeran live again, because let's face it he is just perfection live. And then there's The Arctic Monkeys who've become one of my favourite bands over the past year. Two weeks left!

Secondly, there's Exeter. Applying has been a real hassle, but everything worked out in the end and my application has finally been sent. I'm going to be following two courses: One on Shakespeare and one on Film Adaptations. Expectations: high.

I feel like I am cramming a lot of stuff in this one post really badly. But I guess this concludes my little life-update thingy.

On to what I've been watching lately. I know I was supposed to upload a few reviews but I just have not had any time for it, and have put my little project on hold till the summer vacation starts.

I can't say which films I will be reviewing yet, except for Philomena (which I already announced). I have seen a lot of films lately, some better than others. I watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier which was very enjoyable, AND I saw Godzilla. Yeah, it was bad. I also watched Spirited Away which I most likely will be reviewing, and on my watchlist are The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (by Wes Anderson) and Lars and the Real Girl (starring Ryan Gosling).

As far as series go, I finally finished watching Twin Peaks. And I really really love this series and one day I will explain why, but that last episode really was a slap in the face. It was brilliant, but it also made me a tiny bit mad. However, I have not watched Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me yet, so my blog on Twin Peaks will probably arrive after I watch that film. I also started watching Kings (starring Sebastian Stan) and I am actually really enjoying it. Or well, it causes me emotional pain, but in a good way. Also it has Seb Stan and I like his acting (and his face).

Oh I should probably mention a few films I had to watch for an adaptation course I have been following. We had to watch an adaptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles that was set in modern day India, and I rather enjoyed watching that one. It's called Trishna and its critical reviews might not be that good, but I like how they took an old story and show how many of the problems faced by women in the Victorian time are still in a way faced by many today. I ended up enjoying it more than the novel, even though that was not such a stretch because I rather disliked the novel. We also had to watch Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula (1992), and I fucking hated it. Dear god I could go on and on about that film, but the two word conclusion would just be that it's utter shit. I loved reading Dracula and I think it's a great novel, and the film just took that story and fucked it up massively. I know this might seem a bit harsh, but it just made me mad how overly sexualised and  overtly sexist the film was. I mean I don't care if you want to 'spice up' that Victorian sexual repression but this was just ridiculous. "Hey Mina let's read this sexually suggestive book and giggle really hard". The women were portrayed like stereotypical schoolgirls in my eyes, while one of them got relegated to being part of a love triangle, because of course, why would you not. The visuals were okay I guess, I just did not like the overly melodramatic style. It was like watching a cult film gone horribly wrong, and most cult films already raise a lot of questions but this one just got me asking the wrong ones. For example: why is Jonathan Harker's nipple bleeding like a fountain? Or, why does Jonathan not get suspicious when he sees Dracula floating to him when they first meet while wearing your grandma's wedding dress and Elizabeth I's wig? So many questions.

Okay I think that concludes my rambling nicely. Oh and pay special attention to my vaguely pretentious title. Even I don't know why.

Life Update

Ha ha ha. Isn't it funny how I've already failed at completing the first leg of my film challenge?
Not so much.

I've been extremely busy lately, doing fun things and not so fun school related things, and I just ran out of time and energy to complete my goal. Applying for Exeter University is a complete pain in the ass, which is all due to my home university just simply not having their shit together, and it's causing me a certain amount of stress (to put it lightly).

Because of this I have decided I will only review the films I find worth reviewing for the coming time, but I will still watch four a month.

The last film I wacthed last month was Philomena, and I will review that one in my next blogpost, and talk a bit about the other films I've watched.

I'll go back to stressing about university now, and will post something a bit more interesting soon :)