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nausicaa83It's been an uneventful weekend. I love those!
I told my aunt about the cut-that-should-have-been-stitched over the phone. I was really good at it: I waited for the right moment, when she was shouting something at her mom, and told her very, very fast, mumbling, and ended it with a very loud "but the doctor says it's aaaalllll fine, so how was your day?" Mission accomplished. I'm so happy I didn't lose my touch. :D
Today I watched Martin Scorsese's Hugo. I have mixed feelings about it. The first 40 minutes were SO boring. It felt like it wasn't going anywhere. We had five minutes of Jude Law in it, but that was it. Then the real story started, and it was beautiful and fascinating and I even got teary-eyed at some point. And I love, love Ben Kingsley so much because he's been my John Watson for so many years. When I was at university a friend told me to watch Without A Clue, and I fell in love with that movie so much. I used to watch it so many times, and always before an exam, it was my good luck charm. It still is one of my favourite movies.
Anyway, back to Hugo, a beautiful movie with a disappointing first part. But the rest of the movie makes up for it, so be strong. It also made me reflect a lot about movies that are about movies. There are a lot of movies about how wonderful movies are (and I love those), and quite a few books about how books are amazing (first thing that pops to mind, every book Cornelia Funke ever wrote), and it's funny when you think about it. Are there any songs about how much music is beautiful? Thinking about it now, Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals is about that, at its core. Music about music that we love.
Uneventful weekends give me so much food for thought. *_______*
I told my aunt about the cut-that-should-have-been-stitched over the phone. I was really good at it: I waited for the right moment, when she was shouting something at her mom, and told her very, very fast, mumbling, and ended it with a very loud "but the doctor says it's aaaalllll fine, so how was your day?" Mission accomplished. I'm so happy I didn't lose my touch. :D
Today I watched Martin Scorsese's Hugo. I have mixed feelings about it. The first 40 minutes were SO boring. It felt like it wasn't going anywhere. We had five minutes of Jude Law in it, but that was it. Then the real story started, and it was beautiful and fascinating and I even got teary-eyed at some point. And I love, love Ben Kingsley so much because he's been my John Watson for so many years. When I was at university a friend told me to watch Without A Clue, and I fell in love with that movie so much. I used to watch it so many times, and always before an exam, it was my good luck charm. It still is one of my favourite movies.
Anyway, back to Hugo, a beautiful movie with a disappointing first part. But the rest of the movie makes up for it, so be strong. It also made me reflect a lot about movies that are about movies. There are a lot of movies about how wonderful movies are (and I love those), and quite a few books about how books are amazing (first thing that pops to mind, every book Cornelia Funke ever wrote), and it's funny when you think about it. Are there any songs about how much music is beautiful? Thinking about it now, Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals is about that, at its core. Music about music that we love.
Uneventful weekends give me so much food for thought. *_______*
