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Saturday, June 02, 2007
/ 10:14 PM

I just watched the movie 'Fight Club', and it's gotta be one of my favourite movies! My saying this really means quite a lot.. I seriously like it! Love the visuals.. I love visuals just like in the movie.. How can I describe it.. Looks gritty and all.. And in Fight Club, the settings are not only gritty, but have pretty vivid colours too.. And that suits me just fine..=D And the cast's acting is superb.. I like Brad Pitt in his role here best.. All along, I have liked Leonardo Dicarprio better.. Haha.. But Brad Pitt is intense in this movie! Haha! Edward Norton's acting is just as fantastic.. And the female lead too is incredibly defiant yet alluring.. The movie's plot is adapted from the book written by Chuck Palaniuk.. And the idea is quite a stroke of genius! Shocking movie.. But I think I've said before that I like things like that.. Things that jolt a person.. They make me feel so much more alive.. They stimulate me even.. I like to be stimulated first, then I can do some real thinking.. Haha.. And I realize that there may not be much in life that is stimulating in that way.. But I accept that nothing is ever easy.. I can just try.. The bottom line needs to be so always.. It'll be bad if there comes a day when we just don't bother to try..

Yet, I briefly considered a conflicting thought the other day.. When it comes to something I just -know- I can't do very well, for instance a restrictive exam, I briefly thought the other day that perhaps I just shouldn't try at all.. And it wouldn't be such that I gave up.. But it just wouldn't be worth it.. I might will myself to do it, but it wouldn't have a fantastic result.. So why just work at something, to turn out to be average? Could there be something else you could turn out to be wonderful at? Or, is it actually wrong to ask, could there be something else you could be happy doing? But God knows that I have made myself study for the 'A' Levels.. And God knows that I'm actually appealing to go on to the next stage along the education path now - university, of course.. I am uncertain of myself if I were to not enter university.. I am uncertain of myself even if I were to enter university.. Who can help us to just be ourselves, and still proceed fearlessly? It'll be impressive to achieve that.. Can one be a happy individual, free of the shackles placed on oneself by society?

Ok, I'm going off soon to do other stuff! Gonna take a break away from the com.. But I love Fight Club's plot, I tell you!!! Lolx.. Also has a very open-minded kind of philosophy.. And that, combined with the stylish looks of the movie, makes it a fine movie..^_^ It's a pretty vulgar and violent movie.. But how different! The violence is not for the sake of it.. The violence also expresses some sort of release.. Which is one other idea I always like to explore..

Yet, I'm not an all that open person sia.. There are kinds of people you just won't be able to talk to.. That shouldn't make one be seen as unsociable.. But it often can.. And this can get tiring.. And yet, again, must still try.. One may think one does not deserve this.. One may even think one deserves -better-.. And then there are other times when I doubt this too.. Haha.. My looking on both sides of things will never end.. There are other times when one doubts if one does deserve -better-.. Because what is 'better'? Where can we find a 'better' place than where we are currently? This reminds me of a short story I read in the book 'Moral Disorder' by Margaret Atwood.. It's entitled 'The Other Place', and roughly is about an alternate place the protagonist is always dreaming about, but the idea is that the lovely alternate place in the protagonist's dreams will always be a mere imagination.. Like there is no such place.. One is just giving oneself hope of a 'better' place other than where we always find ourselves to have ended up.. Sheesh huh? Depressing, depressing.. Another idea along the same line is what I have extracted from Kurt Vonnegurt's book.. That there are no 'good old days', but there are just days.. Well.. Live with it, you know? Haha.. I like wordplay too..

Oh, to end off, since I like the style of Fight Club, I think I'm gonna like the director too.. Gotta learn more about him and his works! The director is David Fincher.. 'Zodiac' is a thriller showing in theatres now, and it's directed by him too! I think I wanna catch that.. The Life! newspaper report on 'Zodiac' reminded me that I've been wanting to watch 'Fight Club'.. And 'Fight Club' reminds me that I've been wanting to watch 'Pulp Fiction'.. Hehe.. And wonder if 'Sin City' is worth checking out? And I haven't seen the 'Saw' series too.. Ahaha.. Oh but I think I'll be more interested to watch 'Natural Born Killers'! Since I've read the screenplay.. Intriguing screenplay.. But isn't it an old movie? Oh, Wikipedia says it's a 1994 movie.. But not like it's gonna be easy to find it.. And I'm gonna start ranting against overrated new, hot movies again.. Haha.. Coz it's easy to watch those (and they have far too much hype that it's irritating), but difficult to watch good movies which are just a few years old.. Chuck Palaniuk might be an author worth checking out too! Ok, my post ends here!

Here's an interesting picture!

The guy here is Edward Norton.. He's sleek in the movie






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with you in my mind
it's not that hard to believe
i'm in wonderland
and that's where I am
only a place to where we know
and never escape into reality
plunge into a fantasy

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