Today I missed my morning class, but made it to my 2 other classes because I had to also make up a quiz I missed last week. I then made an appointment with a doctor for tomorrow, as I have no idea what it is I have.. It feels like a flu, it's just as debilitating, but I don't have a fever. I haven't been this sick since.. Sophomore year when I stayed up for a week straight because I had school, work, and finals, then I crashed so hard.
But, I watched a lot of movies and got a lot of rest. I watched:
Entre les Murs- 2008 Palm D'Or winner, takes place in a classroom for a year, showing the rapport between teacher and students in an impoverished, mostly 1st generation immigrant school.
Breaking the Waves- a girl in a very religious town marries a man, who goes away and is fatally injured and becomes fully paralyzed. he asks the girl to take on lovers and recount the stories, so he can live vicariously through them, since he can never make love to his wife ever again. she does, against her own morals, because she believes she's healing him through doing this and things spiral out of control
Antichrist- made by lars von trier, same director as breaking the waves, the son of a couple falls out the window and the mother becomes extremely depressed. her husband is a psychiatrist and takes her out of the hospital and into the woods so he can cure her himself..
A L'aventure- a woman is unsatisfied with life and decides to quit her job, cheat on her boyfriend, and starts dating a psychiatry student who also is a hypnotist, who introduces her to a strange realm of hypnosis and sexual awakening
The Last Mistress- a Catherine Breillat film about a man in 18th century Paris of high social standing who is about to marry a girl in high society, but before he does, he has to come clean about his 10 year affair with his mistress. Mistresses were short lived, so the film explores the dynamic between the two that kept them together for 10 years.
Wild at Heart- A 20 year old girl runs away with her beloved manslaughtering robber of a boyfriend who is "wild at heart", but so is the world around them.
did NOT like entre les murs, a l'aventure
1) not much happens, and there's not much resolution at all. overall, i was left disappointed, as i didn't learn anything and neither did the students. the french really do love school documentaries don't they? think etre et avoir.
2) HORRIBLE HORRIBLE MOVIE STAY AWAY. barely any plot, this lady wanted to learn about the world outside of the social expectations and institutions of marriage and work, but she ends up learning from a random guy she picks up at a cafe and a homeless taxi driver who sits on a bench all day. then she turns bisexual, then she cries when random guy suddenly declares love for some random sadomasochist submissive girl he meets, i don't even know how.
liked: breaking the waves, the last mistress, antichrist
1) self sacrifice, the power of love, shows the hypocrisy of religious institutions..
2) interesting. just, interesting and easy to watch.
3)very psychological. the director was recovering still from a deep depression during filming, and i could definitely relate to some darker aspects of this film, having just recovered myself.
loved: wild at heart
1)lynch. enough said.
so it looks like i'm going to london first week of november. here's hoping i get better soon.
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