We went over to the LT25 as a cohort today to watch short films from Victric Thng. It's all very.. Melancholic, as how he puts it. Sentimental? And maybe emotional.
Kind of tiring to watch as it gets confusing and draggy after a while. Maybe watching half and having a break in the middle would do our brain some good. But overall, the films were nice. I liked "the mole" the best, as it incorporates animation together with filming. The story is also much easier to understand as it is the most direct and not confusing. It also adds a little comic relief and humor along even though its a story with a sad ending.

Then we went up to class to discuss about films.
But actually, im not really that interested in filming...
I want to enter video to do advertisements, music videos and documentaries.
My story telling skills kind of fail.

With Alphie's suggestion, we watched an interesting film with a special way of telling the story that's not in chronological order, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It's a story about how this couple falls in love, and after a while the girl, being implulsive, got sick of the man and decides to forget him. There is this fictional technology in the movie that allows people to erase a certain part of memory of their choice. In agony and frustration, the man, having been totally forgotten by the girl she loves, is driven mad and demands to have his memories erased as well.
In the process of erasing his memories, he realized how he wanted to keep them as he felt happy in his past memories. So, in his head, he desperately tries to stop the process. He kept running and running away from himself, forcing himself to think of anything that's not supposed to have the girl in his memory, and bringing her into it.
The story unfolds towards the end, the introduction was the ending, and the story works forward, backward, then forward again.

A good recommended film indeed.
Was feeling terrible today, wanted to absent myself from school, but it was worth not being absent.

Samantha
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