I’d like to think I’m a true-blue animal lover, and that I can cuddle any kind of animal, regardless if they have furs or scales or not.
But I’m not. I mean, not a true-blue animal lover. I do squee over different animals I watch on TV, but I can only pick up animals when I’m assured they wouldn’t scratch, bite or go ballistic on me…namely, our pets: two dogs and two six cats (our cat gave birth to a litter of four kittens yesterday). :D
But then I come across books and movies like Marley and Me and trailers like these:
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After this, how can you not love animals then?
Okay, I know the American version of movies like these usually sucks…but I can’t help but feel weepy when one guy tells the dog, “You can stop waiting now…he’s not coming back.” Awww. :,-(
Marley and Me had me crying with the book and the movie (and I mean CRY, serious waterworks!), and I have a feeling I’ll be crying buckets when I watch this.
I finally watched Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince last Saturday.
And I’m sorry, but I found it boring.
I tried as much as I can to avoid the reactions of the other people after they watched the movie. Some people told me they loved/liked it, some people said it was meh, but I never asked for details because I wanted to see for myself. I loved the sixth book; I honestly thought it was one of the best books in the series, and it had me crying at the end (of course). I was kind of expecting the movie to be good…but that just shows that I haven’t learned how to lower my expectations of the Harry Potter movies. :P
I just thought it was too long and dragging. I may have a short attention span with the movies I watch, and anything that is beyond 2 hours is already such. a. long. movie. for me. However, I found Transformers 2 and The Dark Knight quite long too, but I liked it. Maybe it’s because there’s more action there than Harry Potter 6?
I have a feeling I’ll be watching this one again and my opinion will change, but my first viewing was kind of a disappointment. Halfway through the movie, I wanted to just fast forward it and get to the end, just to get it all over with.
This seriously reminds me of the third movie, which I really didn’t like. Hay. So sad. This makes me want to read the book again just to console myself.
Anyway. That’s really not the point of the post. I found this little Harry Potter questionnaire from Candymag.com’s blog, and I thought it would be a fun thing to answer. Credits to them, of course. :)
1. What would amortentia smell like to you?
Ralph Lauren’s Polo Sport for Men (the one in the blue bottle). Strawberry-watermelon scented perfume. Freshly brewed coffee.
2. If you looked into The Mirror of Erised, what would you see?
As in right now? Okay, me with the my guy (whoever he is), spending time together and doing things that I couldn’t do on my own or didn’t have the time to do when we aren’t together yet. Like traveling with friends, or watching a movie on the opening day despite the crowds or going on a date on Valentine’s Day…or going to bookstores together and giving recommendations to each other as we browse around the store. Ask me again in a few days and it might change. :P
3. Which particular memory would you focus on if you had to create a Patronus?
My family and my brother’s girlfriend on our way to the gates of Hong Kong Disney Land last May. :) We didn’t get in but it was so much fun running around the trains on the way to Disney Land. Oh, another memory would be the day I got my job offer at where I work now. :)
4. If it was possible to accio people, who would you summon right now?
My dad, most probably, who works in another country. Also my grade school best friend Jamie, who I haven’t seen since she last visited during junior year in high school. Or even just my college best friend, Bea, who I haven’t seen for months because of our busy schedules.
5. Where would you like to apparate to?
NYC. Or Australia. The places I have been aching to visit since last year.
6. What would your boggart look like?
Flying roaches and frogs. :/
7. If you drank a vial of felix felicis for breakfast, what would happen for the rest of the day?
It would be a sunny-but-not-too-hot day, with a slight breeze blowing every now and then. I’d be able to go to the gym and have a good work out and then chance upon a friend who’d give me a ride to work. We’d have a relatively low volume day, and our team would go out and eat lunch together. Later on, my friend and I would go visit the bookstore and I’d be able to get the last copy of the book I’ve been looking for with a very good discounted price. I’d give myself time to eat some ice cream for a change with some of my office friends that I haven’t seen yet, and then discover that I have some money in my pants pocket that I totally forgot about. I’d get a good commendation from work, a nice text message (heh), and then my brother would call me and say he’s driving by to pick me up from work. :)
Okay that was actually quite fun to answer. :) Ah, the magical world of Harry Potter. I don’t think today would be the same without these seven books, yes? What’s your favorite book? And what would your answers to the questions above be? :)
The film is a love story between a Deaf boy who loves to dance and a troubled rocker girl who abuses her hearing. One lives in the world of solitude and silence, the other in noise and fear. Crossing paths in a Baguio camp that mixes Deaf and hearing kids, both find that they have more in common with each other including a love for music.
DINIG SANA KITA is the first Filipino film to have a Deaf Actor in a Lead role. Romalito Mallari is a Deaf performer that has played several stage productions as actor and/or dancer. It also features several Deaf actors in the cast and ensemble.
Written, directed and produced by: Mike Sandejas Cast: Zoe Sandejas, Romalito Mallari, Robert Seña, Lorenzo Mara, Mica Torre, Adrianna Agcaoili, Cherrie Velarde-Mactal
I’m not much of a movie-watcher, and I’m not really one to watch independent films for the fun of it. Truth be told, I never really cared about Cinemalaya, even if a friend was part of the production team for one of the movies (Pepot Artista, if you want to know). I’m just not adventurous with movies, period.
So I wasn’t really planning on catching any of the Cinemalaya films for 2009. It wasn’t until my best friend Toni convinced me to watch Dinig Sana Kita. I’ve read about this through Yam’s blog, and then when Toni invited me, I decided to watch the trailer and then I wanted to watch it. But it wasn’t the kind of “I should watch this or else!”…I would have been perfectly fine not to watch it if I did not get the chance, especially since we ran out of tickets on its last day of showing in CCP. But Toni was persistent and he got us tickets for UP Cineastes showing of the Cinemalaya films and I found myself trooping to UP yesterday to watch this oh-so-popular film.
And I’m glad I did.
Dinig Sana Kita (If I Knew What You Said) is a very unique movie — firstly because of the deaf factor. Romalito Mallari is very good, and it’s interesting to know that he’s also really deaf-mute and that he has a lot in common with the character he plays. The two characters, Kiko and Nina, looks like two people from the opposite sides of the spectrum: Kiko, as mentioned is deaf, and Nina is a misunderstood/troubled rocker girl who tries to lose herself her ipods and her band. After a threat of expulsion from Nina’s school she was sent to a Deaf Encounter camp, where she meets and eventually befriends Kiko.
At first I thought that it would be a typical love story, where they meet, disagree and eventually fall in love, but surprisingly, it wasn’t. Though they did fall in love, it wasn’t because they fell at first sight — it was because they became friends first and learned to reach out to each other despite their differences. The love angle is not really the main focus of the film, but in Kiko and Nina’s interactions and also in the people around them.
There wasn’t one part of the film that I wasn’t entertained. I was amused and awed, I laughed and I cried (I didn’t expect to, really, but the end of the film just really had me in tears). It was a very good film, one that I’d really want to watch all over again and even get a DVD once it’s out. This is the kind of story that I wish I had written. :P
Other notes on the film:
I thought I would be bored with the sequences where the only conversation happening were just sign language, but I wasn’t. I suddenly remembered the days when we’d have participants from SpED during our youth camps and we’d all learn sign language to talk to them, or they’d teach us how to sign our names. :D Memories. :D
Every time I see Robert Seña, I can’t help but think of Colonel Salvi in Noli at Fili Dekada 2000. Haha I’m sorry. His role in that play just stuck to me. :))
There were English subtitles all through out the film, even with the song numbers, so we got to see the English translations of the songs. Can I just say that the Filipino lyrics were just more beautiful than the English translation? It’s just more…haunting and sincere. I think I just had a new found appreciation of our language. :)
Dinig Sana Kita will be showing in Robinson’s Galleria Indiesine (sp?) starting August 26 to September 1. Be sure to catch it on those dates, and I promise you won’t regret it. :D I’m definitely watching it again. :D
A few years back, I volunteered for Kalinga Luzon, a summer immersion program for school sponsored by Gawad Kalinga. I was no stranger to GK because I used to volunteer for them, but it was my first time to go to a GK site that is outside of Manila.
The immersion brought me to a place called Dinggalan, Aurora. It’s a remote place near the mountains of Sierra Madre, and this was the relocation area for the survivors of the flash flood that happened in the previous year. Through that trip, I was given a chance to visit Barangay Paltic, their original hometown, and I was humbled by how much Mother Nature has unleashed her fury. My friends and I found ourselves standing and looking down at the vast disaster area where rocks, earth, logs and random pieces of clothing were scattered all over the place. I found myself looking down at the roof of one of the houses, half-buried in dirt and a car-sized boulder blocking the door way. I can’t help but wonder: was anyone trapped inside?
In the two years that I visited that place, I never forgot the sight that greeted me in the disaster area. I could only imagine what actually happened in that place — how many parents lost their children and how many children lost their parents, how many people lost their homes and everything they owned because of the floods?
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Noli at Fili Dekada 2000 Poster
PETA’s Noli at Fili Dekada 2000 was a walk in memory lane in more ways than one. While I never really read Noli and El Fili as a whole (my high school provided summarized versions of the novels), I’ve always had a soft spot for those two novels because of the fact that, well, they are novels, and they’re written by a Filipino. Other than the play reminding and challenging me of my knowledge of the two novels, it also reminded me of that day a few years ago, where I saw the aftermath of a very big calamity.
Noli at Fili Dekada 2000, written by Nic Tiongson and directed by Soxie Topacio, is a modern take on Rizal’s two novels, stitched together to form one tighter and shorter story. The cast of characters in Rizal’s novels were present there: Ibarra, Elias, Damaso, Salvi, Florentino, Victorina, Basilio, Isagani, Tasyo and Maria Clara. There were a couple of changes to make the story fit to modern times: Crisostomo Ibarra is now Ibarra Marasigan, the town’s new mayor who wants to make big changes to their community, Salvi is no longer a thin priest but a corrupt colonel who uses the law for his own personal gain, Tasyo is a school owner, and Maria Clara is now Clarissa, still the daughter of Damaso and still engaged to Ibarra.
The story still contains the main essences of the two novels, to form a more compact and fluid story. The play opens with a very heavy scene, with stories of what happened during the flash flood (complete with waterworks!). After the disaster where three thousand people died, we see the new mayor Ibarra in his engagement party with Clarissa, all optimistic with his plans for the town of Maypajo. Once he mentions the total log ban, though, you can see a couple of people flinch: Tiago, Salvi and even Damaso. We know from then that there’s going to be trouble for Ibarra. We also learn from there that Ibarra was not only optimistic, but also idealistic. We meet his best friend Elias, who ironically is the head of the rebel army. Just like Crisostomo Ibarra in the book, Mayor Ibarra tries to make changes in his town, and he is met by challenge after challenge — from the small things like when Clarissa’s aunt Victorina planning a grander wedding for the two of them, to Tiago not supporting their total log ban bill to Salvi trying to steal Clarissa and trying to stop Ibarra’s plans to stop logging altogether. We see how Ibarra loses his idealism and eventually everything else: his position, his best friend, and even Clarissa. Ibarra later returns as Ka Simoun, a part of the same rebel army that Elias was a part of, embracing violence to make changes. He then uses his position here to exact revenge on Salvi, but fails as he uses the group for his personal gain. And, like Simoun in El Fili, he reaches his end, asking for forgiveness because he lost his way.
It was a heavy play from the start until the end, made lighter only by some of the lines (“DKD” – Diyos ko ‘day!, “BCK” – Basta Crush Kita!), and I have to admit that it was kind of depressing. It’s definitely not like the musicals I used to watch…but then again, Rizal’s novels weren’t fluffy and light novels either. But to compensate for that, the play ended with a poem and a song number, that tells everyone that there’s still hope. That the change that Ibarra desired is possible without the use of violence, if each individual is up to it. Like what a friend had in his YM status before: “Be the change that you want to be.”
Although that bright light and Clarissa going out bringing that plant was kind of too much for me…it reminds me too much of the stageplay that we had back in high school. But maybe it’s just me. ^^;
I left the PETA Theater remembering Barangay Paltic in Aurora, and remembering the people I met during my stay there. And yeah, in a way the play also gave me hope that one day, we’ll be able to rise as a nation, and well, be the change that we want to be. :)
Noli at Fili Dekada 2000 (Dos Mil) continues through August 9, 2009, with shows on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 10 am and 3 pm, at the PETA Theater Center, 5 Eymard Drive, New Manila, Quezon City; 7256244, 4100821, 7226911, 4100821.
I haven’t exactly blogged it before, but to those who care (or not haha), here’s some news: I’m not exactly a Twilightfan anymore. I know I raved about the books before, but when I was done with Breaking Dawn, I wondered why I even liked the series in the first place. I have to say that the first three books were okay, but the fourth was really just blah, that every time I see a boxed set or any of the books in any bookstore I visit, the only reactions I have are either to gag or to laugh. No offense to Twilight fans, of course.
But that doesn’t mean I don’t like the movie. Okay, I didn’t exactly totally love the Twilight movie, it was okay. Bella is even better in the movie than in the book, except that I always imagined that Bella’s voice was higher compared to the Kristen’s.
But I digress. This just came out today:
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Edward/Robert Pattinson is still the same in the trailer (although he seemed to be even paler here, like he had too much acne treatment), and I’m glad to see more of the Cullen family (at least at the start)…but the real and most notable of all characters in this trailer is (you guessed it right) Jacob. Taylor Lautner, since when did you get so buff? :P There’s just a little shot of him here, but that shot of him there just reminded me of Steven Strait from The Covenant. Don’t you think?
So, I’d have to say, I’m going to watch this movie, not because I’m a fan of the saga, but because of Jacob. Haha wait, did that make sense? But I will watch this. Jacob! ♥
So it’s a not-so ordinary day at the office, and suddenly, my teammate plays a very familiar song.
I’d go anywhere for you,
Anywhere you want me to, I’d do anything for you,
Anything you ask me to…
Ah yes, Backstreet Boys. How I miss thee.
So, on another boyband whim, we started playing and singing random boyband songs from her iPod. There was Westlife, 98 degrees and 5ive. Haha, talk about memory lane. I remember I went on a boyband mode a couple of weeks back and I could not stop listening to BB Mak’s album and LFO’s Girl on TV, and I spent like half the night looking at Youtube videos of those two bands as well as Code Red. Wohoo, teenybopper mode! (And just to add to the loserness, I have 98 Degrees’ Because of You on repeat right now. How about that.)
Anyway, so onto Youtube, I started looking for videos of the songs we sang to, and I found this:
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This is probably the only 5ive song I really, really liked, and the only one in my iPod. This songs brings a lot of high school memories, even if it’s not really something I could relate to.
But the point of this entry is really not the song but what the music video meant. If you watch the entire video, it starts with two girls gossiping by the stairs about Rich (sp?) and this girl and another boy and how Rich must be “gutted”. Rich is the guy who first sings in the song, the one who’s watching so emo-like out the window while everyone else was enjoying. Then there was a shot of this other guy (is it Scott or Sean?), who seems to be flirting with this girl and then looking around the place until he spots Rich outside on the stairs. The shot goes to the other band members who seem to be having fun at the party, and then back to the two guys with Scott/Sean making funny faces at Rich and then finally going in to join the others.
I never really paid much attention to the video then because I was more focused on the song (plus any video that is not a Backstreet Boys video is really nothing to me hahahaha), but today I actually found the time to appreciate the video. I figured the real story of the video goes like this: Rich and his girlfriend broke up, and then the girl shows up at the party with another guy, which devastates Rich so he goes off on his own and does not enjoy the party. Now Scott/Sean, notices he’s gone so he talks to one of the girls (but why do they look like they’re flirting? I kind of thought he was the rival there…and that girl is so thin, she must be on diet pills) and then goes off to look for him. He sees all his other friends busy with other stuff until he finally sees him outside and tries to cheer him up, and so Rich decides to move on (I think) and joins his friends and they have fun.
Or wait, maybe the girl Scott/Sean talked to was Rich’s ex?
Haha I know, I just wasted some time on that. But it’s nice to be reminded of the good old 90’s. And to think of something not so serious, you know? How would you interpret the video?
And for your viewing pressure, I’ve got some more boyband/teenybopper/90’s music videos under the cut. See what you’re familiar with. :P
I hate the way you talk to me,
and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car,
I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots
and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick,
it even makes me rhyme.
I hate the way you’re always right,
I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh,
even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you’re not around,
and the fact that you didn’t call.
But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you,
not even close,
not even a little bit,
not even at all.
One of my favorite high school movies (way before I knew of treadmills) was 10 Things I Hate About You, mainly because Larisa Oleynik played Bianca, the younger sister. I was such a big fan of her that I’d watch The Secret World of Alex Mack religiously, and try to catch her one episode appearance in The Adventures of Pete and Pete. 10 Things was one of the movies that I don’t think I’d ever tire of watching even if it’s already how many years old.
And boy am I glad to know about this:
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Yes, it’s a 10 Things I Hate About You TV series! I can see so many familiar faces in the series: Lindsey Shaw (from Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide — it’s Jennifer Moseley!) who plays Kat, the older Stratford sister; Meaghan Martin (from Camp Rock, Tess the Diva) plays Bianca, the younger sister;Â and Nicholas Braun (from Minutemen and Sky High — he plays the glowing sidekick in the latter) as Cameron, the geek who crushes on Bianca. I’m kind of not used to Lindsey being not Moze, but I think it fits her.
The pilot airs on July 7, 2009 on ABC Family. Guess who’s definitely watching this show. :P
Ah Dave. If there’s any single artist I really and truly love for all the songs sung and written, it’s Dave Barnes. I’ve posted and raved about him and some of his songs and his video here, and he’s one of the artists that I have sworn to support and see live in my life time.
So when he announced in his MySpace and his email group that he’s going to release an EP…well, I knew I just couldn’t and won’t miss it. For anything. Even if it meant having to go through the confusing iTunes store sign up. Yes, I love Dave that much. No moving companies can stop me. (huh)
I’m not much of a music reviewer, really because I focus more on the lyrics, but I’m going to try reviewing Dave’s newest EP here…why? Because I love this guy. :P Haha. Seriously. You should go listen to his album. I’m not kidding. :P Anyway, here we go!
You, the Night and Candlelight is Dave’s Valentine’s offer to all his fans. It’s a five-song EP that contains two remakes of his old songs, one revival and two new songs. It’s all about love, obviously, and the wonderful (really? :P) feeling of being with someone you love during that special Valentine’s night.
Okay, maybe I’m making it up. But I have a feeling this EP is something that you can play on a date during Valentine’s day and enjoy every single song. It’s all clean music, which is a big big plus, and makes it even more romantic. :) From the first song, Loving You, Loving Me (about looking forward to the one you love coming home) to his amazing revival of My Girl to the beautiful remake of his own song Until You (I can never have enough of this song — and this one is in piano version…ahhh beautiful), to Home, where he sings about finding home wherever the people he loves are and finally to another remake of his wedding song, I Have and Always Will with singer Amy Grant.
It’s such a beautiful EP that I kind of wished it was longer, but then I wouldn’t have time to appreciate everything after. That, and the pretty album cover — I’m just really, really sold.
So don’t miss out. :P His EP is available in iTunes, and you can also drop by his website to watch videos and listen to voicemail which will only be available until February 14. And did I mention that Dave is such a comedian? :P
You, the night and candlelight is all I’ll ever need,
Loving you, loving me. ♥
I’m sure by now everyone has seen this commercial:
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If you haven’t…well, you should. It’s McDonald’s newest commercial featuring childhood, first and (possibly) unrequited love. Shari explained the storyline quite well in her post about the same commercial, and I echo the entire “awww” factor even if I can’t relate fully ((HEP! The operative word here is fully. That doesn’t mean I can’t relate to it in some degree :P)) to the commercial. It’s probably the cutest and most bittersweet commercial that McDonald’s has ever made. :”>
Of course, when my teammates and I watched this yesterday, they all had these thoughts about how it might have been better if the two of them got together in the end…but that’s not the point of the commercial! It’s bittersweet! It’s unrequited first love! It’s love too late! It’s supposed to touch us in the parts that make us go “awww” and think of how it must have felt in the guy or the girl’s shoes. Like, how much did he love his first love? Did he pine for her all his life? Or maybe he’s also committed to someone already? Or what about the girl, did she feel regretful when she saw her old guy friend again? Did she ever wonder if he’s going to go for her or not and decide to move on when she realized he won’t?
Okay, someone was a bit too enthusiastic there, like she’s been seeing the effects of Solo Slim and raving. Heh, the sawi in me speaks. :P
Plus the commercial was tons better because of song they used. I’m not a really big Eraserheads fan, but the song is one from my tween’s, and it spells sentimentality that it makes me “Awww” even more. :P
The commercial was so poignant that I ended up writing a piece about it in Wordplay. It’s not a retelling in the girl’s point of view (although that’s a good idea for another Wordplay entry — must take note!), but something based on the idea of seeing old friends after a long time of not seeing them and wondering if there was something only to be slapped with reality. Aha, I know it’s so emo, but don’t we love these things? At least to some degree. ;)
Anyway, I better get to finishing today’s Wordplay entry. After a series of emo pieces, I think it’s time for something non-fiction and a bit more cheerful. :D
Yale graduate Megan Smith has big plans for a career in journalism and even bigger debt: $75,000 in college loans. She grabs a job at a trashy tabloid, gets fired (small wonder: nothing can make her care which celebrity just got a nose job), and then gets an offer she just can’t refuse.
Seventeen-year-old identical twins Rose and Sage Baker are Palm Beach heiresses best known for their massive fortunes and penchant for flashing the paparazzi. Their grandmother offers to pay off Megan’s loans if she can tutor the girls and get them into Duke. But the twins aren’t about to bend their celebutante schedules to learn algebra. Megan quickly discovers that she has to know her Pucci from her Prada to reach these students. If she can look the part, maybe — just maybe — she can teach them something. What Megan could never imagine is what the whole experience was about to teach her…
So I wanted this book because I watch the TV show based on this one. It’s really more out of curiosity that I asked for this last Christmas, so I kind of had low expectations on this one.
Let me just say: it is so different from the TV show. Let me list it down (and I’ll try not to write as many spoilers as I can):
Megan. Megan in the TV show is more uptight and more self-righteous than Megan in the book. She’s still smart, yes, but the Megan in the book seemed to care more for her money first than for the girls, whereas the TV show Megan took her responsibility seriously immediately (whoa, so many -ly’s!). I’m not so sure which Megan I like better though (and frankly, she gets on my nerves a lot of times).
Rose and Sage. The Rose on TV seems kinder, and the Sage on TV is less wild. The twins in the book were a bit out of control from the start. And honestly, I felt like I didn’t see them that much in the book — not to many things about their school or their progress, except in the end.
Lily. This is like, the most different one ever. Lily in the TV show is obnoxious and wild and she doesn’t have a good job. In the book, however, Lily is the nice sister, so nice that Megan kind of dislikes her but has no reason to, and she’s a well-known actress and model.
Megan’s family. Megan had a very dysfunctional family in the TV show, while this one…it’s almost normal.
Will. Will in the book is rich, and is close friends with the twins, but in the TV show they’re not. I find the Will in the TV show more charming though. (Brian Hallisay! ♥ )
Charlie. There’s no charming best friend Charlie in the novel! Instead, there’s Charma, who I didn’t really notice until she said something. Er. The loss of Charlie is saddening. I like Charlie, the best friend who’s always been there and always been in love with Megan.
Laurel. Laurel was still as intimidating, but I kind of felt that she was younger in the novel than on TV.
Marco. I think he’s the only consistent guy from the TV show and the novel.
Megan is not from Palm Beach but is originally from somewhere else (I can’t remember where exactly, but I’m sure it’s not vegas), so there’s not much family stuff in the novel.
Megan has another boyfriend at the start of the novel, who is rich, and whose parents don’t approve of her.
It’s not really disappointing as I think that the TV show and the novel are quite different and it shouldn’t really be followed that way. It’s not really a “clean” book as there’s sex and a lot of cussing and mean tricks done to Megan as well as a lot of lies, but it’s quite entertaining. Nothing too spectacular, but if you’re curious about the TV show, then you’d probably enjoy this one too.
I finally watched Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince last Saturday.
The film is a love story between a Deaf boy who loves to dance and a troubled rocker girl who abuses her hearing. One lives in the world of solitude and silence, the other in noise and fear. Crossing paths in a Baguio camp that mixes Deaf and hearing kids, both find that they have more in common with each other including a love for music.
Yale graduate Megan Smith has big plans for a career in journalism and even bigger debt: $75,000 in college loans. She grabs a job at a trashy tabloid, gets fired (small wonder: nothing can make her care which celebrity just got a nose job), and then gets an offer she just can’t refuse.