Disappointments are to the soul what the thunderstorm is to the air

Thursday, June 12th, 2008 | Film, Personal

I watched some films recently I had high hopes for but was really disappointed in. Which is always so much worse than when you watch films you expect to be bad just for fun. I’m Reed Fish: I can see what they were trying to do but it just so didn’t work. What a horrible mess this movie turned out to be. Atonement: Ok, it looked absolutely breathtaking. The acting was good too. But as a whole it didn’t do anything for me, I was just bored most of the times. There were scenes that really moved me but whatever came next ruined it for me. Especially to have that monologue after the final ‘twist’ was IMO a bad move. Evening: Great actresses & actors, basically a great story but as a whole it was boring me so much. Of course it’s not that interesting to have one HUGE secret and turn it all into huge drama - but to have the potential of something like that, start building it up and then to totally trivialize everything is such an equally lame way of doing it IMO.

Also, there are quite some things about my ‘new’ life that turned out to be rather anti-climactic… But I suppose it’s a good lesson in humility.

I’ve kept going and going and going for about a month now - doing a huge amount of things (mostly IRL) and household chores - so I’m very tired at the moment, esp. mentally. Yesterday, being absolute low point so far. Which, as luck would have it, was the day the in my mind so eagerly anticipated accidental meeting with a certain person finally happened… Apart from saying hi and the obligatory enquiry after our well being (which all in all took 30 seconds) nothing happened. Again, such an anti-climax.

5 Comments to Disappointments are to the soul what the thunderstorm is to the air

Sandra
June 18, 2008

I had more or less the same problem with Atonement. The cinematography was spectacular as was the score, but somehow I was left a little unconvinced by it all. The film is better than the book, though, in my opinion (which is quite rare).

Amanda
June 22, 2008

I felt the same way with Atonement. James Mcavoy and Keira Knightley are two of my favorite actors and they were fantastic in the movie, just the movie itself was slightly confusing. I hated the ending–mainly because I dislike unhappy endings and Atonement’s ending was horrific.

I didn’t care for Evening much either, haha. =)

Amanda
June 22, 2008

Thanks so much for your comment! I’ve emailed you via the contact form, I hope that’s okay =)

Maria
June 23, 2008

Sure! This is all so exciting

Amanda
June 23, 2008

Oh! I forgot to say this in my email, but I’m currently saving a whole bunch of pictures of Emily at various events in 2008 and I’ll save the events from 2007 tomorrow

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