Heath

RIP
Heath Ledger (1979-2008)

Rebecca

reading My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier. it's a bit like Rebecca. the femme fatale, the sinister adviser, but it's written from a male perspective. One of my aspirations is to write from a male point of view, it should be really interesting.

have done my portfolio. ALL DONE! quite happy about it now.

wanted to re-watch Rebecca, but couldn't find the dvd anywhere. so i just went to youtube. hehe youtube's the greatest invention ever!!!
i have also ordered the umbrellas of cherbourg from hmv. get to watch it next week! hooray!

but just one more month and it will be our mock exam. wth. 70 days till AL. a bigger wth!

C'est la vie

having many days of holidays right now, but after that it will be horrid study time day and night. oh gosh... I really have to fulfil my new year's resolutions. i need to get into the unis in the uk!!! have to get at least 2As n' 1B < that's what my teachers predicted... hv to put more effort in it n' there's not much time left actually... but life recently is a bit relaxing and carefree, maybe cuz I'm trying to live loose rather than choking myself. anyway it's mid jan and exam will start in mar 31... so shitty now... dun want to ruin my life (as they say if u dun get into uni ur ruining ur life)

still having dreams and aspirations
-though i'm getting into law ... i kind of want to be a screenwriter actually. but since u can't really survive in hollywood now as a screenwriter, u need to find other jobs to do.
-want to take up a part time job after the exams n' then spend all my salary on things i want to buy in a day! or a few days...
-want to travel around europe, esp greece, rome, italy, france (st tropez, monaco, paris, provence, monte carlo), london, cornwall, denmark, milan, actually i wanna try going to siberia too. : P

sometimes i do believe in karma though i'm an atheist. but sometimes i think life is dependent on luck. really. luck plays a huge part in our life. (match point is a bit too dramatic, but sometimes u can't deny luck plays a part in ur life... many things are inevitable n' when they come either they are fortunate things or unlucky ones, it's depending on ur luck) but karma it's another thing. but sometimes things wont get back at you u notice. so i'm still confused with this philosophy.

c'est la vie. bonne nuit.

Atonement (2007)

the best film adaption of novel in recent years!!! Ian McEwan's Atonement is quite a tough job for directors to transform into a film and Joe Wright did it again!!! he's soooo brilliant.


the story about the disillusioned Robbie Turner who was falsely accused and stripped of his social status just because Briony Tallis told a lie.
"You don't have to be 18 to own up a lie." heard something similar in the film. and actually it's really a shame for her not to own up that lie until she's 80! the ending is sooo devastating both in the book and the film. I cried when I read the book and watched the movie, and the book is the first book that i've ever cried about.

"Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame."

the music score is really nicely done. really want to buy a copy of it to fill up my emptiness before the DVD comes out. pls make it faster. i want to watch the movie again. apparently this kind of convoluted storyline is not welcome in hong kong because people don't have the brain to process everything. and what's more, there were more foreigners in the theatre than hongkongers. people simply don't have the patience or the depth to appreciate this type of film.

cinematography 10/10

acting/casting 9/10
music 9/10
ending 9.5/10
dunno who will win the oscars but surely since Joe Wright got so many nominations for this movie in the golden globe, he'll surely be among the oscars list!!!