This week began on the tail of a very hectic weekend. From Friday to Saturday, I was shooting project photos. Don’t get me wrong. I love photography, but it’s just that shooting for extended periods of time really wears you down. Your hands start trembling and your shirt becomes sweat-soaked. Even composing a shot in the viewfinder seems like such a chore.
However, it paid off. I felt a great sense of relief after the familiar sound of film rewinding was heard. Anyway, I’d rather clear the shoot earlier than later.
Anyway, on to the actual reflection:
It was a little chaotic moving from place to place, and changing location. There were quite a few technical difficulties. It was a little disorganised. All in all, it was a very colourful, eventful lesson.
The movie wasn’t too bad, if not a little too indecent for my liking. I didn’t like some of the explicit scenes. There was a dash of comedy and humour, and the plot was good with quite an unpredictable closure to the story.
The ending was a little two-sided. In one sense, it was a tragic ending. The protagonist lost his job as a teacher in the high school, and had to switch states and find a new job.
Yet there was still a sense of satisfaction, like the story was somehow complete.
I felt that the statement Tracy Flick mentioned earlier about there not being a point in trying to change destiny if it was going to happen anyway was quite true, and it did happen in the end. The teacher tried, and failed to change destiny. I felt that sentence was the catchphrase, and it was the underlying plot of the whole story.
I noticed, also, that Mr McAllister went through the exact same thing his close friend and colleague went through a few years earlier. It felt like the whole story unfolded in two cycles.
Well, that’s about it for this week. I can’t wait for my photos to be developed. Oh, and I customised the sidebar to include my “Flickr” page, where you can find some of my photographic work. Do check it out! =)
Cheers, and have a good week.
1 Comment
November 26, 2006 at 2:30 pm
I looked at your picture of the empty park bench and immediately wondered where the ca-noodling couple was. It was funny when I read your caption underneath and realized you thought the same thing.
I’m intrigued by the reflection that ‘explicit’ movies disappoint you. I wonder what that means. Maybe that would be a good make-up reflection for week 5, WHICH YOU SKIPPED!!!