So while I have been sick the past week I have filled my time on the sofa with several movies. Here are my reviews of each one:
The Reader - Kate Winslet is such an amazing actress, she plays a very complex character in this post war/Nazi movie and although I was left with more questions than answers, I was blown away with her performance.
Revolutionary Road-continuing the "I love Kate Winslet" Fest, this is another movie where she plays a complex character who seemingly appears quite boring at the start but becomes increasingly dark and emotionally tortured. This movie is intense but I really enjoyed watching it. It prompted me to think about a lot of things.
The Visitor-Had never heard of this before but it got 8/10 on IMDB so that's usually a good sign. It was screened at Sundance but it's not really an artsy type film. It's about a widower who is kind of lost and just floating along uninspired since his wife died. He goes to his 2nd home, an apartment in NY and finds that it has been "rented" to a young immigrant couple who had no idea they had been scammed. Anyway, it transpires that they all end up living there for a week and he starts to get involved in their lives and kind of gets motivated again, as well as finding a passion for drumming. The drumming scenes are great and very energising, it reminded me of a staff retreat I was at last year where we learned to drum. Anyway, there is a sad side to the story but you leave feeling happy and with a warm heart.
The Fall-this is another one that I had never heard of and sort of went under the radar despite getting rave reviews. It's a fantasy/reality blurr but I just LOVED the little girl actress in it, she was memserising. She didn't even look like she was acting, even though she was. This story is very unique and again, although it is a fantasy type story telling movie, it is very dark and there are lots of underlying things going on. It's complex and I am sure I missed lots of small things but I want to watch it again! Not everyone will appreciate this but I will certainly recommend it highly to many of my friends.
Mr Brooks-This is Kevin Costner and Demi Moore in a suspense action/murder thriller. Not too bad, but far fetched in the plot line with Kevin Costner playing a highly successful and well liked business and family man who has a split personality as a serial killer by night. He kills as he is addicted to it and his alter ego instigates it. Anyways, it was okay and Demi Moore kicked ASS as the detective!
So I guess I am becoming a bit of a film buff. I am okay with that, Just let me know if I become a film snob...I do NOT want to be one of those! I guess seeing as I list "Made of Honor" and "Spaceballs" as some of my favourite movies that I will never be labelled a film snob!
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Body over mind
Have been at home for the past 3 days with bronchitis.......urghhh welcome to my 30's. This is the 2nd time I have had this in the past 14 months. Have been sleeping 10 hours a night for the past 4 nights and lying on the couch doing FA so clearly I am not well. Started on antibiotics on Tues and not really had any great improvement but at least I shouldn't develop pneumonia!
I don't think I had had 4 days off work in a row in at least 6 years. I had the full blown flu 4 years ago (around Feb time also-Feb is the WORST month to have a birthday) but I was on a visit to the UK so was not actually at work. Had I been at work, I think I would have been off for a week at least as it hit me really hard.
I haven't really been looking after myself as well as usual and have been extremely busy the past few months and was starting to feel really worn out. I guess my body decided it was time to stop!
It's funny how when you are sick, everything is relative. I was considering that I was feeling MUCH better by the fact that on Wednesday I opened the blinds for the first time in 2 days. My immediate reaction was" Oh I must be better, I will go back to work tomorrow!" DUH... so silly. I am nowhere near well enough to go back to work and gave myself a reality check by noting that even though I had opened the blinds, I was still in my PJ's at 11am and got tired putting a load of laundry on! I spoke to my mum and she put it in perspective, saying that you know when you are better when you forget to take your antibiotics! So true, thanks Mum!
One positive thing about being sick is that you realise how much human interaction is important on a daily basis. I have been checking my Facebook and email accounts on the lap top so many times the past few days just to keep in touch with the outside world. I can't WAIT to go back to work just to see everyone, all my friends and coworkers. And also to make a dent in the huge number of emails and voicemails waiting for me to take action on. Maybe I won't actually get some human interaction after all as I'll be glued to my desk all day.
I don't think I had had 4 days off work in a row in at least 6 years. I had the full blown flu 4 years ago (around Feb time also-Feb is the WORST month to have a birthday) but I was on a visit to the UK so was not actually at work. Had I been at work, I think I would have been off for a week at least as it hit me really hard.
I haven't really been looking after myself as well as usual and have been extremely busy the past few months and was starting to feel really worn out. I guess my body decided it was time to stop!
It's funny how when you are sick, everything is relative. I was considering that I was feeling MUCH better by the fact that on Wednesday I opened the blinds for the first time in 2 days. My immediate reaction was" Oh I must be better, I will go back to work tomorrow!" DUH... so silly. I am nowhere near well enough to go back to work and gave myself a reality check by noting that even though I had opened the blinds, I was still in my PJ's at 11am and got tired putting a load of laundry on! I spoke to my mum and she put it in perspective, saying that you know when you are better when you forget to take your antibiotics! So true, thanks Mum!
One positive thing about being sick is that you realise how much human interaction is important on a daily basis. I have been checking my Facebook and email accounts on the lap top so many times the past few days just to keep in touch with the outside world. I can't WAIT to go back to work just to see everyone, all my friends and coworkers. And also to make a dent in the huge number of emails and voicemails waiting for me to take action on. Maybe I won't actually get some human interaction after all as I'll be glued to my desk all day.
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