I really don't know much about movies. I know I am a child of my time and as such, like many, grown up watching movies on tv and at the cinema. It is because I understand movies to be the passion of many - as art, as expression, as entertainment, and that I am just impressed at the passion in the voice when people speak of movies, that I am always hesitant (at least in public forums) to speak of movies, knowing myself not as passionate. It is just that whenever I am lucky enough to catch a movie I really really like, I feel I should share it.

I Capture The Castle

I really don't know much of british movies. Caught Calendar Girls not so long ago. I did watch the BBC series Vanity Fair and Pride and Prejudice and really liked it. I kinda have come to equate BBC with quality. So when I read the cover of I Capture The Castle and saw it was from BBC Films, I snatched it.

How should I describe the movie... the movie is about a young woman coming of age.... and it was done with a sense of honest confusion in the perspective of the heroine; and the story itself was coloured well with colourful characters. I found I Capture The Castle to be insightful, delightful and enchanting. Its like, um, watching a butterfly as it emerges from its cocoon. That sense of struggle. That sense of joy. *embarrassed*

Also I appreciate the setting, 1920s - 1930s, and the fashion of the time. (Have to visit Britain/England/UK the countryside. Seems so beautiful. Hopefully somewhere down the road.) Also appreciate the conversation, the manner of conversation - the much bemoaned art of conversation which is cried to be lost today. Though I can imagine myself being tongue-tied if ever, still it is nice to listen to it, the language. Makes one wonder if we were to throw away much of the distractions of modern life (net, tv, movies, eep!) and force ourselves to pay attention to each other more, then conversation, art and manner, may improve? Anyway I clapped after the movie. I hope you guys catch it (the castle! get it! *snort* ) And hopefully like it too.

On thinking back, maybe I clapped because I felt that for a moment I may have had a glimpse of an insight to the female mind - that place of madness men dread to thread. Women... With all the hyped talk that in 20, 30, 40, 50 years Man may be able to build androids, and with it men's fantasy of building the perfect woman (Weird Science! *air guitar*). But before we men do that, perhaps we men should understand women first. And if that is realized then perhaps there is no need to build anything, for she would already be here. Women... Bewildering. Crazy. Beautiful.


P.S Last night show Rockstar: Supernova rocked!!!! Love this season. Rockers all of them!!!

P.S http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIVMYcvmMi8 - really impressed how this person put the mv together. Also love the movie. (The girl is hot!)

P.S Also rented Silent Hill and Lord of War. (Am biased fan of SH games and Nicolas Cage fan too)

P.S What does P.S stand for by the way? Playstation? And only 500 000 PS3 units available at end of year?! Bah.

(Am enjoying warm tea in my belly. So am a little giddy now. Weeeeeeeeee! )

post script

Post scriptum, dummy.

EDIT: Semi-ninja'd. still, Latin > English. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

Latin's dead, and is therefore useless.

Futue te ipsum et caballum tuum.

You know, I actually believed my mother when she told me it stands for 'Please See'.


And still do.