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My goal this week is to keep track of the things that make me feel inspired. I have a lot of thoughts each day about what I could write about, but they escape me so quickly. I am hoping if I get in a better habit of noticing and documenting inspiration it will feel less daunting to sit down and write
fulfilled my promise of sending out my blog today to my friends. now i actually have to write ( •̀ ᴖ •́ )
I often wonder how I would feel about attention if I did not grow up in the age of smartphones. Would I have the desire to share myself online? I am sure this void would be filled by something else; the push and pull of wanting to be seen and needing to hide is one that I don't think is new, as far as technology goes, but social media complicates it. With friends scattered across the country, I…
hi to the people i am sharing this with so far. i am scared to share anything that matters to me online, so this is big. shoutout to all my awesome homies with blogs, hopefully i will write something cool soon.
★★★☆☆ I did not laugh. Which I guess isn’t a bad thing, but an unexpected thing for a movie marketed as a rom com. I didn’t love it, I didn’t hate it. I just have a lot of thoughts. The men were just… there?? I didn’t feel anything for them or for their stories, which I do not think has anything to do with the performances. The lack of intersection in the storylines baffled me. A lot of this made…
☆☆☆☆☆ The most terrifying part of this movie was me crying during the entire end sequence while everyone else laughed around me. Regardless of Cregger’s intentions, I feel like there is a lot of potentially harmful rhetoric in this movie. My main thought is this— if Cregger truly wanted to make a film that successfully commented on school violence and mass shootings (which idk if he wanted to do),…
★★★★☆ The least believable part of this is that Bear would make the choice to kill himself-- he was too selfish. Then again, he did try to vomit it back up before Nikki made her wish. When I saw Weapons in theaters, I was shocked by the amount of people laughing at scenes that seemed horrifying to me. I can imagine if I saw this in theaters, it would be a lot worse. I am sure media-illiterate men…