Hello again, So it has occurred to me that most of us here are either into Medicine or are English enthusiasts so lets try and escape from the world blood and guts and dive into some language. Everyone does English for the LC don’t they? Personally I like the subject and the texts my school picked to study are really good. But how do you guys feel about it?
What we’ve done so far is “The Kite Runner”, “The Secret life of Bees” and “Billy Eliot”. I’m still waiting to do Hamlet but I wouldn’t say I’m impatient. So here’s what I thought:
The Kite Runner was a great story. It was interesting to get some insight into Afghanistan and the life of an American immigrant. One thing I would say is that the film is terrible. I wouldn’t recommend it. A lot of the scenes were changed around to suit the film but they didn’t change the dialogue. Practically all the dialogue is taken from the book which didn’t work for me because that meant that there wasn’t enough for such a long movie.
The Secret Life of Bees was a lot easier to understand and the characters were all great. I mean it told a story of rising from oppression and misery and complexities of racial difficulties at the time. Good book. I hope the film is good, I must watch it someday.
Billy Eliot is a classic film, nothing more to say watch it for yourself, I don’t want to spoil it for any of you who hasn’t done it yet or won’t be. But if you’ve something against ballet either ditch your prejudice or stay away, it’s kinda the thing that makes this movie “not cool” to talk about.
Finally Hamlet, I’m not sure what to expect from Shakespeare this time. I loved the Merchant of Venice for JC but Hamlet aint exactly funny. Again the film is too long and too boring, I barely made it past the first hour and I don’t even know what happened in the second or the third.
Anyway English is nice but it isn’t a passion of mine, just more of a handy way of communicating. Just trying to mix things up a bit.
Later (knowing me probably tomorrow)
The amount of work you seem to have done is unnerving.. My class is unbelievably slow, so far we have Paper One comprehensions, Kavanagh & Hamlet done, and we’ve watched Billy Elliot once. I feel so behind!