Ok..... I going to do this in some sort of order so bare with me..... first my day.....
I was meant to be at rehearsals from 12 till 8, but I desperately needed to go Christmas shopping so I told a little fib and said that I had family round, and asked to come in later instead..... DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT AT LEAST I WENT WHICH IS MORE THAN WHAT BECCA DID!! Anyway.... It meant I got to go round Croydon and buy all the stuff I needed.... I shan't tell you what as I know Becca and Yuzuki read this and its their prezzies.....what I can say is they are extremely awsum!! Yo see normally I'd buy stuff that I like and then feel bad giving them away and no-one particularly likes them because the're not into the same stuff as me and it all goes wrong.... but I've got a good feeling about this year so HOORAY!! The only bad thing is that I like the gifts sooooooooooooooo much that I had to wrap them very quickly before I ended up "testing" them......
When I finally got to the ark we had an interesting rehearsal.... Becca wasn't there though and I spent a lot of it trying to ring her and find out WHERE THE HELL SHE WAS! Beth was giving out notes when I got there and one of them was to be out of breath coming into act 2 scene 7...... the only problem to come from that was that I had to desperately try to not laugh in the wings as Alfie had decided he would hold his breath through the whole scene before we all rush in so he would actually be out of breath.....there is about 5 mins of scene before we come in and seeing his face slowly turn purple was simply hilarious......
Time traveller the girl who leapt through time.
I promised a review so here it is...... Time traveller - the girl who leapt through time.
The film is the live action sequel to the anime the girl who leapt through time. I was surprised actually.....It was not one of my favourite animes but Time Traveller has actually let me regain my faith in live action Japanese films after watching the horrible direction of Death Note....
The story is based around a young girl who has to travel into the past to find a mysterious person from her mothers past that may hold the key to awakening the mum from a coma she had fallen into in a car accident. Unfortunately she ends up in the wrong year and falls in love with a young wannabe director. I'm not going to spoil the ending but it was truly hart wrenching.... I very nearly cried.... and I didn't even cry at titanic so that's something!!
It had a very well thought out plot and and some superb acting from the lead character Akari (played by Riisa Naka). Although the characters where a little eccentric (which is what you can expect from a Japanese film) that was what made them relate-able. I am usually very picky when it comes to the endings of films and to me it can ether make a film or completely crumble it. No matter how fantastic a film is I will not even consider it to be a great if the ending it not up to scratch. Lucky for this film I particularly liked it, it had a sharp cold edge emotionally.... (again trying not to ruin the ending)
Overall I'd say it is a brilliant watch and would defiantly recommend it, for me it is up there with some of my favourite foreign live-action films such as Pan's labyrinth and Big little soldier, both of which if you haven't watched SHAME ON YOU! THEY'RE AMAZING!!
Despite all this I'm still yet to find a director better than Guillermo del Toro, he has directed 3 of my most favourite films: Pan's labyrinth, Croynos, and Hellboy! And I shall carry on searching and reviewing untill that mission is completed (if its completable)!
A Kanji A Day
As today came with a review-this is the kanji: 巻
English: Film
Katakana: かん
Romaji: Kan
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