A Letter from Freshman Me

So today is my last day of high school and, as luck would have it, I recently received an email from “FutureMe,” a website that lets you email yourself in the future (given that you maintain the same email address).

I don’t want to divulge all of the contents of the letter because that would be incredibly embarrassing, but I thought I’d share some excerpts with the Internet at large. First off, my email is titled “You Actually Have Mail, Loser” (italicized for ease of reading). Good to know that past me had the foresight to know that I’d be a loser. Yikes. The email then starts with “Hey, so I hope you’re not a complete failure by now, because my life’s on the line.” Worry not, past me. Though you may consider current me a failure, I’m actually pretty proud of myself. The email proceeds to describe what happened on the day that the email was sent. Then it closes with some questions for current me. My favorites are as follows: Are you going to college? Do you have a boyfriend? Are you knocked up? If you are, I’m coming for you. Yes, no, and no. Allow me to assuage your fears, past me, as a boyfriend-less loser (your words, not mine), I am most definitely not with child. The letter than closes with “love and kisses” from past me. 

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Liveblogging(-ish) Atonement: The End

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Ohai, would you look at that. I skipped about 20 minutes of Atonement and didn’t miss anything.

Liveblogging(-ish) Atonement

Okay, so I’m halfway through the movie, and I know this is supposed to be a motherfucking good-ass piece of cinema, but damn it all, I can’t get invested. 

To the movie’s credit, it has a lot of great performances (James McAvoy’s in particular) as well as a great knack for creating sweet and beautiful scenes. It’s got a great track and some really good cinematography. The plot, for me, is okay. It’s kind of slow, but it’s bearable. 

HOWEVER. The relationship between McAvoy and Keira Knightley is weak. This is a love story. The backbone to the movie should be the relationship between the two leads. And, quite frankly, I can’t get invested in McAvoy and Knightley’s relationship. The actors have fair chemistry at best, and while they have a really cute scene shortly after McAvoy becomes a soldier and Knightley becomes a nurse, that’s it. There aren’t enough scenes with the two of these characters for me to care about their relationship. Yeah, I realize there’s a lot of off-screen buildup (since the two leads knew one another before the beginning of the movie), but this is only briefly touched upon, and it’s certainly not enough to carry the movie. We, the audience, are then left with a raunchy letter and a moment in the library on which to form our opinion on the lovers. And this isn’t enough to make me care. 

Honestly, I can’t enjoy this movie. It better pick up the pace in the second half because while it is visually beautiful and while it has some good performances, I don’t care what happens to the characters, and that disconnect really cripples the movie-watching experience. 

Iunno. I’d turn it off, but I really like James McAvoy and Benedict Cumberbatch (who, in my opinion, will turn out to be the rapist because of that brief scene with the cousin and the twins, wherein he’s uncomfortably affectionate and gives the cousin candy). 

Bluhh, iunno. 

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