Monday, November 7, 2011

Who wrote fairy tales anyway?

Another night another staccato of a sleep cycle.  This time when I woke up I stayed up.  It was 4:30 in the morning anyway, so instead of handing Yums her bottle and then disappearing under the covers I watched a movie - Beastly.  I had a thing for fairy-tale endings, so I thought I'd like this modern take on one of the classics.  I was so very disappointed.  Not because the movie sucked, which it didn't all that much, but because I wasn't all batty eyed and "awwwww" at the end of it, like I was expecting to be.  I just read all the wrong messages, which I'm sure the directors weren't aiming for.  Maybe I saw it that way because I'm on the more cynical end of the spectrum now.  Anywho the point of the movie (the way my brain interpreted it this early in the morning) was good-looking people are mean, and if you love someone ugly you live happily ever after.  At a more sane hour I'd say it makes sense, although in the former statement, I'd put the words "not all"  before it, and in the latter one the words "don't necessarily" before "live happily ever after".  Seems to me Vanessa Hudgens had a change of heart before jumping into that Matchu Pitchu bus not because she loved the beastly guy that built her a greenhouse, but because she figured Oh hell, why settle for Matchu Pitchu when you can go around the world with ugly's money?  See, I told you I was cynical.  There is, however, a fine line between being cyincal and pessimistic, and a pessimist I am not.  After wasting precious sleep time watching a pointless movie that Disney did a better job with anyway, I got up to see what that pesky light shining through my blinds was.  Lo and behold, the sun had risen and suddenly I understood what the saying about a silver lining around every cloud really meant. Except mine was golden.


 Excuse the amateur photography, the pictures do no justice to what the eyes saw.  Need I remind you what time it was?  In my defense I did try to go to the roof and get better shots but my mother locks down her fortress better than I expected. Maybe next time.  Right now I should probably get some shut eye while I still can.

1 comment:

  1. Pretty pictures =) ... and I want to go watch Beastly now...

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