the perks.

i am very much enjoying the perks of being a wallflower.
i find the observations Charlie makes about people and
ideas in high school are not only humorous and at times
a little painful, but also very true. The thing that has struck
me the most in the book so far was the quote, "We accept
the love we think we deserve." Not only is it fitting in the
story for Charlie's sister, but it is a very interesting idea
that can be applied in other places. I think true that people
treat themsleves and allow themselves to be treated in
accordance of how much respect and self worth they have
for themselves. I think there are exceptions, and it is not
always true, but it does happen a lot. I like Charlie's character.
he is a prime example of someone who has a lot to teach,
but even more to learn.

i believe in a thing called love.

i can't even begin to explain how .... happy/hopeful/love/ahh. this scene makes me feel.
i don't know why every time i watch it my heart melts away and then grows back two times bigger.

computer lab time. party on excellent. woo woo woo woo wooo.

i realized as i am sitting here in the computer lab, that i have yet to write about crash.
perhaps it was because the movie overwhelms me, or perhaps i just forgot.
i guess the bottom line of the movie for me is that
ignorance is the root of all evil.
people are scared of things that are different from themselves. we are born that way and then as we are raised we are subconciously trained to fear the differences even more.
crash shows that in a place with many differences, there are many fears, and the fears lead to violence, and the violence lead to distance and the distance leads to herds of people who look the same, act the same, and fear the same.
what to do?

TAPE.

i really liked the chracter developement in the movie Tape. First we see Vince, he seems like a fairly intelligent, intense guy. We meet Vince's friend Jon. It seems they have an odd relationship. Jon is pretty critical of Vince and your view of Vince begins to changethe more Jon questions and picks apart his choices and lifestyle. You begin to think that maybe Vince's "intelligence" is limited to his manipulativeness. It's as if throughout the movie Vince continues to show you his real self which is a scarred guy who hasn't changed since high school.
while Jon seems like he's got everything together and he is a mature man, being around Vince brings out the high school kid in him too. It's like in high school Vince had the power in the realationship, and even though they've grown up and changed, whenever they come back together they're thrown back into the way things always go. Since Vince knows Jon so well and vice versa, they both know how to make the other uncomfortable. It seems like the boys grew up, but their relationship didn't.