Girl Crush: Natalia Kills

I stumbled across the Natalie Kills when watching The Fashion Statement by Amy Pham and I am completely in love with her sense of style. She always looks so glamorous and elegant yet also very badass! I wish I could rock half the clothes she wears (or afford them!) Whenever I see her, I am constantly reminded of Princess Jasmine from Aladdin. I think it's because of the tiaras she wears.

Look at her, she's stunning. If you haven't heard her music, I don't know why you are even here. You have to go check out her badass tunes.

Boys Do Cry

Most boys don't cry often, or so I thought.

I have never seen my dad cry, so I have always lived with the idea that men don't cry. I vividly remember the day my dad got a phone call about his mother's death. His face stayed expressionless and remained calm throughout the phone call but if you knew him well, you would have known that he was screaming inside. I wonder why my dad didn't cry in front of us. Was it because he didn't have a great relationship with his mother? Was it because we were there? Or was it just because?
That day was the saddest I have ever seen my dad but it's ironic because I did not see him shed a single tear.

I like to believe it is not because of the masculine portrayal of men that has led to this 'boys don't/shouldn't cry' idea. I think people are entitled to cry about their sufferings or for other people's sufferings, whether male or female.

When I see boys crying in movies, I always find it somehow appealing. Possibly due to the vulnerability of a boy you don't often see that breaks the ''masculine/feminine'' barrier.  Possibly because I then think, ''Boys aren't all dicks and they do have emotions and a squishy unstable heart and they can get really sensitive wow  awww.'' 

I try to refrain myself from categorising things as masculine or feminine because they are like synonyms for strong and weak (although I do have a weakness of describing clothes in my wardrobe as androgynous oops!). 

My question is: If a male and female watched a movie with the most tragic ending and they both felt the same level of sadness, would they both be crying? 

Are boys just bad at expressing themselves? Or are they afraid? 

(aww he looks so vulnerable I just want to give him a hug)

(In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie cried a lot and I admit I did like him more because of that the reason being that I felt like I was Sam and I could help him.)

(A reason why I realised not all boys are dicks - he's crying over a sick child with malaria)

Did your heart shatter into a million of  pieces? Because mine just did. (Thanks Tumblr)

Film Diary: The Tracey Fragments By Bruce McDonald

The Tracey Fragments is a film I watched recently due to my current obsession for Ellen Page .Although I wasn’t too involved in the plot of the film, I was just super surprised by the cinematography of this film. The cinematography is very unique and different in the way how most shots in a scene consists of many ‘fragments’. This allows the audience to focus on different characters’  perspective or show the subtle details of characters which really helps with character development in my opinion (as there isn’t much character development on characters other than Tracey!). Although I love the techniques the director has used to create this film, it definitely isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. At times, there are a lot of fragments at once where it can be very overwhelming and repetitious.  

Other than the fragments of scenes, there are also some stop motion, point of view shots, a shaky camera etc etc. that adds a realistic and contemporary touch to the film; sometimes the crappier the quality, the more realistic it is! 

I feel that Bruce McDonald has experimented a lot with the cinematography. A prominent scene I enjoyed was when Tracey was running from her house and Horses by Broken Social Scene was playing:

As I stated before, I wasn’t involved with the plot so much as I was too engrossed with the presentation of the plot. Basically, it’s about a 15 year old girl named Tracey who loses her dog brother, Sonny. Throughout the movie, we see fragmented flashbacks of Tracey’s life; being bullied at school, arguing with her parents at home and fantasizing about Billy Zero, leading all the way to Tracey on a bus with a curtain wrapped around her, talking to the camera.

To sum it up, the plot is alright but the techniques used is very different to your regular movie. Although some techniques do not suit a certain scene in the movie well, it still gives an insight on how to go that extra mile when making videos more quirky and unique(helped me in multimedia class a lot!).

My rating: 6.5/10

Favorite line: "Remember in the news when two retards had a kid? Well that was me."