Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Pitch Perfect changed my life
Ok, my title is not an exaggeration. I'm pretty sure this quirky musical college movie was THE turning point of my 15 year long life. It has molded me into the person I am today *tear*. Ha, well it's not that dramatic but this movie has exposed and opened my eyes to many many new things. Okay, well first of all Anna Kendrick, AAAHH ANNA KENDRICK!! She was my first ever true girl crush like, yeahhh I had other celebrities who I thought were great but none compared to AK47 man I fancied her so much. Anyway Anna as a person is fucking hilarious no doubt but she was never really on my raider until I discovered she was vocally gifted. And so watching Pitch Perfect and seeing her character emerge into its full character potential made me fall so much more deeper in the fangirling-super-attached-megafan hole. So, watching the movie at least another 50 times and being able to mouth the dialogue in sync. But after re-watching the film so many times I realized I couldn't get enough of AK. I had to watch every film and interview in order for me to continue living (tho we can exclude the twilight films coz Anna has way better acting abilities then her character there). So one particular film was Rocket Science. It's an indie film (Anna seems to be in so many of them) and I had nothing against indie films really but they never gave a hard hitting after effect as much as box office action or drama films do and I guess Rocket Science was the first movie that made me feel something. I thought the movie wasn't particularly excellent and it was kinda weird but it was something about the ending that made me realize how realistic and true to life this movie is. I mean most flicks you've got the protagonist/s with a problem/s and it either gets happily solved or ends tragically worse but Rocket Science finished with neither those endings, it was neutral. In fact it ended how it begun, with Hal trying to order pizza but this time he achieved the simple task he was initially trying to achieve. I feel like this neutral ending related so much to me because my life isn't as plot-twisty or with distinctive ends, as most films are. It's just kinda wishy-washy and it doesn't really move on from anywhere. But how does this relate to PP changing my life you say? Well im kinda realizing right now that it might not relate as much as I thought it would but moving on... You know that quite emotional/lonely montage Beca has during the spring break scene and she's by herself coz she pushed away everyone who cared about her ? If you re-watch that scene there is a beautifully perfect track that is an equivalent match to the emotion of that scene and even enhances it slightly. This track is called Open Season by the High Highs and it is one of the first indie songs that I fell in love with. It is magical,mellow,climatic and it just gives me a euphoric feel that I never knew existed in a song, as well as a whole mothereffing genre of music. I mean Indie/Folk/Alternative tunes or whatever it's called, they're the bomb diggity!! I honestly have never fallen more in love with a type of coherently good-managed waves of sound before and I still get goosebumps every time I find a new song that makes me melt into a pool of...maple syrup ? Maybe, idk. Anyway, it's been probably like 2 years now since I first watched PP and ever since these past years I've been consistently watching independent films and listening to indie tracks. I wanna step up my game though and actually go to like festivals where they compile a bunch of really good films/tunes but I can't afford it and i'm sadly too young. Oh and I have tried getting my friends to open their eyes to potentially good new things but they don't let out the same reaction as I do and I sort of start questioning if they're aliens or something but hey, it's probably easy to question the same thing about me.
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