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“The Triumph Of Achilles”, Louise Glück

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We’ve always been fascinated with the universe and our creation. It’s truly a miracle that life has existed among billions of stars in the galaxy we call Milky Way. It convinces us that nothing is impossible — that we are indeed what we dream ourselves to be. 

These thoughts are encapsulated in this wonderful validation by Carl Sagan. When we keep dreaming and trust in achieving them, amazing things happen.

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all the bright places

watching the movie after reading and crying to this book in 2016 and then re reading it last year was an experience.

i dont think i was emotionally stable enough to read it at the time and it really stuck with me that year.

 i think the netflix adaption turned out ok/great and i cried 2 times in the middle of the movie and all the last 15 minutes, so...

x Points that i liked in the movie:

x that even though they didnt have enough time to create the scenes of finch playing guitar in his room (when he just creates the lyrics and the melody but doesnt actually writes or records the song), but made a song to the video to Violet, on instagram

x that they didnt include he going to his father’s house for those meetings, cause in the book they had enough space to do so and it was useful, but in the film they wouldnt have how to make it and explore it in the same time without distancing on the point of the movie

x that they didnt include his mother, and the way that she refuses to say that finch killed himself in the end 

x the fact that they took out the part where violets finds his body and watch (with his mom) the cops taking it out of the water, when it didnt even look like him anymore cause of the time he’d been in there

x that even thought they wouldnt have time to make them visit all the places in the book they kept my favorite ones .And the fact that, once they didnt make violet visit that forest with the shoes by herself looking for the places finch visited when he disappeared, they made a scene with them going there together, and it felt like a scene in another dimension, as if it was how id imagine it would happen it finch didnt die.

x that amanda wasnt an asshole in the anonymous meeting, telling finch that he shouldnt tell anyone he saw her there and being rude (i think this is what happens in the book , if i remember well) 

x that they didnt romanticized the wrong aspects of the story. thank god so much. iwas so afraid they would mess up one of my favorite books. 

x exploring the last topic better, but making it about both the book and the film. the way finch tries in all costs to help her while his going through the same toughts is really sweet. But what made me extra happy about the story is that finch really made her see how beautiful it is to be alive again. he didnt make it in a manipulative way (or in a ingenuine way that could have happened) where he is the reason she stayed alive or somwthing like that. He truly made her feel alive for the beauty in it, making her push herself to get back to drive to see beautiful places or visit ugly places and find beauty in then . ITS SO SWEET AND PURE.

x how they maganed to keep some aspects of the book that couldnt be included in the film, like when he writes in a post it and you can see whats written in the other ones, like “obelisk”  and  “how to stay awake”. they did the same with some of the most remarkable quotes as well.

x Point that i didnt like so much

x cause of the order they followed in the film, it would be weird to create the scene of finch writing “kiss violet markey” in the before i die wall, cause it would be too soon 

x they didnt explore the fact that finch interpreted a different kinda of character from time to time, like in the way he dressed and acted, but honestly it probably could make the movie too long ,and if they tried to keep everything like its described in the book, it would have turned into a mini series, and i dont think that it would have turned out so great.

x its a netflix original, so of course they made it like a melodramatic teen movie with the basic hollywood style. i think that if they explored more of an indie vibe (tipical of this genre ) they would transmit better the feelings the book has to offer.

x the fact that they didnt create the first scene as the book, and its the one that leads to everything. in the book, finch finds violet while he goes to the bell tower and thinks of jumping too, but violets ends up being the hero who saved the “freak” (the whole school and her parents know that there was an almost suicide attempt - and that it was “finch”). its kinda of an important point that is just totally ignored in the film.

x IDK 

x i really liked the acting and there was that polemic of fans being mad about justice smith interpreting finch, cause he wasnt like what the author described in the book and everything. But like, the skin and eye color of finch dont have nothing to do with the story ??? so theres no fucking reason to say that they couldnt change it. Besides from the fact that the author chose the actors and she is the one who knows for sure if he could make the paper or not.

x anyway, i imagined asa butterfield so bad while reading it for the first time that it was kinda hard to dissassociate from it. they gave me different vibes from what i imagined from a scrawny, weird, kinda grunge, pale boy with messy brown hair (thanks timothee chalamet) and the fact that this is basically my type now, from the sweet but yet kinda basic image the film gave me with finch. but this happens with every adaptation and is natural.

x i think that if i didnt read the book and felt this story so deeply through the years i wouldnt have liked the movie.

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Jo & Teddy Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

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—  Anaïs Nin

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