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At this point, I think having a consistent posting schedule would be sort of helpful. It'll give me some sense of routine or something. Maybe a one blog post a month, perhaps? Sounds reasonable enough. I've also come to realize that listing things off is a lot more helpful than I give it credit. At least, until I eventually forget about it. But anyways!:
- I went to the Knotfest roadshow! Initially, I asked my sister if she wanted to come along. Unfortunately, her kids had some appointments that same day so she couldn't make it. On the plus side, my friend from church and his son and his son's friend came along. He gave me extra money to buy them seats! He even bought me a sweatshirt at the venue!! He's a good guy, God bless them!
- On a lower note, my boss has been getting real irritated with the morning team (and especially me, for some unknown reason), and I sadly ended up having to go to HR to submit a complaint. So that's a whole circus and a half. Like I kinda feel bad, but I also don't since I'm tired of how he's been treating everyone like garbage and then try to be a brown-nose when he wants something. I wish I knew what I did to make it come to a head like this. I pray for some level of discernment.
- On a lighter note!! I'm also doing a horror movie marathon with my boyfriend!! Yesterday, we watched the original Halloween. That one is his favorite slasher movie (mine's a tossup between The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday The 13th). Tonight, we watched American Psycho with some friends. Now, onto the rant or else this would become the longest bullet point on the post.
Okay! Obligatory *spoiler warning* and general *content warning* since I'm going to be lightly touching on some gruesome and lewd stuff and the divulge the rest of the plot, you've been warned.
Despite the fact that the movie has its own merit aside from the book, it's kinda garbage in comparison to the book. Yeah, yeah, the same could be said about almost every other book to movie adaptation in the history of cinema. HOWEVER, I mean this in very specific regards to how the movie goes about illustrating Patrick's descent into madness and how it seems to confuse literally everyone in terms of "how did we get to being just vapid to absolutely bonkers in the first 25 minutes???" That's because the director (Marry Harron) has absolutely no idea what pacing is. Even judging by the scenes in the movie that she chose to focus on, it comes off like she just completely missed the main focus of the book entirely. Despite both the book and the movie listing off a similar catalyst only one and never bringing it up again, that REALLY doesn't translate well from book to movie. The book is a little more overt in pointing to what kicked off Pat's downward spiral, despite only mentioning it in passing. Who would've thought that going off your anti-psychotics would have consequences?? Couldn't be me. Another issue that I took with Harron's focus in the movie is that the murder scenes come as substantially more pulpy in the movie than they do in the book (which is ironic since they also left out A LOT of the worse scenes). And the important scenes that really highlight the- I guess I could call them- checkpoints for Bateman's mental state in the book are just so downplayed in the movie that it's almost criminal. Like I'm not saying that it could do better with it being more "by the book" because I get that runtimes have to be limited sort of and some things need to be cut out to be able to maintain an R rating (otherwise we'd end up with an NC-17 times twenty if they chose to be faithful to the book), but you can tell that this movie was directed by a woman because of how hyperfocused it was on the violence seen through out the movie (especially against women, hell even the the violence committed against homosexual men was obviously considered an afterthought because it was only mentioned twice). I could go on and and on, but I feel that if I did, it would become incomprehensible eventually, so I'll put a pin on that for a later date.
Goodnight and God bless.
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