The Art of Getting By (2011)

oh boy oh boy a real review... 

sry for that... it has just been so dang long since i last wrote an actual review and not just random stuff popping up in my head. anywho shall we?

The Art of Getting By.... Well it is about George.. a social awkward teenager on his senior year. George is not big on school, homework or even assignments during class.. actually he is kinda weird with his head in the clouds or well the head is in a book looking over his amazing drawings that almost nobody ever get to see. Due to this lack of interest in school he get to see the principle quite often.. Anyway one day a girl hits up a conversation with him after school.. this girl being Sally.. Sally and George becomes really good friends.. but then as all good dramas go Georges life starts to crumple...

This was SOOOOO sweet... 

okay now that i got that out of my system lets go over  the movie.. it is a normal teenage drama flick thing but like more and more of the recent ones of these, i believe it to have a really good story and background theme.. George is feeling this type of rude depressing feeling toward school.. like what does it all matter.. trust me i get this feeling.. it is like that these days we live to slave our way through life, first in school to learn stuff that we later can use to slave away in a job so that we can make money to live for,... he also goes about life like he doesn't have anything to say to the world, kinda like he feels like a parasite that just tag along for the ride.. when he meets Sally or well think it is the other way round... she noticed him, making him become someone that stands out of the crowd for once... and quite early in the movie you get the fact that while most people are scared of dying (this seems to be the normal anyway) he is not scared of that.. he is scared about life.. scared of living it.. and i think that is the true core of this movie.. about not being scared of life.. about a young man that has to learn to live life and to become something, SOMEONE..

so as my earlier statement kinda implied this is a really cute movie.. a really warm one to.. made me feel really good afterwards even though i did hit a bumpy passage here and there (I am NOT crying... that much) and i like that in a movie.. and Freddie Highmore that plays George is just plain adorable..


Oh and I have just come to realize that I am having a movie crush on Emma Roberts so-ehm guess I'm gonna roam around IMDb and figure out what to watch next ;)

a special safe place

jumping right into it.. being that i have been working a lot lately.. or well actually just working normally but being slightly sick all the time it feels like a hell of a lot more than it is.. specially since i tend to be sleeping when i'm off.. that is if i'm not revisiting oldies...  anyway at work we have been talking about what i do when i'm off and sleeping seems like a really bad answer >.< and watching movies is a favorite pastime of mine... so we've been talking a bit about that.. my colleagues don't really get it.. most of them can't sit still or stay entertain long enough to watch a movie and some of them even fall a sleep when trying to..  it gets even harder for them to understand when i tell them that i don't just watch the movie.. i am doing so much stuff at the same time.. often sitting with 2 pcs on so that i can play games, write or some other stuff at the same time.. or i just sit and draw, fold paper or whatever hobby i got going on at the moment.. it does come as a shock that i don't have to focus fully on the movie i'm watching.. okay i admit it sometimes i do need to give my full attention to a movie and not just when i watch foreign movies. Sometimes the movies are so deep in riddles that you have to pay full attention.. but to me they are far apart..

so why is it that i find so much joy in just sitting there going through one movie after another? Honestly I don't know... think it might be the escape in it combined with the freedom to do other stuff... as a kid and teenager, you would pretty much always find me with my nose stuck in a book and believe me i am the proud owner of a small library section at home (being i just move i got aware of just how many books i really own) i loved the escape from reality you get from a book, the emotional roller coaster all the while being absolutely safe right there were you are sitting.. i still read from time to time but not in nearly the same amount that i used to.. it feels like i don't have the time for it anymore.. which is probably stupid because all it takes is for me to take the time for it.. and this is where movies come in.. cause watching a movie gives the same feeling of escape, of getting through different emotion.. the difference is i am not bound to it like i am a book.. i can be doing other stuff at the same time.. making it feel like it is not as time consuming as a book.. although the reality is i get way to little done while i'm watching movies.. playing games just don't seem to cut it in the whole get your stuff together theme.. 

one of the things my colleagues had trouble with was how do i stay awake.. well thing is sure if the movie does not catch me i will get bored.. very bored in deed and sometimes i have to shut it down because it does not feel fair to the movie that i am bored.. thing is the movie does not have to be boring for me to bored.. sometimes it just isn't what catch me at the time and then it is simply better to wait until the mood is actually there... but falling a sleep.. 

well if i'm so tired that i could sleep standing then i should not engage in watching a movie.. i will fall a sleep no matter how interesting the movie might be.. ex.? first time i tried to watch Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr. i fell asleep before the movie hit the 10 min mark.. I LOVE that movie.. and was really trying to stay awake but ended up sleeping on the floor under the coffee table all the same..

another time i might fall asleep is when watching my absolute favorites.. i currently have 2 movies that i know by heart and if i put them on then i'm gonna fall asleep.. it is a sure thing and i'm not completely sure why.. being that i know almost every line in them i think my brain might see them as a safe place and go into slumber.. this is however just a theory... and when i wake up after i know everything that has happened i know the lines even though i am very much aware that it has been quite a while since i last actually heard them.. 

anywho.. this has just been me thinking about weird stuff..