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Tuesday, May 02, 2006
unitedly good/bad
I realized I didn't mention much about my Final Exams. Well, I really do not know how it went. It can go either way, GOOD or BAD. The GOOD thing is my Exams are over, the BAD thing is I screwed Chemistry. Thank God it is my final time taking it for the rest of my life, I hope..
I even went to watch a movie on Friday night, since Psychology was the only exam left. Me and the rest of the house went to watch United 93. It's about September 11, how 4 planes were hijacked but only 3 made it to their 'target destination'. The passengers on that plane fought back, but still didn't make it.
The show was made into kind of like a documentary with people stories that were pieced together from the phonecalls made by those on flight United 93. I got repeated goosebumps while watching some of the real footages inserted into the movie. So it is a GOOD thing that I responded to what needed to be responded, but a BAD thing that I had to respond to a film based on such an incident. To me, it is still kind of early to make such a movie on 9/11. It's like tearing off the scar that is still not fully healed.
On the downside, me and my housemate agreed that the show had the undertone of a stereotypical fundamentalist Muslim. There were scenes where the hijackers pray for power from Allah, etc., and for those ignorant Westerners who watch them, will definitely view Muslims as that.. Which is so not the case. I just hate how these terrorists use religion as a shield for their actions.
Anyway, there are so many other movies I want to watch, particularly X-Men 3: The Last Stand, and The Da Vinci Code.. I have so many people interested in the latter, but not X-Men 3. Anyone?
I even went to watch a movie on Friday night, since Psychology was the only exam left. Me and the rest of the house went to watch United 93. It's about September 11, how 4 planes were hijacked but only 3 made it to their 'target destination'. The passengers on that plane fought back, but still didn't make it.
The show was made into kind of like a documentary with people stories that were pieced together from the phonecalls made by those on flight United 93. I got repeated goosebumps while watching some of the real footages inserted into the movie. So it is a GOOD thing that I responded to what needed to be responded, but a BAD thing that I had to respond to a film based on such an incident. To me, it is still kind of early to make such a movie on 9/11. It's like tearing off the scar that is still not fully healed.
On the downside, me and my housemate agreed that the show had the undertone of a stereotypical fundamentalist Muslim. There were scenes where the hijackers pray for power from Allah, etc., and for those ignorant Westerners who watch them, will definitely view Muslims as that.. Which is so not the case. I just hate how these terrorists use religion as a shield for their actions.
Anyway, there are so many other movies I want to watch, particularly X-Men 3: The Last Stand, and The Da Vinci Code.. I have so many people interested in the latter, but not X-Men 3. Anyone?