How soon is now? (The Smiths)

I was listening to this song on the bus home today from school, and it just blew me away. I’ve heard this song dozens of times, but it has been months since I last listened to it. Something about listening to an emotionally deep song after not hearing it for a while is a great experience.
The lyrics are so true to human nature you can’t help but open your eyes wider at the utter truth it speaks. The lines about being human and needing to be loved, because everybody else does, that’s so true; who doesn’t have that mentality about their existence. I really think this song is universal in so many ways. The line about going to a club to meet someone, but then you leave alone; who hasn’t had that experience in one way or another. The whole theme of rejection is so powerful in the song it’s indescribable, if you haven’t heard it, do it now!
Morrissey’s voice is so rich yet at the same time has a hollow/empty sound; it’s an aural orgasm where there’s a climax whenever his voice goes up an octave or two. A countless number of other people have tried to imitate his vocals. (to me Morrissey’s voice is like coca cola, you can’t beat the real thing!)
The musical arrangement can stand alone it’s so good. I don’t know what instrument was used for the edgy synthetic sound (maybe a synth?) but it works so well. It’s an anxious sounding rhythm, but it doesn’t make the listened feel anxious, it’s a calming/relaxed anxiety. It’s a non-verbal way that illustrates that everyone experiences rejection so they feel anxious, but they know they are not the only one.

The Squid and the Whale (2005)

I thought this was a pretty good movie. I have to be honest though, I was expecting something slower paced. This movie is about the emotional breakdown of a family that undergoes the parents’ divorce. There are many bitter sentiments that are exchanged in this family, and I’d say it was an accurate account of the feelings each member would go through. However, I also thought the film’s pacing was way too rushed, and as a result of that I could not enjoy watching it. The pacing gave me anxiety, and I was waiting desperately for some slower paced scenes. Maybe the pacing was done in this fashion for the purpose of creating anxiety; in that case it is successful, in my opinion.
Some side notes that I enjoyed about this film; Wes Anderson co-produced this film and it is pretty evident in the style of the film, specifically the dialogue that he was involved in this project. The other side note is that they reference the first Godard film “Breathless” in one of the later scenes when the husband calls his ex-wife a bitch in sign language, haha!
I thought the scene where the title is explained was very poignant. It said a lot about what the family once was before too much pressure ripped them apart.
The cinematography mostly added to my anxiety that was created in the pacing. With the majority of the film being shot handheld it seemed like they were rushing through the scenes and that they only had a limited amount of time to shoot the film. It makes me wonder how long the production period of this film was.
The acting was really well done; I thought that the characters had great chemistry. Props goes out to Billy Baldwin for his underrated portrayal of a would-be tennis pro who becomes involved with the wife. He’s hardly on screen and has hardly any lines, but he still steals the show, you said it brother!
Anna Paquin as the college student who has an affair with the husband was just gross. Jeff Daniels played her dad in “Fly away Home”, that’s incent.
Overall, I recommend this film to anyone looking for a good family melodrama, it does not disappoint