March Tags!

Hi! For March (this is my favorite month of the year ehm), I’m doing movies. Enjoy!

#1 Room

So the oscar nomination has been out since February, and I’m doing a marathon on some of it. While Spotlight is awesome and totally worthy of best picture, I actually like Room more. I think it’s probably the best movie in 2015. It’s not often to find a movie like this. The acting is just believable, and there is an unquestionable chemistry between Brie and Jacob. The director is a genius, and along with the writer, must have worked so hard to make this movie possible. This is one of the most heartwarming movie I’ve watched.  Room doesn’t make you think hard, or edged in your seat, or amazed by overwhelming visual effects. It makes you understand and feel humanity. I truly believe something in my heart died (while some that had died lived again) when the movie was over and the credit started to play. All I want while watching this was hugging Jack and kept him from the world’s cruelty.

#2 An Education

This beginning of March I got through another mid-term test. While I always feel there’s something wrong with these tests and the school system, I just looked into the bigger picture of this nation’s education. This is not education. This is getting good grades for whatever it takes, get in good university at any cost, and be successful later in life. There is no thirst in knowledge, no learning just for the sake of it anymore. I don’t care if cheating is the only way I can get in, I’ll do it. I don’t care if I don’t understand any of this, as long I get in my dream school. I don’t care if it takes 20 million rupiahs to guarantee my seat in university, I’ll go for it. This is messed up. And most teachers just turn a blind eye seeing this, knowing that their schools will get praise for the amount of students get in popular universities all over the country while they get a raise. It’s a trap and I have to admit it’s harder than ever to maintain my ideality if I want to survive. And there are still pressure going on from parents and unrealistic standards from teachers, which makes it even harder.

Okay, that’s enough of that, I will go into the movie. This is the official synopsis of it:

In the early 1960's, sixteen year old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. On her father's wishes, everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford, as he wants her to have a better life than he. Jenny is bright, pretty, hard working but also naturally gifted. The only problems her father may perceive in her life is her issue with learning Latin, and her dating a boy named Graham, who is nice but socially awkward. Jenny's life changes after she meets David Goldman, a man over twice her age. David goes out of his way to show Jenny and her family that his interest in her is not improper and that he wants solely to expose her to cultural activities which she enjoys. Jenny quickly gets accustomed to the life to which David and his constant companions, Danny and Helen, have shown her, and Jenny and David's relationship does move into becoming a romantic one. However, Jenny slowly learns more about David, and by association Danny and Helen, and specifically how they make their money. Jenny has to decide if what she learns about them and leading such a life is worth forgoing her plans of higher eduction at Oxford

An Education is a movie about a tragedy that could happen to any of us if the only thing we care for is success in life. This is what will happen if we don’t think education alone is important, if we think it’s just a tool to get what we want, to afford the kind of lifestyle we want in the future. This movie did make me question everything I already know about education. It’s an important movie that should’ve been watched by everyone, especially teenagers and truth-seekers. It’s beautifully done, and mind you this isn’t even Hollywood-release as far as I know.

Bonus quote:

-credit to: line account from A to A

Sooo I really recommend you to watch these. There are also some other movies and music that I really want to cover later, maybe I will update it maybe I won’t;D  I also apologize if anything I said earlier offend you, it’s just my view and of course it can be different from yours. Anyway, enjoy these masterpiece. You can let me know what you think of themJ