...moviemania...

Learning is not necessarily between teacher and students or any academic interactions. It could be several other medium such as through listening to music, watching movies and theatres and many others. I am proudly pronounced that I am a moviemania in which I will easily get excited to watch any kinds of movies; be it indie or others. For this course, I have a chance to watch 3 movies in which they are presented in their own different ways. The first movie is "Shakespeare Wallah";comprises of many other Shakespearean plays in it and "MacBeth", "Romeo and Juliet" and "Antony and Cleopatra" are some of them. Then, we watch "MacBeth" which I think very interesting with the nice costumes despite the nonsense Malay- Indo subtitles. The final one is " A Streetcar Named Desire" by Elia Kazan and this is the movie I find the most interesting because the issue is not far removed from our daily lives. I have been very much benefitted by watching these movies because now, I have a clear vision on how the stories are being presented. Besides that, I manage to save my money for other things because I do not have to spend a budget to buy CDs....

...a review on Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire...

Marlon Brando stole the others' limelight though he was a new star introduced to audience in the Elia Kazan's "Streetcar Named Desire". He appeared very rough and animalistic that her characters gave the very real portrayal of Stanley Kowalski. Vivien Leigh is one of my favourite veterant actress and I love her in playing her role as Cleopatra and many others before I watch this movie. Her acting does not upset me because the depictions of Blanche as a woman who flirts a lot and known for her promiscuity; she did her best. Some other friends told me that they hate her as Blanche DuBois. The choice of Vivien as Blanche and Kim Hunter as Stella is accurate because they appeared very contrast to each other---physically and behaviourally.Overall, I think that this is a must-seen movie for those who search for something authentic yet entertaining....

...A MURDER MYSTERY...

Oedipus the King or Oedipus Rex unfolds a murder mystery and a political thriller with the emphasizing on element of irony on a man who determines to search, hunt down and punish a murderer who turns out to be himself. In my opinion, Sophocles's Oedipus Rex is probably the most famous tragedy ever written. In the play, Oedipus, King of Thebes, upon hearing that his city is being ravaged by plague, sends his brother-in-law Creon to learn what to do from the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi. When Creon returns, he brings the news that in order to save Thebes. they have to hunt down the murderer of Laius, the former king of Thebes. Oedipus begins investigating the death of his predecessor, Laius, and discovers through various means that he himself was the one who had unknowingly killed Laius and then bed his own mother, Jocasta. Jocasta commits suicide, Oedipus blinds himself, takes leave of his children, and is led away. From this, FATE becomes the theme of the story where form the beginning of the story, Oedipus is destined to kill his father and mate his mother. He runs from Corinth thinking of avoiding his fate and proceeds to Thebes and kills his father not knowingly. Riddle of Sphinx, he solves and married his mother he does. Teiresias's prophecy, he rejects and mocks, only then finds out he shares the wedding bed in holy matrimony.

first task...

Last week, our class had been facilitated by Cik Siti Nur Baiti and a task was given based on Sophocles's Oedipus Rex. The exercise given is about The Importance of Dialogue in a Key Scene. We were assigned to read the text earlier in order to help us in completing the task. Unfortunately, there were many of us had not even read the text thus some complications arose during the lesson. The first scene had been mistaken for the 'Scene 1' instead of the 'Prologue', and that many of us giving answers for the first question erroneously. The other confusion was due to the word 'recent' in the instruction given. There were several conflicts in the Oedipus Rex but we are to find the 'recent' or the current conflict in the scene. However, the discussion between us and Cik Siti Nur Baiti went evenly and overall it was effective.

...some sort of scribbling...

last night i finished reading the Oedipus the King ...such an interesting, heart- rending Greek tragedy..at first i mistakenly pronounced the oedipus as 'odipus' until i found out that it is 'edipus'..haha..can't wait to start learning the lesson though Dr. Edwin already put a test on our understanding of point of view..as if he knew that all of us had somehow a little bit forgotten about p.o.v...owh my god..the time remaining is two minutes...i have got to say bye2....