Reviewing the film - Orphan

The film orphan struck me as being very weird. you watch it all the way through thinking that its one thing but then the twist at the end is a real shock, in general a good film but extremely creepy.

so the story is basically a mother who is an alcoholic coping with the loss of a child due to her alchoholism, the husband is also a cheat which doesnt really add to the storyline but there it is.

her drinking also caused her to fail in saving one of her other child quick enough whilst she was drowning which led her child now to be mute and mostly deaf.

so she loses her child and wants to make up for it by adopting, they go to a orphanage and gets attracted by a russian (or something liek that) girl who seem alot more mature than most others. they adopt her, the daughter loves her new sister but the son dislikes her greatly.

as she settles in they notice that she wears ribbons continously round her neck and wrist, no one knows why at this point but when the adopted girl goes to school she gets bullied by her dress sense and her ribbons, and when one of the bullies try to remove them thats the first time you see this adopted child to be crazy as she screams uncontrollably. she also has a bible looking book on her most of the time.

so as time goes on, the girl settles in, things goes smoothly until one night when the mum and dad get it on she walks in, when the mother tried to explain to her what was going on, she calmy reply "you fucked". really unexpected at this point, child barely 10 using such language an all that.

at the start she also said that she didnt play piano, whereas the mothers very good, so she takes lessons with her. when one day the mother walks in a finds that the girl in fact is playing at proffessional level on her own, questions start to arise.

at this point the girl is also answering back alot and starting to act up to the mother but staying a good girl to the father.

so far the film is nicely shot and the suspense is good, everything is working nicely.

you then see the adopted girl mercilessly killing a bird off that the son shot with a pellet gun saying that "we need to put it out of its misery" still strange for a young child to do.

now the real shit comes in, the nun from the orphange comes along trying to inform the parents that somethings up with this child and she ends up killing her and hiding the body, sweet talking the poor sister to not tell anyone.

and then more crazy things happen, she threatens the son and end up cauging him to fall from his tree house injuring him serious and the mother starts to really hate this child and and wants to find out about her past more. this is the part when the mother finds out that she came from a mental asylum and that shes actually a midget! shes actually an adult posed as a child who tries to suduce the father of the family by driving away the mother. this is the time when you find out that all the paintings she been doing are all satanic under UV light and everything just goes really far, she kills the father off mother comes back, has a massive fight with this midget, saves her daughter, but her sons now in coma in hospital and her husbands dead..very grim ending and the midget sinks into a deep pond.

in general and well made film but seriously where did they get the storyline from?

6th - uni soon

o yay uni starting again, it is quite boring without it, and it seems that we payed all that money to have little education time is pathetic but o well, i get a degree out of this, who cares *shrugs*

I might socialize with more people this year....maybe :p

5th - coping with loved ones moving

now with the new uni term starting few mates going back to uni, some moving away including my partner.

shes currently in newcastle and its difficult to have her so far away but things will be fine when my loan comes through so I can afford train tickets to see her haha

I'm sure good few people will have similar problems, not nice is it :(

4th - the band

well my bands (with silent eyes) been going ok but since I came back from holiday it seemed to have slowed down and everything was falling to pieces, our practise place got knocked down, we havent practised in a month and people were out of contact.

After some meetings and looking aroudn we found a new place and is now happily pracitsing there with a few good gigs behind us we're ready to move forward again. New songs been write and in process of writing more new ones, new recordings to be arriving soon, and merch to be out on sale very soon too.

if you like your metal, hardcore, metalcore etc then visit our myspace :) we'll be playing notts soon too so come see us :D

www.myspace.com/withsilenteyesband

p.s merch designed by me obv (Y) ;)

3rd - holiday

whilst on my break I've been around the U.K abit and went to france, Normanide. really opened up my eyes seeing the remains of the D-day landings such as the floating habour and war graves etc. Also had a chance to try out some exquistit french food which I'm very happy about. About from that it was lazy holiday which consisted of me cooking alot, but I love cooking so its all fine :)

photos from france would be up on my facebook and also my flickr account

www.flickr.com/photos/jylphotography

2nd - Company

I recently teamed up with my friend back from college to help him with his company "ctrl alt defeat". It's a T shirt company, we've recently got the website up and running so everything is all good :)

www.ctrlaltdefeatclothing.com

On top of that I've been selling alot of my work too which is all on here

http://emptees.com/people/14151-joewse

and topped up my photography on flickr and heres the link to that

www.flickr.com/photos/jylphotography

thats about enough

1st - T-shirt designing

First of all I'll talk about my new found income making hobby. I have first discovered that I can draw when I was about 3 but never really put it to good use until a few motnhs back. I started looking into T-shirt designing and found a website called "emptees" this website is a collabaration of artists work and is really useful for rookies like myself to have they're work reviewed and criticized.

I started off by posting a few old re-vamped designs up and starting really hooked onto improving which lead to endless nights of working into early hours of the morning. As weeks went by I can already feel that my skills were improving as a designer and so I took a step further and bought myself a graphics tablet which is now essential for my drawings.

This lead onto competing with big desginers on that website. theres a award everday for the best design called "T of the day" and ive been wanting to win that award for so long but still not good enough yet. I've come close to winning top tees ( which is awarded any other designs that are extrodinarily good that day but still not achieved it yet.

After continuos failure at achieving any awards I started feeling down and had a massive debate online about how only the popular designers get awarded not even for their work but for the populariy etc. This lead to many insults and critcism. Now I think back and realize it was really dumb to say it so I've just decided to keep creating designs everyday and improve till I get an award :)

It's not like my designs arent good because I've been making a steady income from selling them so I'm all happy again :)

It's been so long

Right to start things off, hope anyone whos reading this had a good summer holiday, if not then tough, try better next yeah.

A lot has happened in my summer holiday, got a business going, started down a new path, which is currently really successful, been continuing my photography, band and so on, seen alot of new films and old films etc. too much to talk about in one go so I will break it down into a few entries to try and cover it all.

Really have been too busy to keep up with this blogging business.

Laterz