Change Your Image
mngnm94
Reviews
Love Never Dies (2012)
It makes PERFECT Sense!
I saw The Phantom of the Opera when I was 12, and I heard the Original London Cast Recording of Love Never Dies when I was 16. By then my life had gone through some MAJOR changes. For one thing my Dad died 2.75 months after I saw The Phantom of the Opera on stage (believe it or not) and my life was continuing to get worse, so my personality like the characters in "Love Never Dies" changed with life. What I'm trying to say is "Misery loves company" especially from close friends. When I was 13 I had read "The Phantom of Manhattan" so it was not a surprise to me when Christine died. :(!
In a class called "Working with Young Children" I learned that If a child is born less than a year into a marriage it most likely falls apart, which contributes WHY Christine chooses the Phantom. Furthermore, Gustave's attraction to music, and also having the same concept of beauty as the Phantom, can be explained by the existence of the Hobby Gene. This means that because both of his parents like music, he is more likely to as well.
Also gambling was popular among rich people during the time that the Phantom of the Opera was set. This would most likely result in a lower income, which would put stress on Raoul and Christine's marriage, Which would contribute to WHY Christine chooses the Phantom. Raoul in the original novel is immature and immature people are impulsive, and do things like drink too much, and gamble. I know that the dates between "Love Never Dies" and the auction at the beginning of "The Phantom of the Opera are correct because alcoholism causes premature aging, by reducing the amount of collagen, (which is what makes your skin look young) by reducing amount of the antioxidant vitamin A which is important in slowing down the signs of aging
But what Meg said before she shot her sounded JUST like I was feeling by the time I was 16. (added to that my relationship with my sister had gone tough the same stages as Meg and Christine's in "Love Never Dies" the Australian production in the past eight years at the time) but I HADN'T killed anybody. Why? Because our undying love we've had since we were children, for our family (including pets) friends, jobs,our favorite media, hobbies, and interests, and ourselves enables us not to change when change is making our world fall apart around us, even over a period as long as ten years. We are the same people we always were because love never dies that's what misery causing change taught me, and "Love Never Dies" affirmed. When I saw the DVD The blocking for "Please Miss Giry I Want to go Back" made it look like Meg MEANT to shoot Christine. Also she has UNTREATED Bipolar Disorder, and has these symptoms:
1. Feeling unusually "high" and optimistic OR extremely irritable 2. Unrealistic, grandiose beliefs about one's abilities or powers 3. Sleeping very little, but feeling extremely energetic 4. Racing thoughts; jumping quickly from one idea to the next 5. Impaired judgment and impulsiveness 6. Acting recklessly without thinking about the consequences 7. Delusions and hallucinations (in severe cases)
I now know why I didn't kill, because I got the emotional support and love Meg didn't get from "Love Never Dies", and with out it I definitely wouldn't be where I am right now.
Miss Representation (2011)
Destructive
To explain what is wrong with this movie's theory here is the description of my political beliefs from my dating profile:
I like equal rights, but we need to consider EVERYBODY'S rights while fighting for the rights of minorities. The only thing that is excluded from this is Gay Marriage., because it WON'T affect anybody negatively. For example, Wayne Franzen upped the danger in his tiger act, because animal rights groups started to protest circuses, claiming that ALL circuses were abusive, so he had to make more money to keep his circus going, and, so, upped the danger in his tiger act. The result was... he was KILLED BY A TIGER! Did the animal rights groups, mean for him to DIE? NO! THEY just meant to protect animals, which is a GOOD thing. What they didn't consider is that people make their LIVING being in circuses. What they should have done instead is help develop ways to train animals humanly, so that way, there would STILL be circuses, AND animal rights WOULD protected, both sides win!
Fortunately, Wayne Franzen's story is an extreme example, mostly, books and movies get labeled racist, or sexist, or both, because of of progression. This problem is caused by meta analysis, which here means "quantitative statistical analysis that is applied to separate but similar experiments of different and usually independent researchers and that involves pooling the data and using the pooled data to test the effectiveness of the results" (basicly Miss Interpretation) this presents three MAJOR problems:
1. Does not treat characters as real people. (We CAN NOT control what race, sex, or sexual orientation we are born with)
2. Judges whether the creator of the characters mentioned above as a bigot, WITHOUT talking to them. This thanks to the "Twilight Saga" has made this apply to not only creators of classic books (my favorites) who are dead, but also those who are alive. (Which in most cases the creators of the films featured in this documentary ARE alive and should have been interviewed on screen)
3. Ignores the fact this accused media has NOT stopped the progression of human rights, as some EXTREME left people claim it does.
4. The First Amendment says people can create any media that expresses any views Media Literacy can claim it does. and the fact that "Miss Representation" says media HAS TO is unconstitutional and American.
(The fact that the First Amendment is the last thing I think to point out should disturb you, because like Women's Rights the Right to Freedom of Expression is a HUMAN right)
I'll admit it is magical to see a character ALMOST just like you in media, mainly because these people don't know you exist. When a 16-year-old girl said she said the media did not include women like her, I told her a very personal story about my struggle to see myself in media:
My Dad died, setting off a chain of events that didn't seem to match any of the "dead Dad" stories in movies, TV shows, and other media. Not even my favorite novel "The Phantom of the Opera" where the women saves two men, matched my own "dead Dad" story. Thus I felt alone. Then I saw "Saving Mr. Banks" six years after my Dad died, and it matched my "dead Dad" story almost exactly! Finally Hollywood had used it's Right to Freedom of Expression to include a women like me, and now everyone will understand what I went though when I reference "Saving Mr, Banks" I am not alone anymore! If you view enough media, I am POSITIVE you find a woman like YOU too.
I would give all viewers of "Miss Representation" the same advice. Thanks to the Representation Project however if it works I won't be represented in media anymore, because it takes more than one piece of art to represent the human experience. Most of which will get destroyed by the Representation Test or simply because it was written by men. To fight the Representation Project with me use their website's Contact Us page to tell them how male creators of media have represented you, and use #NotBuyingit on them, using the method of analysis I gave you at the start of this review. Use #MeidaWeLike to support media YOU think is feminist even if the Representation Project says it's sexist. Because sexism in media is only do to Miss Interpretation.