The End is Near...

Now that mine paper is done, I'm sitting here and checking my e-mail for what seems like every hour lol. Finals is always a pain because you study as hard as you can or write what you think is the best paper and then sit back and wait...and wait...and wait until what seems like eternity with some classes. The problem with finals is that their all at different times so some classes make us wait longer then others and after a certain point your brain shuts down, refusing to absorb anymore information, leaving up a creek. At this point I have two more finals to go, both tomorrow, and I CANNOT STUDY! I realize every time I look at the clock that time is running out but my brain won't slow down to study. Argh, I can't wait till 4 o'clock tomorrow when everything is all said and done.

Finishing Papers

You ever get that feeling of hopelessness once you get near the end of a feeling, like its not going to be your best paper. Getting near the end of the semester, you get papers and finals for all your classes and sometimes, a paper doesn't work out the way you want it to but unfortunaelty it's too late and their is nothing you can do but hope for the best. Throughout this semester, I've gotten all my work in on time and pretty decent grades. Let's hope that I'm just paranoid and this blog is just a figment of my imagination.

Writing Papers

Writing my paper tonight I noticed a trend that I sometimes have. When I'm writing a paper on short notice, I sometimes have a short period were I can write continously for over a page. I'll literally just be constantly writing without needing to pause and think about what I need to say. I find it refreshing to be able to have free floating ideas come together without having to pause to write them in a readable format. Just thought I'd throw this out there.

You are Not an Orphan...Kinda

I was rewatching You are Not an Orphan and I realized one thing. No matter how hard I tried, I could never get an accurate list of their names nor how many of them there were. And when I say I tried, I paused in certain spots, especially the ending about 15 times (I'm kind of a stubborn person lol).

Besides that I realized that this film seems to full of Soviet ideals of equality and "brotherhood". If you think about it, the progress the children make is towards becoming a good Soviet citizen by working together. Anytime the children work together, they can accomplish anything. But whenever someone is selfish because they are starving (like Vanya) or whenever they complain about the horrible living conditions (like Renat) they become an immediate outcast. They are essentially antagonists because they go against the grain. When Dzidra complains about her mother not being around, there is no one to comfort her, just more children saying they have the same things problems. The equality within this movie almost seems too much like a Soviet allegory. No matter what your race is, you will eventually become equals under the Communist Party.

As you can obviously tell, I've been thinking way too much about this movie, but considering I'm running out of time, might as well get the thinking out of the way.

P.S. I truly don't believe that a real Soviet guard would have allowed those children to leave that day after they all got "arrested".But maybe that's just me.