It has been almost three years since I graduated from high school and to be honest, besides a few friends and a class or two, I am really glad I don't have to go through it again. Although it's the having friends that I really miss even though I ended up losing a lot of friends over the years. My lone year of college did not get me any long term friends like I expected and I still don't have any really besides my ex-girlfriend anymore. It gets really boring and lonely without having anyone to really talk to these days, which is exacerbated by how it is hard for me to talk to people altogether. Just one of those ruts that might take a while before I break out of it.
So on the subject of high school, I only was part of one extracurricular activity, mainly due to how boring study period was getting and I needed some sort of escape. That ended up being academic decathlon, which at the time I joined, was starting up at my school after not being active for quite a few years. I was a late addition as well, joining only about a week or so before the first competition. I also was filling in a hole that the team needed due to my grades being good enough to get in but being kind of an example of how much of a stereotypical underachiever I was. Well in that year and the next, we made it to regionals but never got any farther. My scores were not that great usually, (especially when it came to the speech parts, again due to my lack of social skills) but I did do decently in the writing parts so there is something to hold up.
So why am I talking about academic decathlon in what was meant to be a semi-review of Return to Oz? Well, after losing out again, the study period for ac dec ended up becoming just a regular study period with just being able to hang out with friends more freely, which I liked. And at the end of the year, where there was really not much to do cause of finals, the ac dec coach decided to have us watch the movie. To talk about him, he was a cool guy, not really the stereotypical "cool" teacher as if he was trying to be that. He was just kind of that guy who was someone students could relate to yet he did have some form of respect that you have for those in a superior role, and to be honest, one of those people I could kind of see being friends with outside of high school.
So to get back to him having us watch the movie, and as a spoiler to some of the review, with the period not being long enough to watch the entire movie, it will be obvious that I did not watch it all. I didn't get to watch any of the beginning up to Dorothy's escape from the mental hospital and stopped right before the reveal of who the girl who helped Dorothy escape really was. Never mind, I don't remember much about the plot of the movie but most of the visuals stuck with me so I don't think I could do a good review of the movie after all. There was always this sense of dread throughout the movie, a sort of darkness that I had to appreciate very much, as it was the first time I had heard of the movie and was kind of struck by how different the tone was compared to the Wizard of Oz, but that was probably to be expected due to the number of years apart the movies were separated by. The effects were really well done, as is my fascination with stop motion that is to be expected. It was really enjoyable which I kind of regret not having watched the movie since.
I don't know if I will ever get myself to watch the movie again. It almost seems like a dumb thing to say because I remember liking it and even looked up trying to get it for a short while after. Maybe it is because it holds kind of a soft place in my heart and memories as being one of the last things I ended up spending time with my close friends on. Friends I really haven't talked to in almost as long a time as that day was. Maybe it is dumb of me to hold that movie in sort of a pedestal like that for no real reason. I should get some new friends and try to make some new memories to enjoy but it just seems like one of those things that may not happen soon. Just how things go, I guess.
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