Movie Weekend: The Beauty of Eccentricities

ec·cen·tric·i·ty

ˌek-(ˌ)sen-ˈtri-sə-tē\

: the quality of being strange or unusual in behavior

: an act or habit that is strange or unusual

definition from Merriam Webster Dictionary

Ever since the semestral break began, I've been catching up to a lot of shows and films that I've missed for the past few months. Recently, I was able to catch two films both revolving on a similar theme: eccentricties.

The first film is Notes of a Scandal starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett. Its a story about the obsession grown by a lonely History professor played by Judi Dench ( whose constant companion was her cat and her diary) over the new professor (played by Blanchett) especially when the former discovered the latter's affair with a student.

Dench's creepiness will absolutely get into any viewer's nerves as her character perceives the friendship she has with Blanchett's character as love. What would you have done if you had a friend like hers? 

This movie somehow reminded me of the movie The Roommate starring Leighton Meester however I find this movie to be more brilliant and I presume that this movie was also the same inspiration to The Roommate. 





 The next movie I saw was Vampires (2011) directed by Shunji Iwai. No this is not a Twilight-like not The Vampire Diaries kind of movies. Its an interesting take on the definition of the word "Vampire" or a person who drains out a person's blood. 

This movie stars Kevin Zegers or more popularly known as Damien from Gossip Girl with appearances from Kristin Kreuk (Smallville, Beauty and the Beast) and Michelle Williams (Never Let You Go, The Great Gatsby).

Although the movie starts off very slow eventually the characters and the story are slowly established. Although there was a part of the movie that had interesting camera angles which I presume to be a mistake which was only known during post- production, maybe the director just proceeded with it.

Its an interesting story. As a viewer, its encouraging to see how Scott Williams (Zegler's character) establish some redemption however just when his character develops some goodness, its saddening to have all his secrets to be discovered by his obsessive girlfriend. Lesson of the story: Don't ever date a sociopath if you don't want your secrets to be unveiled.

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Seeing these movies successively, it made me think of the beauty of each other's eccentricities. Although a lot of them are viewed as "abnormal", I'm a believer that each one of us has their own weirdness to accept or in Filipino we say, "Kanya-kanyang trip lang yan. Walang basagan ng trip." I just find them beautiful and just learning to embrace them.