Monday, October 29, 2012

Free time and past entries (part 15)

This was one my entries about book on  10/29/2012

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*****Sinful night*****


Sinful night

Tonight I have just finished reading Repossessed (just before the Easter Sunday party of choir) and also Kurap by Ronald Bertubin. It’s a Christmas night today technically speaking, but I chose to deviate again from the usual flow, so to speak.

Repossessed is about “fallen” who wished to experience the life of a normal human and consider it as an untimely break from his rather imposed job in hell. There a lot of things to ponder about in book. And frankly, it has so much humor in it that you can help your self with a chuckle or two. Having said that, I want to point out that things do the way we want it to be. It’s an affirmation that God really gave us free will and we humans, complicate it too much because of your callowness and foolishness. Life is what we perceive it to be. And if you are pointing out that I am basing it on pure perception, well absolutely yes! When life gives you lemons, you can’t just make lemonade, there tarts, pies, sweetened lemon, and not to mention vodka and a nice warm soak for the feet. Life is not just about choices. It also about how you think the way things work. It’s not just about values but also how you are compelled to go with things because it’s your choice to start with. If want to end it, you may do so. It’s you life anyway.


Kurap tried to depict a zealous sordid life in Manila specifically in Quiapo. The main characters were depicted as people with questionable values in life. They know the tolls that can aid them to survive the urban jungle are to use treachery, deceit, and lust to come up with temporary solutions to their mundane passed mundane existence in this world. This is my dubious way of perceiving the movie just based on pure visual presentation of tits and humongous breast exposure from time to time.  First of all, the story lacks a fluid continuum from the first arc to the next. Secondly, the people just cuss that wanton misuse of the word makes it too cringing for my taste. And lastly, what thesis are they reall portraying. It’s so ambiguous for me. 


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