IN RANDOM VIEWS of a city-bred and a promdi.

I saw it sometime 2 weeks ago… Hide and Seek

Summary:

Dr. David
Callaway, a psychologist and a father tries to help his daughter Emily deal with
the trauma of her mother’s death by moving to the countryside. With very few
children in their new neighborhood, Emily creates an imaginary friend named
Charlie. Unfortunately, this imaginary
friend turns out not to be make-believe who caused the death of the people visiting
the house. At the end of the movie, this
imaginary friend turns out to be her own father whom the story suggests to be
suffering from split personality disorder. Emily soon finds out that her father
killed her own mother after he caught her cheating on him with another man.

My Reaction:

I
doubt if there is really mental disorder involved because if there is such - it
was purely clandestine. Dr. Callaway’s
mental disorder started abruptly- right after he saw his wife cheating on
him.  Split personality doesn’t happen over night,
with only a premise that the person saw his wife cheating.   Cuckoldry
may be depressing but not enough reason that it can translate to madness. The title Hide
and Seek might not only apply to Emily playing the so-called game with
her imaginary friend. The director and
screenwriter may also have the objective of playing hide and seek with the
audience of the film. It could be that the seeking lies
on the hands of the audience - to judge for themselves if it was for real that
Dr. Callaway is mentally ill or the director & screenwriter are
just playing a game with us… that is, hiding Dr. Callaway’s fraudulent act of insanity to plead not guilty if caught.

Nahhhhhhh.  I’d go for the latter.

My God… my brain is swelling.  It was one of my rare bonding moments with my baby bro Nick, and our favorite bonding time… movies.  Sadly, it could’ve have been one of those memorable moments we had in our rockwell days - like when we saw Anger Management that got us almost into tears laughing.

It was one of Sydney Pollack’s routine.  That is using Big Hollywood Stars to make it saleable.  Too bad these superstars (that we fall in love with in their best-selling films) fall into it as long as they are working with what they think is a flawless-big-boss-hollywood-most-powerful-cannot-be-rejected-kind-of-guy like Pollack who wastes his movies and lowers the tier of bright careers like Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn.  And he did the same thing to Harrison Ford in an ugly movie which he also directed (I forgot the title).  He lacks modernity, he is dull, he is boring.  He should be coached by Clint Eastwood, who despite the old age does not translate to bore-galore movies.

The Interpreter wasted our time.  Wasted people’s time.  All of us at the moviehouse were slouching lazily, can’t wait for the movie to end.  We had to finish it to compensate our money’s worth.  We should’ve seen a different movie Arghhhh. 

I didn’t get enough sleep.  I kept thinking about my interview in UP College of Law yesterday.  Today, I had intermittent sleep (30 mins then wake up..3 hours awake… then 2 hours asleep..then sleep…  then wake up… then sleep.. then wake up… the whole day).  We talked about my parents being atenean lawyers and my high grades but not a high rank in the LAE.  I introduced myself and I was so unfortunate to find out that the opinionated chairman in the panel is a fellow Ilocano.  He asked me if I could relate Ilocano songs to the law profession(?)… What on earth?!? Then it went to President Marcos to the Marcos Children.  I didn’t know if i did okay.  At times they had no reaction, there were moments they smiled, at some point they laughed (and I really felt stupid).  I can’t sleep because I have no idea if I made it… usually when we’re over with an interview we already have a hunch if we did okay or not… but in this case I don’t.  My performance was fluctuating between high (too good) & low (too bad) the whole duration - so I really can’t tell what side of the extremes they will value more.  The last part - the longest topic we talked about was on Q: "Why didn’t you apply to Ateneo when yor parents went to Ateneo?"  It seems they were not convinced with my initial answers because, well, they sound cliche: I am a UP Graduate.  I wasn’t raised to love Ateneo (and interrupts: What do you exactly mean by that?  You mean to say you were raised to love UP? — and they all laughed)… I said:  "Yes. Unintentionally (I just hope they got what I mean by "unintentionally").  I was enrolled here.  I stayed here for four years in College.  I favor the kind of education it has given me." 

But still they were not convinced.  They kept asking:  But why not apply to Ateneo? Or San Beda?  Then a young male panelist asked:  "If after four years in UP Law, you, all of a sudden flunk.  What would you do?"  I said:  "I’d take sometime to think on the wisest course of action to take outside lawschool."  Then a follow-up from him:  "Wouldn’t you still consider a law degree in other law schools?"  Then I said:  "Yes, I’d still consider.  What I really want, is to be a L A W Y E R, regardless of what school I come from."  <– That answer was contradicting my previous statements that prompted him to ask:  But you just said you just want to go to U.P. (BANG!!! I quaked in my shoes!)

Ma’am Beth Pangalanan was already shaking her head reacting antagonistically — I take that as a negative, but Prof. Disini, the chairman was kind enough to signal her to stop reacting to me that way (She was the bad cop probably).  Then Mr. Chairman said:  Ms. Corpuz, just answer the question.

I do not know where it came from.  All I know it didn’t come from my "consciousness."

"Yes.  I know I can still be a lawyer in other lawschools.  But what I want… is to be the best lawyer that I can be!  And I can only do that,… by studying in the UP College of Law. "

All of them were silent.  Neither frowned… nor smiled.  But I had their full attention.

In seconds, Mr. Chairman said: Thank you Ms. Corpuz.

Was it good? Was it bad? I don’t know. 
(My fingers crossed until now… time to pray the rosary).