Saturday, May 16, 2009
Been thinking a lot
Anyway, watched Angels and Demons yesterday. I thought it was quite awesome, but Jul and LiLi don't exactly understand the movie. I get it, because the movie is fast moving and did not explain much in details regarding the different churches. I remembered reading the books almost 3 years ago and find this more interesting than Da Vinci Code (and Yiwen understands why the moment I told her that), because I thought that this story is more fast moving. Da Vinci Code is a little too explanatory, especially when it gets to the back when Langdon and Reenu were in Leigh Teabing's house, trying to explain Mary Madgelene. The action only starts after that part, which is already halfway through the book.
This story shows the lifelong debate of whether is Science trying to play god. I remembered in Soci class, during the religion chapter, we said that religion provides answers to the uncertainties in our lives, eg the afterlife, what happens between the limbo of life and death, and the various explanations of events that happened to us (karma, previous life etc). Maybe science is an answer of our curiousity, which is manifested the moment when Eve decided to take a bite out of the apple when she was told not to. And religion is our answer to the unknown. And science and religion will maybe never gel with each other.
Contrary to other Dan Brown's novels (esp the deception code), this book has nothing to do with the actual nitty gritty details of science (except the part of anti matter, which is already light enough for normal readers), but everything to do with history. I love old victorian age kind aof things (which is why I am still reading Pride and Prejudice), old history because it is so intriguing. This books also affirms me that how much I want to go to Europe!
Oh yeah, back to the movie. It is okay, kinda interesting movie. I am starting to think that movie remakes of book adaptions are never going to be as good as reading the book, especially those thick books (think Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoneix). But I have high expectations of the movie, because simply it was directed by Ron Howard, who directed A Beautiful Mind and the recent Frost/ Nixon. Love Evan Mcgregor because somehow I think that he was like super good looking in this movie. Haha... But they missed out one crucial part in the book, such as the part that the late Pope was the father of Evan through IVF, causing the Pope who wants a child badly to love sciene and caused Evan to hate science...
Sigh, I wish I can be reading books all my life without doing anything else... And I am starting to itch to read Twlight series...
Now aiming for Night at the Museum 2, hopefully with zoe and jul, who I watched with for the first movie. And Transformers.... Harry Potter... Haha..
Anyway, thanks to Linda who bought me taiwanese strawberry masks! Lazy to take a picture to show here though... Within a couple of months, my mask collections just went up! Now waiting for my Laneige strawberry yogurt mask... and maybe other laneige items flying in...
K, back to thinking what I should do, along with Man Utd vs Arsenal match. Looking forward to my off day on the Champions League final.
P.S. Both of my faves are in for American Idol Finale! But I want Adam to win! =D
Cheerios. xoxo
P.S. Who's the copycat now? =D