YESTERDAY:
i went to work, which was boring and not fun. then, i went home and ate food (work is from 10 to 2, so i eat lunch late on Saturdays). at 4, i went over to otaku's house and we, along with chibi-chan and her youth group (and rachel of course!) went to see a movie. The movie was called 'To Save A Life' and was... ok. it was about this guy and how his childhood friend, who he abandoned for a girl, brought a gun to school and committed suicide. see, his friend walked with a limp because he pushed the protagonist out of the way of a car when they were little, and everyone made fun of him because of it. alone, the kid lost sight of himself and the world, and decided that it would be better to end his unending pain, so one day, he brought a gun to school, fired two shots into the ceiling, and then blew his brains out. the protagonist was, admittedly, rather upset by this (he tried to convince his former friend to put the gun down before he saw the contents of his skull). he met a preacher/youth group officer at at his friend's funeral, and started going to church, thus alienating himself from his 'friends'. he starts reaching out to the people in the youth group, sitting with them at lunch and bringing in other people that need help, when his life basically falls apart. he finds out that his father's cheating scum and his parents are getting a divorce, plus the fact that his (sort of ex-) girlfriend is pregnant with his baby and wants an abortion. the protagonist then has the critical cathartic moment included in every coming-of-age story, and brings his life back together, coming to terms with his parents and convincing his girlfriend to have the baby, supporting her through the pregnancy and putting the baby up for adoption.
the story was pretty good, and the acting was... ok. there was really only one character i really liked, an extremely asian actor playing a boy called (get this) Jonny Garcia. yes, they made the asian kid spanish. Jonny has a pretty screwed-up life, he likes video games and gets mercilessly made fun of because of it. he also hates the school, and draws some pictures of it blowing up. because of that, he gets blamed for a bomb threat in the school and tries to swallow a handful of pills, but the protagonist stops the cops from taking him away and shows them the real threat, another messed-up kid crying out for attention because he wants love. Jonny also like bacon bits on his strawberry ice cream, which, in my book, is awesome. oh, and he asks this girl out in a really cool way. he rings her doorbell, and puts a potted plant frozen in a block of ice and hammer on her doorstep, then hides. when she pulls open the door and gets the flowers out, he steps out from behind a bush and reads off a card 'now that we've broken the ice, will you go out with me?' how awesome is that? (and rachel, if you tell senpai about this, i will know and i will kick you. i'd rather him do the flower thing i mentioned in a previous post!)
yeah, so that was basically it. oh, and there was a good song at the end of the movie, called 'Hero' by Superchick. actually, that song basically tells the story of the movie.
ok, i'll edit this about my day today later. byes!
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