It's been a while! I've been wanting to post something yet I haven't had something exciting or significant to write about. Like usual, my fingers start to type a lot just right after midnight. I'm starting to think I might be possessed every midnight with an actual ghost-writer (no pun intended). I'm really supposed to be writing my assignment right now but this is more important at the moment!!!

Anyways, what have I been doing for the last couple of weeks? Since university term has started, yes, I'm quite busy with upcoming assignments and lectures. Especially since there are some courses that tend to give me quite a homework almost every week (you know who you are). I haven't even baked a lot lately since I have no time :( 

So hear me out: a part of me wants to talk about the movie Salo (or 120 Days of Sodom) but I'm afraid I might get depressed after thinking about that movie again. Another part of me wants to write about other things but I can't decide what things to write. So I'll just talk about Salo for a bit. Pray I'll be able to sleep well tonight.

As you may know, I'm a Saw aficionado, I literally live by his words. Well not by killing and torturing people, but more by respecting every second in my life. Despite everybody else's remarks for this particular obsession of mine (yes, I did watch Saw 1-7 marathon with my housemates, we could've done it in one day but because we had to get some food, it was just not possible, so we did it in 2 days), I love this movie. I don't care about the blood and violence, the movie has its own philosophy, and I love it. One day, one of my friends came along to my house and started talking about this movie Salo, which I've never heard of. He said it was one of the scariest movies ever made. It is a story about Fascist leaders in Salo (it's a town in Italy), who had nothing else to do and decided to take 9 attractive boys and 9 beautiful girls and then torture them physically, mentally, sexually, and psychologically. My sensation-seeking instincts excitedly told me to watch it, of course. Challenge accepted. 

Last Wednesday, I went to my friend's house to watch Salo on blu-ray. After watching Salo, I was speechless. I couldn't figure out the philosophy of that movie. Brilliant. Different from Saw, which made me empathise Jigsaw / John Kramer because I understand his motives, I just couldn't grip this one. Salo was just an extremely depressing movie, making you lose faith in humanity. Then I realised, there ARE some people who do things like that - torturing people for FUN, as in, because they have nothing else to do. Judging the movie from a cinematographic point of view (not that I'm an expert or anything), it was okay. Not so graphic until the last scenes of the movie. Rather brilliant really, to think that Salo was made in 1975, where movie editing wasn't exactly near Transformers movies or anything. It was just very simple, with alright acting. 

The only thing that bugged me terribly was the IDEA of the story. Seriously, how could ANYONE make a movie so depressing? Without depressing music background, or depressed people crying under the rain (such Hollywood cliche). The songs are beautiful actually, the type of songs you might hear in a cafe. The settings aren't dark and gloomy, either, it was bright and colourful. You just can't see the depression, you FEEL it. Which, in my opinion, was way worse. I was so depressed after watching that movie, it took me 5 days to actually get a grip and try to write it down. Like my friend said, if he watches this movie one more time, he'll hate everyone in the world. I felt that same feeling. I've never felt so depressed by watching a movie. 

To anyone who is a sensation seeker like me, or just enjoy watching sick movies like me, you might want to watch this ONCE. More than once and I can just tell how sick you are. This is a movie that I'm glad I've watched (instead of just being curious about it, right?), but I swear I'll never watch again ever in my life. I don't want to recommend this to anyone, though. You know the consequences. 

Now I just want to go to sleep, because my parents are coming tomorrow! :D Surprising? I know, I was surprised too. It was a very sudden trip, indeed. They'll be staying for a week though so I don't really mind. Alrighty, have a good night (or...morning if I have to say), people!