Movie Review: Malice in Wonderland

Hey look!  It's the movie review I promised a couple days ago.  Well you know what they say... better late than never.

So for the inaugural !Movie Review! I decided on Malice in Wonderland, a gritty thriller set in --what else could it possibly be-- a place called Wonderland.

!Trailer!

There's been so many Alice in Wonderland adaptations over the years that this film directed by Simon Fellows may seem on surface to be just another pebble on the mountain.  But the fantastical, hazy mood of the movie (almost as if you were the one who had amnesia), keeps viewers on the edge of their seats and questioning the motives of every character.

The film starts off with American Law Student Alice, played by Maggie Grace, running from two well-dressed thugs through London's Underground.  Ever the picture of saintliness, Alice pauses from running for her life and gives a bag lady some change as payment for useless, vague directions.

After frantically running about for a couple more minutes, Alice finally resurfaces only to be hit by a cab driven by a sketchy guy named Whitey.  That's where the fun begins.

"Insanity is not a plea, it's a way of life!" - Harry Hunt

Whitey, portrayed by Danny Dyer, picks up the unconscious Alice from the middle of the road and may have very well have left her there if not for two over-concerned citizens who threaten to call the po-po.  Disgruntled, because he's very late for an important date, Whitey throws Alice in to the back seat like a sack of potatoes.  When Alice awakens and complains of a headache and amnesia, Whitey acts even more questionably by rifling through a bag of drugs to give her some pills ambiguously labeled "For My Head."

The rest of the movie follows Alice through Wonderland and her efforts to remember exactly who she is.  The Wonderland of this film is a much different version than the Disney animated version and is very NC17.  For example, the Queen of Hearts is not a ill-tempered fat woman but an actually flaming, homosexual queen.  You can pretty much guess how the other characters are portrayed by that one example.



Overall I would give this film 4 out of 5 stars and recommend it to anyone who is looking for a "grown-up" film that isn't purely sex or dirty humor.

Laziness

So guys, I really was going to do the first !Movie Review! tonight but then I decided that I'm too lazy.  Guess you'll just have to wait until tomorrow, or Wednesday... or whenever.

I'm busy this week.  Seriously, I thought last night that this week was going to be easy.  I was like "Okay, I can do this.  Sure I have a physics exam Thursday which I'm going to fail, but whatever."  I knew in the back of my head that I had chem homework due Friday, but Friday is thousands of miles away from Monday!

But it's like someone dropped a pile of work on top of my head today.  Now I have calculus homework that's due Sunday (I'll probably do it Sunday morning), several events I have to attend on Wednesday evening, a committee meeting Thursday afternoon, an eye doctor appointment Friday afternoon, Open House and a Dodgeball tournament to work Saturday.

On top of it all, tomorrow is the only day that I'm able to sleep in.  But now I have to wake up at 8:30, my normal waking-up-time, to enroll in courses for next semesters so I'm not locked out.  Not fair.

AND THESE STUPID ADSENSE ADS AREN'T SHOWING UP!

<3 Mandy

I'm Sorry Mother, I'm... anemic!

So... I'm like 99% sure that I'm anemic.

I've always been a little iron deficient.  I can remember being a small child and having my pediatrician tell my mother to buy Flintstones chewable vitamins with extra iron.  And every time I've tried to donate blood like a good citizen, I've been viciously turned away because my iron level was too low.  (That's okay, I hate needles anyway.)

Seriously though, I'm showing all the signs.  I'm paler than my normal vampire-like pale (sorry I still don't sparkle), my lips are abnormally light for my "coloration," my short term memory is shot, I'm irritable as if I'm pmsing, and I'm dead exhausted all the time.  ALL THE TIME!

I'll sleep until noon because it's a Saturday and two hours later I'll be tired again.  Then I'll sleep until noon because it's a Sunday and it'll be just like Saturday all over.  Except I can't sleep until noon on a Monday.

I'm not sleep deprived; I'm not pulling all-nighters or partying all night.  Sure, I might not go to sleep until 1:30, but I wake up at 8:30.  That's seven hours of sleep.  I got that much sleep throughout all of high school and never felt like I do now.

How do I feel?  Well for the first couple of hours after I wake up, I'm good:  I'm not hyper or anything, but I'm definitely not tired.  And then everything starts to blur.  I start to forget what I'm taking notes for and stare vacantly at what the professor is writing on the blackboard.  I'll write down the definitions in very sloppy handwriting and then stare in to space.

And the irritableness!  My god, the irritableness!  I get pissed at every little thing.  It doesn't take much for someone to get on my bad side these days and every sleight is blown out of proportion.  I get angry at my physics homework (which I don't like even when I'm healthy) and become enraged when I realize that a problem has five parts.  I start to imagine showing up at my physic professor's office and telling him "calculate the velocity of this!" and throwing the textbook at him.  Depending on how tired I am, I might try to calculate the odds that I would get arrested for such an act.

Luckily though, I bought supplementary iron pills from Walmart today.  Hopefully this will get better soon, because I have less than a month until finals week.

<3 Very Tired Mandy

Physics (Blah)

Yeah I know I just made my introduction post like ten minutes ago, but I felt I needed this to be posted.

Physics is like my worst subject. There's probably multiple reasons but the biggest is that I just can't be bothered to actually put effort in to it.  Guess who's going to be pulling all-nighters during finals week?

Physics is the only final I'm really worried about.  Chemistry I'm okay with mostly because I don't fail every exam like I do in Physics.  I'll definitely have to study for chem though because I feel that we've covered a lot of material this semester and I won't remember it all.

I'm doing surprisingly well in Calculus for someone who has never taken it before.  It it because my calc professor is the most easygoing?  Or is it because I'm just that good?  I think the latter.

As a engineering major, my college has me take physics, chemistry and calculus.  All at the same time.  I found out that there's only seven other universities in the country that make their freshmen do that, and they're all Ivy League!  Oh my gosh not fair!

Whatever.  I chose this school and I chose this major in hopes that I would have a job when I graduate.

<3  Mandy

Introduction (Boo homework)

Well here's my new blog!

I'm very excited to be starting this and I hope that everyone who reads my blog will find this interesting.  Mostly I'll be blogging about college life and movies.  Because Netflix is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

A little about me:

I'm a college kid; a freshman, so I'm a little busy at times and can forget to update.  Like, I'm supposed to be doing Physics homework right now, or at least starting Chemistry, but the internet is my favorite form of procrastination!

My major is Chemical Engineering and I'm thinking of doing a Sustainable Energy Systems minor.

So yeah... I'm very busy right now!  Hopefully though I will be able to keep up on this and post a couple times a week at the very least!

<3 Mandy