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A Month In Bedlam #char

Ola! How's your 2018 so far, guys? We were just celebrating the holidays a few weeks ago/ last December '17 and then voila-- within the next 24-48 hours, we'll be saying goodbye to January '18. Are you ready to pour your hearts out for February especially on the 14th? 😂

I've been dawdling (not so much) the past couple of weeks after I decided to quit my two-year BPO work. It wasn't easy to leave the company especially the co-workers that became my special pals at some point. I'll not go into details to avoid breach, drama, and questions that I don't want to retort. Besides, I want my first entry for this year to be as auspicious as possible. If you notice, I rarely post here on my blog as I admit, I'm not upscale in writing. It will take a huge effort on my part before I can come up with a good  topic/s to thrash out. Please bear with me if I write something here that doesn't suit your whim, you can freely get out of this page or don't read at all. Kidding! ☮

To cut the crap, the reason why I'm writing right now is just to promote (I don't have the guts yet to do a sponsored post, hihi!) Jordan Peele's Get Out flick and Call Me By Your Name at the helm of Luca Guadagnino. I've watched Get Out twice and it's still giving me chills. It's a suspense-thriller (sort of social satire, too) starring British actor, Daniel Kaluuya as the protagonist; a black man with a white girlfriend played by Allison Williams whom he eventually found out that his ladylove and her family/ clan has the fixation with black people yet in a very sinister means. The movie already premiered in the US last year and getting positive reviews from the movie jury and critics. The trailer is shown/ hyperlinked on the two posters below: 

Poster 1 - CTTO

Poster 2 - CTTO
Call Me By Your Name is certainly deserving of all the hype it's gaining up to this day. It's a story of a 17-year old guy, Elio, (played by Timothee Chalamet) who falls in love with his father's archaeological student/ intern, Oliver (Armie Hammer). The movie is not just about lust and desire that evolves between the two lads; it set one hand's to on how far you can go for love regardless of gender/ any circumstances. Elio and Oliver will also take you back in time when we had our first love and first heartbreak experience. One of my favorite scenes is when Elio speaks with his parents but they already knew everything beforehand about him and Oliver. They're a doting and unconventional type of parents that I almost think that if all the parents were just like them in reality, an LGBT+Q child could be him/ herself completely and free-- no unfair judgment. Apart from the story and the characters' chemistry, this flick is a masterpiece as well because of its cinematography and film scoring. 

Call Me By Your Name (and I call you by mine, yihaaa! 😍😍) - CTTO

So, what have you've been doing during your ample time, friends? Regardless of what it is, do it with all your heart and don't let anyone rain on your parade. Still wishing us all a (belated) happy new year indeed! 💗

Cheerio,
Joris 🙌
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