This is my life now. Getting up for the purpose to do what you’re supposed to have passion for, which turns out to be such a pain. University. Media and Communication courses. Nevertheless, like other average person out there, we go to university because we’re supposed to, not because we want to learn. But to take authority in doing what we are supposed to in order to do what we want is cruical to my ritual as a media practitioner.

Having been enrolled in “Finding the Ear” studio is such a luck for me. I wanted to study the cinema and the filming bodyworks and its industry. So the first week of my second year was familiar. It is like being a new uni student in each course, but not really because you have already done this before. I guess I’ll just have to get used to it and see what happens as another year will pass like it did in a blink. But summer was awesome! Being in Bali while rushing to catch up on all the Oscars nominated films before the ceremony is like the heaven version of studying media. No such thing as official assignment. Period. But let’s be honest here, we’re not supposed to do this but we can’t help it anyway. Movie piracy is BIG in Bali, Indonesia. Even if you can avoid it, some movies aren’t even distributed it local cinemas, making us having to buy these movies to watch it anyway.

But during this holiday I have finally got to watch Room by an inspiring director, Lenny Abrahamson to create such a unique drama/thriller film. It is an adaptation of a book of the same name by Emma Donoghue. It is a film about a captive held in an enclosed and isolated room for seven years, being a victim of abduction. She was pregnant then and had a seven year old son never seeing the world outside and finally escaped to see it for the first time. What got me interested in this film is that despite its genre, the film is portrayed mostly in the child’s point of view and presented in his childish voice over as he narrates his perceptions. The film became a unique up-lifting presentation of the harsh-reality of thrilling world.

Another great film that had opened my eyes over the holidays is The Danish Girl, director by Tom Hooper. The film that made me cry after The Notebook (2004). Just because it reminded me of Caitlyn Jenner. It also got me thinking, is gender the same is sexuality?