The Quiet

i feel sick.

not sick sick, but sick-to-my-stomach sick.

i just watched this on HBO.


"The Quiet".

honestly, that was probably one of the most disturbing movies i've ever seen. no, it's not gore. it's not gruesomely disturbing. it's a totally different genre.

it's thought-provoking. very.

this is one movie that one should never watch when you're down. because let me just say, you'll suffocate. believe me. i didnt start watching this with a heavy heart. all i was doing, was channel surfing. then i landed on hbo. elisha cuthbert and camilla belle was on it. i thought i'd check the movie out before flipping back to channel 5 to watch Criminal Minds.

i never got around to watching that at all.

an invisble line had completely reeled me in to the movie. i couldnt take my eyes off the screen or my butt off the couch, as much as i wanted to. i was stuck on it. ironically, it was actually a good movie. really. all it had was this silent intensity that lingered in the air.

that's also what made it depressing. not the movie but the story. not the actresses but the characters. yeah, i smelt the fear, alright. both characters had such distinctiveness about them...it really makes you think about the situation when you watch them. or at least, it did to me. what made it even more depressing and disturbing, was that we've actually read and seen articles like this story on newspapers. that's what's sad about it. that we still read about it sometimes.

okay, woah. i dont get affected by movies often. NOT counting the times when i thought i could shoot webs from my wrists after watching Spiderman I. and II. ok fine. and III. but only because i still cant. dang. or the time when i imagined that it'd be okay for me to fight with anyone after the Karate Kid. after all, i thought i mastered the skill of waxing on and off(you gotta have to have watched the film to get me. heh) pretty well. mmmmhm.

but this movie? wow. i should've just stuck to watching The Mighty Ducks kick some ass on the ice-hockey ring on Disney isntead. tsk.

or maybe, i just need to sleep. going to bed at 5am wasnt quite an ideal thing to do. hm. yes. maybe that's it. ineedtosleep.

just a brief sypnosis of what The Quiet is really all about. picture this.

a deaf and mute girl (Dot) gets adopted into a family. she hopes to remain invisble. one day, she discovers a secret. her new father and his daughter(Nina) have something going on and it's completely wrong. not that Nina wants it. everyday, Nina tells Dot about her sinister plans of murdering her father on that particular night. only because a part of her feels that Dot cant hear a thing, and yet another part of her hopes that Dot can. but Dot cant hear a thing...or can she?

Dot has a choice to make. prevent the murder? be an accomplice? or continue shutting out the rest of the world and pretend not to know? what about... being the murderer?

now you think.

i'm going to bed to dream about chocolates and christmas trees.