September
14, 2002
"i'm lost..."
Listening to: Vivaldi - Four Seasons
Reading: or read - Harry Potter: Prisoner of
Azkaban
It was a useless Saturday. I didn't even leave my room much. I
was teetering on the edge of boredom. I had already finished reading Emperor Of Ocean Park
(magnificent read, my first law-related novel), so to evade the incoming attack I spent
the day rereading the third Harry Potter book, because I remembered it being my favourite
in the HP series.
Now I need something new to read. I think I'll scavenge the huge shelves in my living room. I know I haven't devoured everything interesting on it yet.
Oh, I remember what I wanted to write about now, yesterday I didn't mention that I watched Lilo and Stitch before getting my guitar. Movies here come out pretty late.
It was a great Disney, I'm glad to see they've somewhat broken free from their usual stereotyped characters. Sure, some characters in Lilo and Stitch are one-dimensional but that's how most animated movies work. The bad guys don't need to explain why they're bad, they just are.
The scene that really stuck with me (yes, I'm going to elaborate) even till now (me, of the one-inch long memory span) is the one where Stitch read The Ugly Duckling. On one page, the duckling was in tears in the dark forest, and the cartoon bubble read "I'm lost". The next page showed the duckling embraced by his loving swan family in typical fairytale joy.
Then Stitch climbed out the bedroom window and headed to the forest, determined that the book had the solution he needed. He found a spot in the forest similar to that in the book, lay the book down at that page, and looked around him. In one of his rare moments of speech, he heartbreakingly whispered something, then said it louder.
"I'm lost..."
It even echoed, in Disney-emphasis.
Then he waited.
God, I really loved that scene. It just... well, to be all-out cheesy, it tugged at my
heartstrings.