As I said we saw a movie that dealt with the holocaust..atleast partially. Alan J. Pakula's adaptation of the William Styron bestseller, `Sophie's Choice' (1982) shows considerable hubris in reducing an epic tragedy to a paragon moment of melodrama. That gesture already risks an extreme understatement of the horrors that comprised the Holocaust of World War II, an event that the movie takes care to demonstrate was a nightmare afflicting several people besides the Jews. It incorporates one woman's narrative as a survivor of the Holocaust into a larger, crushingly banal story of a young, Southern writer's coming of age in the big city of New York.
The movie by itself was not that great...but the character of Sophie, played by Meryl Streep was very touhcing and ofcourse Streep herself is marvellous. Oh...the movie also has Peter Nichol - a very younf Peter Nichol, with a Southern accent - it was great seeing him in a role besides John Cage in Ally McBeal.
Today in Ebeling's class we were discussing New English literatures...my area of interest....I was the expert amongst the students and I have to say it felt bloody good to be quoting critics and talking about who said what, and what are the features of which author!! Ah....great thanks to Bharucha for teaching the subject so well as to inspire my interest in it and urge me to read more about it and understand it better. I'm still highly ignorant, but I'll get there someday and after today I'm even more encouraged!! :)
Not planned much for today, just studied for a while here at the library. Initally had planned to go to Annika's for baking but I got late, so I came back to the library to study since Saima and Jigi were watching P&P again and I can't see it again so soon!!! Gonna sleep early tonight coz for the Luneberg trip we have to meet at the HBF at 5.45 am!!!YAWN!!!
PS Did some more shopping today...Muhahaha!!!
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