The Phantom of the Opera

Whew, haven't written in like 2 weeks.
The previous week had been so super draining. Squeezed out all my brain juice thinking up essays. It was really difficult.
I watched "The Phantom of the Opera"movie on Sunday. It was super nice!!!I mean, I'd been touched and all when reading the library book my sis borrowed on the musical(there was a script inside), but watching it was a whole different experience. Thanks to my sis I was rather familiar with all the songs. It was such a tragic story..a tragic life of the Phantom. Disfigured, deserted by his mother, loathed by the world, turned away... And that last scene, after he asked Raoul to take Christine away and leave him alone, he looked at his mask and sang Masquerade softly to himself. It was so sad. And then Christine returned to return him the ring that he'd given her. He told her he loved her. He loved her and yet he would never get the love he so yearned for.
I think the movie was great. As in great content and artistic and all. Flashing between the past and present. And I think the last cemetery scene was newly added. When Raoul bid the monkey(made by the Phantom; sought after by another lady whom I suspect is Meg. couldn't be madam giry cos Raoul was so old Giry must have died.) and placed it at Christine's tomb(or headstone, whatever), he noticed a ring with a stalk of rose through it. The Phantom's ring. The rose was a symbol of his. What does that mean?

The Phantom is quite good-looking, actually. I find him a little familiar. You know why? He's actually Gerard Butler who took part in Tomb Raider2 as well as the Spartan war epic 300!





P.S. I'm reading Fearless FBI now. Dunno if I should do this cos to me the end of the Fearless series is an ending in itself, if you know what i mean. It's like Jake's dead and Gaia has decided to leave NYC forever, never to see Ed Fargo again..going elsewhere to start a new life. Then in this new series she graduates from Stanford and joins the FBI. I'm just staring the book, so I don't know yet, but I think she's getting drawn to this other trainee called William Taylor.
How do I say this? Hmm..it doesn't feel right for her to fall for someone else after Jake died to save her. I mean, of course if you love a person you'd want her to be happy, even if that means for her to love someone else. But there's just this feeling of betrayal, you know? I'm scared this'll be like Sweet Valley University-I'll Never Love Again: Nike sacrifices for Jessica. Though he didn't die but he had to give up his life in the place where he grew up in and stay away to keep Jessica safe. Yes, the parting scene was so heart-wrenching and tear-jerking and my heart just broke, but then in the end Jessica, after grieving and all, went back to her firtacious ways. Sigh.