Filtered

I have recently watched Dunkirk and I think my love for Christopher Nolan is manifesting in a way that I never knew it could. I loved Inception but it was more like a one-time kind of affair but after Dunkirk, I might start anticipating his next movies as well. My review could be biased because I have massive love for Mark Rylance.

But I'm not here to profess my love for Dunkirk but as I had promised before, I feel like talking about the 'filtering' routine that I have been doing for the past year. I'm going to focus it on the things I indulge - as in literature and entertainment part of it. 

I have decided to filter the things I read/watch/listen to because I don't like how it's not helping me grow, at all. I'm going to break some hearts and hurt some feelings but this is honestly just my opinion on things and how some materials affect me in a bad way. 

I used to watch a lot of series. Like, I would just try watching new ones and I would get stuck with some and then the cycle continues. My breaking point came with Pretty Little Liars. Yes, I've said it. And then at the same time, the existence of Black Mirror. The collision of these two ultimately different series has made me think of one thing: how I've been watching all the wrong things. With just 3 episodes in, Black Mirror made me shiver to my bones - made me think of our current situation where we are so caught up with being technologically advanced. It made me sad. Pretty Little Liars? 5 seasons in and I got nothing. Just a stupid relationship dramas that didn't even make sense. It didn't teach me anything about friendship, even worse not even family ties. It's so bad I hated myself for giving in to that so I stopped. From there onwards, I stopped watching the others too.

Now, the only series on my watch list are: Stranger Things, This Is Us, Black Mirror (duh) and The Office (US). Lol I'll explain one by one.

I love Stranger Things. Everything about it is mindblowing - the settings, the cast (ugh, Ryder is definitely a classic) and I love it for the fact that it reminds me of The Goonies. And I love seeing characters grow through these kids, it's mesmerizing and it's definitely something I'd like to keep in a very tiny corner of my heart for the child in me. It brought me back to Jumanji and Zathura - and I (capital)L(capital)ove these two movies with all my child's heart.

This Is Us? This series is brilliant. Have you watched it? No? You should totally give it a try. I've never cried so much watching a series. Never. The OC didn't even do that to me and I love that series the most because *coughs* Seth Cohen *coughs*. This is the series that made Sansan and I talk about our relationship struggles, this is the series that helps us envision how it is like to not have a perfect partner and yet still have a perfect relationship in its own terms. How God never takes away from you more than He could give you. This is the series that made me annoy my Mum everyday on whatsapp because I should just have. This is the series that made me want to be a better friend, a better sister, a better daughter, a better wife. This is also the series where I saw my husband cried because he was imagining himself in one of the character's shoes. So yes, please, watch it.

I should not talk about Black Mirror because my rant is going to be endless. Just know that, it's worth the watch, worth the wait and worth the thought. It stayed in my mind till this freaking day - each and every one of the episodes. It will make you think. As for The Office, it all happened when I suggested to Sansan to give it a try since we both love Steve Carrell and we should try to watch it during our free time. And we loved it, it made us laugh, it gave us our inside jokes. If you know this series, you'd know why we call some people Dwight. This series exists in this list just to show you how I'm not really rigid in my choice of entertainment. To each their own, people.

The same thing happens with my choice of films. I watch a lot of classic movies lately, and I don't think I can review my favourites here because films is my worst weakness and a weakness that I very much enjoy. If you want to talk about films, hit me up and arrange a date with me so we can actually form a film/movie club or something ok. I'm always up for that kind of thing.

On a serious note, I know some would be like 'it's just a TV show, don't make a big fuss about it' and it's cool. Like I said, to each their own. But this is my personal opinion. And personally, I've never felt better when I chose to make a conscious effort to filter what I read/watch. My state of mind is still pretty much messy but it's less messy now and I love it. Look at it as a mind-decluttering kinda thing ok? I'll continue some other time when I rajin wanna write like how I'm rajin right now. Byebye.

p/s: Please don't recommend me to watch other series. I know their existence and I have my own reasons to not watch it. Especially to GoT fans stop asking me why haven't I hopped on the bandwagon. GoT shares one similar content with True Blood and that is the particular reason why I avoid watching these two series, thank you. The same how Riverdale reminds me of Pretty Little Liars so, nope. I rest my case.