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Today has been a busy busy day! I had my hardest exam, and it was hard. Ha. Well actually, the essay questions given at the beginning were okay! I was surprised, to the point where I actually wanted to answer all the essay questions rather than do the short answer ones :( The short answer questions weren't as nice, but I knew they were never going to be. Some I had absolutely no clue, I mean what is the Loch Ness after effect?! There were a few I struggled with, but I managed to write something for every question and even if I haven't got full marks on any I'm hoping to have done enough to pass, fingers crossed.
To celebrate, Matthew took me to Pizza Express for lunch, yummy. They are doing a 40% off offer for the whole of January so it was the perfect excuse to go, and makes the whole thing a very affordable luxury lunch! We pottered round town for a little while; I was desperate to go to the Boots sale as it has all now been reduced to 75% off, but there was literally hardly anything left. I swear people turn into savages when they hear the words "sale" and "75% off" because people were snatching stuff out of the hands of the poor staff trying to unpack the delivery. AND, they weren't just taking one, or even two. They were snatching like 5 of some of the box sets, which is so unfair! I managed to get my hand on this cute beauty hut set, with a shower cream, body butter, body spray, puffer and cute shower cap in. For £2.50, it was an absolute bargain so that satisfied my sale craving.
After lunch we went to see Les Miserables, after much excitement and anticipation. I have been desperate to see this film for ages, even though it came out like last week! The case and adverts made it look incredible! It was definitely a good film, I am going to write more about it underneath a break, as it will contain spoilers...
So the film is entirely musical. I don't mind this, I love musicals and it doesn't really bother me that the whole script is in song. Matthew however, found it difficult to understand how there was no dialogue. Admittedly, I kind of agree with him - he said he preferred the likes of Sweeney Todd, where there is a nice balance with plenty of song but plenty of acting too.
The whole film centers around one character, who spent 19 years as a slave as punishment for stealing some bread. After he has worked off his sentence, he is given parole but labelled a dangerous man, so cannot get a job. He steals from a vicar who shows him such honesty afterwards that he is inspired to create a new identity, a new life and help others. However, the mean man who lavelled him a dangerous man spends the rest of his life trying to hunt this guy down and kill him, despite being given mercy by the man himself.
There's a woman who gets fired from her job working for this guy, loses everything and becomes a prostitute but has a little girl she sends money to for her keep. This guy helps her, she dies but then he vows to help her child, and he looks after her as his own. Then the whole french revolution happens. Some scenes made me gasp and others made me feel like it should not have been a 12a... watching a little boy is not cool!
There is basically a lot of singing, a lot of fighting and a lot of dying. It was frustrating to me that the happy ending wasn't satisfying - it didn't feel happy. But I do admire the film because it was very beautiful and very well made. It's not a film I'm itching to see again, but I think it was definitely worth the watch! Sasha Baren Cohen and Helena Bohem Carter were brilliant, too.
So that was my day! How was yours? I'm now settling down to watch Africa and Mr Selfridge with Matthew.
Love love love xxx
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