I got my hair did today, which was fun - more summery blonde in it, it's so cute! After that, Anthony and I ran some errands, including grabbing some Criterions at B&N's sale. I had a bunch of coupons for $5 - $10 off at various stores, and some for free birthday gifts, so I went to those places to collect my presents. It was a pretty fun day out :) I had plans to go out for dinner for my birthday, and when I got home, I wanted to start watching a little of my movie before we left. I put on
Au Revoir Les Enfants, directed by Louis Malle in 1987, and I couldn't turn it off like I planned. I was so engrossed in it that I didn't want to do anything else.
It was a great movie. It was also a sad movie, which I know really turns people off. I think this is really unfortunate - you can learn so much from movies, and just looking for ones that you can use to distract yourself or "turn off your brain" causes you to really miss out on so much. I was crying at the end of this movie, but I also felt like I saw something I never even thought of or heard of before. A new perspective on an important subject I heard a lot about. A glimpse of a life that I never could lead. And how can that not make you wiser?
