GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Has anyone seen this movie? It just popped into my mind when somebody from my old college texted me about a play their mounting for the newcomers.

Great Expectations. I love it. Tagline goes 'Let desire be your destiny'  Just how sexy and disarming that line could lead you? I think this movie catapulted Gwyneth Paltrow to the pedestal that she is now. I loved this movie so much that i am going to name my first child, be it a boy or a girl, Finn, after Ethan Hawke's character. I ache for a movie to be made like this in the Philippines.  Subdued and powerful.  My heart got misty eyed for this.

Going back to the thing that made me pop this movie. It's a text invite and its so ironic for me to think about this movie or probably just the words of the movie with the dictionary meaning. Let's just say i have great expectations from this invite to our old college group. But i did think about it in an ironic way.

You see I was once delight. I have been cupped and torn by this fire that we all share back then in college. Its a different thing. College theatre.  We were students then but we weren't really ordinary students. It was that time when we were trained of what we can do when we graduate. It's a vocational course for being a skilled employee in the future. Yes, we can graduate as lawyers or as HR practitioners or as stockbrokers but we had a little more jazz to offer than the rest because back then we did college theatre.

Our college eyes knew what was viable on stage and what was not. We had to smell everything and bow our head down to check the nit and grit. I guess i was much more previliged back then since I had a different take for that liking in theatre. I continued and immersed myself with the Ivy leagues after college. I was given new spectacles in terms of that art and i really really liked it. Smothered myself and rolled over it.  But times a changin and what was then was past tense.

I don't know what im saying but when i do come back to see them again. I wish for endorphins.