December 2020

Posted on by thenaivefilmmaker

2020 almost being over is always something to look forward to. Although that excitement is somewhat ruined by the knowledge that the months and years are arbitrary and will have no effect on our lives.

The month has been a good one. Imperfect in many ways but perfectly pleasant. December is a month of ignoring assignments due in the New Year and ignoring Christmas shopping until its too late and you end up gifting your entire family items bought from the local petrol station. (An even bigger achievement considering I don’t own a car).

Its nearly impossible to avoid Christmas films in December, as much as film students pretend we’re above such Hallmark nonsense, we’re occasionally presented with pictures that are thoroughly enjoyable despite their usually unfortunate genre.

  • Klaus is one of the most heart warming and meaningful animated films I’ve seen in years. Nearly every shot is beautiful and the ending left me in happy tears.
  • Noelle has the most generic plot of saving Christmas in the world and yet manages to be an amazing film. Anna Kendrick knocks it way out of the park and turns a generic Christmas film into a brilliant film that I’m looking forward to watching again next Christmas.
  • Last Christmas is the one I forgot to watch last year, but it is such an enjoyable piece. Its better than Love Actually and I am willing to die on that hill.

This year was my first Friend’s Christmas, celebrated shortly before we all went out separate ways for the Christmas Break. It was a new experience and one that I would definitely recommend, though the more fortunate part of the day was that I did not have to contribute via cooking (when I say fortunate, I meant for everyone involved).

Thanks to a generous Christmas gift I am now the proud owner of a Pulp Fiction Poster; so finally I can call myself a true film student. It has been a tremendously cold December, made colder by the continuous flow of bad news in the world, but I have a great deal to be thankful for, as much as I forget that fact.

I’m hoping to enter the New Year in a better frame of mind and making it one of the best years of my life. With lots of projects to get off the ground and lots of work to do (none of it paid though, bloody recession).

I Hope you all had a Merry Christmas and have a very Happy New Year.

~ Alexander ~

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