I red a book called Slam witch is written by Nick Hornby. Slam is published in 2007. Slam tell about a boy called Sam. The story is written Sam’s perspective. Sam is sixteen and he loves skate. The other significant characters in this book were Alicia and Sam’s mother. Alicia was Sam’s mother’s co-worker’s daughter. Sam got know Alicia through his mother and very quickly they started dating. Let’s open the plot little bit. So Sam and Alicia started dating. All went well in the beginning until something irreversible happened. Alicia became pregnant. Sam went into a panic and he run away. In the end Sam returned and took responsibility of his actions. The book focuses on Sam’s thoughts in this difficult situation. At the same time i liked the book and i did not like. The book theme was good but the method of storytelling was not my favorite one. The book tells only Sam’s thoughts in this hard situation. The book did not tell how Alicia feel. The second thing that i did not like was that sometimes Sam saw his own future. Easily i was left wondering whether the things happened or not because the things could be Sam’s future that he foresaw. Frankly i did not like any of the characters in the book. Sam was a coward because he did not took any responsibility for his action. Moreover he ran away and got everybody else to be worried about him. Alicia seemed little stubborn. She did not really understand how big of an undertaking is was to have a baby. Especially if you are teenager. Sam’s father seemed very indifferent when he heard that he son was about to become a father. It annoyed me. After all i was glad about one thing. Sam grow up during the book and ultimately took responsibility from what he had done. Although i did not like the characters of the book the theme was great. It got me wondering about how much having a baby would change normal everyday life.
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Sinister
I watched a movie called Sinister which is directed by Scott Derrickson. It is a horror movie starring Ethan Hawke. The movie was released on October 12 2012 in United Stated.
I am not really an aficionado of horror movies but i always end up watching them. Although this movie surprised me positively because it had no jumpscares which i really don’t like. Instead the plot gathered and held on tension all the way through the movie.
The plot was quite simple. Let’s open it a little bit. The film starts by a pretty creepy way. With a one whole family hanging from a tree with ropes around their necks in their backyard. Months later a true-crime writer Ellison Oswalt moves into that same house with his family to write about the murders. He knows about them but his wife and children does not. But his wife, Tracy will soon find out (like women always do). Oswalt finds a box from the house’s attic containing an old projector and films. He find also some drawings. The drawings and the film are about the same thing. A demonic character called a ”Boogieman” killing people with many different disgusting ways. Oswalt starts to investigated the murders from the film and he will find out that the murders were made in different times and in different states, but there is one thing that’s same in every murder, one child is always missing. Oswalt goes to talk with a local professor whose expertise is the demonic phenomena. The professor find from the murder films some symbol about a pagan Babylonian deity named Bughuul who would kill whole families and then take one of their children. That’s when things start to go totally wrong.
My opinion about the movie is that it is very good horror movie. It does not have a boring hour-long beginning like many other horror movie. It goes straight to action and starts to gather up thrills. Although it has a shady part somewhere in the middle which i had to watch twice to understand what was really going on.
Music in the movie was maybe a bit too simple. But it also raised some goosebumps occasionally. The actors also did a great job casting Sinister, which is also a big plus,because usually horror movies have kinda bad actors.
In summary i really recommend this movie to anyone who likes horror movies. Sinister is very exciting and surprising scary movie with a great plot.
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