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2008-07-25 @ 11:44 p.m.

I met Caleb, Chermaine and Jina to watch The Dark Knight at Plaza Singapura. Hooray for student price tickets! Sitting beside Chermaine was so funny. Every time someone died or anything violent happened onscreen, she cringed. I must confess that to be perfectly honest, I wasn't that impressed at the end of the movie. All the fanboys and fangirls are going to hate me when I say this, but I personally thought that as a movie, The Dark Knight was nothing spectacularly extraordinary. Don't get me wrong, Christopher Nolan did a great job, but I just can't bring myself to rave about the movie. On the other hand, as a vehicle for exploring what being a hero means, The Dark Knight succeeds admirably. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Philosophy 101, taught Hollywood-style. The little social experiment with the two ships? That was Psychology 101. I liked how the convict was the more decent guy, because he threw the trigger away, whereas the good citizen of Gotham City had to hesitate and generally make a fool of himself before deciding that he couldn't bear the weight of all those lives on his conscience. Oh, and to all those people who rave about the Joker, I seriously don't get it. He was good, but be honest with yourself here. Can you swear that your impressions aren't coloured or skewed in the least by the fact of knowing that this was Heath Ledger's last acting role before he died?

Headed down to City Hall MRT to meet Claudia and Daniel for dinner before The David Ives Project. Finally ate at The Soup Spoon, where I had a very rich mushroom soup that was almost too much, even for me. Made it to the National Library with an hour to spare, so I went to borrow some books again. Just the same old stuff that I've been borrowing there, and never seem to get around to finishing! The David Ives Project was good, especially towards the latter half of the performance. A lot of wordplay going on in each of the six one-act plays, so I really enjoyed that. Especially the last play, Sure Thing. If only life were really like that, and a bell ringing was all it took to give us second chances and more, to perfect the course of our lives. Claudia was remarking on how incestuous events like these are, where everyone in the audience seems to know at least someone else. An inevitable product, I suppose, of the system we have in place locally. All these interconnections...