'Remember Sunday'; Simple, Sweet with a touch of Sadness!

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So, to my knowledge 'Remember Sunday' isn't a greatly well-known film, which is a shame, but I believe if my memory serves me correctly then it is a TV film, several of which often end up overlooked and disregarded as 'real' movies or in the same league as those made for the silver screen. Okay it's not a breakthrough in any technical way, and it doesn't leave a huge mark on cinematic history, but the film is still an absolute gem! People categorise it as a Rom-Com and I suppose in some ways that's true but it's not an OVERLY comical film, there's comic relief but not constant comedy that I would associate with a Rom-Com. It's not a bad thing at all, no no! I'm not a right miserable git that loves depressing films; I love the fact that I can't really pin point this film to a genre other than to generalise it as 'Romance' and even then it's not too typical. 

What makes it different from a 'typical romance?':

1. No sex. "Whaaaa? No sex? It's a romance and there's no sex what-so-ever? Well then what do they do through the whole film, talk? or actually build their relationship? IMPOSSIBLE!" yeah it seems quite crazy that such films actually exist, but it's one of those small things that makes this film better and a little less typical. There's something appealing about watching a film and knowing you can watch it with ANYONE and not feel excessively awkward during the sex scenes. Yes folks, it's a family friendly one! 
2. Real chemistry. This ones a little nitpicky I guess but during my time of being a romance film/book freak I often find what can get in the way of the film being complete are the actors connection. When I say nitpicky I mean REALLY nitpicky! Granted the majority of films have a real believable and convincing love story, with great actors/actresses making us think they're actually together but there comes a time when we see a film like Remember Sunday and we go "Now THAT is chemistry". I can't really explain it in any other words but to say that other relationships in films often seem hollywoodified (sorry for the terrible word) and fit for cinematic purpose rather than making it a little more ... normal? Zachary Levi and Alexis Bledel look good together, sound good together and their on-screen connection is just beautiful to watch. Their acting is so solid and honestly the casting is perfect, they both retain the attractiveness that often sells a film but at the same time they're both a little different. Alexis especially has this certain thing about her I guess, she's beautiful but with an essence of reality, again most film-girls are hollywoodified but everything about Alexis' beauty seems natural and not so 'man-made' as others which I love!
3. Concept. Now I'm not gonna lie and say the concept doesn't have any loopholes or possible inconsistencies, I'm also not gonna say that it does because it's all scientific and I only just passed science in school so forget that! But the concept is in a interesting one, it's one that allows us to feel compassion and sympathy for our protagonist and we understand that every day is confusing and tricky, so when he meets this girl and does everything to remember her (Despite the difficulties) it makes it all more amazing to watch. 

It's just sweet, okay? Oh and the ending isn't perfect and happy...well I suppose its happy but its sad aswell, doesn't really make sense writing that but I promise if you watch it (its on Netflix) you'll understand and agree with me! It's one that should make even the manliest of men feel a little beat in those stone hearts that they so eagerly protest they have! And this slight self-confessed not-all-that-manly man here still recommends it to anyone, it's quite a daytime film aswell, chilled, if that makes sense!

From Shorts to Novels; Slow Down, Take a Break, Carry On.

Alright, so I can get quite carried away with some things and other things I can be absolutely useless at and forever dis-enthused by. This story that's started my 'From Shorts to Novels' blogs has been something that I was constantly excited about and so it got to the point where I thought "Look, you need to calm down, you need to slow down and quite frankly have a break" because for someone like me who has hand tremors excessive and long amounts of writing results in constant hand spasms. Funnily enough hand spasms take the fun out of writing. Instead of some heart-felt love message or bone-crushingly thrilling chase scene you get something along the lines of "and so, my darling petal, I cannot explain in any language on this planet how much I lov-£$%aksldn,ag vbvef nkllsdfgm  bvcnmndkjd kfdjc djkhjfddjj" Thus forth the beauty of the scene is ruined. My hand tremors were pretty much everyday at this point and it wasn't going to be too long before I left Uni, so I thought I'd finished my exams, relax, read and get inspiration then go back to it. This gap was about 3 weeks or so and has made a huge difference, the problems and inconvenience the tremors brought with them made the process of writing more of a annoying task rather than the usual enjoyable, thrilling feeling. So here we are, once again talking about the novel I'm working on; Rediscovering Clarity and it's good to be back at it! and it's Summer here in England and although the country is normally synonymous with miserable weather there's plenty of sun, inspirational beauty and happiness about! Nothing more influential and uplifting than good weather and good atmospheres!
The story itself is going well, the break hasn't disrupted the voice or narrative at all it just helped me collect ideas and images in my head ready to put into words and descriptions. Practically the whole story is now completely mapped out in my head, and what's REALLY annoying is I really want to just write the end (not to finish it, oh no!) because I'm just excited to write it, it contains the largest amount of fantasy, sci-fieyness, beautiful locations (most of which are real places) and just the right amount of sentimentality!

Texting.

Nearly everyone on the entire earth now has a phone, it's one of the inventions that took over the world and became a necessity; one that while breaking limitations...somehow put more in place in terms of sociability. But let's be honest they're too useful to go moaning about, and there are theories upon theories about how phones make us 'more sociable' along with theories that say they do the exact opposite and we would have been better without them. Socially restricting, socially free-ing or a bit of both, either way it's a pretty darn important piece of technology. As we all know with all technology ranging from government computers to the simplest of things like an electric pen (I'm sure that exists...) there's always something that we find tricky or that goes wrong. In this case, with me and with texting there's plenty that goes wrong. So starting with the keys and predictive text; so many texts around the world are sent with hilarious or kind of awkward implications because we've pressed the wrong keys and been pulled into the inescapable grasp of predictive texts. So when you get someone like me with overly large hands equipped with equally large fingers these mistakes are all too frequent and being a fairly talkative person I text quite a lot but then we get the second problem; over-thinking. Because in the past I've fallen into the predictive trap I tend to take longer to reply because I'm spending a few minutes staring and re-reading the text over and over again to make sure there's no mistakes but then you've just wasted 2 minutes of your life checking a text...
Now this next problem doesn't seem to affect many people that I know, but I'm convinced that it affects lots more than me! When you get someone that enjoys writing in whatever form it be, blog, fiction, non-fiction etc or in-fact if you just have someone that has a lot to say writing a text that is brief becomes one of the trickiest tasks ever encountered. Honestly I can't get my head around it, I've sent texts before and thought after "Really? Couldn't you just have said that in a few words?" and I probably could have but when writing it my brain is just incapable of shortening it down unless it's really needed. Other problems faced texting; sarcasm and the problem of making it actually come across and for that matter any emotion at all, I mean let's be honest we'd be useless without emoticons; someone would say something that was gut-wrenchingly heat breaking for them and without some cartoon sad face we might never know how hard they've taken it! The problems of modern day people, hey? How do we ever survive?
Just to put it out there this isn't a moany blog, this is just my way of talking about phones and trying to relate with y'all (whoever you may be) phone's are great, I use mine SO much, GO TECHNOLOGY!