mostly mirror mask

Today is the first day we had a proper class (I said a which means just 1) which is theory of design. It does open my eyes a little because somehow my eyes had been opened that I need some aspects to become a good designer. Like instead of looking at an object with just one angle, I can look at it at many angles and find something different about it.

Later, we had to join back to our last week’s group and find out more about Zaha Hadid. All of us thought that the person is a male but it turned out to be a woman. And truly, she is one great architect who can make her works stand out remarkably!

Most of our time is spend watching Mirror Mask. Well… It is really mundane at the start. However, the longer we watched the more interesting it becomes.
Here’s the synopsis:

Helena, portrayed by Stephanie Leonidas, is the story's protagonist. The young circus performer and aspiring artist dreams of running away to join 'real life'. Despite these feelings, Helena loves both of her parents although she spends more time with her dad in the movie. In one circus skit they juggle and then have her mother come out in a gorilla suit. After a fight with her mother, in which Helena wishes she could 'be the death' of her, her mother falls ill, possibly from a brain tumour. Helena blames herself for the illness. On the night doctors operate on her mother, Helena dreams, or thinks she dreams, of a mysterious world of masked people and monsters.


My view:
What’s really interesting about the movie is that the masked people kind of represents her surroundings as people in the circus wear masks. It also showed that in her dream world, she is the only one who dares to show her true self.


You know you have imagination, but can you imagine what your imagination looks like? That show somehow did that by mixing what Helena see in everyday’s life into a funny mixture of things. Like a human face on a cat body with wings. That’s the beauty of imagination.


Another thing about the show is, you can realise not everything good is all good. There can be such things as greed to overcome good intentions at times. But there are also times where people realise the folly of their action and will do anything to fix it back.

There's also a wonderful contrast in behavior. The dark and good side of a person. How we can turn from one person to another really depends on ourselves usually or it can be the reaction to one's treatment.

The bad thing about the show, there can be a wonderful picture of helena’s imagination may look like. But the colours, all I saw is green green and green. I mean it is quite painful to the eyes. I mean, there should be a least a bit of colour right?


Hahaha… That’s all I have to say for now. Couldn’t believe my content is so long.


Mata ja!