~~The Tale of Despereaux, film review~~

 

Favorite line:

 "Despereaux Tilling had no idea he was small. He wasn't just small in human terms. He was small, even for a mouse. But to tell you the truth, he didn't even notice. In fact, in his own mind, Despereaux was a giant."

     

    This is one of my favorite childhood movies and I recently watched it again after many years and I thought I'd share it with all of you.

     First off, I love Despereaux! I love his innate fearlessness and confidence, his love of stories and desire to be "a gentleman." And I love that by his simple goodness he is a ray of sunshine in darkness to some, like Princess Pea, and a source of inspiration to greatness for others, like Roscuro. I also find him to be incredibly cute!

~~Calculated by Nova McBee (book review)~~

 

Three out of five stars.

(Spoilers below!)

    Characters: While I found no difficulty in relating to or feeling for the main character, Josephine, I do feel that there was something missing from her character so that she was not as flushed out and as real as I would have wanted her to be. Because, besides her gift of numbers, the only thing I really think of when I think of Josephine is how those she interacts with affect her. From being affected by her sister's jealousy to the exploitation of others, and eventually to the love and friendship of Kai. I felt her extreme intelligence was the only thing that was her own and that made up her personality, and I would've liked her to have had something else along with that. Some dream, goal, personality trait, or habit, apart from the others in the story and apart from reacting to the others in the story. In contrast, the rest of the characters I felt did have enough to be their own person apart from reacting to what others were doing.

~~Too Far Gone by Hidden Citizens ft. Svrcina (song review)~~

Too Far Gone by Hidden Citizens ft. Svrcina

 

 

Favorite Lyrics:

"Is it out of our hands / Do we still have a chance"