All the Time

            This film made me feel frustrated. Reading has always been my favorite hobby and people around me lecture me about it too as if it is a crime. His situation is worse though because his wife messes with his books. When he is the only man left alive, he finds that he has all the time to read every book in the public library. I knew then that there will definitely be a catch here. Unfortunately for him, I was right. If only he had been more careful, he would have been happier for a longer time.

            If I were to make an adaptation of the movie, I would tone the events down a little to make it somehow more plausible. It would be about an eighteen year old student named Nika who loves writing. Her parents wanted her to be an overachiever that they were against the idea of her writing since it might affect her studies. Nika is very understanding about it because she is an only child and her family is not really well-off but there are times when she needs a break from all the pressure that her parents are giving her. It is at those times that she writes because this is how she escapes the real world, where she is in control of her own time. Nika strived to get in a university far from home to be able to live in a dormitory and write anytime without feeling fear from getting caught. She enjoyed her life in the dormitory and was able to make short stories. She even started making her own little novel to bring home to her parents to try to change their minds about her passion. On one particular night, she was supposed to go home for the weekend but decided to postpone it since her novel is not finished yet. Imagine her surprise when she comes home the day after to find her whole house in ashes. As it turns out, her parents were up all night waiting for her. A lit candle left unguarded unfortunately burned her whole house down with her parents who were totally unaware because they were deep in sleep. She is left with regrets. Even though she is now in charge of her own time, she realizes that she will have to work for herself from then on. It seems like there is even lesser time for writing than before.

BALIGNASA, Catherine S.
2013-19732
Section: THX