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I probably sound like a broken record, but I still don’t know what to write about. Do you guys like movies about the warpage of space and/or time? I sure do. Within the past few weeks, I’ve seen three. My favorite movie in this category is Time Lapse. While the characters never actually travel through time, the plot is based of the knowledge of events that haven’t happened yet. I like this movie because it follows my time travel logic. My second favorite time travel movie is Project Almanac. This movie doesn’t completely follow my time travel logic, but it is still a very interesting movie. Predestination is also a good movie. I haven’t seen it in a while, but it has more twists than a roller coaster.

A time travel movie that isn’t exactly science fiction is Groundhog Day. This movie can be seen as a time travel movie, but it can also be seen as a movie about parallel universes. I highly recommend watching it, if you haven’t already.

I also like psychological thrillers. One of my favorite psychological thrillers is Goodnight Mommy. The title is a bit misleading, so the movie might seem lame. The beginning is a bit slow, but the ending is fantastic. The “slow” beginning then makes sense. The Machinist is great, and Christian Bale lost an absurd amount of weight for the role. Fight Club is a classic, and so is Primal Fear. Donnie Darko is another psychological thriller that I enjoyed. I liked the way that everything in the movie was revealed.

I am obviously a fan of psychological thrillers, and in high school, a friend and I started an English class that watched and discussed them. We watched Psycho, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Goodnight Mommy, Misery, Memento, and Cape Fear. There are two versions of Cape Fear, and after watching both, the class unanimously agreed that the newer version is better. Psycho was a classic, and probably always will be. Memento is also great, if anyone was wondering. The movie is in reverse chronological order, but the way it is done keeps the viewers in suspense. I would talk about these movies more, but I don’t want to spoil them.

So that’s all I have… just a few vague descriptions of movies that I like. On a different note, I thought the peer reviewing of papers was cool. I feel like I learned a lot about myself as a writer. I haven’t really done a peer review before, so I now completely understand what is meant by “peer review” and “peer edit.” There were quite a few places where I would have said something a bit differently. It’s not that it was said wrong, or that it didn’t sound quite right. There were just a few places that I offered suggestions as to how I would have said it. Whether my peer changes how he said it or not, it will still convey the same message. I’m just here to be a reader.

Cheers,

Adrian