Firmin - or the Adventures of a Metropolitan lowlife.

Firmin: Is he a human? A rat? Well, if you guessed so by looking at the picture you're right. Firmin is a rat.

But not an ordinary one. He is a Reading Rat. Let me tell you his story, which is also the story of the book. Firmin is the 13th out of 13 siblings, and the weakest because he gets no milk. The only way he can survive is by eating the litter on which they have to pee and poo. But this is no normal litter - it's made of books! Firmin, eating books to survive, ends ups learning how to read. He lives in a library.

His siblings go away when their mum dies, and Firmin is left alone. He then sees the owner of the bookstore, Norman and Firmin kind of falls in love with him. But when Norman sees Firmin for the first time, Firmin's happy days at the store are over. Norman tries to poison Firmin and Firmin realizes at last humans hate rats.

So he runs away from the shop, luckily, to be taken as a pet by a nice author called Jerry that loves him but doesn't understand Firmin can read. So Firmin reads the newspapers with Jerry and reads that the square where they live, and the bookstore is, is going to be destroyed. A theater on the same square burns down. Firmin lives on, being loved by Jerry. He goes to the Rialto cinema and falls in love with a human actress.

One day, when Jerry isn't at home, Firmin dies, thinking he is being hugged by the actress. It's pretty sad for a book. But I really loved it, even though it's not the normal kind of book. It's actually super weird, but when you start reading it, you kind of get pulled in and you can't come out until you're finished reading. So, I actually do advise you to read it, because it might become one of your favorites. Especially if you're someone that loves reading. Like Firmin... Except you're human. Or are you?

I wonder if any rats like Firmin are reading this... No, joking. I don't really think rats can read. Well, you never know.

Premium Rush

Premium Rush

It's a movie about bike coursiers in New York. They exist in real life. And they deliver messages quickly. There's a bit of an article from www.nydailynews.com:“ The faster you go, the more money you make,” says Kevin Bolger, president of the New York Bike Messenger Foundation. “The money is there, but it’s up to you to chase it.”And with the internet taking business away from the courier companies, the riders are racing to bag what jobs they can.“There’s no way you are going to get something from Point A to Point B faster than a bike messenger can do it,” says Heather Muller, who took second place in the women’s division of the Cycle Messenger World Championships in Chicago this month.“We can move through traffic the fastest — but it does get dangerous.”Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/wheel-world-real-life-premium-rush-riders-spin-nyc-bike-messenger-tales-article-1.1140273#ixzz2Kao3qAnI
Now about the movie again. There's a bike coursier called Wyley, and he has to deliver a mysterious envelope to the Chinatown side of NY. But in this envelope is the key to lots of money, and a secret... Because the one that asked him to deliver the envelope needs to make her son pass to the USA from China...Wyley gets pursued by a maniac police officer. But in the end, he does manage to deliver the envelope and the son gets delivered to the USA.

I know this is pretty short, but there's not much of a story in that movie, and most of the scenes are just on top of bikes, doing crazy races. And some fights. So... Action lovers, you should watch this.

Life of Pi - The Movie

I already talked about Life of Pi before, if you remember. But that was the book. Nobody knew it, and suddenly it became very fashion, because there was a movie. I got to watch it twice. And I'm going to tell you what I think about it. If you want the story, there it is, but you can also check out the Life of Pi post. The story: http://ragdollsmaybe.blogspot.ch/2012/08/life-of-pi.html - too lazy to copy and paste it.

Well, what I think about the movie is that it followed the story of the book pretty well. Except I think that Pi should have been a bit more skinny. For all of that, I think that the movie is super well done, with lots of special effects. To learn more, check the website out: lifeofpimovie.com

I really liked the movie and I think you should see it, because it's one of those rare movies that actually follow the story of the book and manage to add stuff in that makes the movie very interesting to watch even to those who have read the book and/or have seen the movie already.

Paranorman

I'm kind of surprised of myself. This is the 3rd post in a day! But when I saw this movie I just had to write a post about it! Basically, if you're scared of zombies you wouldn't be scared of that because it's super funny!

This is Norman.

The movie is about a boy, Norman, who is paranormal. Why? Well, because he can see dead people. He's walking on the street or at his house, and he talks with his dead grandma or a dead person!

His parents don't want to believe him and everyone hates him. But when zombies attack the city, he is the only one to be courageous enough to confront them - and then to become friends with them!

This is now one of my favorite movies!

Check this link out to know more about Paranorman!
paranorman.com

There's also loads of funny and weird scenes like this for example:

No, you're not dreaming. Norman is on a toilet, in a forest, surrounded by zombie toilet paper.

So, are you watching the movie?

I'd like to have Norman's power to talk with dead people! It's super cool.

Norman trying to brush his hair

Norman's sister

Norman Brushing his teeth

A zombie on the windshield

Messed up Plushies

 Were you ever shopping and then you just happen to see the most messed up plushie ever? Well, that happens to me all the time and I'm going to present you a selection of the most horrible ones ever. 

1st Place: A knitted, messed-up Spongebob. Look at his nose! And his teeth! Plus, his feet are completely disproportioned compared to his body. Does he look a tiny bit like the original Spongebob? 

2nd Place: This Red Horse with huge yellow eyebrows and a blue and green rope.  First, does a horse have red skin or eyebrows. If someone has kids and buys them this, they're traumatized for life! It's just horrible! Plus, it has super short legs. 

3rd Place: this Rabbit. Teeth in a rabbit don't go up. His eyes look in different ways. His mustaches are all over his face and if you look at the plush in whole, his body is as not well done as his head. Ugly!

Le Marginal

Finally I have time to write a post! That's cause I'm sick.

Yesterday I stayed up really late watching this old french movie, it's called Le Marginal.

Mecachi

Basically, it's about this police officer who wants to kill a mafiosi that's involved in various drug problems and other illegal things. If you want to know, the mafiosi is called Mecachi and that's him. Belmondo, the police officer, gets into lots of trouble when he drops drugs off a boat into the sea so nobody can get hold of them. Mecachi wants to kill Belmondo. Mecachi's workers two twin-looking brother try to kill Belmondo in his car - but it's bulletproof. So he kills them ! In the end, Belmondo takes another person's gun and kills Mecachi while he is playing billiard. The other police officers ask Belmondo if he knows who killed Mecachi and he says: 'No.' Even though it's him. There's also loads of funny moments and fights. It's a super cool movie!

Skyfall

Skyfall, as I think all of you now it, is the new James Bond movie.  It has a very weird plot.

So, at the beginning, James Bond is shot by another agent and falls from a bridge. He's supposed to be dead. But he's not. Because he's James Bond.

So he comes back to his agence and they give him a new mission. To kill the Agence's ex-best agent. The other 'James Bond'.

On the left, James Bond.
On the right, the ex-James Bond.

He has an island all to himself. James Bond ends up on it. The other James Bond (Silva) gives him a long talk about rats:

Silva: My grandma had a small island. But if was infested with rats. So she had to get rid of them... Did she kill them? No. She put coconuts in a big hole. The rats all fell in the hole and when there was no coconuts they ate the other rats. When there was only two rats left, she let them out. And they didn't eat coconuts, they ate only rats. We are the two rats that are left. Are we going to eat each other? No...

James Bond: ...

James Bond manages to run away, but Silva, who has an overly big intelligence, 

Silva blows up the MI6. James Bond has a plan to kill Silva. James Bond goes to his home,  Skyfall and prepares a trap for Silva. Skyfall was Bond's house when he was young. He puts dynamite in it and while Silva is in it, blows it up. But Silva's still not dead. Bond falls into a frozen lake and has to struggle to get out. In the end, Silva is in a church and pointing his gun at Bond. But Bond kills Silva.

And there's only one rat left. Bond. James Bond.

And Adele made a song for the movie. It's a good song, I think.