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She was supposed to be happy now that she works a dumb job and makes good money. Do you despair? She's never to experience the kind of freedom she did one year ago; in her grandma's kitchen. 

        Worst thing about this: I have work tomorrow. Do you despair? I despair. 

A year later. I miss him so much. All I have are our memories together. Is it odd that one gets to figure an end for their path in their 20s? I get overwhelmed more often in isolation. Used to scrabble those tiny words on the back of my notebooks in class; sneaking, hiding. Why did it happen that when one was younger, one was as brave as the Sun (?) I am now shying away as that big stone in the sky. How mediocre does that read to you? How come I did not mind academia ruining my sense of self all these years? Was that academia or bad parenting? A well-established director tells us the other day about being true to ourselves in every decision we make. Little did he know how that very motto is tiring and weary to live with. My psychological age is practically 79. I realised just today that I have wasted a lot of time in school (s). I realised I let myself be manipulated by bosses, headmasters, charismatic people who happen to be only so from afar: How loathsome it is to live in such a ...

Hello, world. My name is Pensée Atef Mohran. I am an English major and this is a final paper I  wrote for the Comparative Literature class of Spring 2019 The film is now screening in international festivals, but here is the TRAILER:*That's What Happened- Official Trailer: https://vimeo.com/321357063  till it's available for the public.

      Written and directed by David Lowery, A Ghost Story came out in 2017 starring Academy Award-Winning actor, Casey Affleck, and Rooney Mara. This film was a step away from the traditional moving-picture horror films the audience would expect from the title. Because usually, a ghost tale implies that one is before something gothic and horrifying; a love story, maybe, in the same sense that David Foster Wallace meant when he said that every love story is, in essence, a ghost story. But the director here puts it in more simplistic terms of vision. After all, his main character is a ghost in a Halloween-costume bed-sheet. By that he aims at clarifying that the idea of haunted places, the passage of time, and this very personal, specific image of a ghost made-at-home carry homage to the 7-year-old Lowery whose first film ever was a home-made movie starring his brother as the ghost in a bed-sheet haunting their house. So, in a sense, this film is immens...