Some months are just sucks of time, and this has been one of those months. I must apologize to everyone who reads my blog, since I have only posted a few times, and not a lot of reviews of anything. Now, as I write this I have to say that next month may not be much easier, only because I will be going to a memorial for a loved one who passed away in February. This memorial may, or may not, be tense due to some interesting situations brought on by some of the participants in the past few months.  

So, as I write this I am hoping to update this with more fun and interesting things. Maybe I will post pictures of Maine, which is where the memorial will be. I also have to say, I love Maine. I can see why Stephen King lived, and still lives there, at times. As I think about where I want to live for the rest of my life, the funny thing is I don't see one place. I love San Diego, California, and it was home for most of my life. As things changed and I moved to Alabama I found that it was a neat place with so many interesting places that said, "Life here is nice, easy, and fun." I fell in love with the people I met, many whom continue to be awesome and in my life, and I fell in love with the cost. While I couldn't find any great Mexican food in Alabama (something I missed from San Diego), I learned to enjoy catfish in many ways, I tried hush puppies (not a fan), and found a love for fried pickles (why I hadn't had then before is beyond me). Now, living in Virginia, I know this is not where I want to stay. While there are several things about the DMV that I enjoy, first is being so close to DC and all of the awesome museums and culture there, the traffic is horrendous. I would much rather deal with LA traffic, or the traffic between Huntsville, Alabama, and Atlanta, Georgia, which is always awful.

However, I love Maine. I am not sure however, that I love the idea of living in seventeen feet of snow. The things I love are the peaceful lifestyle. Everything seems so slow and easygoing. I also love all of the fresh fish! I mean, for someone who doesn't eat a lot of meat (I was once a vegetarian for about seven years or so), a place with a tin of fresh, easy to get fish, is heaven.

I also love Utah, Montana, Colorado, parts of Rhode Island, and did I say Utah!

I just recently watched SOPHIE'S CHOICE because I am trying to get through some of the classics and movies that people have talked to me about. Now, the subject of it is hard because not only is it about a woman who went to Auschwitz, but it also involves a clear picture of a physically and verbally abusive relationship.

I have to say, this two and a half hour movie was not what I expected. It was slow and long and so incredibly slow. I understand parts of why it was a good movie, but the choice she had to make seemed a little dulled by the abusive relationship she is in. I wanted so much for Sophie to choose life, choose her happiness, choose trying again, but she doesn't.

Okay, so I know some people will ask, but the choice she had to make, how could that not have destroyed her? She had reasons to stay with Nathan, she was broken, she was alone. She didn't know who to trust. She didn't know how to live. She was only in America because it was safe at that moment. Yet I have to ask, there were a lot of people who did an did not survive the holocaust, there were a lot of people who did whatever they could to survive, so why was Sophie so unwilling to keep living and trying to live?

Could it have been what we now call PTSD? Was it guilt? Did she think she wasn't worth it? There was so much unexplained drama, that it was difficult to care about the relationships. I wanted to like SOPHIE'S CHOICE, but to get to that point of the movie, I had to watch two hours of a relationship I didn't care about, nor did I care about what was going to happen in the relationship. I don't watch movies with abusive relationships very often, because it bothers me, for personal reasons. If I had known that this was more about the relationship between Sophie, Nathan, and Stingo, I probably wouldn't have watched it. 

It wasn't a bad movie, and I can't comment on it like I would do in a normal review, because how do you critique a movie that involves any part of the holocaust? Unless it is a glorification of Hitler, you can't really. So this is all I have to say. It was long, and slow. 

Have you ever wanted to watch a movie so depraved and disappointing that you would want to constantly yell at the screen? If you have then this is the movie for you. 

MEGAN IS MISSING is all about a fifteen year old girl, named Megan, who goes missing, and how soon after her best friend, fourteen year old Amy, also disappears. Megan is a rambunctious and really very sad, teenage girl who does what she can to find love. She even states in the movie she will do anything with a guy as long as he tells her that he loves her. Megan has a horrendous home life, as her mother's husband, and her stepfather sits in prison for raping her from ages nine to eleven. Her mother blames Megan for it, and Megan has no one to turn to besides Amy.

One day Megan is introduced to a guy online, who she believes is a young teen boy named, Josh. The movie goes quickly downhill from there.

If you weren't afraid for your children using the internet and going on any sort of social media, after watching this movie you will be. Megan disappears, as the movie title would suggest. Soon after her best friend, Amy, disappears, and we find out later what has happened to both.

I thought I was going to be watching a different type of movie, not a movie with a message. This movie seems to be all about the dangers of not watching your teenager, as most of the teens in the movie are having unprotected sex, forcing people to have sex with them, drinking, having sex with older me for drugs, and telling the sweet virgin that she should just do it, and get it over with. When Megan disappears as a viewer I was not surprised, as I expected it to happen (and not just because the title of the movie is MEGAN IS MISSING).

I did not expect the ending of the movie, which was sad, and a little heartbreaking as there is most likely some truth in it, and in what happened. In this day and age of online meetups and befriending people who you don't actually know, everyone should be careful as to who they chat with and not meet up with anyone you don't know, at least not alone and not in a place where there won't be others around.

Every parent should watch this, and watch it to the end, because that could be your child. It might be uncomfortable to watch, but honestly it should be. I know eight and ten year olds who are on Snapchat and Facebook, and it is not a safe world for teens and kids on the internet, it isn't exactly a safe world for adults like me.

I thought I was going to be watching a straight up horror movie, but it wasn't, however it was a horror movie of a different nature.