Les Misérables

I had heard about the musical Les Misérables and that there was a movie version of it and although I love musicals and movies combined together, I did not have much interest in watching this one, up until I saw the trailer one day.

Weeks later I sat at my desk with my laptop and I watched two different versions of Les Miserábles. First the 25th Anniversary Concert and then the movie.

The Anniversary Concert is called "Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary" and amongst the cast there are a few very talented stage actors which are part of my personal favourites. These actors are Ramin Karimloo and Hadley Fraser who took part in "Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall", Samantha Barks who usually plays Éponine in "Les Misérables" at the West End and Nick Jonas who has a special place in my heart due to his Jonas Brothers past.

I enjoyed watching the Anniversary Concert but because there was no staging the scenes, I didn't really understand the whole story as I had never seen any version of Les Misérables.

After watching the concert I watched the movie and let me tell it is bloody brilliant. It's such a good movie that I bought myself a DVD of it as soon as I could. The fact that it is a musical with pretty much no dialogues - so they sing a lot which I love! - combined with the fact that it has the most incredible cast combined with the fact that it has such a powerful message, sold me right away!

The more I watch it the more I fall in love with it!

Even my sister who does not like musicals likes the songs of this one!

This musical has only made me love musicals even more and it has made me understand that they're what I want for my life!

Love,

Carolina Rosa

Becoming Jane

Recently I was browsing through some tv programs, looking for a good movie to watch. Amongst the many, some that I had seen and some that I had not, I found a movie called "Becoming Jane". I ended up choosing that movie because it was about Jane Austen's life.

"Becoming Jane" is a story about a girl who has a big passion for writting and wants to make a living out of it. But in the era she lives it is hard for women to make a living for themselves and usually they depend on the husband's job and money.
Jane's family isn't wealthy and so her mother insists she marries a rich gentleman named Mr. Wisley, who proposes to her partially because he likes her and partially because his aunt wants him to marry her.

But Jane is living in a world of her own. She meets a handsome young man, a lawyer from London named Tom. After bickering with each other for a bit they end up falling in love.
Tom takes Jane to his uncle's house in London so that the two can meet and Tom's uncle can accept Jane for the person she is and let Tom marry her. But his uncle doesn't want Tom to marry someone who hasn't got any money so he doesn't approve of the pair.

Tom and Jane decide to runaway, marry in secret and live their love away from everyone. But after finding a letter in Tom's jacket's pocket, Jane decides to go back home saying to Tom that their relationship would never work.



After some years Jane is a famous and successful novel author and Tom is a successful lawyer. The two of them meet in a social event and Tom introduces his daughter to Jane. When meeting they realise they never stopped loving each other.

I am a fan of novels and I am a fan of Jane Austen's stories. I have never read any of her books but I have seen "Pride & Prejudice - The Movie" based on her book "Pride & Prejudice". I really want to collect all of her books and fall in love with her incredible writting and imagination. Watching this movie has helped me understand her better as well as her stories - or ar least the one I know. I really look foward to getting my hands on all of her masterpieces and deeply submerge into the captivating love stories!

Love,
Carolina Rosalie ♥

Inside Out

Recently I went to the movies by myself - which is something I quite enjoy doing - and I bought myself a ticket for a movie called Inside Out. It is the newest Disney Pixar movie out there and I have to say that it is absolutely brilliant. Although I am 19 years old I still love kids movies and watching this one made me think a lot about life. When that happens, when I leave the cinema thinking deeply about the movie I know it was a great movie!

The story, as you can read from the poster, is about the five little voices inside our minds. They're called Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear and Anger and they control the emotions they're named after.

When an accident happens inside Riley's head - Riley is the girl who these five little emotions control - all sorts of bad things start happening and it seems that everything will end really badly. But obviously that's not the case.
The movie is filled with - in lack of a better word - obstacles that challenge everyone but in the end everything goes back to a far better normal.

I loved this movie because it was like a warm hug and I do love myself a warm cozy hug. I love hugs at all times, specially when I am very emotional.
Whilst watching the movie there were times when I felt like I needed a hug because it was a very emotional movie - or at least it was for me but I am naturally a very emotional person and it doesn't help my case the fact that I went to see this movie at that time of the month. But I still think that it is an emotional movie regardless of my "condition".
Also the cinema room had a lot of parents who went there simply to take their dauhters and sons to see a great movie. And the laughter and conversations from both adults and kids in between scenes, before the movie started and during break time was absolutely heart warming.

There was this pair - a dad and a lovely little girl - sitting close to me. My heart melted a tiny bit more everytime I heard them talking to each other, everytime I heard the dad saying things to the girl like "If you finish your drink and you still want more afterwards you can have mine". That to me is the cutest thing ever! This happened during break time and obviously I got a bit more emotional. So naturally when the movie ended I left feeling emotionally wrecked only because I wished I had gone back to being the little girl I once was going to the movies with her family.

In my opinion this is one to watch with your family and it is for everyone who loves a good old Disney life lesson hidden inside of a movie! If you've not see Inside Out and you're curious after this post, go see it whenever you can because it is brilliant!

Love,
Carolina Rosalie ♥

It's Complicated

As I'm writting this I have one of my favourite movies playing. The movie's called "It's Complicated" and it's about a woman called Jane who starts having an affair with her ex-husband. She then meets a man, who happens to be her architect and the two of them start dating.

The first time I watched this movie I totally fell in love with it. It's this crazy story about love & family, with a lot of twists and turns and it totally represents my idea of a happy family life!
Plus Jane owns a café-bakery and for a few years I've had the dream of owning one myself, as I have been falling in love with baking and cooking! So I totally relate to her --- I'd love to grow into a woman like Jane when I am her age.

The cast of this movie is incredible. Meryl Streep is one of my favourite actresses of all time and she plays the role perfectly. Alec Baldwin is an incredible Jake and although I tend not to like people who cheat with other people when they're married, I absolutely adore his character. Steve Martin plays a great Adam and he's really sweet so I like him a lot.

I also really love the soundtrack of the movie and the fact that it was written and directed by Nancy Meyers, who has also written. produced and directed "The Holiday", another of my favourite movies.

I am a sucker for romantic comedies and this one is at the top of my favourites!

Love,
Carolina Rosalie ♥

The Age of Adaline

On the 8th of May 2015, a girl called Carolina was feeling very anxious. Not because of coming up school exams or a medical appointment she was extremely nervous to go to. She was just anxious...
She decided to do something about it and so she got ready, left the house and went to wonder about in a shopping center.
When she got there she wondered through a few stores and bought some things to pamper herself. But the anxiety levels were still very high and so she went to the cinema and bought a single ticket.
A movie was probably the one thing that would calm her down. (Being in a dark room full - or empty - of strangers is quite relaxing, some might say!)
When she got there, there was only one woman in the room... but as the minutes went by the room started filling up. When the movie started everyone went silent!

At last the anxiety levels had dropped and Carolina was calm & relaxed!

"The Age of Adaline" is a story about a girl who, just after losing her husband and being left with a 5 year old daughter, suffers a terrible car accident. From that moment on her life changes completely... she stops aging.
At first it's not noticeable but as the years go by and her daughter starts getting older, people start wondering why she looks so youthful!
One day a police officer stops her on the road and notices she looks too young to be 45 years old. And from that moment Adaline starts a new chapter in her life, a chapter where she will not remain in the same place for over 10 years, a chapter where she'll always run away and become a new person.


During the movie Carolina found herself experiencing a lot of mixed emotions and there were times when she wanted to cry because she truly connected with Adaline. There was something about her that Carolina found quite special!

If like Carolina you sometimes find yourself trapped in a world where you feel like no one understands you then go and see this movie. Carolina couldn't find someone to connect with in the real world but she most certainly did it in the imagination world!
Love,
Carolina Rosalie ♥

Seize The Moment

There's this movie called "Boyhood" that I've been meaning to watch ever since it came out. I never got around to doing it up until recently and I really regret not watching it sooner but at the same time I feel like I was just meant to watch it at this time of my life. Had I watched it before and the effect it had on me could have been different and less meaningful!

This post is not to talk about the movie itself but the important message I got from it!
At first I started thinking about my life and what I will be doing with it. In the movie there's this part where the main character Mason goes to visit the college/university he's planning on going to. When that happened I started getting really confused, worried and upset. I started thinking about what life really is! Is it just some sort of path you go down where you do all of these things everyone expects you to do? Is life really just about getting an education, finding a husband or a wife, settling down and having kids and having a job that pays the bills? Or is life made of moments, unforgettable experiences, taking risks, finding "your people"?

About 30 minutes later more had happened in the movie and I started to think that I don't have to do what everyone else is doing and that it's okay for me to still be confused. I realised I will be confused till the rest of my days because a life worth living has got to have moments of confusion. And not just confusion but sadness and all the feeling no one likes to feel.

In the last few minutes of the movie Mason is talking to this girl he met in his first day of college/university and she says to him: "You know how everyone's always saying "seize the moment"? I don't know. I kind of think it's the other way around. You know, like the moment seizes us."
This simple thing she said really made me start thinking about the whole "seizing the moment thing". I am still trying to figure out the reason why. All I know is that it made lot of sense to me!
And because of that I'd like to leave these questions for everyone to discuss in the comment section below: (1) Do you think we seize the moment or the moment seizes us? ; (2) Why is it so easy for us to say "seize the moment" but so hard to accomplish?

Also if you've not seen the movie "Boyhood" yet, I really advise you to. Before watching it I had really high expectations about what it was like and it completely surpassed them!

Love,
Carolina Rosalie ♥

Eat. Pray. Love.

There's this thing called insecurities. They affect both women and men and they do not come with a warning. One day you simply become aware of certain aspects of either you or your life and if they don't please you, you become insecure about them. It's like an attack! One day you feel perfectly fine and the next day you have all kinds of thoughts that make you believe you are not good enough.
This happened to me, like it happens to a lot of people, at a young age... but I managed to deal with it and to overcome some of these insecurities, these fears.
It was definitely not an easy task and it took me many years and many tears but now I am much more assured of myself as woman, as person and as a human!

Every single person in the world has had or may still have a little "bug" in their heads telling them "You must be like this! You must not do this! Be like her/him!" and much more. Like every single person in the world I have had this "bug" in my head and some days I still have it...
These thoughts come to your mind probably because you don't value yourself enough or at all really. I know I didn't...
There are parts of me, of my life that I do not like at all and sometimes I wish they would disappear... But that's not possible and if it was I wouldn't be complete.
All things negative in people's lives have a purpose and people should not wish them not to be. I would not be me if I hadn't gone through the negative phases of my life. People would not be themselves if they hadn't experienced the things they did, negative or positive.

Everything we go through, everything we are part of was meant to be. Every experience, event, thought, feeling is another piece of our lives that is joining the things we've been gaining from day one! I am never going to be happy if I don't accept every lesson life has to offer me!

The movie "Eat Pray Love" is one movie that has thought me a lot about life. Every time I watch it I learn another lesson.
Lesson 1 - Eat, food is to be enjoyed: Food is one of my lovers, my passions but I was always very self-conscious about eating. I always felt guilty about eating certain things and I didn't let myself enjoy the meals I had. That part of my life is over!

Lesson 2 - Pray, God is always there to help you: I don't believe in commiting to a religion but I do believe there is something in this world, something above us all. I call it God! He or She is always there for me and has always been. This supernatural force is not what got me through though times but it helped, gave me hope!
Lesson 3 - Love, it's the most powerful force in the world: People, food, objects, moments, feelings are some of the things that deserve our love, If they have made you happy then you should love them with all your heart!
Lesson 4 - Love Yourself: People have got to love themselves, they have to accept their features and experiences and embrace them even if they don't like them. All those features and experiences are what makes us ourselves.
Lesson 5 - Fear: It's okay to be afraid, to not know what's next. Sometimes you just have "To Let Go And Let God"!
Lesson 6 - Enjoy Life: It's important to enjoy life as it is given to you because it is a blessing. Life does have its ups and downs but at the end of the day it's all going to be okay and you've got to be grateful about that.

There's a lot more to say about this movie and the lessons I was able to get from it but for now I think this is gonna have to do. I will definitely write more blog posts like this because I really liked this post and I am happy and proud to share my experiences, opinions and points of view.
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Talk to you soon!
Love,
Carolina Rosalie ♥