3: Amelie

Amelie has been my favorite movie for a few years now. It is in French, with English subtitles of course, but it's meaning is universal. It is about a French girl who grew up without any friends because her father was a doctor and thought that she had a heart condition and deemed her unfit for school. Then her mother dies and her father becomes a complete recluse. Though she gets older and moves out while working at a bar called the Three Windmills. Through a series of odd events she becomes interested in helping the people she is in daily contact with but doesn't really know and may be falling in love with a boy she "feels an affinity with".
I related to this movie so easily because I'm just like Amelie. I help other people to the point where I don't ever help myself. You can't fail if you don't set any standards for yourself or if you don't try because you're scared. But then again, you can't win either. This movie definitely made me realize that to get anything worth living for you have to take a risk.

2: Fire and Ice by Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

I don't normally read poetry but I do remember this particular poem from when I read it in high school. I like reading it aloud because of it's rhyming scheme and the way it rolls off the tongue. It's almost like music. I think that when he says "fire" that he means things like hate, jealousy, greed, and lust, which are among the more stronger emotions. "Ice" seems to be more like ignorance, depression, and antipathy. I agree that "ice" will definitely work in destroying the world, but that it takes longer than "fire" which is why "fire" will be first. This poem makes me think about controlling my emotions before they control me whether they are fire or ice because either is bad.

1: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Movie Part 1

This was definitely one of the top most anticipated films of the year and I went to theaters to see it as I have for all the other Harry Potter movies. I didn't get into the books until a couple of years ago and I haven't been angry about the films "missing parts" of the books because of it. At first I was worried it would be slower than the other films because the book was made to movie in two parts, but the cinematography made up for that really well as I thoroughly enjoyed watching it multiple times.
The part I enjoyed the best was Hermione reading the three brothers of the Deathly Hallows. I loved being able to watch the story as she reads it. Also, even though it doesn't bug me, they really didn't leave out any parts of the book which made a lot of fans happy, I'm sure. I like the movies so much because it brings the books to a whole 3D level and when I read the books again, I can picture it much easier in my head and it makes the story much more enjoyable.