The Brother's Thing

It was Tuesday afternoon and I didn't have anything better to do at college, so I went home early that afternoon. It felt a little bit weird for me to see the road with fully loaded with cars on my way back home. I usually went home at night, when the roads were empty and there weren't so many cars. When I got home, I took a bath and then decided to just laying on my bed and reading something.

I was reading The Little Prince* when my brother asked me to accompany him watching The Chronicle of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe** at the cinema nearby our house.

Brother : Have Narnia been played on theater?
Me : Yep, since last Thursday...
Brother : Is there any in BSM theater?
Me : (keep reading) ...two studios.
Brother : Studio 1?
Me : Nope. It's Studio 3 and 4, I think.
(short silence)
Brother : What time?
Me : (looking at the clock) ...6.15 pm, and the next one played one an hour later...
Brother : Great, still have a lot time to catch. Wanna go?

Hmm, I don't have anything better to do that afternoon besides reading books...

Me : (stop reading, thinking) Wanna buy me a ticket? ***
Brother : Fine with me.
Me : (get up from the bed) It's fine with me too then...

So off we go to BSM to watch The Narnia movie at the theater.

It felt weird going there with him. I seldom go with him, almost never actually. Well, he's 6 years older than me. Plus, he is a serious type person, unlike me. And mature too. He's cool in some kind of way. He even never speaks about woman; it's not in his priority. He's not homosexual, definitely. He just doesn't talk about woman.
Woman tends to make you feel dizzy, he said, so why talk about them?

The interesting thing is, on that day I realized that we're look alike****. With an exceptional on the hair; mine is a little bit pollen while his is short-spikey. We also have the same eyes like my mother's. Our eye cornea is a little bit red, because it has the nerve system near the surface of the cornea, which makes our eyes sensitive with sunlight. My mother never went out without her black sunglasses. Sometimes, when I tried to look straight to the sun on a bright sunny day for just a moment, I felt like I was going to faint.

After we got there, we went to the theater on the third floor. The theater wasn't crowded at all like we expected. There's even not any queue in front of the ticket box. So I browse the movie poster display and look for the coming soon while my brother buying the ticket. And I saw King Kong's***** big poster. It had a picture of a woman in the middle, a-some-kind-of T-Rex on the left, and the King Kong on the right. Then my brother talked from my back,

Interesting isn't it? I want to watch it later when I'm already back to Jakarta again, maybe at Grande******...

Grande, huh? Hmm, maybe it IS a good place to watch movie like this.

I asked him,
...there's a T-Rex in the King Kong movie?
Yes, there is, as you can see on the poster. It's an primitive island.
...oh, I see. I thought it's just about a big King Kong ran away from a zoo and kidnapped a beautiful pedestrian passing by and take him to the top of a skyscraper...

Anyway, the studio 3 doors was opened and we went in to watch the movie.
What do I think about the movie?
It's not as good as I think. The film couldn't meet my expectation. I think they're miscast the player, like Santa (he was really phony), Beaver (a beaver with a lousy Irish accent? I think it's so uncool), and the worst is: the voice of Aslan. His voice's like narrator in a child's movie. It didn't even sound like he's the greatest king of Narnia.
Or maybe I just put up my expectations highly because I've watched The Lord of The Rings Trilogy and Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire******* first? So I expect it would be very cool like that?

Not really, the film's not that good anyway. But I enjoyed spending time with my brother. Maybe I should do it regularly.


But now he had already gone back to Jakarta.
So what should I do?
Hmm... how about read the Little Prince again?
Yeah, sound's good. I'll finish it once again, it is a nice book anyway...







Footnotes:
* One of my favorite books, written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1943).
** Visual adaptation from the 2nd book of the chronicle, directed by Andrew Adamson who was also the director of Shrek and Shrek2.
*** Hey, don't think of me badly, I really didn't have money back then.
**** Of course, you silly, it's your brother...
***** Remake of the old King Kong, directed by Peter Jackson (Lord of The Rings Trilogy)
****** One ticket at Grande's theater equals two tickets on BSM's. The quality is almost the same.
******* The best Harry Potter movie, the previous third was terrible. They just thought about adaptating Harry Potter's novel on the previous third, but didn't think about MAKING a very cool movie.