Day 4: "My Lips Are Chapped"



Daily Quotes:

"One of my favorite things to do is fold paper" Hannah 
*sings* "I need a Dr Pepper" Brittany


This morning I begged for tickets for Fahrenheit 451. Instead of getting any I was given multiple tickets to other showings and multiple people interviewed me. I watched The Raft, which was a very well made documentary but the content was too boring and irrelevant to anything. They seemed to be grasping for some introspective conclusion, but there wasn't any. It was about a group of 11 people who spent 111 days at sea for an anthropological study on violence. However, it more or less ended up as a study on authority and group think.  

Office Uprising played in Gray 4 at 1:30 and was the best bad movie I have seen to date. It was also unfinished! A woman went up and introduced the film. It didn't have any score, color correction or special effects. The absence of special effects was hilarious. A mans head was cut off and the the quality of the effect was funnier than any of the one liners. Additionally, an elevator was meant to drop at one point and the screen only showed text "flaming elevator passes and crashes". Also, Zachary Levi was the bad guy!? Levi is the purest actor and deserves an Oscar. It was so refreshing to see a bad comedy at Cannes. I think this film was made for me: the main female character had my name and the lead drove the same car as me. The rest of the actors all did a phenomenal job as well. The comedic timing in the film was extremely on point and the screening was full. 

Later in the day, a group and I went and begged for Fahrenheit 451 again with no luck. Then I went to dinner at Ma Nola's, an Irish Pub and our waiter was Irish! I then bought two dresses at Zara and went back early but still went to bed at 3am. 


Additionally, the whole celebrity culture is overwhelming. The praise that's is placed around models and actress is insane. The mobs and security guards is one of the craziest things I have ever seen. I have met a good amount of actors and directors before, but not in this setting.  Overall, it's an interesting experience to witness. 

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