stuff by paige

 I would put a spoiler warning for this film but there's really no need to; we all lived through it. Death To 2020 is a documentary/mockumentary covering the shambles of a year which was 2020. I enjoy a good documentary as much as I love a mockumentary, so this film was right up my street. Featuring multiple famous faces, including Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Grant, Lisa Kudrow and Joe Keery to name a few, the film tells the story of the past year through "interviews" and news clips, making commentary on all things political, pandemical and social. There were so many events covered which I myself had forgotten took place in 2020, so the film served as a sort of revision session - I would definitely put this film on a future history class syllabus.  Of course, key events which were discussed extensively included the COVID-19 virus, the BLM protests, and the presidential election. With the coverage of COVID, the film highlights how many large companies and businesses, such as c...

At the beginning of the pandemic, I decided to give myself a break from reading. As a creative writing graduate, reading was something unavoidable, meaning that after finishing all of my final assignments, I needed a rest from anything  reading    intensive. That was until the world was forced to open their eyes wide and raise their voices against the vile, blatant acts of racism present in society, sparked by the death of George Floyd. Numerous cases of police brutality surfaced on all social media platforms, highlighting the presence of systemic, and brutal, acts of racism all over the globe, uniting people to protest for Black Lives Matter.  I found myself reading, educating myself through numerous resources which I had found online and through my own university library, signing and sharing each and every petition which I could find under Twitter threads. The current world situation and my resurgence of my need to read reminded me of a book that I ha...