BRING IT TO LIFE

Recently, I went to TGV Cinema to watch this year gigantic blockbuster film, Transformers. Well, I am not really a cinema-type person as I prefer to watch VCD at my cozy room on a lazy Sunday evening. If we are given the chance to choose between two things-watching a movie or reading a drama, which one will become our cup of coffee? I believe that majority of us will opt for a movie treat instead because it has more visuals, sound effects and not forgetting the handsome good -looking actors and pretty actresses. My first encounter with reading a play gives me a truly great experience. When I read a drama, I like to imagine myself as the director of the drama that is waiting to be acted. For me, the drama script is merely a text if we as the readers do not make it “alive”. By giving the script an interpretation and then imagining its effects onstage, we complete it and bring it to life. Indeed, as imagined directors, we determine the perspective form which it will be staged. This is completely different with watching a movie because we become an audience who see, hear and analyze the director’s imagination of the movie. Thus, it is crystal-clear that reading a drama will not leave us with a bad experience at all even though you have to deal with the one by Shakespeare, Sophocles or other classical playwrights. This is because it gives us the total freedom and independent to create our very own drama by using our unlimited, borderless power of imaginations. We draw the characters and settings as we wish for in our minds. I think that’s what make the reading of drama more enlightening and in fact as enjoyable as watching a movie in a cinema. My point is to just enjoy your reading of the play and do not feel de-motivated to continue reading it till the last page. Initially, I also think that drama is terribly a nightmare however as I had get along with Antigone and Pygmalion I just yearn for more. I also can’t hardly wait to watch a real stage play performance soon and experience all the thrills.