Tom’s Comments (group member since Jun 06, 2014)

Tom’s comments from the Bespoke group.

1. I don't know if he needs to approve of this world because of how over dramatic it all is but because of the consistency of drugs, sex, parties etc he probably does approve of it. Maybe that was his experience of it all. It seems very glamourised and I think he has exaggerated that lifestyle slightly but actually it's probably all very realistic of L.A but also of any town or city and we're just not aware of that because we have no experience of it ourselves. I don't think it should be glamorised though, and I think he has an unrealistic representation of death. I doubt that many people think about killing themselves at uni as regularly as everyone in this story does, he treats it so casually like it flickers through everyone's minds that regularly.



2. I really did not appreciate being thrown in the middle of a situation without having any context of it all it was just confusing and rushed and I hate not knowing everything beforehand. He's done this I think to highlight that this story is just a small part of a much longer story and how temporary their time is at university and we are given just a small snippet of it. It makes you think about their previous experiences and life and then at the end it leaves you thinking about what happens next. It ended much better than it started.

3. I actually think very little is at the heart of them all and it's all just spontaneous decisions with no real thought or logic to why they're doing what they're doing, but hoping for a connection amongst it all. However, with the small connections and relationships they do have they all end up disconnected anyway, which I think is a key theme of University and the people you meet. The statement about being tired sums up uni pretty accurately to be honest haha. Probably tired of the same outcome, had they made better decisions they probably wouldn't be tired of everything. The drugs has made them all numb.

Yeah I'm game for seeing the film! :)

I've not started it yet! Will do tonight though. Bear with.