First film viewing—the entertaining comedy of Pygmalion.

I love watching movies, especially movies with some sense of humours. The viewing of Pygmalion’s movie (an adaptation of Shaw’s Pygmalion), assist me to have more lucid comprehension as opposed to only read the text. I actually some perplexity and vague impression of how does things develops especially for the first act, which takes place near Covent Garden where Eliza’s conversation was recorded by Higgins. The movie has actually helps me to comprehend and depicts a clear view of how it develops and plus, the movie helps me in knowing how to pronounce Eliza’s dialect since her dialect written in the text is so much difficult for me to utter. During reading the text in class, there are some humorous part that when Dr. Edwin read it, we seem to have no reaction at all until he ask us to laugh (~grin~). I would rather say that we have done the “laughing” part better while viewing the movies since movie provide with the visual and auditory aspects that lead us to see and hear things better than only read and leads us to have our own imagination which sometimes might not be correct with the actual meaning in the texts. What I like most about the movie is that the ending of the play which differs from the text. It seems that Higgins is so frustrated when Eliza left him for Freddy, however, at the end of the play Higgins’ sadness and despair comes to an end when Eliza comes back to him, suggesting that she is also in love with Higgins. In my opinion, this movie has actually underscores some similarity in my favourite movie, “Princess Diaries” where Mia Thermopolis has been transformed from a weird-looking country girl to a very beautiful princess. Anyhow, Pygmalion has its own distinct specialties though that it is a classical movie.