Friday 8 June 2012

Mission To Lars


Kate & Will Spicer film: Mission To Lars
Last night on 7th June, I had the pleasure of attending a documentary of a rare and insightful kind. This documentary is called “Mission to Lars” which was shown at The Lexi Cinema in Kensel Rise.

Kate Spicer, a journalist and her brother Will a film maker decided to make a documentary about their brother Tom, who has Fragile X syndrome “a type of autism with bells on” as Kate describes.

Since the age of 18 Tom has lived in a Care home in the country, whilst Kate and Tom went off to university.
The Mission to Lars is about a brother and a sister fulfilling their brother’s dream of touring America in the hope to meet Tom’s hero Lars Ulrich, the drummer of the heavy metal rock band Metallica! Rock on maaan!

During this lovely journey we see Kate’s determination to drive around America with no Sav nav! Whilst trying to keep calm under pressure in order to cater to Toms needs, although he always seems calm and relaxed during the film.

The film covered all things about Tom and as he has mild autism he needed routine, which proved to be a challenge to get Tom on the road to meet his hero.

I went to the second screening and met Kate, where she wished me luck for my own mission, which I hope to film about my younger brother, who was diagnosed with learning difficulties and mild autism at age 19, but has come out of school with crap grades and has lost confidence about his future.

From hearing Kate’s Q’n’A about spending the intense amount of time with her little brother, (not so little) it makes me think about how my relationship is with Jordan. He is the youngest of our family, and before his diagnosis we treated him as a member of the family, without looking at him as having a condition, which I feel is important for anyone who has a sibling with a learning difficulty.

 Also just because someone has a learning difficulty doesn’t mean they can’t and shouldn’t have goals which they are entitled too and are achievable, they just may need a little help from their siblings.

A job well done to Kate and Tom Spicer and Go Tom!! The star of the show! A warm and inspiring film, which proves that anything is possible no matter what! A film not to be missed!
For me, I hope to film Jordan with his funny and quirky ways!

For more screenings and information about Mission to Lars see: http://mission-to-lars.blogspot.co.uk/

Friday 23 March 2012

Are you always late? Or ridiculous early?




Are you ever ridiculously late for things, like meeting friends, work or appointments, or do you fall into the category of being early and annoyed at your late friends?
Are you forever making exuses “I’m just on the train now, or I’m just leaving now” when you know full well you aren’t, you’re just drying your hair.

After listening to woman’s hour,it seems according to Louise Berry from Psychologies Magazine there are ONLY two types of neuroticism, being incredibly organized or absolutely chaotic and
trying to do ten things at once before leaving the house for that meeting, or appointment.
There are certain times in our lives that we just cannot afford to be late, like an exam, when catching a plane, working on live television or depending on how cute the guy you’re
dating is, will depend on our lateness scale, however sometimes it is “fashionable
to be late.”

Or there are other times in our
lives when we just cannot get off the phone to a friend who’s having a bad day.
Psychologies magazine says that supposedly those who are late are more
creative!

I fall in to the category of
being late! No matter how much time I prep before a journey, despite having
checked TFL and having a back packed I am ALWAYS late weather it’s by 5 minutes
of 30!

What’s funny is that if a friend
is late for me I become very impatient, but why is this?
I know there are crucial times in our lives where we just HAVE to be organised
for special occasions such as exams or transport, so why can I not make this a permanent
thing? It’s not as if I don’t value my friends, job or lectures, but I feel no
matter what I’m always late!
Maybe it’s because we have our trusty mobile phone to help us, or that fact that according to the Psychologies magazine I am just pre disposed to being absolutely chaotic, I guess I just
need to manage my chaos and try and be on time! Or maybe for us late people we
may not want to ruin our creativity.