In The City of Sylvia Review

It isn't easy being homeless, the lifestyle of the vagabond has long being overrated by the authors of 'modern classics', tonight I wandered the streets of London unsure of where to go, I have been evicted from my house and am waiting to take a bed in Whitechapel, the last 2 weeks or so have been an interesting game of not knowing where I am going to lay my head each night, I've figured a friend's couch for tonight but won't be able to get in until 1am, tomorrow night may be even worse as we plan to drink in our now empty house in Kentish Town to which we still have keys and whether a room will be found while I'm stumbling around is a risk, but tonight, while I wait, I write, and I write a review for a film which I saw so I could vacate a friend's living room in Barbican, a film I saw in Soho which was interestingly enough about wandering a city, In The City of Sylvia, the film had not been recommend to me after I passed tickets along to my friend Leeanne who had not recommended the film to me, but I could get a ticket for free in Soho and I did need to vacate this living room, the film is preoccupied with pretty girls, lingering over them for quite long shots, and then it isn't a reflection of what wandering a city without purpose is really like, I barely saw any men in this city, and it reaffirms the stereotype that Europe is full of scantly dressed beautiful women, which is at the same time both true and not true, true that Europe does have more than its share of scantly dressed beautiful women but not true in the sense that there are also unattractive ones and men, and that is the continent (Western Pensiula of Asia) of Europe, certainly not London and so the film didn't ring true to my wanderings, also I found the film slightly creepy and I certainly don't find myself slightly creepy, in effect it is glorifiying stalkers, and the lead character looks like a knob, no, this film didn't relate to my experiences of wandering whatsoever.

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