beauty

i always pitied the phantom, or quasimodo in notre dame and much preferred a happier ending like beauty and the beast..

after watching phantom for the third time, i begin to love such a theme much more.. it is a theme of love and being loved... it is this conflict that enabled the production of great tragedies.. in the battle of realism and romanticism, realism always triumph.. this musical also demonstrated more often than not, love is skin-deep.. phantom loved christine coz she is pretty, christine preferred raoul coz he is handsome, raoul loved christine coz she is pretty.. and beauty is skin-deep.. and love is skin-deep.. how cliqued.. how sad.. even though i believe that love is much deeper than the skin, but when taken to the extreme when one' is so ugly as phantom when no one in society can accept him, i believe if i were christine, i will make the same ungrateful decision.. for pple like phantom, scientifically or genetically, i would conclude that he has a much reduced fitness (defined as no. of offspring produced as compared to an average person). discrimination against appearance is always there and will persist.. darwin always wins..

yeah, anyone can happily say that pity is pity and love is love, pity is not love and love is not pity..
gratitude is gratitude, love is love, gratitude not love and love not gratitude..
then wad is love?

tis a show that can put pple deep in thoughts.. how i'd wish to watch the show the fourth time in broadway! ha! but no money..