I have watched several versions of the 'Phantom of the Opera' and I have never loved the musical more than after I watched Sierra Borges and Ramin Karimloo's rendition of it. Ramin especially, played a very endearingly dramatic Phantom.
It took me a while to be able to digest something as full of emotion such as this story. After what I had gone through last semester, I seemed to be more aware of this bundle of impulses and ignorance that I am. It made me want to curl up in a ball everytime I remembered the shameful things that I did in the name of standing up for the thing that I thought made me human. And everyone else thought I was crazy.
I had my Phantom period. (oh yeah that term 'emo' is so mainstream)
Head and heart a universe apart, yet we battled our whole lives working to disentangled these two. And in this world, of sanity and civility, in any case of battle between our head and heart, the head must win.
The head must win. So only in Phantom's cave can one helplessly scream, wail, long and gaze upon love and loss. And Ramin haunted the audience with these scenes which are not possible in this world; we humans live and move on.
