--v--<@ A flower that grows despite cement holes @>--v--
Facing Window..
Thursday, September 02, 2004
Had just watched an Italian movie 'Facing Window'.
What a freshing change from Hollywood movies with mindless lines from script writers and directors who think all audiences are dumb ass and watch movies for cheap thrill.
Facing Window thrills me nonetheless. The movie is what I call, a movie with not a line wasted.
As a fine exemplary specimen of a movie well filmed, every single word exist for a reason, a meaning, a truth that cannot be taken away. Without which, the movie will be incomplete.
The main question is well in check throughout the entire movie, keeps me on the edge of my seat, waiting for an answer.
A story of a young mother of two, with a nine year old marriage who was unsatisfied with her life and her husband who couldn't keep to a job. This translated to her unloving attitude and even her daughter inherited her 'venomous tongue'. The thing that kept her burning with passion was to spy on the handsome neighbour in the next block whose window faces her kitchen's window. And the twist of fate landed on her door step when her husband decided to bring an old man home because he had lost his memory and the husband couldn't bear to leave him in lurch.
The old man brought the handsome neighbour and the lady together. So... they did the deed, had an affair and eloped in search for her happiness? That's how hollywood movies usually end up.
But no...
The old man recovered his memory and it turned out that he was a gay pastry chef and now a famous pastry chef and still gay. He dispensed an advice to the lady, who also had passion for pastry making, "You must demand to live in a better world, not just dream about it..."
The answer to the lady's happiness is not as simple as eloping with the handsome neighbour, but to search within herself and pick up the courage to live up to her dreams.
Someone told me... dream and tell yourself you will get it and you will get it.
Well, work towards it and even if at the end of the day before your last breath and you still can't get it, at least, you are on your way there.
Renee Chua A flower that refuses to let the cement close in on her... she fights her way through to fight for her rights to sunshine and rain...yet never lose her beauty to the weather...
Likes: Humanity
Jazz, new age, alternative, acid jazz, soft rock music
Watch and read a good play
Direct and act in a few excellent plays
Photography
Designing
A good hearty laugh
Dislikes: Snobs and bitches (same category)
Those who just wanna make life difficult for others
Drivers who can't make up their mind which lane to drive on
The self contradicting systems in my country
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Facing Window..
Thursday, September 02, 2004
Had just watched an Italian movie 'Facing Window'.
What a freshing change from Hollywood movies with mindless lines from script writers and directors who think all audiences are dumb ass and watch movies for cheap thrill.
Facing Window thrills me nonetheless. The movie is what I call, a movie with not a line wasted.
As a fine exemplary specimen of a movie well filmed, every single word exist for a reason, a meaning, a truth that cannot be taken away. Without which, the movie will be incomplete.
The main question is well in check throughout the entire movie, keeps me on the edge of my seat, waiting for an answer.
A story of a young mother of two, with a nine year old marriage who was unsatisfied with her life and her husband who couldn't keep to a job. This translated to her unloving attitude and even her daughter inherited her 'venomous tongue'. The thing that kept her burning with passion was to spy on the handsome neighbour in the next block whose window faces her kitchen's window. And the twist of fate landed on her door step when her husband decided to bring an old man home because he had lost his memory and the husband couldn't bear to leave him in lurch.
The old man brought the handsome neighbour and the lady together. So... they did the deed, had an affair and eloped in search for her happiness? That's how hollywood movies usually end up.
But no...
The old man recovered his memory and it turned out that he was a gay pastry chef and now a famous pastry chef and still gay. He dispensed an advice to the lady, who also had passion for pastry making, "You must demand to live in a better world, not just dream about it..."
The answer to the lady's happiness is not as simple as eloping with the handsome neighbour, but to search within herself and pick up the courage to live up to her dreams.
Someone told me... dream and tell yourself you will get it and you will get it.
Well, work towards it and even if at the end of the day before your last breath and you still can't get it, at least, you are on your way there.
