Monday, May 23, 2005

RA movie

There is this RA movie that I downloaded via Bit Comet and the plot planted thoughts into my head.
No, not those dirty screwing mind images (that's what you get when u watch really hardcore porn), but some rather good, clean thoughts. It's moments like this when you realise things work in mysterious ways.
So let me proceed to say what's swirling in my head some moments ago. If you had to make a decision, to start a new life all over again, (and by this I mean a new life in any place and any environment other than where you are now) would u take it?
Let me make myself clearer by stating an example. Boy decides to live in Brazil. He takes the next flight out, and begins living there. He tells no one in Singapore about his decision. And there, his life continues at age 21.
The prospect of an entirely new life does seem fresh, like a hot plate of fish and chips. Would I want to kick away 4yrs of university life ahead to plant myself in god knows where and do god knows what? In case u might have felt that I'm talking nonsense, you are pretty much correct. I do like to just spew whatever is in my mind once in a while, and more often than not, it's pretty much like this. I think that at this point I should provide a simple synopsis of the movie.
Japanese Girl on a sch trip to HongKong decides to take trip round Kowloon via taxi. Driver sees a braclet that she's wearing, and this triggers a reaction in him. He kidnaps her and takes her back to his place. When Girl's teacher finds out she's missing, he decides to stay to look for her. Back to the action, Girl struggles while Driver keeps her locked up, but fed and washed. And they can't understand each other. So what generally happens is that they fall in love, and yes, there is a love scene (it's kinda soft soft porn after all). Eventually, the Girl is discovered when she knocks her head while buying vegetables at the market andthus gets sent to the hospital. She is about to be deported back to Japan, when she runs away from the airport. Her teacher does nothing and lets her go. Driver and Girl gets back together. So in between the movie, what's known is that the Girl has an alcoholic mother, who took the bottle after the father ran off with another woman a year ago. Thus Girl becomes introverted and seclusive.
There, this is a very simple and quite a terrible way of describing a movie, but i try to get the general idea across. So please do keep in mind that I left out the entire part on how they fell in love. It's always this kind of shit that keeps movies going ain't it? like how we always know that the couple is going to hook up at the end, or how the hero is going to kick some candy ass.
I do like films in general, even the really bad ones, like Colour Bosoms, sorry, Blossoms and House of Wax (I prefer the former though, not particularly fond of horror flicks and Paris Hilton) There are many so many things that can be appreciated in films, like how you want to interpret what the plot is trying to tell the audience, or how the story reminds you of true fact, or how you freak out when that guy got decapitated by the bogeyman, or how you dig the lighting and mood of the whole show, or if you decide to condemn the show to hell, wonder how anyone can put together this kind of fucked up piece of film.
I watched my favourite show in Sec 2 (that's back in 1998) and five more times since. And it was good (partly because the first time was with my first date ever). Gattaca, with Ethan Hawke, Jude Law and Uma Thurman. You might want to thank me for bringing this movie up.
Or not.

9 comments:

jun said...

hoho i cld burn it if you want

Anonymous said...

i love u JUN! pls marry me! i'm the biggest chiobu in de world!

jun said...

yea! y dun we get into a hotel and haf some fun first? preferably the top floor so i can leap off the window after that..

Anonymous said...

y would u wanna do that?? i'm so chio, one 'pao' is not enough i gurantee! i'll have u asking for more!

Terence said...

burn for me leh

jun said...

haha it's called perfect education.. i thought you dun watch chinese films? unless of course you are interested in smt else..

bikwei said...

not bad. 7 comments for a 2nd post. heh :)

anyway. do what makes u happy. will throwing away everything REALLY make you happy? i think it's overrated how everyone believe to start afresh requires a totally new environment where no one noes you.

jun said...

yea i agree, throwing away everything doesn't mean the arrival of happiness. but im questioning our ability to let go. you know the part where yoda says to overcome the fear of loss? for a movie line that seems a tad bit corny, it does makes for some heavy thinking.

haha and 3 out of 7 are by urs truly.

Anonymous said...

That's a great story. Waiting for more. » » »