after 2 continual sleepless nights of cold i'm on medical leave today.. trust me - being on medical leave is really a boring thing for me.. decided to watch the most talked about Taiwanese movie - 海角7號 (Guoqing gave me a copy when he was in Singapore last month) .. finally i have the time to sit down and watch it..
initially the plot was quite slow-paced.. but perhaps cos i really miss my 'life in Taiwan' hence even the slow country life is appealing to me.. the so-familiar Taiwanese language with Chinese Mandarin and a bit of Japanese.. yet just before it gets on my impatient nerves to switch it off... it suddenly becomes so touching.. the missing and devotion of love.. the unity of people if they are willing to take the effort.. the boldness to step out in love... all becomes so real..
i didn't cry as much as those movie critics said... but it really touches my heart..not the emotional hipe, but the very flesh of heart. what a real story, so simple so real... no effects, no motive.. just real life story.. (it may not win those Blockbuster movies, but it sure has its class of its own)..
i wonder how wld it be - love across continents. i've always been a skeptic of long distance relationship..i guess i can say i've tried but perhaps just like the Jap teacher who wrote the letters.. it's a unimaginable affair to give up life in home country, it really requires courage.. but yet when u leave, it's a mixed feeling of 'leaving for home' and 'leaving from home'..
what a story.. so simple i really cant say more.. but i encourage people to watch it when it's screened in Singapore theaters in late Nov08. cant say it's worth the $10 pricing cos no effects is involved, but it's sure a value-for-money movie.. a domain value which has been masked by modernity.
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