the savages-movie

finally got down to watch the savages. very very disappointing. perhaps i am not a very arty person, i can't fully appreciate it like those sitting in the academy award committee. =(

i loved the plot and was full of expectation for the movie. i was hoping for touching scenes, tearful reunions and farewells but... i sat in the cinema for 2 hrs looking at an adult daughter who was fixated with her 'troubled' childhood and a very cool-minded son bonding to 'care' for their father. 'care' in this sense was just placing him in a nursing home. *sigh* i was hoping for scenes where they would be trying to care for him themselves and end up having being burnt out. that will be damn touching and tearful! but... but...they are afterall ang moh! =( personally i thot more can be build on, in the movie.

there was nothing to bring home after the movie. =( although there wasn't a clear indication if the daughter ended her relationship with that married man or if her brother finally managed to muster up enough courage to hold on to his polish gf, i wasn't too bothered to care or think abt it.

maybe i saw too much real life incidents of how family/ children react to their ill parents? or death just isn't too big a deal to me now. i found myself mocking at the unrealistic flow of how a person with vascular dementia dies so fast after his initial diagnosis! 1st the dr said the father is in his initial stage but as the illness progress he will be more ill and stuff. then barely wthin months (in fact i think its only within 1 month!) he dies! *puzzled*