L change the world

again!! i watched the vcd again!! i love how L tried to walk upright for the kids. and the last part where he tried to cheer the boy up after leaving him in the orphanage. he tried to walk upright for him. it was so weird for him and he seems to be walking with so much effort. he tried... but it was too straining for him so he reverted back to his old ways. it was so touching!! i cried again!

movie-August RUsh

i had fulfilled my desire to watch water horse. orwh... such a wonderful heart-warming movie! the creature with its innocent eyes and expressive moans. now i want to watch AUGUST RUSH! i wonder why isn't it release in august?! haha... ok lame joke.

i had always like Keri the lady in the movie, since her debute in 'felicity'. another heart-warming movie that will bring tears of angish and then tears of joy. i like such ironic stuff. any takers? hmm... maybe i will watch it this weekend, i hardly get weekends off anyway.

leap year

oh... 29th feb is always filled with this mystical aura. some people said those borne on that date are ill-fated, cursed children. afterall who would loves to celebrate their birthdays once every 4 years? plus there had been some tales about how this data had been associated with earthquaks, volanco eruption and stuff. yet there had been novels and stories written about how people of different backgrounds and culture romantically met on such a special and unique date and then fell in love, got married and stuff. honestly every day such things happen but just because its 29th feb these interesting things seems to be highlighted.

this yr 29th feb a new movie will be screened.

i like the male lead in this movie. i 1st saw me on a thai movie, i think his name is Ananda Everingham . i read somewhere that he acted on "shutter" too.

the movie which got me 'hooked' on him - me...myself (recommended by a fellow blogger)

i think Ananda Everingham looks a little like our local Gumit Singh!

what did u do this cny?

how did u spend ur chinese new year? stay up late, eat, drink, smoke and gamble?

i did the usual, eat and be merry (which i had been doing everyday in fact!) and on top of it, i watched a movie! its my 1st time watching a movie on cny. the queue for the tickets were so long that... i didn't bother to queue but let my hubby buys it 2hours before the actual screening. =P for that, i agreed to watch the movie that he wanted to watch "ah long Pte Ltd". it was funny.

this time the dig was at the malaysia's political scene. but i was a little surprised to note those scenes used in the trailers not being in the movie. hubby said its the censorship, now... that makes sense. after all those 'complaints' and dicussion abt mr neo 'glorifying' the ah longs, those scenes in the trailers may be a little too politcally incorrect.

jack neo ah long movie

my take on the movie- watch it but if u can afford to wait, a DVD will be worth the keeping.

moive- helen the baby fox

i am no movie freak or drama addict although i seems like it. i just like to see lives of others from another person's view and what better way than thru a movie/ drama. no matter how blown out the drama/ movie is, there is always some truth to it. afterall most stories are inspired by the happenings around the scirpt-writer. =)

yet the choice of my movies/ drama never depart far from the topic of 'humanity'. i prefer plots that explore human's feelings. =) "helen the baby fox" is just another of such movie.

Helen The Baby Fox Trailer


apart from using children in the movie (which confirm can reach out to the adults, cuz kids have cute faces mah!) the producer uses a BABY FOX! note the 2 different words...BABY and FOX. sure win liao lor... heehe... but cute faces without a good plot hardly attracts me for very long. =P

yet this movie delivers all that i desire. the senerity of the rual japan, the pictures are so vivid that i thought i could feel the wind blowing thru my hair and i could almost smell the beautiful flowers! b'cuz of the longing that taichi had for his own mother, he could understand helen's need for its own mummy fox. but since mommy fox is gone, taichi doubled up as its mummy and care for it. i love the part when taichi said that it doesn't matter if helen get well or not, what matter is that i am with her. who can decide what is the best for helen? and then taichi in his very innocent way ran off to look for helen. what a touching moment! and alas!! helen actually cried out for the 1st time for its mummy (aka taichi)!. =`( *sob*

Piano song from the japan movie 'Helen the Baby Fox'

*ps- adjust ur vol if u r going to play this video! i think its a little to loud and sharp. =)


the movie ponder me to think... if human beings are allowed mercy death, will we as parent choose mercy death for our babies just because we think it will bring less suffering to them? or will we cherish every single hour that we have with our baby even if we know he/she will leave us eventually? its not just abt emotions but think abt the financial burden of treatment and other stuff.... *sigh* never a easy choice to make...

if u had not yet watch this OLD moive... GO WATCH IT! =)

movies

there are interesting movies i want to watch when they are finally here in singapore. hopefully in march when i am less busy but i bet that water horse will be in june when the kids are on holidays. either case i am fine. =P




for cj7 i really wish i could get to watch the cantonese version! =) maybe travel into JB and watch. hopefully they will have the cantonese version. if not i will just wait for the dvd. =)

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*