At least that’s what i think. One song that I thought about at the end of the movie is John Mayer’s In Repair.

Doctors fix their patients by putting chemicals into their body to re-establish the kinda balance needed for them to function properly. Carpenters fix broken furnitures by reattaching those broken legs and missing screws. And every tangibles need some form of fix every once in a while. It could be an external blemish or an internal instability.

Movie mainly talks about post traumatic stress disorder after losing the whole family during the 9/11. Guilty are the ones left behind, painfully holding on to every little details left behind. It’s like a painful wound (and in this case, a huge one), it hurts yet you wanna touch it hoping that it hurts less knowing that it wouldn’t. But you do know that wounds don’t heal if you keep touching it. It was a difficult and delicate subject to maneuver, but I think this 2007 movie just managed to pull it off well.

曾经有一个小小的社会新闻，四个男孩子相偕去戏水，结果大浪一来，三个人死掉了，只剩下一个活着游回来。报纸上谈论著死掉的那三个孩子，而我急切地找活着的那一个：怎么没有他的名字呢？怎么没有人告诉我只剩下他活下来之后、他过得怎么样呢？

大家都替死的人感到难过，我却一直在想，活下来的那一个，一下子失去了三个好朋友，他会不会孤单？
　　
所以我有了《沉睡的青春》。
　　
沉睡，说的不是青春的消逝，而是生命的孤寂，可是却用一种带着诗意的甜美浪漫被呈现出来，原因是我并不想再增加生命的悲伤，相反地，我想疗伤，静静地、缓缓地、帮忙那些有遗憾的生命找到存在的力量。

— 导演 郑芬芬

出现在电影的话:

　有些人对时间的流逝 感到遗憾
　有些人则深陷其中 永远也逃不出来

　存在也许无法被证明
　灵魂的重量却可以被创造

Time’s gone by, sometimes you look for the closest evidence that you’ve grown up indeed. Most of the time, after a couple of vindications, followed by a couple of false dawns, you wonder if those are mere illusions accidentally happening at the same time.

Chungking Express aka 重庆森林 is a 1994 film. I was 9 years old during 1994. Couldn’t have watched this movie then. I probably watched this during one of the movie’s rerun on tv somewhere between the mid to late nineties. I was very young then, and I thought this film is boring. Just a couple of whirl-ish camera angles. Besides, I never really understood what’s going on exactly. So my memory of this movie is pretty vague. Almost dreamlike – I think it really took place, but i can never be too sure.

Fast-forward 15 years on, I’m 24 years old this year, the age of Takeshi Kaneshiro’s character in the movie (with no intention to attempt to draw any possible comparison. I swear I’ll never try. Just unbeautifully imperfect coincidence that’s all.) I think I’ve probably watched parts of this movie during one of those reruns on local tv over the past 15 years, but again, I’m not too sure.

Just on this fine evening, I suddenly thought of Mijung, who had gone missing, and I decided to watch this movie properly once more in its whole entirety. 1 hour 37 minutes, I enjoyed it. Like how I enjoyed 2046 though a lot of people still hates me for dragging them to the theatre for that movie. That’s the surest sign of growing up. That the kinetic motion on your clock is no illusion. It feels like over the years, all you’re doing is accumulating experiences, your imaginations and your thoughts. When you reach a certain amount of quota, you gain access to different understandings. You began to understand things that you never used to understand.

Like the retirement speech I heard this morning, if life is divided into 3 stages, I’m probably at the brink of the 1st stage, sauntering awkwardly into the 2nd. Gaining the number of candles on my birthday cake seems exciting. Surely more heartbreaks ahead along the way, but all of these are slowly easing me into the better understanding of the next great movie.

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internship…about 30 working days left. I’m not a great fan of countdowns. I didn’t even really do it for my ORD. But this time, I truly felt that I’ve overstayed my welcome.

La Vie En Rose (2007)

I’m not really a fan of biographies, more so for eulogy. How is it fair to summarise one’s life, if they’ve lived for so many years of happiness and pain, to have it summarised into a book of five hundred odd pages or a movie of two and a half hours? How fair is it to be judged on one addiction, one climax, one eye-catching moment of your life, only to have the rest of it overlooked with casual opinions passed on from one medium to another? Or is it, in truth, we’re only living for that one moment?

Thanks to this movie, I got to know about the life story about Edith Piaf, probably one of the greatest popular french singer ever.

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Factory Girl (2006)

Suspect X (2008)

In Bruges (2008)

I like long weekends. Everyone seems happier on the day before the long weekend hits. I see only smiles and laughter on the streets.

Glorious weekend. There isn’t a need to make plans just because there’s a need for plans. =)

It’s a constant battle going on within, between ideals that you’ve picked up from here, from there, from everywhere. The one that wins, you try to believe it as if it’s your own. But really, there’s a whole bunch of other reasons how it won on that day.

very brilliant movie. seemingly simple but so much hidden between the lines. Woody Allen styled…maybe even better.

Garden State (2004)

Kento recommended this movie. I think it’s a good movie. Lighthearted and leaves some room for thought.

Okuribito (2008)

I think this movie won Best Foreign Film this year. Never mind the accolades, it’s a good movie, worthy of any award it garners. It’s heartwarming and provides a good insight into a profession most people shuns.

Bad Guy a.k.a Nabbeun Namja (2001)

Another Kim Ki-duk’s work. It’s my second movie by this director after Mijung’s recommendation. The first was Shi-gan and it left me feeling very sombre. This one, I felt surprisingly calm at the end of the movie, which is not necessarily a good thing. Perhaps there are certain cultural attributes that are lost when viewing this movie using English subtitles, wish I could understand Korean though. I guess, this isn’t really my style of movie.

Taken (2008)

Action-Thriller type of movie.

Zeitgeist (2007)

A free-to-distribute movie that questions Christianity, the 9/11 and the global economy. It’s a good docu-movie that attempts to give you the other side of the coin through its carefully chosen theories and explanations. In my opinion, it’s a dangerous movie to watch if you’re not opinionated enough to make your own judgement.

Tony Takitani (2004)

Based on Haruki Murakami’s short story, this movie is a delicate and intricately carved piece of art. It’s calm, it’s tranquil. He attempts to paint the world of loneliness that Haruki Murakami fabricates, and how beautifully he managed it. Love it or hate it.

寂寞不是因为身边没有很多人

寂寞是当你在这么多人当中找不到某种共鸣与默契

The first time i got to know about this movie was when i saw the colorful movie poster hanging on the plainest of walls in adm. it’s loud and looks interesting. Despite my disdain for death metal and visual kei, this movie is a treat. It’s hilarious, it’s lively and that’s good enough for today.