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Oct. 15th, 2007 09:49 amBefore coming to the States, I had dreamt of the day N and I would go to the movies and have some popcorn that was salted & buttered unlike the sweet popcorn we got in Malaysia that I just couldn't understand! :P I had thought that it didn't even matter what that movie was. With that last wednesday, N asked me to get dressed and took me out on a drive through Georgetown and then to a small mall with a movie theater in it.
We had two free passes to the advance screening of Lars and the Real Girl. So, with salted & buttered popcorn in hand (albeit it was prepacked and not so hot), we enjoyed what turned out to be a beautiful movie! The cast, everyone of them did an amazing job to make the movie what it was!! It was just amazing to see how a whole town nurtured, loved, and cared to bring the delusional lars work through his issues.
So, I was a happy girl.
On Friday evening, we had planned to stay home for the first time that week. But as N came home slightly earlier than usual, he asked me to get dressed and had a surprise for me. We headed down to DC in the metro and exited at the Smithsonian and there it was, the US Capitol on one end and the national monument on the other. It was quite an impressive scene. Just close to the station was the Freer Museum of Arts. It was a screening of a movie, but he wouldn't tell me what. It seems the organisers were also conspiring and there were no posters up anywhere nor did it show on the tickets he passed to me. He wouldn't let me close the ticket booth nor the programme books handed out.
I looked around the crowd and I spotted a mix of different ethnicities. The front row had a mixture of Chinese (Americans or other citizens) and what I felt as Malays, Indians........ and somehow I guessed it was something to do with Malaysia. And I was right. He of course thought the movie was about a girl who moves cities (from Penang to Kuala Lumpur) and finds the place new & a boy who she gets to know. That is what the synopsis said.
The movie (Love Conquers All) turned out to be more than that. It was a very low-budget movie that received some international awards. It showed in its subtlety the way women enter the world of human trafficking. And yet it leaves the audience pondering and guessing. The dialogue was kept to a bare minimum; to a point where I can recite all of it again! And I am often bad at remembering dialogue!
What did I think of the movie? I nearly fell asleep. It captivated me in the begining and then it just lost me. Maybe it wasn't the right time to watch it. Maybe it requires a certain mood. Lot of the audience got up leaving confused and asking for explanations from the organisers in case they had missed something. If I could get a bit more of the thoughts of the main character I would feel some relation with her. Otherwise it just felt so distant.
We had two free passes to the advance screening of Lars and the Real Girl. So, with salted & buttered popcorn in hand (albeit it was prepacked and not so hot), we enjoyed what turned out to be a beautiful movie! The cast, everyone of them did an amazing job to make the movie what it was!! It was just amazing to see how a whole town nurtured, loved, and cared to bring the delusional lars work through his issues.
So, I was a happy girl.
On Friday evening, we had planned to stay home for the first time that week. But as N came home slightly earlier than usual, he asked me to get dressed and had a surprise for me. We headed down to DC in the metro and exited at the Smithsonian and there it was, the US Capitol on one end and the national monument on the other. It was quite an impressive scene. Just close to the station was the Freer Museum of Arts. It was a screening of a movie, but he wouldn't tell me what. It seems the organisers were also conspiring and there were no posters up anywhere nor did it show on the tickets he passed to me. He wouldn't let me close the ticket booth nor the programme books handed out.
I looked around the crowd and I spotted a mix of different ethnicities. The front row had a mixture of Chinese (Americans or other citizens) and what I felt as Malays, Indians........ and somehow I guessed it was something to do with Malaysia. And I was right. He of course thought the movie was about a girl who moves cities (from Penang to Kuala Lumpur) and finds the place new & a boy who she gets to know. That is what the synopsis said.
The movie (Love Conquers All) turned out to be more than that. It was a very low-budget movie that received some international awards. It showed in its subtlety the way women enter the world of human trafficking. And yet it leaves the audience pondering and guessing. The dialogue was kept to a bare minimum; to a point where I can recite all of it again! And I am often bad at remembering dialogue!
What did I think of the movie? I nearly fell asleep. It captivated me in the begining and then it just lost me. Maybe it wasn't the right time to watch it. Maybe it requires a certain mood. Lot of the audience got up leaving confused and asking for explanations from the organisers in case they had missed something. If I could get a bit more of the thoughts of the main character I would feel some relation with her. Otherwise it just felt so distant.
