Never would I imagine that I would be a film fest attender.
Well, I watched three movies during the japanese film fest over the week, and the movies were strangely endearing, and very real. I'm a strong believer that japanese society actually represents what Singapore society will be in the future, and the little societal inadequacies and undertones mentioned in the movies will eventually appear in our society, and in our lives, and that, honestly scares me.
The three movies I watched were, "bare essentials of life", "air doll" and "sweet little lies". I have to say my favourite would be the closing movie of the fest, "sweet little lies". It's about a couple who, after being married for 3 years have little to no passion left in the marriage, and they start to lie to each other and getting involved in EMAs (extra-marital affair). Perhaps, a harsh reality to all lovebirds is that, no love is eternal? and eventually, will love run out? I know I feel so happy and grin to myself when I see an elderly couple walking together holding hands when they come to the hospital for their appointments. But in this day and age, how often do such relationships occur? How many couples make it from their marriage day to the day they depart from this world? Food for thought i guess.
Despite all the hype that "air doll" received. It was not, as I had hoped, as great as the reviews made it out to be. Rather whimsical and shallow overall. Catch it online! at stagevu.com. search "air doll".
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on a side note, today, i parked at the old school cos it's really cheap and its like $2/entry after 5 pm, then i walked down the super long flight of stairs down to cathay level 1. then after the film fest, i walked into cathay and took the fire lift up to level 8, and to my horror, i was stuck in the "mount sophia carpark" which is definitely misleading, cos i thought i would be able to walk out onto mount sophia and back to the old school carpark. the guard kept challenging my common sense and i kept trying to ask him for a way out of the carpark but, there was none - NO STAIRCASE can you believe it? and he was super against me walking down the carpark ramp. i was so going to make a run for it, when he flagged down a car which was exiting and asked for a lift down the ramp for me.
the car was white and zzznged. if you get what i mean, dark windows blue lights, spoiler. ah beng max. and i was so convinced that he wouldnt give me a lift cos his gf was inside as well, but they were amazingly nice and they agreed. they were quite surprised and chatty, and were rather amused at my plight. they even gave me a lift to old school.
i now have a changed view of ah bengs in general. i guess there are some nice and non-scary ones. oh and i wrote a complaint letter to the cathay, stating that their website and counter staff were both misleading, and thats why i got into this plight in the first place. pppppppft.
yup.
O&G is also over, and onto paeds.
sigh.
not. enjoying. paeds.
-cheryl~*
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