| Thursday, June 10, 2004 |
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Hmmm... it's been a week since I've last blog. The reason for it is that I somehow has lost interest surfing the Internet. All I do is check my emails and football/soccer updates. So, this is a bit of this and that I've been doing for the past few days. Most of the day I spent working at the library and at the cafetaria. My friends and I went to the mall on Saturday and celebrated BC's 21st birthday last Sunday at Nitty Gritty birthday bar. It was fun since it has been a long time since I hang out with these people. Yesterday, BC and I decided to pamper ourselves at the salon. We took a Pamper package for just $28 for shampoo and style, facial, scalp treatment, manicure and makeup. It was a pretty good deal. We spent four hours at the salon. Then we hit State Street, get ice cream at Coldstone(it was so GOOD!) and had my dinner at Potbelly Sandwich. I am telling you, if you go to Coldstone, do try Monkey Bite! This ice cream is heaven.
I spent most of my nights watching DVDs, especially foreign DVDs. Below are some of those that I've watched:
(a) Life Is Beautiful (La Vita E Bella) - In Italy in the year 1930s, a carefree and funny Jewish man courted and married a woman whom he always called "principessa". They soon had a son and lived happily until the occupation of German troops. They were taken to a concentration camp on their son's birthday. In attempt to protect his son from the ruthless camp, the father convinced his young son that the camp is a contest to win a tank. The mother and the son survived until the war ended but the father was shot by the Nazis in order to help his son live.
(b) Moonlight Express - Starring late Leslie Cheung and Takako Tokiwa, this Japanese + Cantonese movie delights me to the very end. Hitomi lost her fiance Tatsuya(works and resides in Hong Kong) in a car accident a day before their wedding. Still haunted by her fiance memories and promises to bring her to HK, she decided to make a trip to see HK herself. There, she ran into an undercover cop, Karbo, who has been framed by his partner and who looks exactly like Tatsuya. Karbo seeks refuge at her place and soon find themselves attracted to each other. This is a action + romantic drama you don't want to miss.
(c) The Legend of Suriyothai - This movie is a true story based on the 16th century Thai Queen Suriyothai. It is the time where the region of Ayothaya and and Siam cannot avoid royal blunders. The story continues with successions of kings and adulterous scandals of Srisudachan which poisoned her respected husband in order to let her lover become the king of Ayothaya. Suriyothai, queen of Siam and her wise husband Prince Tien decided for a revenge to overthrow the evil Srisudachan and her lover. In 1548, Burmese invaded and threatened to take over Ayothaya. Suriyothai rode down the warfield in order to protect her husband and Ayothaya and was killed in the battle. The plot may be confusing at times, yet still stunning and absorbing. Definitely something new than the usual American epics we watch.
(d) Belle Epoque - Spanish movie that is a bit slow in development, but most European movies are. Some say it's funny, some say it's romantic. I see it as a plain drama where an old artist gives a shelter to a man from the royalist army. This young man are attracted to the artist's four beautiful daughters and decided to stay a little longer. Odd enough, he was involved with confusing relationships with all the three elder daughters who each takes turn seducing him before finally realizing that he actually like the youngest, acted by Penelope Cruz. Strange for me, but still watchable.
I've also watched All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre), the Spanish movie who claimed Best Foreign Movie at Academy Award. However, I don't particularly like this movie since the story is too odd for me to digest. Sex, AIDS, drag queens. Well, particularly not my area of interest. But it has been a refreshing week, watching foreign movies certainly gives me new atmosphere about films. Everyone else should try. It's a way to run from the sometimes cliche Hollywood movies. |
| posted by efarina @ 12:30 PM |
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