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February 23, 2006

Brokeback, Brokeback! *spoilers*

Thank you, thank you, I want to hug Lee Ang (why are we Chinese calling him Ang Lee?) for finally giving me the movie I’d been looking for, for so long. The sparkling metaphors.

Closeted.
Constrained to the endless spaces of Brokeback Mountain.

Something we can never ever understand, of being the only forms of civilization for miles and miles. The lovely lovely, ending

It’s my turn to embrace you now
Was it nothing more than just a memory?

Did she really know? How did Jack go? How the ending could be so terribly sad, yet beautiful, and I could walk out of the cinema with a huge smile on my face. It stays with you for days after you’ve experienced it. the silences, how real it felt. How you’ve got to really pay attention to pick up every little gem. Show don’t tell.

Everyone keeps going on and on about how much they loved each other, but it was also so incredibly selfish, it makes me kind of angry. Are you really authorized to mess up the lives of the people around you if you’re in love? Is it advocating that the world revolves around me mentality?

It’s really fun to discuss with others, and to hear their take on it. Though I have yet to get a straight male’s opinion…

February 1, 2006

Oh Brokeback, where art thou?

Lately I’m being forced to think of my time in terms of opportunity cost, and that isn’t very good for my mental health. To counter such evils I have been listening to the happy music of the past- The Moffatts are one excellent antidote-

“Take a look around,
Tell me what you’ve found.
Life is a mystery
And we’re all spellbound,
And maybe we’re tiny planets
Stuck in a big black hole.
And maybe God’s the only one
that can free our soul.”

Hey, anyone who can pull off lyrics like that with a straight face is truly deserving of our respect ok! (Ning, take a guess where that is from, no cheating!)

- and happily awaiting the blueprint of a movie I have always wanted to see happen.


Trailer = here! =

Oh, the sadness and beauty and richness it pulses with, the romanticism of a time and place in which we will never be part of and hence covet!

Now I will go and continue living.


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