Monday Movie Greats

TWO good films today that took me to two cities of Beijing and Ho Chi Minh.

The first one was called The Owl and Sparrow. Realesed in 2007, it was a story of three ordinary people who joined together by sheer love and compassion and the willingness to change and change for good in the emerging Vietnamese city. A tearjerker and a must see, this Stephane Gauger’s film proved again that simplicity could be a work of art. In this film, I admired Cat Ly, the only Vietnamese actress that I knew of and googled and found something revealing.

Late afternoon, I was streaming Go Lala Go! on Youtube cut in 9 parts. A romantic comedy with typical rags to riches as the film story’s foundation, this is China answer to Hollywood Sex and the City with ok bed scenes and The Devil Wears Prada as characters defined fashion and style with Chinese characteristic. Also, once in a while you’d see in the movie sponsors flashing here and there.

Sorry Gong Li, but I think Xu Jinglei (who played Lala and directed the movie), I think is the most beautiful Chinese actress living today.

Wala lang but the DB office building is the SOHO in Beijing where I worked for a week in the Spring of 2008.

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Shanghai sky is gray today and raining a bit and turned my window misty glass that you can write your name in the panel. Outside temperature, according to yahoo average at 7deg C and sun will show up only after two days in the weekend.

Watched Flood last night I could believe the British filmmakers produced such kind of cheap flick bad acting corny storyline that I turned off my dvd before it ended. I felt my marathon of good movies ( Slumdog Millionaire, Milk and docu The Wrestler and Encounters at the End of the World) was cut off by the said movie. I also found Tropic Thunder more annoying than funny and Eagle Eye too naive.

Anyway this morning I was delighted to watched Tzururu Miyabi's 肉嫁 ～高 柳家の人 and made my start of the day beautiful but I still prefer the building up of the story in ゑんぼ my loyalty stay still with the cute Misako.

China is still giving us 4 more days to rest and unwind but I choose to rot here in Shanghai given the bad market lately and unsure corporate future.

I am still surviving anyway I'm just so damn lazy to be literate.

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