3 Great Movies

Three **GREAT** movies that i caught this wkend.

I know, it's my special DVD wkend, and i have 2 more on the list.

I love them all, what great great fantastic films.

I love film folks - they are so brilliant in depicting life and its complexities on celluloid.

It's hard enough grappling with the nuances of life in real life, let alone portraying and interpreting and translating all that into smthg people can watch, love, discuss, think about.

It's just an amazing process, i hold these people in the highest regard.

I mean, it's not just the doctors and scientists who change the world, is it?

What about these underrated peoples behind the scenes who subtly change the way we view life and who, in their ways, make life better, more enjoyable?

The Blueberry Nights is classic Wong Kar Wai, down to his cafe lights and dreamy undertones.

I love it.

The reds and greens in the background, as characters contemplate life and love.

Simple film, but well-shot and just a pleasant movie, with a very endearing cast of Jude Law, Rachel Weiz and Norah Jones.

The Jane Austen Book Club, that's a nice surprise.

I dunno what drew me to pick this up from the shelf, cos i'd thought it may be slow and just full of talk about books or worse, Jane Austen.

Never read any of her classics, never interested.

But i'm glad the movie is way above that.

It just kinda puts Austen's themes of life & love into modern settings.

Brilliant script. Really really good and clean and striking.

And of cos, I love Emily Blunt and Mario Bello.

This film also introduced me a super underrated actor Hugh Dancy - cute as hell.

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Definitely a must-watch -- love the tingly post-show feel-good vibes, yes it's one of those.

And the last - Evenings.

The best of the 3, in my opinion.

And to think I was reluctant to watch it.

You have to agree the DVD cover was a terrible job - what does that scene make u think of?
A slow and boring, little-conversation 5-hour flick.

But I'm so glad I sat through it.

It's about the reflections of a mother on her deathbed, as she tells her 2 daughters of her "greatest love" and her romantic mistakes along the way.

Very real, and anyone can relate to it.

It made me think.

It's all the what-ifs of her life.

I dunno about you... but in my life, the one area I have the most regrets in is in matters of the heart.

Nothing else is worth regretting.
But love, once that slip of an opportunity passes you, there is certainly no revisiting, no going back, no way it will happen again.

So precious, these chances, these people, these feelings.

I love this show - the premise is so unique, so quietly provocative.

When we are 80 and on our deathbeds, will I too think of the loves that could have been?

It's funny what we do in our lives and what we think in our heads.

One thing leads to another and before you know it, you are 50.

What's there left then?

So seize the day really. Make every encounter count.

Be sincere in everything and make sure, at least in love, leave no stone unturned.