Meringue Tower/Gingerbread Crossroads



Monday, February 16, 2004
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Watched Cold Mt. w Qisheng last Saturday noon. he's good company.

The show the show... hmm.
pretty good. Not fantastic.
i find myself agreeing most wholeheartedly with First's review:
" ... not a great film but a good movie... " or sth like that.

The main plot of e show's pretty oh welll... lame. haha. i'm a ROMANTIC of cos, but u know, e idea of a guy trudging over land and water to meet a girl who waits and waits (and in e meantime, learns to crop, build fences and kill roosters). I mean, yes very pretty. very nice. but oh well not all too convincing. But of cos i was touched by their love, one that was motivated by a very sparing no. of meetings and no proper declaration of love besides a most delicious kiss. But Jude Law and Nicole Kidman are very pleasing to e eye. Verrry pleasing Nicole is.

The sidestories steal e limelight. With ease. Exposing rather indifferently, e cruelty of war, not by evincing lands that suffered mass destruction or plain death and blood, but by how it eats away e goodness and innocence in ppl.

Especially e one w Natalie Portman in it. (Ignore e rest of e paragraph if u intend to watch e show) The controversy of e murder of a soldier. That was very impactful. Should she have given hope another chance , renew her faith in goodness when she almost lost her child, her life, her purity all in a single morning? E sacrifice of e soldier was absolutely necessary altho it did grip my heart when e shot rang out. And in this same story, e scene when Igman (spelled?) slept with her on e same bed, holding her close as she choked on her tears like a child. And he gently and most determinedly declared his love for Ima (Emma??) (??) in a whisper. Dat scene rocked.

Yeah. but there were quite alot of scene i was cringing at cos of e anticipation of gunshots and sometimes e very raw treatment of wounds. Eeep.

8/10 . Yummy.

2/16/2004 10:30:00 PM