YOGAYUGA

Watched the same movie but experienced different feelings after twenty years later. It was twenty years ago the first time I watched Somewhere In Time. I watched it on video at home on my own. I couldn’t help to weep at the end of the film due to the sad ending. Twenty years later, I watched it with my Dad at home on Mid Autumn Festival. I didn’t weep, but did feel romantic. The ending did give me some thoughts. Perhaps someone you truly love, you would meet him/her again in the rest of your life.

And my Dad became my romantic partner of the night. Hahhahaa! We both are fans of Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Jane Seymour was so beautiful in the film, and she is now still beautiful. I watched her on Dancing with the Stars at the beginning of the year. She is still very charming and elegant. Christopher was so handsome, and poor him, he had already gone.

My Dad told me that this film was played on one of our cinemas for few years during early eighties. I am not surprise as I don’t mind watching it again and again. It’s such a piece of antique romance classic you must watch once in life time. Unforgettable!

You can dance! You can jive!

Having the time of your life! Dancing Queen!!!

Honey! Honey! I watched Mama Mia eventually. And I love it! It’s indeed a happy film with all great songs of ABBA. Meryl Streep did sing great! Pierce Brosnan does still look great! I love all the songs so much. I always like them anyway. I am always a great music fan of 70s. All the songs do bring you complete happy spirit. You just feel great when you leave the cinema. I almost sang out, and danced in the end of film.

I was so surprise that there were less than 10 Chinese in the cinema house. It was only half full. Most of the audiences were Westerners. I guess these songs are only popular to some local Chinese. Local Chinese like my parents’ age should like it. In fact, people like my age usually don’t like songs from 70s. I am just exceptional. 70s pop was very popular when I was in university though it was during 90s. British just love 70s. I am so sure Dancing Queen is now still popular in most of the night clubs of England. They love to pick it as the last song of the night.

Anyway, I am happy with what I watched. It did bring me happy mood. The Greek sea scene was incredibly beautiful. I indeed love sunshine and the beach. ^_^

The Winner Takes It All - What a beautiful song!

My Mamma Mia! I almost freaked out! I shouted out! A heart breaking thunder totally freaked me out. It was so loud. I almost jumped up from my seat while I was checking the movie time table online.

Yes, I am thinking to see Mamma Mia next week. I heard that it’s a very warm movie that brings you laugh and joy with music and dance. It’s all about friendship, love and dream.

Movies are not just about stories. They could be happening in our life.

La Vie En Rose

Edith Piaf’s life was a battle to sing and survive, live and love. Raised in poverty, became well known from her wonderful voice….

This is not just a great movie, but a story about how you can achieve what you want with enough courage and pride. We all are striking for our lives, for our healths, for our families, for our loves, for our happiness, and even for unhappiness. It’s striking I repeat not surrendering

La Vie En Rose - a story of a woman I truly admire. Enjoy the song!

The Counterfeiters

Do you have choice? Sometimes, perhaps not…who knows? It’s another true story. A group of Jewish prisoners worked for Nazi counterfeiting the dollars and pounds in order to ruin the economy of the U.K. and the U.S. during end of the second world war period.

The heart of the story is the horrible choice of survival. You don’t want to do it, but you have to do it without choice. It’s the way to survive, the way to live. You may feel guilty after all but life is cruel, isn’t it? Sometimes, you can call it choice, but actually it isn’t.

A great movie with some decent thoughts about live and choice.

Sex and the City

It’s the true voice of women over age of thirties. It doesn’t really matter if you ever watched the TV series or not. It could be the real story happening in any of us, included men and women - love, sex, care, hope, desire, respect, friendship, passion, trust, selfish, freedom, commitment and many many are all about relationships…..Of course, the way the actresses acted in the movie was obviously exaggerated, but overall the ideas are factual.

Whatever situation it is in any of our relationships, I still remain my belief - true love does exist forever. It’s belief, not hope. We all need belief in life striking with difficulties.

These are all I watched in this week, French, German and English, not bad isn’t it?

Daniel Day-Lewis won the best actor of Oscar for the second time. I knew he would get it. He is the best among all the nominators. I haven’t seen his new film, but I indeed like his acting in all his movies. My favourite movies of him are Unbearable Lightness of Bearing, The Age of Innocence and In the Name of the Father. He is a great actor. I am a big fan of his movies since 14.

I haven’t seen any of those nominated films in Oscar this year, so I don’t have comments on any of them. Most are not yet on our cinemas.

Please forget the stupid sex scandal of Edison Chen and all his actress lovers. Let’s watch some meaningful movies together! It is Ok to talk about it at the beginning of the whole story, but is kind of tiry reading discussion of people made on internet and listening conversation of people made on the dim sum tables after weeks. What’s point? What I mean is most of the people only concern about how many more photos are going to be online again, and how many more actresses are going to be involved. They don’t concern how they should educate the children. Most of the kids did see those naked pictures on the net. It’s a bad influence to them. Sex education has never been developed properly in H.K., so everyone just passes around the wrong messages to eachother. Our Chinese newspapers are the worst. The way they described the photos and the story is terrible. They put this story on the front pages of newspapers everyday, but the way they published it, which is nothing formal. Therefore, many just take it for entertaining. This gossip becomes their daily conversation. We need to discuss it in positive ways that allow children to learn from it. Then the children will look at these issues in positive way rather than keeping those pictures for personal collection. Anyway, the whole world just laughs at the celebrities of Hong Kong being so immoral. God! They really need assistance of God. LoL

I have seen a very good movie today. It’s a pure love story. Innocent love story is still around. A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her ten messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life. Her beloved husband planned everything ahead before he died. He wrote her a series of letter that will guide her, not only through her grief, but in rediscovering herself. In the weeks and months that follow, more letters from her husband are delivered in surprising ways, each sending her on a new adventure and each signing off in the same way; P.S. I love you. Each letter is pushing her further into a new future, not tied her to the past. This story is about how a love so strong can turn the finality of death into a new beginning for life.

I did weep quite a bit for this story. It’s so touching. It’s a true story of this film’s director. I do truly believe this story could happen on any of us. True love does last forever. I got no doubt about it. Love does keep one’s mind strong with courage.

P.S. I love you

I like it - Persepolis It’s animation, but I love the way it was presented. I am always curious about culture and thought related to Islamic so this film does give me some ideas for what I want to know. The whole story is about how a little Iranian girl went through the Islamic Revolution, and the war between Iran and Iraq as well as her experiences in the west. The way she experienced in Vienna, which explained so well about the conflicts between the western and Islamic culture. Those days the little girl spent in Iran, the whole scene was in black and white. Once she left her country, the scene was in colour. It’s a very intelligent idea for the overall presentation. It’s a very controversial story that worth seeing I highly recommend. It won the best foreign film award in the Golden Globes.

I would like to see this film, which is first English film directed by Wong Kai Wai, and played by Jude Law and Norah Jones. It’s nominated in Cannes Film Festival. It doesn’t have an official web site yet. It shows that Hong Kong Films are highly regarded in Europe. Many actresses and actors of HK are also very popular in Europe such as Maggie Cheung. Actresses and actors of Mainland seem to be more popular in Hollywood.

I feel so satisfied today as I watched a good movie. The Painted Veil

It was a romantic film, though the ending was quite upsetting. The scene was very beautiful, and the story background was actually taken in Guangxi, China. I thought it was a typical “English Patient” kind of story, but it wasn’t. It was about how an English married couple went through all the barriers between eachother while they faced hardship and the fear of cholera in the cholera-infested region, China during 20s. They finally understood eachother by travelling through all the hard time together. That’s what the tagline says - Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people. I love the acting of Edward Norton. He acted so well, though was in the similar way as how he acted in Illusionist. I also like the way they took the Chinese side of story, which is very different from the past Asian stories taken by western viewers. They took it in very factual way.
I would like to read this story from the original book as I knew the film only tells story of the first part of the book.

When you watch a good movie, you will naturally feel spiritually satisfied. Oh well, this is how I feel…

The Indian film industry is the largest in the world In terms of the number of films produced annually. Movie tickets in India are among the cheapest in the world. Bollywood is the informal name given to the film indutsry in India. Bollywood comes from the word of Bombay and Hollywood. There is a research about why Bollywood movies are so popular, and why the local is always satisfied with what Bollywood produces. These are the reasons: Most of people in India are living under poor condition of life, so their living standard is limited. Movies are their major entertainment. Bollywood movies are all major with singing and dancing, which are the important culture of India. Audiences are easy to be satisfied with the simple happiness as long as there are singing and dance scenes in the movies. Story background becomes less important. Bollywood dance is along with rhythm of Indian music. All actors and actresses must be good Bollywood dancers; otherwise, they are not suitable to be in any Bollywood movies. I am also a fan of Bollywood dance. I like the music rhythm and the way women dance. Their costume is wonderful. It’s very similar to belly dancing. Most of the Bollywood actresses are very beautiful. I am not surprise that many say Indian women are the most beautiful women in the world, because they really are.

Media always complains HK film industry is going down. Good actresses and good actors all have gone to overseas, and tried to succeed in Hollywood. The local production people are not doing good jobs. Some complain that HK audiences are too selective of types of movies we watch. Be honest, our movie story lines are very narrow; most are with gangster background. Some become popular lately because they are with Chinese history background, and supported with expensive decoration as well as fantastic costume. I guess the growth of movie industry is also very much related to the living standard of people in different places. We are not too demanding, but our local production is really not so interesting. The good production becomes less and less. Most of people like watching DVD movies at home, as there are not many good movies worth us buying tickets to see in the cinemas. A ticket costs HKD70.00 in general cinemas. It’s expensive when the movies are not so good.