another dae washes over.
tmw...rather todae.
i have the start of my 3 days internship.
pathetic...

dun feel like going.
its 2am,
i'm having an incredibly horrid stomach rebellion. prob stomach flu.
and, its been like this for a few days.
today...we did 2 movies.
the best shows i've watched in ages.

1. The assassination of Richard nixon...

Sean Penn...he is and always have been one of my fav actors, besides johnny depp that is.
brilliant in the portrayal of a mentally disturbed individual who refuses to lie or do anything that would constitute a lie.
in fact, he concludes, life is a big fat lie, and only the liars become the toppers.
the others, like him, remain at the pits,
trampled and spat upon. that all our rights are taken away,
that even being white (in his context, for i'm technically yellow),
he was effectively black. (no offense, but ttz wat he said).
and he actually suggested that the whites and blacks should work together,
to gather support against the rich, white, cadillac driving bastards of society,
and together, they would be called...the Zebras.

sounds almost time for a michael jackson's song *i'm black...i'm white...it doesnt matter if i'm black or white*~

but one thing i dun get.
his character, samuel Bikes (not sure if spelt it correct, but i caught the Bike- pronounced as Biggs...- from the tyre company his bro owned).
i reckon his jew cause i thought his bro was wearing the jewish cap.

yar...back to the thing i didnt get.
why, if in his words that we as people should never let another talk down to us, to belittle us,
savagely shoot and kill the airport pple?
and, he wrote to leonardo bernstein, who i believe is an orchestra conductor,
narrating and relating the reasons for his attempted assassination, which ended in a hijacked plane...
why, why, would he harm people if he was brought up on the belief that lying, and being belittled for his achievements was bad?

S says its cause of his state of mind, well... i guess i could give him credit for that.
but between you and me.
hurting others, killing others, does not constitute in a god given right.
deliberately taking away another's life by force is down right unforgiveable.

still remember the chilling scene of him pointing the gun at the guy with the car leak, and then at his friend bonny (again, not too sure bout the name).
and the other one, pointed at the groin of his ex boss under the table.
maybe, maybe...when a man reaches rock bottom, with separated wife, becoming Divorced wife...
no kids... (AND he shot the dog -_- Sobz...WHY?)
bro disowns him ...
no job. rejected for loan...all climaxed to his grand finale.
Just so that he would be remembered in future.

But sadly, even at the end,
the people important to him simply walked past the tv,
past the news of him hijacking and being killed in the process...
past the last heroic gesture of defiance against the world.

*we are but grains of sand...*
i do so agree.

the second movie...wow...how can i say? it was SUPER disjointed, but still a rather enjoyable ride.
2. Wong ka wai's 2046.

it was suppose to be a movie within a movie, i reckon.
tony leung (you...became old, but Oo so sexy still),
and zhang zi yi (as much as i dislike the fact tt you took over gong li, one of my fav actresses place, You are Hot...in this movie...)
this two...had well, a sizzling relationship where they basically flirted with disaster.
Although one thing i also didnt get in this movie.
WHY? why the reference to singapore? singapore, our small dot of a home country,
not that i don't love singapore, but...talking about gambling and prostitution and little malay men wearing sarong, is that what singapore is all about?

no... singapore is more than that. definitely. because i was born and bred there.

the show...well i loved it.
in true wong kar wai style.
brilliant!

my fav is still chung king express...
but, anything w tony, maggi, gong li, zhang zi yi, carina lau ...is a star studded cast.

Good stuff.