Well, 8 hrs before I head to Penang for my movie marathon. Anyway, I finished watching "Sepet". It was a nice film and had a nice story to go with. Well if you ask me, I would rate it at 3 out of 5 stars. =).
I found the first half of the film amusing and entertaining as it showed things that are closer to the reality for a lot of us. Can't help but laugh out at some of the scenes - even my mother had fun and laughed watching some of the scenes. I found the film to be more about the love story between 2 people than about the racial undertones that some make it out to be . There are mentions of things about races, but for me it plays a clear backseat and is just there to make it more real situation. Although some phrases from the film from time to time really are clearly targeted at showing some of the feelings each race "secretly" has for each other but I find it amusing rather than anything else. It's really nice to see that the Malaysian independent film scene has movies like this and I really hope to get my hands on more especially those from Ho Yu Hang, whom critics and the media have praised a lot. It's not easy to get films that are made by them. Still trying to find "Sanctuary" from Ho Yu Hang after so long. If anyone sees it please tell me ok???!!!
Anyway, one of the things that I really liked about the show was the parents of Orked and especially, the opening credits of the film. The opening was really sweet too, with mentions of Rabindranath Tagore's poems in Mandarin! . I mean, it would have been fabulous if we could learn it in f5 or f6. Language sessions would be nice. I liked the f4 literature book a lot. The collection of short works. Back to the opening credits...
I was kinda surprised when the Sam Hui song was used in the opening credits.. maybe it's nostalgia but it was really sweet i guess. His love songs and slow ballads really suit things like that. Maybe because its simple. I always found his slow songs to have that special thing. And one of my fav songs from him is obviously the ending credits songs. To me thats one of the most wonderful cantonese songs you can ever find. The current cantonese songs are a super far cry from his ones. They dont make songs like his ones anymore..... hmmm... Really wonder if anyone can make a translation of the song for me. I only understand some parts. But the music is really special.
I dont know how to read mandarin, so reading the lyrics to determine the full meaning of the songs is out of the window. Its because of things like this - not being able to read the songs lyrics or the numerous chinese novels - that I seriously regret not being able to read mandarin. Not because ppl criticise me or anything, but because of not being able to understand fully the nice things about these writings and lyrics.... Sigh... maybe I'll tell my son/daughter to learn mandarin because if not they would miss a lot of these beautiful things.
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