Film Marathon

I was so surprised when I got back home yesterday, the Internet connection was out. I was rather pissed since there was so much to do and I could do nothing with no Internet connection. So, I slept. It was not a nap. It was intentional sleeping that I reckoned I could use some sleep. I got up early as I wanted to say BYE to Lou who was leaving yesterday.

When I woke up at 10 PM, I realised, there was no way in the world I would be able to sleep again. So I flicked through the collection of CDs I have. I downloaded some good movies before. I could do that at a flick of a finger since the broadband provided by this college is super-fast. So I decided to watch two; an Ang Lee's Wedding Banquet and a British movie called AKA.

I have been wanting to watch Wedding Banquet for a long long time. I have been looking for the DVD since 3 years ago. The movie is about this Asian American guy (Wai Tung) who wanted to help his friend, Wei Wei who is an illegal in America to get a green card to stay in the States. His boyfriend, Simon, then suggested that he married Wei Wei and this would grant Wei Wei a green card and more importantly, this will put to stop the pressure of his conservative parents in Taiwan to get him to get married and blessed with children. The whole plan turned into a fiasco when the his relationship with Simon was going astray and Wei Wei carried his baby, accidently. They were all drunk on the wedding night. So, it led to a few fights so much so he had to come out to his mother and not to his father. Being an observant, the father has long known about his relationship with Simon and the story took a twist when Wei Wei decided to keep the baby and to be raised by three of them (I guess the marriage was annulled at some point).

The second was AKA (Also Known As). With the background late 70s in England, this film is about an 18-year old boy's, Dean Page's frustration with life in general - being in working-class family and growing-up pains he need to deal with. He was sick of being tormented by the father (step father) and was kicked out from his house. He was on the look out for Lady Gryffoyn - a famous aristrocrat in London. From an initial stayover at an old homosexual within the posh neighbourhood where Lady Gryffoyn lived, he came to learn; there is more to life than plain old slump where he used to live in. He finally got a job at Lady Gryffoyn's gallery and then introduced to the life of aristocrats, when he can't even afford to live like one. So, this movie followed the ups and downs of his journey living live he never imagined having and having a name that did not belong to him. It was great film, something to run away from all these over-capitalised-commercialised Hollywood pieces.

Now, I am watching Lola. About lives of Muslim Turks with the background of living in Germany (migrants?), being homosexual and transvestites etc. Some of these put on shows to get by and this lifestyles have led them to be called names and being harrassed on the streets. I have yet to finish that. But the story plot and the background enticed me greatly over the course of the first hour. Let's see what turns it would take in the second hour.

Finally, sorry, I have yet to update more of the stories. Wanted to, but I am plain lazy at doing stuff these days. I will try to capture some photos to go with this entry too. In the meantime, I want to get my shower and off to town for dinner (today is late-night shopping day; Thursday).