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Housemate B, (not the other one who was adamant on cleaning the toilet) has been bringing in DVDs she has borrowed from her officemate. I'm happy because I don't have to buy or patronize the nearby pirated DVD rentals with no BIR permit. Yes, because it's pirated. Maybe I'll patronize it again after I check out latest Korean flicks.
Anyway, most of the movies aren't exactly popular as most are artfilms or epic films. Some of it are Clean starring Maggie Cheung about a junkie trying to turn around her life, keep off drugs and be reunited with her son. I'm actually impressed that she is speaking in fluent English, then French and Cantonese in the movie and that she sings (before the movie ends). The soundtrack was good too as she was a former trip hop singer/VJ who married a struggling British rockstar who died of heroin overdose. Pointless insight: Methadone is a legal substitute for heroin ... but the withdrawal effect from the illegal drug can still drive you crazy.
The performance has actually won her the Best Actress in Cannes 2004.
Have you heard about Europa Europa? It's a holocaust film about a Jewish boy who pretended to be German to save his arse (uy british) and who studied in a German training camp for young fanatical German hitlers. It also stars a German-speaking Julie Delpy in her younger years. It is not a depressing, ala-Schindler's list movie. More like amusing because the boy has this hide-that-he's-circumcised-or-he'll-be-dead meat scenes, of his co-soldier's attempt to make a pass on him (o di ba, gay German soldier), his Hitler dancing with Stalin dream scene and the whole how-to-spot-Jews-according-to-their-facial-features-and-why-they-must-be-annihilated during German army school lecture scene. This is actually based from a true story. Pointless question (pardon my ignorance): Are Germans uncircumcised?
Anyway, most of the movies aren't exactly popular as most are artfilms or epic films. Some of it are Clean starring Maggie Cheung about a junkie trying to turn around her life, keep off drugs and be reunited with her son. I'm actually impressed that she is speaking in fluent English, then French and Cantonese in the movie and that she sings (before the movie ends). The soundtrack was good too as she was a former trip hop singer/VJ who married a struggling British rockstar who died of heroin overdose. Pointless insight: Methadone is a legal substitute for heroin ... but the withdrawal effect from the illegal drug can still drive you crazy.
The performance has actually won her the Best Actress in Cannes 2004.
Have you heard about Europa Europa? It's a holocaust film about a Jewish boy who pretended to be German to save his arse (uy british) and who studied in a German training camp for young fanatical German hitlers. It also stars a German-speaking Julie Delpy in her younger years. It is not a depressing, ala-Schindler's list movie. More like amusing because the boy has this hide-that-he's-circumcised-or-he'll-be-dead meat scenes, of his co-soldier's attempt to make a pass on him (o di ba, gay German soldier), his Hitler dancing with Stalin dream scene and the whole how-to-spot-Jews-according-to-their-facial-features-and-why-they-must-be-annihilated during German army school lecture scene. This is actually based from a true story. Pointless question (pardon my ignorance): Are Germans uncircumcised?