The first few sequences of the movie and the two pegs i downed was gone. Tsai Ming-liang was testing us to the max with his real time shots. One shot reminded me of the horrors of the climax of Wayward cloud, when Chua made Chyi give the comatose Lee an oiled hand job. Chyi and Chua work and live together and take care of comatose Lee. Its Kuala Lampur(KL) and the movie takes us through the poorest quarters there, but holy, the imagery in some of the scenes are too good. There is an other Lee who was beaten up by thugs and who will be saved by a bunch of Indians working in KL. If you watch carefully there is an abandoned mattress. The abandoned mattress as well as beaten up Lee gets new life thanks to the assiduous care of one of those Indian guys. The scene where all the guys carry the mattress from the street to the home is nice.
Chyi has the sweetest bedplace, its a tiny attic like thing, made of wood and she we can see all the other things happening in the house through the gaps in the wood. Absolutely loved it.
Another wonderful thing was the smoke that covered up the city at one time, Chyi and non comatose Lee making out with ridiculous gas masks made from plastic cups. In wayward cloud also there was one thing affecting the whole city, water scarcity.
I don't want to sleep alone, ya thats the name and the theme.
By the way DO NOT SEE THE MOVIE :), unless you are a Tsai fan. My poor ex-manager who came to the movie just on my insistence was nice enough not to beat me up after the movie.
Monday, April 23, 2007
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