it's a "little golden book" (the ones you see in coles, bookshops for kiddies and has the golden edges) made into a journal by Rebound - btw i just realised that "twothousand.com.au" is cos sydney's postcodes are 2000 something. and there's a threethousand.com.au for melbourne!!!!
anyways.
yesterday was the slumdog millionaire advanced screening at paddington's palace verona cinema - the fundraiser for the RSPCA - and just as expected, there was A LOT of old people. probably only a handful were youthful. and it was so cute how before we went in they gave a small paperbag with biscuits or timtam and jellybeans XD
the movie was really good. i read that it won 3 awards at the BAFTAs - best director, film, upcoming actor - but since atonement won lots and it was kinda boring at times.. didn't want to get my hopes up. but no. there wasn't any boring bits in fact EVERYTHING was good. but since i suck at writing out a synopsis, go to twothousand.com.au's review on it.
oh and also i'm watching this new jap series called "bloody monday" about this hacker who helps save japan from a biological terrorist attack. ahhh addictive.. and just realised the main actor's the guy from koizora - the crazed movie which i haven't watched because it sounds too dramatic.
AND (hahaha keep forgetting things) memories of matsuko (kiraware issho no matsuko) was good too!
the story is this guy "sho" (played by eita!!) who's told by his dad to clean out his auntie matsuko's house because she has died (murdered actually) but he doesn't know anything about her since according to his dad, she was removed from the family and her life was meaningless.
and so the whole movie is duh "memories of matsuko" and i guess showing how her life's not meaningless. but it's not a soppy nostalgia, but more eccentric and laugh out loud funny at times (the characters, the musical scenes). At first though it's funny, exciting, empathy-causing, you're kinda wondering where the movie is gonna go, but the second-half makes sense of it all and it even becomes sad and touching.
can't really pinpoint the exact moment because then i'll spoil the unexpected-ness of the movie that makes it so good. and that's why i won't link any reviews of this movie since they're all too revealing.
and if you're very knowledgeable of jap culture, then the snippets of tv they show to represent the time period will be amusing. this jap guy sitting on the row behind was like "hikaru genji!" and "dango dango dango san kyou" in a soft excited whisper.
so..... yea watch these movies. 9/10 out of 10 as clearly described.
this is a very long post. so i've bold-ed the sections to help navigate.
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