9 Feb 2008

一个人过农历新年

年初二早餐,半包快熟面加菜加水饺

年初二晚餐, sakae sushi

年初三早餐, 3条香蕉加半片肉干

年初三午餐, 去翡翠吃点心,粥还有几样小菜

晚上可能去看戏

P.s. I Love You (2008)

The movie opens with a fuming Holly Kennedy (Hilary Swank) and a clueless husband, Gerry (Gerard Butler), who has no idea what wrong he has done. The lovers' spat soon escalates into a full-blown quarrel and he walks out... only to walk right back in moments later. Holly and Gerry kiss and make up and the sun shines again.

The opening scene paints a typical, modern couple with their fair share of worries about starting a family, finances and jobs. Holly and Gerry's on-screen chemistry only has that opening scene to set the whole movie aflame and while 'sizzle' is not how one would describe their relationship, it is apparent that this couple share a more mature love that far supersedes the superficial sizzling love in most other romantic comedies.

It is their love for each other - after her husband dies of cancer at the prime of his life leaving his grieving widow to cope with the loss, the change, the emptiness and having to move on all on her own - that you find yourself reaching for the tissue as if you can feel her pain. Or when she discovers that although Gerry has left, but not without first leaving Holly a series of letters, you're drawn into giving your seal of approval for Gerry's love which literally transcends time and space.

Written with love and sealed with his affable and warm sense of humour, Gerry's letters want to help his wife move on without him. The letters arrive in various creative ways and slowly but firmly prod Holly into accepting that there is new life after death - his death. Holly waits with much anticipation for each letter and although the letters seem at first to want to keep Holly living with her past memories, they soon get her moving towards doing the things she always wanted to do, as well as the one thing she wants to do. With the help of best friends Denise (Lisa Kudrow) and Sharon (Gina Gershon) who stoically stand by Holly as she grieves, together they bring on the laughs and beautifully compliments the tear-jerking moments interspersed throughout the show.

The movie explores themes of love - but not in the typical, romantic or forgettable fashion. It explores an area often left out, deemed distasteful and taboo even at its mere mention. Don't we all easily forget that as much as love is a part of life, that death is too? Young lovers will nonetheless peek into a beautiful future and mature couples can use this as a yardstick for their affection towards their significant other. Singles too can use this movie to look beyond the superficial, in their search for that significant other to whom one day they might, likewise, write such beautiful letters and sign off with "PS I Love You" too.

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