attempt to start a movie club at school was semi-successful. i reserved a study room on the fifth floor (like D-level in terms of function) of the library, but the projector was clearly made out for presentations not movie screening. so we huddled around my pitiful 15", glancing anxiously every now and then towards the door. our excuse had to do with criminal law...homicides.
thinking back on it, "fallen angels" was probably not the best thing to pick for a first movie gathering. unfortunately i couldn't find "in the mood for love" in time. i have watched this movie three times, once by myself. once with a few close friends who like art films. and this time with a group of new friends who are not well introduced to the genre.
being neurotic i was clearly most nerve-wracked with the final viewing. somehow i started finding the film too cool, too stylized, too empty of deeper meaning. i relaxed somewhat when takeshi kaneshiro did his comical routine as a night-time worker; it garnered a lot of laughs. but then the story went back to the hitman. silence and pretzel crunches. oh, why was everyone so crazy? did they always have to do slow motion and play "because i'm cool" for the pre-blood bath walk? is it necessary that she* looked completely unaffected in every scene?
by the end, i was half-twisting myself around trying to figure out why i liked the film in the first place. i dreaded the end of movie when i would have to face them under the light, see their stunned or worse bored faces, explain to them why i had to put them through this one hour and forty-minutes of torture.
after i launched into some preemptory apologies, gladly they said they enjoyed the film. it was different. it was good that they were introduced to this style of movie. they were never bored at any part. and then some light teasing regarding my personality...
and so, all in all completely not worth the anxiety...but i'm still getting inception for next time.
*i realized she looks like arimura ryuutaro's cousin. that nose!
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somewhat perfect place to put these photos from the most recent vogue china. tao okamoto by lachlan bailey. (full set here)
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