Y Thursday, March 19, 2009
12:43 am
Alright so it's been two and a half weeks. Let's summarize it.Common Test Update:
Lol.
So the holidays are here, it's one week off that shithole. The only thing I'm planning to get together is my organic chemistry, and tuition as regularly scheduled. As my luck would have it, I don't get to weasel out of this one - chem teacher (the nice, real teacher that I got this year) had an assignment for all of us - draw a mind map of all organic chem chapters, regarding their reactions and all that shiznit.
This was supposed to have taken an angrier, more provocative tone, but I'm in a great mood after having watched a very enjoyable movie. Departures, or Okuribito in Japanese.
To summarize the show, it's about a down on his luck celloist going back to his home town, where he finds work in the form of am embalmer. (which he did not know at first.) You know what they say, money makes the world go round, so he does it anyway.
The movie details his journey as an embalmer, and how he comes to terms with certain issues in his life.
The recurring theme of life and death is very apparent here, and it's interesting, because death is a taboo of sorts in most societies. Even if it's not something regarded so gravely, death is something people are usually squeamish about. If you will, Departures provides a different perspective on death, albeit in a heart-warming manner, as contradictory or perhaps more accurately, ironic, as that may sound.
Oh and not forgetting this: when the protagonist's wife first came into the scene, I had the shock of my life. Geez, Su Ann resembles her to an uncanny degree. You coulda swapped the two persons and it wouldn't have made much of a difference!
Overall a very enjoyable film, worthy of the Academy award for Best Foreign Film.