Sunday, March 23, 2008
i watched rule no. 1 ytd, thought it was a really good film. well, in the miscellaneous affairs department, there are 4 rules. rule #4, they are all around you. rule #3, things are never what they seem. rule #2 never let them touch you. rule #1 there are no ghosts.
i dno la but the movie was like qte deep to me, D: hahaha ok its not bad but can be scarier, i guess the director focused more on like the other aspects of the film la. i like it that when he first introduced ghosts, he introduced them as like, ppl who wander around not knowing what to do and where to go. which i thought was really apt, for both types of ghosts la. i guess in essence, ghosts really are beings who cant move on yet because of smth? but you know really, maybe if we all look closely, there are ghosts all around us. what makes a human ghost different from a spiritual ghost?
oh haha this brings me to think abt the beatles' song, eleanor rigby haha. which is abt eleanor and father mckenzie, and its really a sad song (features a string quartet i think?) i rmr kevin's pm was like argh cello lol. its a really good song but really sad too haha. "ah, look at all the lonely people", i dont think most people like in our age and in our meta (oh i havent used the word meta in a long time) are really lonely, but there really are people in this world, by choice or not, who are just, lone. so yea i dno, look around us?
i think rule #2 is for the sake of the film, i havent given it much thought, and rule #1 is like, smth about conspiracy theory, like how sometimes, lies and facades are necessary to maintain the balance, or peace we have now? like the reason behind why the assassin of emperor qin(at least in the movie hero) decided not to kill him (if he did, there would be no one who could unite china from warring nations to one single nation, collate one official standard language, have peace finally between the nations, etc), and why qin emperor (in the movie hero again) regrettably had to kill the assassin, and the assassin himself understood and faced death (so that qin shi huang will not appear weak to his enemies, will not have more assassins sent to him, etc) for the sake of the good of the people. ok its kinda digressed but yah the meaning is there la. just like in the movie, rule#1 is there are no ghosts, because if this truth was let out to people, they "would not send children to school, would not have houses to buy, the stock markets will fail", all because people are afraid. yea, indeed, just let smth small happen that makes ppl afraid, be it truth or hoax, and everyone will panic. and that is when things start to fall apart from the balance we have now. its the black iron prison theory thing, complain all you might that we are trapped and enclosed in the black iron prison; but what are you going to do once there are no rules to hold you back?
anw the main part of the film which i found like qte deep, is its take on perspective, rule #3. i think its very true that perspective is very influential on everything. like how at the start of the film [SPOILER] there is a police running after a guy. the narrator asks, can you tell which is the police and which is the fugitive? the answer was none. the first guy was a plainclothes and the second was a policeman, and both of them were running after a crook. then it switched to this lady who drops her lipstick and this guy who picks it up for her on the bus. shawn yue boards the bus, and shoots both of them. we wonder why a policeman like him would have done such a thing and in public? it was revealed towards the end of the movie, that the woman was possessed, and was going to come into contact with the guy so that the ghost in her can possess him (rule #2 is dont let them touch you because then they'll possess you), so shawn yue being a policeman and wanting to stop the spread of the possession (which will leave the prev human body an empty shell and quite dead), shoots both of them dead, as after he shot the woman it was too late, the ghost had possessed the man. so yea yah. perspective.
i think the most spine-tingling part about perspective, was towards the end of the film. we listen to shawn yue narrate his story, and we find out that the ghost possession spree stops when the ghost possesses the ex wife of his colleague, who tries to prove her innocence but gets possessed instead so both of them are shot and they die. but as shawn yue goes back home to a lifeless and motionless fiona xie, we realise how easy we believe bullshit people tell us? because at one point in the film shawn yue himself was possessed by the ghost alr. so from that point onwards all he told us was bullshit. there was no ex wife and colleague shooting; he murdered his colleague in a very plotless way, in an old dance studio, and the ex wife was left to wait for the colleague in vain. fiona xie was the one who passed the ghost to him, thats why she is lifeless and motionless. and the ghost who possessed him is some sex maniac serial killer he shot dead at the start of the film. so ya. the ghost is still rampant, who told you to believe all second half of the movie which shawn yue tells you, it was all bullshit. perspective man haha. [END SPOILER]
yup, and i think one of the interesting parts that i rmr is that the police boss takes the dead colleague's alcohol flask and pours out the contents, wanting to drink. but realises that its just water. so the colleague that has been acting as a drunkard, a useless alcohol wasted no life all the while. he wasnt what he seemed to be. and i think this point enough, tells us that things are many a times not what they seem to be. perhaps we should alw try to get a better picture before passing judgment; or perhaps that is totally not possible at all in practice. i guess it doesnt matter.
ok i realise i did a lot of narrating above, that would probably be v confusing to ppl who havent watched the movie and read, so yah its ok dont have to read, i'm blogging more like i feel like blogging cos of the movie la hahaha.
i just showered and tmr is back to school.. zz sian hahaha. i think i dont like the way i always dwell on lucid dreams, and, i dont like the way lucid dreams dont dwell on me. ): a slice of heaven appears in front of me.. just never in my hands. -.- and i'm supp to end the blog post with
we've come to the end of this blog post. thank you and have a nice day (:
i dno la but the movie was like qte deep to me, D: hahaha ok its not bad but can be scarier, i guess the director focused more on like the other aspects of the film la. i like it that when he first introduced ghosts, he introduced them as like, ppl who wander around not knowing what to do and where to go. which i thought was really apt, for both types of ghosts la. i guess in essence, ghosts really are beings who cant move on yet because of smth? but you know really, maybe if we all look closely, there are ghosts all around us. what makes a human ghost different from a spiritual ghost?
oh haha this brings me to think abt the beatles' song, eleanor rigby haha. which is abt eleanor and father mckenzie, and its really a sad song (features a string quartet i think?) i rmr kevin's pm was like argh cello lol. its a really good song but really sad too haha. "ah, look at all the lonely people", i dont think most people like in our age and in our meta (oh i havent used the word meta in a long time) are really lonely, but there really are people in this world, by choice or not, who are just, lone. so yea i dno, look around us?
i think rule #2 is for the sake of the film, i havent given it much thought, and rule #1 is like, smth about conspiracy theory, like how sometimes, lies and facades are necessary to maintain the balance, or peace we have now? like the reason behind why the assassin of emperor qin(at least in the movie hero) decided not to kill him (if he did, there would be no one who could unite china from warring nations to one single nation, collate one official standard language, have peace finally between the nations, etc), and why qin emperor (in the movie hero again) regrettably had to kill the assassin, and the assassin himself understood and faced death (so that qin shi huang will not appear weak to his enemies, will not have more assassins sent to him, etc) for the sake of the good of the people. ok its kinda digressed but yah the meaning is there la. just like in the movie, rule#1 is there are no ghosts, because if this truth was let out to people, they "would not send children to school, would not have houses to buy, the stock markets will fail", all because people are afraid. yea, indeed, just let smth small happen that makes ppl afraid, be it truth or hoax, and everyone will panic. and that is when things start to fall apart from the balance we have now. its the black iron prison theory thing, complain all you might that we are trapped and enclosed in the black iron prison; but what are you going to do once there are no rules to hold you back?
anw the main part of the film which i found like qte deep, is its take on perspective, rule #3. i think its very true that perspective is very influential on everything. like how at the start of the film [SPOILER] there is a police running after a guy. the narrator asks, can you tell which is the police and which is the fugitive? the answer was none. the first guy was a plainclothes and the second was a policeman, and both of them were running after a crook. then it switched to this lady who drops her lipstick and this guy who picks it up for her on the bus. shawn yue boards the bus, and shoots both of them. we wonder why a policeman like him would have done such a thing and in public? it was revealed towards the end of the movie, that the woman was possessed, and was going to come into contact with the guy so that the ghost in her can possess him (rule #2 is dont let them touch you because then they'll possess you), so shawn yue being a policeman and wanting to stop the spread of the possession (which will leave the prev human body an empty shell and quite dead), shoots both of them dead, as after he shot the woman it was too late, the ghost had possessed the man. so yea yah. perspective.
i think the most spine-tingling part about perspective, was towards the end of the film. we listen to shawn yue narrate his story, and we find out that the ghost possession spree stops when the ghost possesses the ex wife of his colleague, who tries to prove her innocence but gets possessed instead so both of them are shot and they die. but as shawn yue goes back home to a lifeless and motionless fiona xie, we realise how easy we believe bullshit people tell us? because at one point in the film shawn yue himself was possessed by the ghost alr. so from that point onwards all he told us was bullshit. there was no ex wife and colleague shooting; he murdered his colleague in a very plotless way, in an old dance studio, and the ex wife was left to wait for the colleague in vain. fiona xie was the one who passed the ghost to him, thats why she is lifeless and motionless. and the ghost who possessed him is some sex maniac serial killer he shot dead at the start of the film. so ya. the ghost is still rampant, who told you to believe all second half of the movie which shawn yue tells you, it was all bullshit. perspective man haha. [END SPOILER]
yup, and i think one of the interesting parts that i rmr is that the police boss takes the dead colleague's alcohol flask and pours out the contents, wanting to drink. but realises that its just water. so the colleague that has been acting as a drunkard, a useless alcohol wasted no life all the while. he wasnt what he seemed to be. and i think this point enough, tells us that things are many a times not what they seem to be. perhaps we should alw try to get a better picture before passing judgment; or perhaps that is totally not possible at all in practice. i guess it doesnt matter.
ok i realise i did a lot of narrating above, that would probably be v confusing to ppl who havent watched the movie and read, so yah its ok dont have to read, i'm blogging more like i feel like blogging cos of the movie la hahaha.
i just showered and tmr is back to school.. zz sian hahaha. i think i dont like the way i always dwell on lucid dreams, and, i dont like the way lucid dreams dont dwell on me. ): a slice of heaven appears in front of me.. just never in my hands. -.- and i'm supp to end the blog post with
we've come to the end of this blog post. thank you and have a nice day (: