'Dirty Pretty Things' and 'Lost In Translation'

for the whole of yesterday, be it during class, or while walking to class, or even when i was in my room, i couldnt stop thinking about the events that took place in the movie 'Dirty Pretty Things.'

it was marvelously crafted, if you ask me. and at the end of the movie, it kinda leaves you feeling empty, somewhat guilty and vowing to yourself that you really want to be a better person than you are now. it was somewhat similar to my all-time favourite movie 'The Professional' in a sense that the guy, who's doing a dirty job, but ultimately has a real good heart, goes through so much to save the innocent girl, but they dont even up together.

yeah, it has the same effect on me whenever i watch 'the professional.' and its pretty sad at the last part, coz the two have to separate, never meeting eachother again. its a sad truth about how things end up.

'lost in translation' was something like that, but the stereotypes of the modern japanese society was a little far fetched. the japanese knows that foreigners arent likely to understand japanese by just talking to them in japanese, but other things that were portrayed in the movie was somewhat true, and fond memories of my time in japan began to resurface.

watching that movie reignited my desire that i might want to move to japan sometime early in my working career. i wouldnt wanna be dating someone or married by then, coz i wouldnt want her to be going through what scarlett johansson went through, alone, out of place and confused. but its certainly something i can imagine myself doing.

and that translator in the movie was horrible. i can definately do a much better job than that. i should really just become a translator. i can tell him exactly what the director was trying to convey to bill murray, but i guess that's the exaclt point sofia coppola was trying to convey in the movie.

those two movies are pretty good, i enjoyed it, both ending with similar endings, and it kinda came at the right time when i've been thinking about such things since thanksgiving.

somehow i feel like scarlett johansson in atlanta. i have friends, i know the place, and i am not at all confused about how people do things here, but i feel out of place somehow, alone, and just trying to put the pieces together myself... i begin to think about the good moments i had, not too long ago, and agonise over what it could have been, but didnt exactly ignite. but that's the same with everything. somethings just dont happen, we move on to different things, and the cycle repeats.

i'm just one class away from ending for the semester. it wont be that long if we dont have questions. then, its study mode. the first two wont be much, and i just need to make sure i dont make dumb mistakes for calculus. i need to score 90 to secure an A automatically, without curve, and considering majority of the questions will be taken out of the 6 exams we took, i dont think that will be much of a problem.

i was surfing through the imDB website and i was glad to come across various ranking of movies, of which, i made a shortlist and will start downloading them before i head back to naperville. i wish they had a list of the really good foreign language films. amelie ranks like 27th in the all time best list, which i think is really deserved. screening for andrey tautou's latest film 'a very long engagement' is only in selected theatres, so it kinda sucks, but natalie portman's anticipated 'closer' opens today. i wonder if i should catch it tonight or even tomorrow.

i still am thinking about 'dirty pretty things.' and it doesnt help that audrey tautou always seems to play that innocent girl role so well in all 4 films i've seen her in.

its a sad realization, as portrayed in the film, that good hearted people have to go through so much just to make a simple living. just because they're not from a modern developed country doesnt neccesarily have to make them go through such ordeal, when others are getting away with grave mistakes. that's the thing that evokes so much emotion out of me from that movie.

this warrants for more dido and zero 7...