Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Its been a while since I watched a movie at Yangtze. The regular screenings were not quite attractive lately, so I decided to plunge into the deep end and explore other genres.

You'll be surprised but some of those movies screened there are really not half bad. It is the publicity and tagline and photos taken that are really bad. They focussed on ... well, you know ...

Secret Journey is a Japanese film about shared memories. Two people with nothing much in common, but perhaps a tender affection for a boy, traced the journey that they took before the boy died a rather tragic death. In the process, they discover that the boy is actually not who they think he is ...

The film fits right into the film festival circuit, meaning you only expect to watch it during the Singapore International Film Festival, and nowhere else. It is even more offbeat than Orchard Cineleisure can take it ...

So I have to experience it in Yangtze, where the seats smell, audience just filter in or saunter out at any time of the film, where the film started early when I was there early, where the film ends halfway through the credits, where half the audience feet were on the seats before them ...

They don't build cinemas like this anymore. Which is sometimes what we need, when everything else stays the same, showing the same films, at least here is one that shows something different, nevermind it is always R(A), of which some are more (A) than others ...

♥ 11:15 pm