It's a rainy Saturday. As always, it rains during the Tomb Sweeping Festival in Taipei. It's said to be auspicious to sweep the tomb when it rains. Yes, we're looking forward to another fruitful year of 2013!
After attending Grand TMC's Past President Helen Lin's celebration luncheon for her twin-daughters' 2 years and 5 months birthday, I rushed to support my voice drama teacher's live storytelling of James & A Giant Peach at Taipei City Library Jing-hsin Branch. Without delay, I hurried back to Jimmy's place to set the movie venue for today!
Only five people showed up at the first movie & dinner gathering in April. I wouldn't have expected more as I had received a few text messages on my mobile phone requesting for a break during Tomb Sweeping Festival for four days, from April 4th till 7th. Joy is visiting in Beijing for two weeks, so we changed the gathering venue to my brother Jimmy's Lounge in Hsin-tien.
At 2:30PM sharp, we started watching the Butterfly Effect (2004) directed and written by Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber. It's a thriller film about a young man Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher) suffering from blackouts of significant events of his life. Upon family psychiatrist's recommendation, Evan keeps a diary of his blackout moments from the age of seven, so he can remember what happens. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories by reading his diary. He travels back into the body of his past self and rewinds his life journey. While he uses his powers to fix his past to save his childhood friends just to know that worse results happen than the past that he is trying to change.
After the first thriller movie, we had a 30 minutes discussion. Mr. Hung praised the acting job of Ashton Kutcher playing Evan Treborn, especially that of Amy Smart playing Kayleigh. I like the story telling skills of Director Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber to flash back and forth to keep the full attention of the audience. In the theatrical version, Evan becomes a successful physician himself at the end of the movie. But, I was told that Evan dies in the directors' version. To be or not to be, might be directors' answer to the question of Hamlet. Just like Evan could travel back in time 13 years ago to change his destiny, I wish I could see all movies of 2013 when I am 70 years old in 13 years. That makes a sound reason why I write this blog! Whenever I write, I feel the control of my destiny, the power of decision making, the flutter of butterflies in the soul of imagination! No writing, no soul!Lola rennt (1998) is a another thriller film, written and directed by Tom Tykwer. It's about a young woman Lora (Franka Potente) in Germany who has twenty minutes to find and bring 100,000 Deutschmarks to her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) before he robs a supermarket. After Lola receives a panicked phone call from her good-for-nothing boyfriend Manni who lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a mobster. Lola, desperate to save his life, reassures him that she can get the money to him by noon. Three different tracks happen along Lola's run, with every person she comes into contact with, their lives take on completely different forms, as shown by 30-second photo flash montages. The movie seizes the full attention of the audience for 81 minutes. From the first frame the film plunges into action and adventure with breakneck speed, and we find ourselves cheering for Lola right to the end.
After two nerve breaking thriller films, we had fusion food for dinner followed by a delicious chocolate Banana cake brought by Judy for dessert. The movie theme of April is "Destiny & Decision". Do you believe in destiny? Are you confident about the decisions you make for your future? Let's hope that we make right decisions at the right time, and create better lives for the future!
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