Back to movies again. This time round, i catch The Interpreter, the political thriller by Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, directed by Sydney Pollamets up wick. Wooh!
Before heading down to Lido to catch Nicole's latest film (anyway i am so ashmed that despite that Nicole makes several film last year and i am her fan, i failed to catch Cold Mountain, Stepford Wives and Birth in the theatres.) i was hitting the school gym for normal pump up on muscles. Met Robin, Jia Hao , Macwyn and Edwin on the field and gym respectively, doing their jogging and pumping of muscles. And mabey i am stressing myself, my left palm and the area surrounding my left thumb hurts. Dunno, never hd such a great feeling of getting my muscles over-stretched during workouts.
A hot shower follows after that 50min gym session, and i had to change cubicals in the end. The 1st cubical that i went to releases somekind of weird stench, and the shower is cold, so changed to another shower. This time round, the water is burning like hell...and i had to adjust it to the right temperature. Shit. Even semens could get cooked with that temperature easily.
Head straight down to Lido by taking 518, and managed to reach Lido at 11.20am for the 11.30am show. Wants to grab a Subway but finds it too freaking expensive, so grab a muffin at Starbucks instead. One of the greatest mistakes i had: should have grab Subway instead. Stomach rumbles at 1pm, and i know: muffins is for tea breaks, not a proper meal. Never had a muffin for meal unless you want wants to end up forking out more $$$ later for a decent meal.
Interpreter was great, cos you see a chemistry reaction b/w the 2 Oscar winner who potrays Virginia Woolf and Jimmy Markum, a depression haunted English author and a vengeful bad boy. Kidman plays Silvia Broome, a United Nations interpreter who accidentally overhears a conversation of assissanating Dr Zuwanie, the dictator of Matobo, a fictionous state of Africa. Tobin Keller, played by the silver screen bad boy aka Penn, is an investigator assigned to protect Dr Zuwanie, who is giving a speech at UN. But when Tobin is investigating on the conversation with Silvia, he digs out more secrets on Silvia: she was a Maboto native, whose parents and her younger sister died in genocide ordered by Zuwanie years ago. At the same time, Silvia was wanted by the guys whom talks about the assassination. They want Silvia dead.
Might sounds like another political thriller, but this is no ordinary political thriller. No 1: it is directed by Sydney Pollack, and this is his 2nd political thriller after 3 Days of the Condor, which was made 3 decades ago, with Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway. While 3 Days might made into a classic, Interpreter takes it to a greater height of political thriller. No 2: this is the 1st film to be totally filmed at United Nations building. Previously no other films are allowed to be filmed in the UN due to security reasons, not even Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Interpreter was granted a chance to conduct the shooting at UN is because Sydney Pollack meets up with the secretary-general Ghanaian Kofi Annan to talk about the filming. Haha, even though permisson was granted, but that doesn't mean they are given any freedom in the shooting. 1st of all, shooting can only be done on weekends so as not to disrupt the functions of UN. So, for some of the scenes filmed in the UN, it was actually filmed about a year ago.
That was the 2nd film from Sydney Pollack watched within a week. Random Hearts was the previous film watched as a Sunday matinee.
OK, time to look for the 3 Days now. Lunching with ma now.