This City Never Sleeps
Sunday, May 15, 2005 @ Kiesloski and me
Was a pretty hectic day yesterday, cos i am running to and fro from home to Parkway. Was in the afternoon to buy some porcelain plates, cups n bowl from Courts. Not in one pieces or 2, i bought a set of total 15 pieces, which i have to bring it home immediately, cos no one would be so dumb enough to carry that 15 porcelains and do window shopping in shoppes rite?

The went to the same places again to browse thru the videos at Video Ezy, and finally, they are marking down several new used videos at a go. Includes: Finding Neverland, Exorcist the Beginning, Collateral, Corp A Corps, Mystic River, some lame Korean movies and for DVD's, Kill Bill Vol 2 (Gaa! broke now...if not, buy it immediately.)

As i thought that i can kiss Polish director cum movie master Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colours Trilogy goodbye in Singapore, i did not expect that the follwing 4 hours at town would bring me closer, or more rather, an encounter with Kiesloski's works.

Ist of all, Laserflair has bring in Three Colors Trilogy, after it was banned here for an uncut version for years. Namely Blue, White and Red, the trilogy comes in 3 separate copies instead of a boxset. Oh yeah, i am dying for it, and it is here finally. At least i do not have to buy a set at a go, which burns a big hole immediately on my wallet. Well, i can't afford that $32.90 per piece rite now, cos it is out of qn for me to buy rite now.

2ndly, borrow DVD's as usual, but doing it rite now after bro bought a new DVD player, and one of the titles are the old works of Kiesloski's most famous classics before his 3 Colors: Decalogue (Dekalog in Polish) Series. It is amazing to find The Decalog series here, as it is not avialbe in Singapore. After reading the sypnosis of the 10 episode drama series, it interest me, and now, it is overe here.

Using The Ten Commandments as the surrounding of the story, each commandment makes up an episode. And i wonder if i should agree with US film critic Kenneth Turan, that it is nothing less than a priviledge to watch Decalog, if u had a chance to see it.

Well, i am going to enjoy my priviledge now.

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