Samuel wish to watch some movies that i had at home, so i couldn't say NO. Cos this was the first time we met each other in person after months of chatting and laming on line, where it all begins when we lame each other while he was in Brunei serving his NS. Now? He's working.
Lunch was chicken katsu don at Sumohouse, and whenever i brought a friend along, i would recommend them chicken katsu don. Cheap and good, and it seems that my friend dun mind going for it. At least, Shyam, Jeremy and Samuel takes the recommendation. Recommended that is because not only it is cheap and good, but also reminds me of how Faye Wong exclaims: Oishi! when having her katsu don in a police station in one of her Jap drama she acted in 2002.
After looking through the list of my collections, he decided to opt for Almodovar's La Mala Educacion, aka Bad Education. We spend 2 hours discussing the film, crap, debate and talk some serious issue. All of a sudden, i just found myself gaining another friend who i can converse well with. So, my social circle has widen again.
Samuel said that La Mala Educacion has a sad ending. Me as the host replies: such films do not have a happy ending. If the movie ends happily, then it becomes a crap.
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Until today, i just found out that Gramophone Centrepoint (their latest outlet which provides an additional video rental service to their usual line of buying and selling new and used CDs, VCDs and DVDs.) provided a copy of Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet for rental.
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I thought: Wasn't Wedding Banquet banned on home video? The video was certified M18, but somehow, it was not recommended for M18 release on home video here.
Neverthless, i go ahead and rent Wedding Banquet. And i told myself: i will frequent Gramophone Centrepoint for video rental in future. At the rate of $3/copy for 3 days and new release at $4, it is far more better than Laserflair, where they just simply charge you $4/$5 for only 1 day and by giving you only the disc without the casing that comes along when you buy the disc, they have done their job.
Before Ang Lee makes his name with the gay soap drama about 2 cowboys with ill-fated love which shines at the Oscars, he brought us with a lighter fare of a gay Chinese-Caucasian couple and their Mainlander tenant faking a marriage just to achieve their goals, where the gay Chinese was pressurised by his traditional thought parents.
Wei Tung and Simon is a pair of happy couple living in Manhattan. Wei Tung is a successful businessman while Simon is a therapist. Coming close to 40, Wei Tung's parents pressurised him to get married. He rent his house to Wei Wei, a Mainlander artist who paints for a living. She have no legal documents to prove her reason for staying in Manhattan. Simon suggest that Wei Tung and Wei Wei gets married, so as to 1) Wei Wei gets her citizenship, 2) satisfy Tung's parent, 3) enjoy government benefits for the married couples.
Everything is done, and here comes the big day. Tung's parents are happy to see their son getting married, but things goes out of hand after the banquet.
Tung had Wei pregnanted, dad overhears the quarrel between Tung and Simon, and realised that his son is a gay, which leads to high blood pressure attack, Tung comes out of the closet, Wei wants an abortion.
In the end, it is a happy ending. Wei decided to keep the child, mum and dad not only gain a daughter in law, but a son in law as well. The End.
Have i went to Centrepoint on Fri, Samuel could have enjoyed the award winning Taiwanese drama with a happy ending. =(
Well, he will get to see it next time. ^^