methrowrock | sounds of formosa (Reply)

this was the lifestyle I had: staying up into the wee hours of the night to watch movies on the trusty laptop while being comfortably surrounded by pillows and duvets. It was chillax to the max and I loved how the day simply unravelled, unspooled, untangled into liquid yarn. Yesterday was a day for nostalgia. :)

So, after a year and a half, I finally know the secret in 不能說的秘密. Hurray! It is quite amazing that nobody spilt it to me in that period, which could mean a) I have no friends, or b) I have nice friends, and I'm pretty sure which option it is (hopefully). :D Hmm, what can I say about it? It wasn't neither a bad movie, nor a great one. The music was great, the acting notsomuch; the shots were pretty, the plot notsomuch. It was entertaining enough, sweet enough, awshucks enough to qualify as a guilty pleasure for fluffbrain days. 桂纶镁 is so so so x1000 ethereal and gorgeous! 周杰伦 can't act for nuts, but it's ok!, he's 周杰伦! Hahaha yeah, so that's that.

Then, because I am immensely in like with 桂纶镁 and because 豆瓣 has this cool feature which links movies of the same genre together, I loaded 最遙遠的距離 and watched that too. Synopsis: Tang (Muo) goes on a trip to Taitung to record the sounds of nature, hoping the tape may save his relationship with his girlfriend. What he does not know, is that another girl, Yun (Kwai), has moved into that apartment. Yun is trapped in a hopeless love triangle, and troubled by all the issues she faces in life. After listening to the tape that Tang sent, she travels to Taitung to find the source of the sounds on the tapes. On the other hand, Tsai (Chia), a psychiatrist struggling in a failed marriage, leaves everything behind and goes to Taitung to search for his ex-lover. The three young souls, with different purposes, comes to the coast and search for the meaning of their life. It was a breathtakingingly beautiful movie, filled with interesting sounds of Taiwan. I'm not sure of how to describe the movie but I'll leave with this thought: the greatest distance is the one to your own heart.

I desperately need a break-through. (help, 救命, 助けて, different names for the same thing) I need something to provoke me, excite me, antagonise me so that I can actually live, and not merely continue a stymied, stifled existence. And urgh, I need to start studying. :/