Quarter Life Musings

Today doesn’t seem to hold its usual magic. Just had a realization this morning that had somehow left me feeling depressed. Well, there were a lot on my mind this morning actually. Getting hitched at a much later age, not being able to conceive… idiotic, I know, but there had to be a reason why I thought of it today. For all I know God might be preparing me for such. Having a Molly Ringwald movie marathon helped just a little bit. If only I could find a copy of Some Kind of Wonderful. I hope bumawi next week, it’s MY day after all…

Was I too pathetic to catch Close to You yesterday? Hahaha. John Lloyd had his funny moments, and I liked Bea’s getup that’s why I had to pass by F&H before I went home Hey, Sam Milby is on IMDB hahaha…

Claire Colburn: I want you to get into the deep beautiful melancholy of everything that’s happened.

Claire Colburn: Sadness is easier because its surrender. I say make time to dance alone with one hand waving free.

I loved it. It was just a simple story and yet it tugs the heart. Sadly I could not be as eloquent as I would like when it comes to making movie reviews, but who cares? Kirsten Dunst was charming and not annoyingly perky, Orlando Bloom could muster an American accent after all. My eyes welled up with tears as Susan Sarandon tap danced to Moon River. I loved the scrapbook! I’m inspired to make one now hehehe… Interestingly, Tom Cruise teams up again with director Cameron Crowe (five years after Vanilla Sky) to produce this.

Drew Baylor: You know the way people look at you as if it’s the last time? I’ve started collecting these looks.

Let me clear my head first…

Catherine: [Reading Robert's notebook] "Let X equal the quantity of all quantities of X. Let X equal the cold. It is cold in December. The months of cold equal November through February. There are four months of cold, and four of heat, leaving four months of indeterminate temperature. In February it snows. In March the Lake is a lake of ice. In September the students come back and the bookstores are full. Let X equal the month of full bookstores. The number of books approaches infinity as the number of months of cold approaches four. I will never be as cold now as I will in the future. The future of cold is infinite. The future of heat is the future of cold. The bookstores are infinite and so are never full except in September…"

Go figure.

Jack Twist: God, I wish I knew how to quit you!
Ennis Del Mar: Well, why don’t you?

I liked it a lot, even if most people inside the theater were cringing on their seats. I was snickering. Heath Ledger’s midwestern accent was awkward, and why does he have to purse his lips everytime he talks? But really, hats off to Heath and Jack. They should really win an award for this.

I remember Michelle Williams’ heartwrenching look when he saw them outside their house. If only I can be sure that won’t happen to me…

Was supposed to write a lengthy review of this but i have this sudden urge to watch another movie. It has been a Jack Gyllenhaal weekend, the other day I watched Proof. Twas also good but not at par with A Beautiful Mind.

What movies are coming up next?

Sayuri: Chairman, what happened on the island…
Chairman: Please, you don’t have to explain.
Sayuri: But I have shamed myself so deeply, must for forgiveness.
Chairman: No! I’m the one who must be forgiven.
Sayuri: I do not understand.
Chairman: Perhaps…if you had only known the truth.
Sayuri: The truth?
Chairman: Some years ago, I was on my way to the theater. I saw a little girl weeping by the river. I stopped to buy her a cup of sweet ice.
Sayuri: You knew I was that little girl?
Chairman: Didn’t you ever wonder why Mameha took you under her wing?
Sayuri: Mameha came to me because of you?… I wish you could have told me long ago.
Chairman: What could I do? I owe Nobu my life. And so when I saw that he had a chance at happiness with you, I stood silent, but…But I cannot any longer. I hope…it is not too late. Don’t be afraid to look at me, Chiyo.
Sayuri: Can’t you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

"In that moment, I changed from a girl facing nothing but emptiness, to someone with purpose. I saw that to be a geisha could be a stepping stone to something else…a place in his world."

"She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret."