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9.12.2005 be with me    for a feature film, this was pretty okay. for an arts film, it pretty much sucked. and if this was for entertainment, it failed miserably. the 1.5 hour flick kickstarted in a very clichéd fashion - as though the only thing singaporean enough to be filmed in a singaporean film is a provision shop. throughout the entire movie, i was under the illusion that this was love actually: singapore edition, showing off a multitude of seemingly unrelated stories of love (albeit a much greater range of relationships than the original) that became interlinked towards the end. a pretty bad imitation, i might add. importantly, i thought, was the excess of unnecessary details (close-ups on food, etc) and a lack of real stories to fill time. i don't understand, either, why arty farty films must be made be as a low cost production. the grainy film was quite a put-off; art films should also be as glamorous as hollywood productions, if not more. get more sponsors lah! the lesbian and secret admirer stories were pretty interesting, but far too brief to progress into anything concrete. at one point, there was simply too much focus on theresa chan's story that i nearly forgot the other stories existed. but it was good. on normal occasions i would have laughed at theresa's non-fluent speech, but i found it difficult to even smile at the old lady this afternoon. a movie best watched in an empty theatre without a group of teenage boys making snide remarks at every ridiculous scene that appears- because art films are meant to be ridiculous, and should be watched in utter silence. support local productions anyway if you don't like art. 20:00 / and blackened tears fell with mine // |
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not trying to defend the show cos everyone is entitled to feel differently. but i just feel u've misunderstood the intentions of the movie:
be with me was never meant to be an "imitation" of love actually, cos this style of having several stories in one movie has been eric khoo's style long before love actually even came out.
and the stories are not meant to interlink anyway. as in, the stories are not written SO THAT they interlink at the end. interlinking is just a form of a neat closure for such a film with a common theme - love and hope.
the food motif is actually seen throughout the movie and it is hardly "unimportant" - the securty guard's hunger for food mirrors his hunger for love; the widower's cooking for his ex-wife and then later theresa symbolises the transfer of expression of his love - the long scenes of the widower preparing food for his dying wife show how much he loved his wife and the pains that he was going through.
in any case, yep, let's continue to support local films. then local films can shine and moviemakers can get more sponsors. :)
roamer
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i still hold my stand :)
firstly, there's not much hope in the death of a man who is secretly loving or the near-death of a girl who will probably be charged for suicide.
and i still think the imagery of food is pretty irrelevant to me. all it did was made me hungrier than i already am :P
well... i tot it was going to be a good movie..
but what the heck. i can't watch it anyways. -_-
lol. i agree on that last part... i got so hungry when watching him eat the omelette, char kuay teow, mee pok... :)
roamer
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