The movies

Yesterday I started off the day by watching two china made movies which I had been waiting for a long time. The first movie, Ocean Heaven, was a little let down but it was ok. The plot was not as dramatic as I thought but basically the story line is quite appealing. It portrays the relationship between father and his autistic son. The father was diagnosed with terminal stage of liver cancer and he was preparing his autistic son to live by himself in anticipation of his departure. It wasn't as moved as I thought it would be.

At least the story could teach the public one or two things regarding autism and the parents who have to deal with autistic kids. I have been on and off lately see some autistic children. Sometimes they are fine but at times they are really hard to deal with. It's not easy but we need to understand that this is a behavioural problem which comes with the disease itself. I am still not sure if it was right to categorize it as a disease, so pardon me if I wasn't right.

The second movie was Aftershock. A box office movie made in China about the earthquake in Tangshan, China somewhere around the 70's. The plot was really interesting and the storyline is very moving. If you don't wanna cry, don't watch then. It depicts the lives of people affected from the earth quake particularly touching on the life of a mother and her daughter who overheard that the mother chose to save the twin brother rather than her when both of them we buried under the piles of concrete and she(mother) had no choice but was pushed to make a quick decision as only 1 could be saved.

What is more interesting for me here is that it really digs out the strong family values that the Chinese people possess. There are filial piety, love, care, and on top of all, loyalty. That gives me an urge to visit China one day and to find out myself about the Chinese people who live there. I like the fact that parents care alot for their children especially I guess because of the one child policy in China, people are more appreciative of their offsprings.

Ok, both movies sent the mood into a sombre mode the whole evening, haha. But again, I really think Aftershock is really a gd movie and it is actually running on the nominee for best foreign movie at the coming Oscar award.

The weekend wasn't much like a weekend afterall. I have to work today, feeling like as if the working days continue and continue still wondering when's the weekend is coming again, haha. Until then, nite nite.