Su-Ki-Da, and The Little Red Flower
Su-Ki-Da is a rather melodramatic Japanese film. No matter what type of cancer or deadly accident the protagonists have, the cinematography is nicely done. There is only one thing I want to remember this film for - The guy asked the girl whom he saved the previous night from a robber when she laid drunk on the street, "What do you do when things don’t work out?" The girl paused for a moment and said, "I close my eyes and try to remember a time when I liked myself."
The Little Red Flower is adapted from Wang Shuo’s fiction with the same Chinese title (看上去很美). The children actors and actresses did a marvellous job. Childhood esp in a boarding school is in no way simple. Being an outcast among the others, the experience already foretells growing up and complex human relationships.
My friends and I went to the show of Kim Tak Building afterwards. Their studio is a hip and nice one. They had a welcome reception serving cocktail for everyone and they limited the crowd to 30 which everyone could sit rather comfortably on the floor enjoying the atmospheric music. I spent the whole time playing with a cat there, tempting her/him to catch a string. It was neat.
