♫ Lene's Eternal Happiness

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Departures @ 5:12 PM

Listening to: Heart Disease by Outsider, MC Sniper & Horan

Do you know that salmons struggle to swim upstream back to where they were born just to lay eggs and then they die?

Yes, I just knew about it after watching the movie, “Departures” a Japanese film that won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2009 Oscars. “Is it really that good?” I wondered when I watched the trailer. And I wasn’t surprise at all, ‘cus it IS that good. Only if you really, truly understands what’s the movie is trying to teach us, or make us realised and look in other way about… death.

It’s a story about a cellist that lost his job and ended up working in an abbreviation for "encoffinment". He has to assist the "departed" by ceremonially preparing the dead in front of mourners before their bodies are placed in the coffin. I guess that would be a job that most of us thought, disgusting? Scary? Or maybe something that not many of us would consider even doing it? Believe me, this movie does not “touch” any religious issues, so don’t worry too much to watch it just because you think it’s a Japanese film with Japanese culture and they might show some sort of different kind of beliefs, if-you-know-what-I-mean. In short explanation, I would just say it’s a movie that shows how this job actually works in humans’ lives, which some of us might think it would be insane to accept this kind of job, is just something that most of us have to know, why this job exist and… well, it just made death… has some sort of meaning to us, to everyone. I really don’t know how to explain it, but yeah, if you’re a normal human that’s interested in knowing about why certain things happen in this life and all that… I suggest you watch this movie. Trust me, if you get what the movie is trying to “tell” you, you’ll learn something… eventually. ;)

I’ve always hated funerals. I don’t like to see people I love die or seeing people crying for the person who died. It’s just makes me sad. I guess, that’s one of the immature sides of me. But then, there’s this part in this movie, when there’s this one family, could still be laughing and teasing their dead father who’s lying in the coffin with a peaceful expression by giving him lots of kisses marks (with lipsticks) on his face. No, it’s not that they are heartless or enjoying the father’s death. -_-; It’s just… they were laughing and crying at the same time. I don’t know why, I like that feeling. Though it actually makes me feel wanna cry even more but yeah… there’s something about that, I don’t know, it’s different. In my own understanding, it’s like they cried for the present, because the person is dead, while they laughed for the past, refreshing back the memories of that person. (: Sometimes, humans’ hearts are just unexplainable. And the ending of the movie… well, let’s just say the director is trying to make the audience realised that “It’s not about the ending, it’s about the whole movie since the beginning.”

This movie is worth watching, that’s all I can say. ;)

Gosh, can't believe I nearly forgotten to wish the angel of TVXQ. XD

HAPPY 23rd BIRTHDAY XIAH;KIM JUNSU! :D

Dear Junsu oppa,
May all your wishes come true and may things get better okay?
Don't ever give up and please continue to amaze us with your amazing voice.
Stay strong and be happy always. ;)

Now, let's go watch Five In The Black Tour Concert DVD. ;)

P.S. Real practice of life starts...now.