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November 6, 2005
the MM-----music and movies
I love movies. I love watching the life stories of others, the drama and the complications, the emotions and the sentiment, so that I don’t need to think of mine.
This was the fourth time that I’ve watched this movie and I still laughed and cried with it. A little bit exaggerating but sweet, touching, romantic movie “Love Actually”. It was filmed for Christmas two years ago and reviewing it again just made me realize how time flew. Christmas was around the corner again.
In general, if I don’t pay particular attention to the music in the movie, for me it means it is well integrated with the plot and the story. And I have to say in the past three times, the music seemed seamlessly fitting to the movie so I just let it flow by. However I do remember one scene: The wife was thrilled to find a beautiful necklace in her husband’s pocket and she assumed that it would be her Christmas gift. But she opened her gift with excitement only to find out that her husband gave her Joni Mitchell’s CD. A complicated feeling seized her: Disappointed, being betrayed, shocking…but she could not reveal her real feelings in front of the kids so she pretended to go to the kitchen. She hid herself in her bedroom with Joni Mitchell’s voice flooding in the room, she wept silently….then she wiped out her tears and went back to the room pretending nothing had happened…
I cried three times when I watched that scene and this time, again. And the music, her deep voice, the melancholy melody, just went under my skin…..I felt I would melt in it….
Ok, on my to-purchase-list: Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now
When I first listened to Carla Bruni was her song: "Quelqu’un m’a dit" from a wonderful friend this year. Then for my birthday I received a CD of hers from another dear friend, which became one of my favourite CDs. Last weekend I rent a few movies including an old one called Le divorce. I watched it in the theatre years ago. I rent it again just for a simple reason: I'd like to watch Kate Hudson’s sweet smile if I need to relax and kill some time. In the middle of the movie, all of sudden, Carla’s voice: “
C'est quelqu'un qui m'a dit que tu m'aimais encore.
Serais ce possible alors ?
It dawns to me that maybe something is always there, but sometimes we just don’t know…
Posted by pengbo at November 6, 2005 7:34 PM