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 ...20: a carefree, dream-chasing
age. life
is beautiful, and you’re brave enough to follow your dreams,
as you’ve got nothing to loose. yet dreams
are not everything. you’ve got to learn to interact with society, with people, with life. here, 小潔 got attached to her “twin”
friend. as
time goes by, you won’t even realize that you’ve
already become accustomed to someone’s companionship, physically
or psychologically, and you’ll be surprised by the degree of
effect his actions have on you. it’s not the fact that he’s 重色輕友 that displeases you, it’s the idea
that you’re dispensible and replaceable. you thought he 重視 you, you thought you’re on his
priority list --- it turns out he can throw you out of his mind...just
like that. you’re nothing but something spareable,
like an old toy. that’s the first taste of betrayal.
but there’s still some good remaining: family. when everything turns out to be
just a dream, 小潔 can still turn back home. her
family is still there, waiting for her to come back. they
won’t ask for what has happened in taiwan, they won’t question if she’s
brought back money. they’ll just do everything as
normal. and
she’ll fit back into her ordinary life. in some sense, 小潔is way luckier than her friend. at
least she has her loving, ordinary family. she
doesn’t. i’ve had a similar experience before,
not long ago actually. when everything & everyone seems to have
abandoned you, when everything doesn’t seem to turn out as
you expect, your family is still there, to love you and care for
you, unconditionally. i can always return home.
...30: you don’t know what’s and who’s
best for you. those who likes you you like not, and those
you like can’t be yours. maybe it’s fate. when 想想 learns that his ex-boy friend is
getting married, she’s hysterical. they’ve
promised each other not to get married, so they can be there for
each other even though they aren’t “officially”
together. but guess what, selfishness is human
nature. he
finds somebody else, and it’s quite normal (even though despicable)
for him to break his promise. (he’ll
think, it’s an immature promise anyways...). how
can he leave her behind like that? how
can he abandon her, thinking she’ll not get hurt? maybe
it’s me, but i’ll never break a promise, not a
promise like this. if you’re not certain you can keep it,
don’t promise. don’t do that out of sympathy. but she’s
selfish too. she wants to keep him to herself, even though
he doesn’t love her. yes, women can be as foolish as
that. keeping
a man who doesn’t love her. it’s not hard to see why
she’s hurt. she knows deep inside that he’s the one
she loves the most. yet what is there for her to do? she
can only blame him, maybe for the rest of her life, or until she
met someone else who’ll occupy her mind entirely as he did.
when she’s sick at home alone, she says to
herself “let me die”. the feeling of loneliness is
unbearable. i certainly know that. and
the scenes where she keeps opening her apartment door, thinking someone
is ringing her doorbell or calling her cell, seem so very familiar. sad,
isn’t it?
near the end, she asked if a “sign”
can be given to her to help her on her path in life (in her case,
her true love and future husband). if
only life can be that easy. but the truth is, it isnt’.
...40: mistaking
someone for liking you make you fall for him. that’s
definitely the case for women. at least i fell for it each and
every time. you start to think about the intentions behind
his actions, the hidden meanings, the implications. ironically,
he may not mean anything at all. men have simple thoughts. they
don’t think as complicatedly as women do.
my tears just poured out uncontrollably when
lily is tending to the patient, helping her clip her nails. i used
to get my nails clipped by someone else too. it’s some kind of 幸福. she said to the patient, she used to help her
daughter clip nails; but one day, when she’s 12, she didn’t
need her mum to do it anymore, because she’s learned how to
do it. she
didn’t noticed when she’s learnt it, or rather, when
she’s grown up. reminds me of “sunrise, sunset” from
<<fiddler on the roof>>: “i don’t remember growing
older. when
did they?” dunno why, but these moments always touch me
so deeply.
overall, this movie is not only about love, it’s
about women, their life, their thoughts, their views. so if
you’re not interested in knowing the minds of women, or maybe
think that you’ll be bored by it, skip it. otherwise, it’ll be an entertaining
(all the 客串actors such as 王秋生 and 任賢齊 are all very funny indeed) and delightful movie. (it’s the kind of
delightfulness i felt after watching <<amelie>>, the 會心微笑 kind.)
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