Musings of an Idiot

Premiere

It looks like it is a lucky week for me – I got my hands on a couple of passes to the premiere of ‘Star Trek’ taking place tomorrow and I am thrilled. I had entered 2 competitions and I was seriously considering buying a $55 charity ticket to the event when this morning I dropped in a mail to the good people at Flicks and asked them whatever happened to the lucky draw to the event. An hour later I got an email from Andrew saying that they had already drawn the winners and I wasn’t one of them BUT it so happened that one of the winners couldn’t attend the event, so they were happy to pass the tickets onto me because it just happened to the right timing when I asked them the question. Wohoooo….I could’ve asked anyone to the event but I went ahead and asked Benji if he wanted to attend the premiere with me – mainly because his girl friend is trying to arrange a free double pass for me to see ‘The Winter’s Tale’ – the second play in ‘The Bridge Project’ starring Ethan Hawke and Rebecca Hall amongst others and directed by Sam Mendes – in short another world class theatre event. It is a good way to repay the debt – no? And boy am I feeling lucky right now. :-)

I went and watched a Hong Kong film called ‘The Shinjuku Incident’ last night and it was a mixed bag – it was very good till the last 20 minutes before it descends into total nonsense and chaos and thus spoiling the solid story/acting/visuals that came before that. It was weird watching it with a primarily Asian audience – I reckon the theatre was 95% full with Asian people. I found it strange that at some points where the extremely shocking violence or tragedy elicited laughter from a sizeable chunk of the audience. Is it a natural defence mechanism that they need to laugh to negate the strong surge of extreme emotions or is it a difference between the spoken word and the translated sub-titles on the screen that a ‘foreigner’ won’t get? I don’t know but it was an interesting experience nonetheless.

That's me for now.
Later,
Amit

Labels: Movies

posted by Amit @ 12:02 AM