My Blueberry Nights...

"The story of a woman who takes the long route instead of the short one to meet up with the man she loves." Wong Kar Wai.

As I looked up at the window, I realised I was on the wrong side......

Maybe one of them ran off with someone else. Maybe the feelings just went away....

The company is great, the movie is great and the cast is even greater....

You have two of the smartest hollywood actresses Rachel Weisz, who graduated from the University of Cambridge and the oh-so-pretty Natalie Portman (my fav Hollywood actress along with Charlize Theron & Ashley Judd) who graduated from Harvard University. And how not to watch the movie when eye-candy Jude Law is in it.. (though I try to ignore the fact that he's not exactly a faithful person in real life). It's always nice to see both Natalie & Jude act in the same movie. First, it was Cold Mountain, then Closer and now My Blueberry Nights.

To my amazement too, the movie features one of my fav singer, Norah Jones. It was her screen debut and I say she did a pretty good job. She sang "The Story" in the movie soundtrack which will be released in Feb. Looking forward to it...

But the thing that really caught my attention was that this movie was directed by Wong Kar Wai, who is directing his first feature length English-language film. This is one director whose movies I'm drawn to... Chungking Express, Days of Being Wild, In the Mood for love & 2046. There's something about his trademark stylistic direction that appeals to me (though it sometimes irks people who view it as draggy). But I see the beauty in slowly revealing the plot and really fleshing out the characters, bringing out the subtleties of their emotions till you connect with them, feel them and experience their 'reel'-ality.

Without reading the synopsis, I knew this is the kind of movie that I will watch.... This is the kind I know YOU will watch too. Perhaps, this is what YOU can do on your free Saturdays...

So what's this movie abt?? (Warning: Spoiler ahead)

It's a story about Elizabeth (Norah Jones) who upon her breakup, met a new friend, a soul-mate, a cafe owner (Jude Law) from a foreign land. Shortly after, without saying goodbye, she just left. She sets out on a journey without a destination, leaving behind a life of memories and her new friend, who relentlessly tried to contact her. Why did she leave then? Perhaps to search for something to mend her broken heart. To escape to the furthest places possible..... to avoid the pain... or to avoid making the same mistakes......

Interestingly, while she was waitressing her way through the various States (to save enough to buy herself a car), Elizabeth befriends others whose yearnings and sorrows are greater than hers. They include a troubled cop (David Strathairn) and his estranged wife (Rachel Weisz), and a down-on-her-luck gambler (Natalie Portman) with a reconciliation issue. Through them, Elizabeth begins to see her reflection in others... recognising the true depths of loneliness and emptiness, and that somehow, she is much luckier than them... And through her soul-searching journey, she begins to understand that she had discovered herself and delights in who she is...

After many many days of wandering, close to a year, she decided to go back...

....back for a blueberry pie ...

....back to the Blueberry Nights...

Elizabeth: So what's wrong with the Blueberry Pie?

Jeremy: There's nothing wrong with the Blueberry Pie, just people make other choices. You can't blame the Blueberry Pie, it's just... no one wants it.

Elizabeth: Wait! I want a piece.

As I looked up at the window, I realised I was on the wrong side of the road. I took the longest time to get across that road. But it's not how long it takes to get across that matters, but who's waiting on the other side that really does...

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Goodbye doesn't always mean the end. Sometimes, it means a new beginning.

~ Elizabeth~