was just thinking about the movie lost in translation. it's either you hate it or you love it. that got me thinking into what i liked about it. well i didn't particularly like the relationships as in old man falling for young girl, both kissing other people whilst being married. what i love about the show, is the way coppola created such moments filled with meaning and intensity, how i was able to sympathise with the characters, great acting, the drifty surreal, thinking nature of the movie. that's what i love about it. and the poignancy of urban life is brought out in a very real way, a very raw depiction of the emotions in urban life and contemporary global lifestyles. well it may not be as deep as that but that's what i like. i especially like the scene where she's sitting at her window high up in the hotel room looking down at the cityscape.

yet another movie, is cold mountain. the passion is immense. this one is more intense in another sense, there's life and death involved. lost in translation is more about the social boundaries and this one is about love transpassing the military code of honour. to turn back as jude law did for his love is as brave as going foward to war, if not, even more. the movie is set in another time frame i indulged alot in when i was young, reading laura ingalls wilder's life in early america, reading lucy laud montomery [is that the actual name? i forgot]'s anne of green gables series and the subsequent eight books ending up in her daughter in the civil war period. everything was passionate. the emotions, the weather, and the conservative nature of people then made the moments even more poignant when not every feeling could be voiced out or expressed as openly as now. and war. i'm so grateful that i am not in the midst of one. that would be the most horriblest thing ever.

and love me if u dare. another show that set me thinking about love. the passion, so raw. extreme, yes. but well, what would u do for love?

i still live, in my imagination. that's the place where life is at its most intense for me.