Last Life in the Universe.

I have wanted for weeks to go to one of the international films that was being played in the theater across my hall. Finally, I have watched a film from Thailand – Last Life in the Universe. I was trying to write about it but could not really explain it at all. Then I came across a site that explained it all:

“As the film’s cinematographer, the brilliant Christopher Doyle, explains, “[The important thing] is to never ask what it means. It is what it is. You don’t ask a painting to explain itself. You don’t understand world music. You just enjoy the rhythm.”

“And so LAST LIFE must be experienced. Not necessarily understood – just experienced.”

I should have stayed for the discussion that followed the film by the professor who teaches international film studies. I don’t want to necessarily understand it but I would love to hear how other people perceived it.

All the movies for this semester:

---Beauty & The Beast – France 1946
---Howl’s Moving Castle – Japan 2005
---All About My Mother – Spain 1999
---Ten –Iran 2002
---Saraband – Sweden 2003
---Tale of 2 Sisters – Korea 2004
---Good Morning, Night – Italy 2005
---The World – China 2005