Once upon a time, I was browsing for news. Some old news, some new news. Whatever. Just browsing for news of the year. Lo and behold, I stumbled upon something quite.. intriguing.
Asahan News had a headline on maria Ozawa’s failure to visit Indonesia. What’s interesting isn’t so much the story. It was rather the picture attached to the headline; I know how Maria Ozawa looks like and I can definitely say that girl on the headline picture is not her. She’s a lot… cuter.
And so I clicked on the link to the story.. (details if you click for more)
A good film is a film you’d want to see over and over again even knowing the ending: having something which spoilers won’t be able to break. Or preferably, several things; leitmotifs, throughlines, ideas, information, and ultimately, meaning.
It has been a long time since I last viewed an all-encompassing film which is not only entertaining, but also has a well rounded story full of layers that ran a wide gamut which all are ultimately resolved. It has been a quite a long time until I saw a masterpiece such as Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Das Leben Der Anderen, or “The Lives of Others”.
I won’t write about the film’s plot summary as it will spoil the pleasure viewing this magnificent piece of cinematic storytelling and unplucking every hair of its rich story by yourself. However, I will stress that this film is a film which will fulfill the viewer’s need to search for every little speck of meaning from a film.
I’ll just let the International Film Club clue you into the narrative:
There is a subdued reaction in you that..
I can’t be able to mimic
It’s something sweetly strange,
Which I find endearing in a human being
There’s the slightest hint of anger
With a hint of peace
Blended with patience and focus
Into a stare which I can’t seem to read
All hallows, friend
All is dear, dear friend
In your silence and stare, I bid you
Good tidings and fare thee well
Hear me now
Bearing down upon a path we choose
Chosen from the start living different rules
Existence something to cherish true
Will not succumb to doubts that I hold onto
Release the fear of my pain
In so much pain
Give me the will to fight
Every obstacle that I have inside
Release MY fear and
Hear me now
Words I vow
No fucking regrets
Fuck these chains
No god damn slave
I will be different
I’ll stand here defiantly
My middle finger raised
Fuck your prejudice
All my life
Always I’ve felt alone
Conditioned to believe that I’m always wrong
Only truth will help to set me free
My every weakness I must turn into strength
Every rage, every tear
Hate in so much hate
Never that pain will bind me
Ask of myself if I’ve the will to unwind
Every rage and tear
Hear me now
Words I vow
No fucking regrets
Fuck these chains
No god damn slave
I will be different
I’ll stand here defiantly
My middle finger raised
Fuck your prejudice
Carved upon my stone
I will go on
Patience, belief
Love will ascend
Just listen to it
Voice so true inside calling
To stand you up and march you on
Keep from falling
Let go your sorrow
Sun will shine, this I promise
Rising tommorow
Rising
Hear me now
I’m taking back the control
Of my
Life from societies hold
I vow
No more will I be a slave
Rise to
Challenge the whole human race
Flying through space and time
To see what’s real and what’s fantasy
In silence I’ll always remember
To search the open door
And by this conclusion I call you
Escaping through the core
Save us in Heaven’s skies
And grant us sign of Life
Stars are rising
Seven senses
With my eyes, do you see?
Racing through endless seas
Reveal The Heavenly Force in you
Building a lifeform with power
The energy in all
Communicate visions as always
I search this open road
I feel like carrying on
And by this conclusion I call you
I call eternally
To the unknown sacrifice
So long, released once again
Incense conclusion
Find the way out from the light
In these dimensions:
Find the way out
Save us in Heaven’s skies
And grant us sign of Life
Stars are rising
Outer senses
With my eyes, do you see?
Heavenly fire, Gods of higher
Silent in all their grace
“All lifeforms in this universe are built
upon one single, true equation.
A deep, intricate, yet simple equation
That bonds everything together.”
In silence I’ll always remember
To search the open door
And by this confession I call you
Escaping through the core
In God’s true creation, to save your soul
And by the Equation
The key remains unfold
Save us in Heaven’s skies
And grant us sign of Life
Stars are rising
Seven senses
With my eyes, do you see?
Heaven’s sensation
God’s Equation
Silent in all their grace
The path is clear towards the coveted mark of victory, but the road is visibly full of dangers. Though no eyes can see the meandering detours that usually befell those inept or forlorn enough to lose their way. The course laid down long before those who would propel themselves into this journey started their first steps. And so with gods and men, the folk of four; three maidens and a tough hermit tread and trek towards their goal. While the sheep remain inside their pen, they walk under the cover of earliest morning, slighting the slowly waking sun. Though many times they’ve seen the way to leave, their seated and accompanying mentors pray and guide their way.
I smell some blood on my feet, its scent unmistakable
Whilst I stand here silently in a chasm of fear, a gaping uncertainty
Here I can recall..
When I was twenty-four,
Extended youth befalls
Brash, young, and full of spunk,
Charged with angst and loaded with dreams
Yet I’m not seventeen
I’ve passed the vale of years
Unto the trial of tears, the beach;
A breach, tasted bitterness and bliss
A blissful beast of a sweeping, weeping stature
What contradiction!
Once upon a time, I was browsing for news. Some old news, some new news. Whatever. Just browsing for news of the year. Lo and behold, I stumbled upon something quite.. intriguing.
