by Yasmin Ahmad
In the script, I had written, "Melur looks clean and showered, dressed in her usual boy-style pyjamas. She’s lying on the floor of the living room. Mahesh is also lying on the floor. They both have a pillow each and they’re facing each other, their legs stretched out in the opposite direction."
When it came to shooting the scene, I had an idea to make them do more than face each other. We made him teach her his language.
It was a quiet moment that turned out more sensuous than we thought. They were speaking, but you will hear nothing, except for the gentle, dreamy strains of Claude Debussy's "Claire de Lune" ("Moonlight").
Then, tired out by the day's activities, they fell asleep. We framed it quite closely at first, but it looked too much like that table scene from Wong Kar-Wai's "My Blueberry Nights".
Then my cinematographer did something miraculous. He framed them loose and pushed to the corner of the frame, and then he rotated the camera clockwise, causing the bodies to float across the frame until they finally rested in the centre. I gasped. Suddenly, they were more than just Melur and Mahesh.
They looked like the constellation, orbiting against the sky. They were so close, but they did not touch. They were two sleeping stars that looked as if they had been together for millions of years. They looked destined to be together.
They became the Yin-Yang.
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i watched talentime yesterday 我的心还留在昨天
一贯的yasmin手法，点到为止却让人深思，各种族的隔阂和复杂的情感引人入胜。
没有浮燥华丽的拍摄手法、喧宾夺主的情节画面和演员，却以最简单的方式带出细腻的情感。直接、不拖泥带水，融入不同的元素和社会讽刺，很好。
it is very simple, but it is not simple
那一发不可收拾的泪水，久久不能释怀，我的心还留在昨天。
一个超级小粉丝的心态，我最难忘她曾经回复我的留言：
dear seeyin,
don't be upset by idiots like that politician. these people only serve to show us how blessed we are that we don't think that way. there are racists in every race, in every country, you know that, and we should use them to remind ourselves how we should NOT raise our children.
peace, my dear
她叫我的名字！她认真看我给她的留言！
那时开心了好几天。
race? what is race? race car?
庆幸今年看了几部意义非凡、丝丝入扣的电影，The curious case of Benjamin Button, Slumdog Millionare, and this- Talentime. Don't miss it!!!! 快下映了，只剩 KLCC 7.00pm 那场。少数华人观众会购票去看吧，他们或许比较喜欢the fast and furious 4, dragonball, ......somemore? 电影院的人数有点让人失望，不过相信在场的每一个enjoyed the movie as much as i did.
电影结束后的感想，很想找个同样温度的陌生人拥抱。
sorry
i talked too much
heres the trailer:
那时开心了好几天。
race? what is race? race car?
庆幸今年看了几部意义非凡、丝丝入扣的电影，The curious case of Benjamin Button, Slumdog Millionare, and this- Talentime. Don't miss it!!!! 快下映了，只剩 KLCC 7.00pm 那场。少数华人观众会购票去看吧，他们或许比较喜欢the fast and furious 4, dragonball, ......somemore? 电影院的人数有点让人失望，不过相信在场的每一个enjoyed the movie as much as i did.
电影结束后的感想，很想找个同样温度的陌生人拥抱。
sorry
i talked too much
heres the trailer:
one of my favourite soundtrack in the movie, O RE PIYA (means O my beloved)
whenever i listen to it, some scenes float in my mind, again and again.
这部戏让我想起很多马来朋友，她们都很疼我。
我的心还留在电影里
好想再哭一场。
向我的偶像致敬。
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是咯，其实各族能和睦共处是一件很好的事。。。
我们不能只为了一件事而歧视其他种族。。。
各种族都有好人和坏人。。。
其实我也在camp遇见不少很友善的马来和印度同胞。。他们都很好。。
我也想看看那些你建议的电影，但是我仍然人在异乡，无法一次过看完。
就算有机会看，它们都下映了。。。
好可惜。。。
我也是很喜欢能带出很多意义及感动人的电影。。。
沙发~~~
可惜耶．
你听听这部电影的歌吧,嘻嘻
很好听.
benjamin buttons 真得很好看
讓我很想再去電影院看第二次
真的要去看~~~~
[據聞 Fast & Furious 4 裡面有播我家神起的歌,所以有衝動去看.]
XD
约个时间一起去看吧=_=
我闷荒了.
哟！我也不要走宝了！要去追电影戏！最近学业傻了我 ^^" 不然错过就终生难忘 T.T
Oops,是遗憾才对，paiseh哦..
对呀对呀
放学后约个朋友一起去看^^
尽量不要走宝,支持本地电影*
嗨
我也是很喜欢yasmin的电影
不过很可惜我这里没电影院
没得看 呵呵
有看过《Mukhsin》吗？
真的很棒