Monday, September 15, 2014
Quiet
Today's film is a meditative piece about an eastern/western relationship in Hong Kong.
At one level it is a straight forward romance and at another it is meditation on love and longing.
This is from the DVD collection so I have seen it before.
Part of it takes place in Switzerland as flashback amidst a lot of mist and rain.
Tragedy looms just in the background.
The relationship is nice to see. Falling in love is not all that angst ridden. It is just that circumstances conspire to make this a tragic film. Beauty comes at a cost.
I am a bit suspicious of the sad outcome. It echoes a bit the old films where the homo had to be punished for his sins.
But that does not drag it down. Sad things actually do happen to gay men in relationships and they are not necessarily the result of the gay but of the usual factors that make real love difficult.
A 5 out of Netflix5.
