fell asleep for the 1st time ever in a cinema yesterday *sigh* ok i was slightly tired, though still high from our rather successful string concert *beam* but still, if it had been a movie like say, pirates of the caribbean i doubt i would have drifted off..

the movie in question? the anticipated "closer". yeah been wanting to watch that, cos the problems in there are quite close to home.. no i hope i'm not as extreme as them, but you get the idea. anyway, the main draw was to see what'd happen to the characters in the end, to see what might be the end result of living the way they did. but noo.. last i remember was jude law holding queen amidala while she sobbed and asked if he'd loved her at all, after he said he loved another cos the new one didn't need him.. oh and julia roberts' husband also sobbing and asking roberts to give him a goodbye fuck and she agreed, and THEN mr law found out about that and confronted roberts, and then the screen started getting blurry and next thing i knew i was being gently shaken and the credits were rolling.

well then. would anyone be kind enough to tell me what on earth happened in between? apparently they all got back tog with their original partners in the end, "due to complicated reasons", as jon so diplomatically put it. imho, it'd be much better as a play (cos a movie's too glossy) or a book (so i can find out what on earth they're discussing).

if there's anything to be learned from the movie (or what fraction i caught of it anyway), it's that relationships are a pain. you squirm in the beginning, ponder your brain to bits in the middle and when it ends, hope to either get run over by something metal that runs on fuel, or embrace gravity. the movie's tagline is such a cheerer too- "if you believe in love at 1st sight, you never stop looking".

so why do so many people still do it? because you live for the moments when everything feels right, for that few hours or minutes or even seconds when serotonin simply floods the system and you can't believe that life could actually be so sweet. of course once that moment passes it's back to hell as usual, but that story's for another time.

cheers!