Watched 2 non-blockbusters

Last week, I watched 2 movies.. one is more of the indie kind, artistic kind which have won many awards overseas.. and the other which is a documentary that has received very good reviews..

Bad habits.. a film about not eating either becos of religious reason, losing weight reason.. it touched on the issues of anorexic, the reality of religion and the common concept of thin is beauty..

there is a gal who believed in god fully, such that she thinks god can save everyone, stop everyone from dying and stop every disasters.. even better than what a doctor can do.. yah.. she is a doctor.. and she thinks by not eating good food will help, will get the god's response but didn't she know all these deaths and disasters are part of the life cycle? and all the praying that did came true maybe just coincidence.. I am not trying to say that religion cannot be believed.. it just that god can't save everybody.. deaths are part of life..

and there is a mother.. who thinks skinny is beauty.. and wants herself to be thin and her daughter to be like her.. but don't she knows that chubby can also be pretty and her daughter has her father's gene too.. the fat genes.. yah.. her father is fat.. and likes to eat a lot.. so how can she be thin.. they tried so many ways of sliming down.. placebo.. the fake food in slimming centre.. the acupuncture.. so crazy..

the funniest thing is the father architect.. at a point in time thinks that the gastric acid from the vomit of the school gals can corrode the pipes? so ridiculous..

What so artistic about this movie is the way some of the scenes appear.. and the sound effects.. it is a fine movie.. but not so fantastic.. maybe becos I don't always watch this kind of movie..

The second movie is mad about english.. it is funny in the way the china chinese speak english, and the funny road signs or signboards they have.. the chinese are so into learning english even the near 80-year-old elderly also want to learn.. they conquered the bad memory.. all the difficulties to learn it.. and this old lady who is a sinseh.. also can speak the illness in english.. amazing.. all of them want to be part of the olympic fever and this is not only about olympic.. it is also about their future.. their wanting to have progress in the development of the country.. their patriotism has pushed them to learn english.. they are also kaisu de..

There is this crazy english teacher.. or should I say he is a motivator.. he not only teaches english.. he teaches values.. he yelled english to teach english.. he says "The only way to learn english is to memorise and recite." and he has a dream which is to change China, change everyone to learn english.. why.. is not to follow the westerners.. but to pity them becos they cannot speak chinese well.. wah.. quite proud yah.. and he motivated the youngster to learn english so as to show their patriotism, their filial to their parents.. english will make them a better person.. Wow!!

and there is this very crazy intensive camp that is military style.. parents spent a lot of money to bring their only child there to learn english in a crazy way.. cannot sleep much and have to learn english almost 24 hours.. and there are tests every day.. and to learn it is thru yelling.. you can see all their determination.. you will think they are really mad..