Love Me If You Dare

A movie about love, games and the search for a never-ending childhood – and that takes place in a mythical setting where everything would be larger than life.

Storyline:

As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoid the fact that they are truly meant for one another.





Review:

I'm crazy about this movie. It's dark, dreamy, and colorful. The movie does not ask you to take it seriously, but simply to watch as Julien and Sophie play with the life.

We see Julien and Sophie's games becoming more and more elaborate as they grow up, affecting other lives even. And when they do, you understand at most levels that they do not mean to hurt other people. They just play as the game is supposed to be played.

It is fantasy in that it lets you suspend realism for a moment, and dwell on the things we take for granted many times- laughter, romance, and childlike innocence. This movie made me smile, and I have no need to question motivations. It would be absurd to questions things that are meant to be left alone in their wonder.


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Tina Chow - The Lost Angel

Tina Chow (1951 – 1992) was a fashion icon in the 1980s and surprisingly, never been the mainstream beauty. She was American with mixed German-Japanese heritage. Chow started modeling as a teen, until she moved to New York in the early seventies and became a Warhol-circle regular.




Tina married Michael Chow, who owns the Mr. Chow restaurant chain. They have two children, a daughter named China and son Maxmillian. During the separation from Chow, she had high-profile affairs with Richard Gere and a bisexual French fashion arbiter Kim d’Estainville. From d’Estainville, she contracted HIV, becoming one of the first heterosexual women to become infected with the disease that would eventually end her life.




As an Asian-American, Chow represented the new diversity and universalism of modern beauty, but her fashion intelligence was even greater than her beauty. She is known for her chic, minimalist daily ‘uniform’ of white T-shirts, flat-front Kenzo trousers, ballet flats and men’s cardigans. Chow was a woman so obviously feminine, yet in short cropped hair and menswear! She is a universe away from tangled hair, angsty teens with a ton of eyeliner decked out in leggings.

Tina died on at the age of 41, she spent her last days at her home in California.

The Giving Tree

Storyline:

'Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy.'

Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave.

Review:

This is a tender story and touched with sadness. The needy boy portraits the human existence, selfish, greedy and insatiable entity who constantly receives. The tree portraits the idea of parenting, the selfless giver or merely self-sacrificing.

Some academic readers describing the book as portraying a one-sided relationship between the tree and the boy. Indeed, some of these speakers single the tree out as an irresponsible parent whose self-sacrifice has left the boy ill-equipped. Other readers argue that the tree gives everything to the boy freely because she loves him, and its feelings are reciprocated by the boy when he returns to the tree for a rest. In this way, the relationship between the tree and the boy as he grows up could be viewed as similar to that between a mother and her child; despite getting nothing in return for a long time, the tree puts the boy's needs foremost, because it wants him to be happy. Indeed, the only time the tree ever seems to be sad is when it feels that it has nothing left to give the boy and that the boy might never return.

As Ben Jackson it:

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Is this a sad tale? Well, it is sad in the same way that life is depressing. We are all needy, and, if we are lucky and any good, we grow old using others and getting used up. Tears fall in our lives like leaves from a tree. Our finitude is not something to be regretted or despised, however; it is what makes giving (and receiving) possible. The more you blame the boy, the more you have to fault human existence. The more you blame the tree, the more you have to fault the very idea of parenting. Should the tree's giving be contingent on the boy's gratitude? If it were, if fathers and mothers waited on reciprocity before caring for their young, then we would all be doomed.

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