Suicide Bunny

This book is just as advertised. The “plot” centers on a bunny trying to commit suicide. As much as I hate to admit it, this book is laugh-out-loud funny. Initially you may resist the urge to smile but, eventually, your reaction is likely to transform into bursts of laughter followed by a appreciation for this guilty pleasure.

Very few words are used so, you will find yourself predicting how each bunny will be succeed in ending his life. And, I did derive an odd sense of comfort in the fact that there are at least two seemingly twisted ideas.

Consider it sick. Consider it pointless. Consider it twisted. But, if you are to be honest, you must also consider it loads of fun.

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My Neighbors The Yamadas

Storyline:

My Neighbours the Yamadas is made up of a series of sketches which focus on the ordinary Yamada family and their daily tales that range from the humourous to the heartbreaking, we see this family cope with life's little conflicts, problems and joys in their own way.

 

Review:

When seeing the very first pictures, I wondered what these drawings were, so far from the characters I got used to see. The animation is all water colored. And it looks like you're really look at a Comic.

And then, the magic of its humor took me. I was having no problem at all to follow the jokes, due to a possible lack in cultural knowledge. Yet, I don't think I missed so much. This Yamada family is close enough to us, and their behavior seemed rather universal to me.

Lots of wonderful images and full characters along with moments that will keep a smile in your heart.

The Way We Are: Tin Shui Wai Night and Day

I couldn't find the Hong Kong movie that has the serenely charming portrait of regular people, until I watch this movie. It may put you to sleep, but the director assured enough to make this a worthy watch.

Storyline:

Mrs. Cheung, who lives with teenage son Ka-On. Mrs. Cheung works part-time in the local supermarket, while Ka-On lazes about their home and occasionally attends church fellowship meetings, where he may or may not admire one of his church mentors.

Life occurs when the two befriend a new neighbor, an elderly woman who lives alone, and soon joins Mrs. Cheung at her workplace.

Review:

This is a simple story about regular people, and the director breathes credibility and affection into the characters and their lives by choosing not to overdo. The viewer's role here is passive, much like the characters themselves, who react naturally and without forced emotion or incident.

The emotions here are simple and respectful ones, and show us that the people of Tin Shui Wai have a heart and soul. Living there is like living anywhere else; it's full of ups and downs, small successes and setbacks, and people who are worth getting to know if you just give them a chance.

The Way We Are makes Tin Shui Wai seem like home.



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Un Amico from Ennio Morricone

“Un Amico” from Ennio Morricone. Also featured in the Inglorious Basterds motion picture movie. I find this track is a romantically charged piece that will get anyone’s emotions all fired up, even after hearing it many many times.

Cheers,
L

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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