just got back from watching the singsoc screening of Be With Me... i knew i jus had to blog it within watching the first minute of the film. the music is great, and there is little dialogue and you know how films are just so different from movies. i really enjoyed it even though it was slow moving. but yeah... some gripes before i wax lyrical:

1. the scene where jackie lands on fat boy is so contrived, it's as if eric khoo couldnt think of a better way to resolve the plot lines
2. the lesbian subplot is there jus to sex it up, i swear.
3. the social worker's hokkien is atrocious. damn fake.

but the good parts were really good, i was totally weeping in that scene where the bedridden wife told the old man she wanted to die. wow. that was just soooo heart-rending, so well conveyed, it went like an arrow straight to the heart. and also when theresa chan spoke so matter of factly abt her one true love passing away before christmas. for a lady who has had so many things taken away from her it was really inspiring. i can't imagine having something and then losing it.. it's so much worse than never knowing it at all. and the scenes of local sounds, local places, local food was such an assault of the senses. reminded every one of us what we were missing back home.