Yesterday I was at HMV deliberating whether I should start on Krzysztof Kieslowski's Dacalogue, a 10-hour long movie on the Ten Commandments (a 1 hour segment for every commandment). Then I spotted a special shelf for films made by Wong Kar Wai that had Eros, a collection of 3 short films about (you guessed it) desire.
So there I was, walking around HMV with the two DVDs in either hand, thinking "ten commandments or sex, ten commandments or sex." Well... you have one guess which won out.
Eros starts out strong with WKW's "The Hand". Mahusay. (Don't worry mother, it was not graphic at all. It was all in what was not said/shown) WKW had his usual dizzying kaleidiscope effect tienes (if you watch WKW, you will know what I mean and you will know that this is a compliment). The Hand, a simple story about a tailor and his relationship with a courtesan was so well shot, it made you want to weep. Magaling itong taong ito. Watch his movies.
Steven Soderbergh's "Equilibrium" was mildly amusing. Robert Downey, Jr. plays anxious therapy patient with a recurring dream of a beautiful woman. Alan Arkin plays his peeping tom shrink. This gets a grade of "Ok lang."
(Aside: I think Mr. Soderbergh's best movie of all time is The Limey. If you see this movie in your random trip to a video rental place, Metrowalk or just about any place selling videos, grab this film. You will not regret it.)
Michelangelo Antonioni's segment "Il filo pericoloso delle cose" aka "The Dangerous Thread of Things" has been called the weakest of the three because it simply is. This one went no where fast. No plot, just lots of naked ladies. Which if you think about it, is pretty much what a 90 year old man like Antonioni would think about desire.
So there I was, walking around HMV with the two DVDs in either hand, thinking "ten commandments or sex, ten commandments or sex." Well... you have one guess which won out.
Eros starts out strong with WKW's "The Hand". Mahusay. (Don't worry mother, it was not graphic at all. It was all in what was not said/shown) WKW had his usual dizzying kaleidiscope effect tienes (if you watch WKW, you will know what I mean and you will know that this is a compliment). The Hand, a simple story about a tailor and his relationship with a courtesan was so well shot, it made you want to weep. Magaling itong taong ito. Watch his movies.
Steven Soderbergh's "Equilibrium" was mildly amusing. Robert Downey, Jr. plays anxious therapy patient with a recurring dream of a beautiful woman. Alan Arkin plays his peeping tom shrink. This gets a grade of "Ok lang."
(Aside: I think Mr. Soderbergh's best movie of all time is The Limey. If you see this movie in your random trip to a video rental place, Metrowalk or just about any place selling videos, grab this film. You will not regret it.)
Michelangelo Antonioni's segment "Il filo pericoloso delle cose" aka "The Dangerous Thread of Things" has been called the weakest of the three because it simply is. This one went no where fast. No plot, just lots of naked ladies. Which if you think about it, is pretty much what a 90 year old man like Antonioni would think about desire.
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