Distant Lights

I'm getting more and more sentimental, uhhhhh i hate it.

Saw a swiss film the other day, "Vitus." Quite a nice one, and i finally understand why ppl said Swiss doesnt speak german. They actually speak SWISS GERMAN (yeah imdb.com said so too, so funny to see it) It's like german pronounced in italian with french vocabularies. Yeah, maybe it's a excuse for not understanding the german dialogue.

I like german films. Guess that's one of the reason i learn german, or opposite. Just as the german personality, german films hardly show the humor as spanish or italian films, nor are they as romantic as the french ones. But German has the imcaparable talents dealing with social phenomena, inner struggle, and reality. Once again, it might be the problem of taiwanese film companies, who only import these kinds of german film. As I recalled, even the most heart-warming ones consist of some imperfect pieces of life. Well, das Leben ist einfach so. C'est la vie. Anyway they are absolutely very nice.

Distant Lights (Lichter) 2003 --

a film from Hans-Christian Schmid. This movie was shown in the Taiwan film festival 2004, and never in regular cinema. I wonder if it was ever shown outside every film festival worldwide. So difficult to find the DVD. Frankfurt an Oder. 2 hrs train ride to berlin, 30 minutes to Poland. The river Oder borders this city from Poland. On the opposite sides of rivers. Stories and stories happening. People from the east trying to cross the river to get the "promised land." However on supposed wonderland, umployement has roared through the city. All the people have, or once had, DREAMS. It can be as big as a wonderful life in Berlin, it can be as small as, a new dress for the daughter's communion. 5 stories and nearly 20 chracters weaved a harmonious if not somehow sad symphony. So touched.