Be With Me

Be With Me

i've found the dvd for this movie last month in jb but decided not to buy it for no reason. gladly zairi bought it for this is one of the best movie i've watched for this year.

this is actually an independent singaporean movie, directed by eric khoo, which is also a singaporean, i think. wiki or google this stuff if you want to know more.

this movie consist of 4 different story, but with the same theme, love and suffering. and like most of the movie which tells more than one story, let say for instance, 'amores peros', 'crash' or maybe 'berbagi suami', the stories is interconnected in some way or another. i don't know why but it seems like this kind of interconnecting inside a movie has seems to be blooming its way nowadays.

so, the first story tells about a relationship between two schoolgirls which gone wrong (this story is mocking me in a way or the other. don't get me wrong, i'm straight). the second story tells about a guy who obviously has a lack of self-asteem, mostly caused by his family, who falls for a hot looking woman (the guy of course, not his family), but didn't have the guts to say so. he soon became a stalker, but not in a pervert-ive way, or so it seems. the third story is about an old man, who feels like it's the end of the world when his wife died, and the third story, which is the most inspiring story in this movie, is about a blind and deaf woman who struggles each day for a better day. the last one was said to be based on real story.

most of the review i've read said that this movie deals with how we human, will always longing for true love, which seems to only exist theoretically, rather than in reality.

but for me, this movie deals with far more deeper issue than that. it deals with suffering, and how we cope with it. this movie makes all suffering caused by love and relationship looks like a young boy's playground, comparing it to the suffering a deaf and blind woman who have seen how beautiful the world are, who have heard beautiful things, but are taken away from her in almost an instant.

ok, so there are some spoilers in my review. i just couldn't help it. and some of the actresses in this movie are gorgeous as well.

my rate is 4 and a half out of five.

p/s: they are also setting up a fund for the disabled to attend universities and polytechs in singapore. read here to know more.