Auckland International Film Festival 2006
We went to see The Cave of the Yellow Dog, which was the first of my 3 films for the day.
Before the movie started, he said to me,
"You really get yourself out a lot these days, eh?"
"What do you mean?"
"You are into stand up comedy, football, fruit festival and now film festival!"
"Film festival is an old time love! Oh you forgot the theatre, youth counselling and my Cantonese learning!"
"Right~I just thought that maybe one day, you will come up with something really random, such as gallery or something like that, eh?"
"Well, now you mention it, I am actually going to a friend's art exhibition next week in a gallery!"
"..."
Anyway, this is a vivid slice-of-life film with breathtaking landscape. The acting was so nature that I almost thought it's a documentary! Besides the the amazing romad Mongolia life style, there were also subtext of some philosophical and spiritual questions all over the place, such as reincarnation and human value. Two scenes really struck me.
Scene 1.
"Try to bite here - your palm." The mother said to the 6 years old girl, Nansal.
"You can see it, you can touch it, and you want to eat it, but you just can't have it!"
Before the movie started, he said to me,
"You really get yourself out a lot these days, eh?"
"What do you mean?"
"You are into stand up comedy, football, fruit festival and now film festival!"
"Film festival is an old time love! Oh you forgot the theatre, youth counselling and my Cantonese learning!"
"Right~I just thought that maybe one day, you will come up with something really random, such as gallery or something like that, eh?"
"Well, now you mention it, I am actually going to a friend's art exhibition next week in a gallery!"
"..."
Anyway, this is a vivid slice-of-life film with breathtaking landscape. The acting was so nature that I almost thought it's a documentary! Besides the the amazing romad Mongolia life style, there were also subtext of some philosophical and spiritual questions all over the place, such as reincarnation and human value. Two scenes really struck me.
Scene 1.
"Try to bite here - your palm." The mother said to the 6 years old girl, Nansal.
"You can see it, you can touch it, and you want to eat it, but you just can't have it!"
Yes, indeed, sometimes you have to let go even it's something you really loved, just like my Young Lily. (P.S. Yes, I did try like a kid naively at the cinema and No, I couldn't bite it, neither.)
Scene 2.
When Nansal got lost during grazing a flock of sheep alone, she was sheltered by an old woman. Nansal was curious about the value of human life after she told her the legend of the cave of the yellow dog. The old woman didn't say a thing, but smiled and took a pot of raw rice out. She scooped up the rice and spilled on a toothpick, and asked Nansal to do the same.
"Let me know when there is a single rice balancing on the top of the toothpick" She said.
The girl kept on trying until she got very frustrated.
"It's impossible. It's too hard" She said.
"It's impossible. It's too hard" She said.
The old woman smile and said,
"That's how hard to become a human. That's how valuable the human life is!"
"That's how hard to become a human. That's how valuable the human life is!"
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