someone else for a day...

beccs movie rating - 3/5

as a child, car rides were a treat, mcdonalds and kfc were eaten annually
the closest i came to going outside my suburb, was a 10 minute busride to the next suburb

every outing was savoured

i made sure that i remembered every detail i could to re-live it in my head on the days when i didn't feel like making games up, didn't feel like sewing clothes for barbies i never owned, didn't feel like singing on my balcony imagining that i was some famous rockstar...

i remember on those trips... i used to love going home at about dinner time

i loved peering through half drawn curtains and seeing people's dining rooms despite feeling motion sickness

on the rare occassion i would see families sitting, eating, laughing, sharing a meal and i used to wonder - what kind of lives do these people live? what did they do for a living? what would it be like to be them for a day?

i went to see "new york i love you" last night at cinema paris at fox studios and for some reason the movie stirred that memory

all these different characters mish mashed and entertwined in different stories of their lives and love

with an all-star cast - natalie portman, ethan hawke, maggie q, shi qi, bradley cooper, andy garcia, that summer girl from the OC....rachel bilson, blake lively, orlando bloom, robyn wright.... (the rest can be found here) the film was very interesting and thought provoking in some ways - but not for everyone which probably explains why its not shown at the commercial cinemas (not to my knowlege anyway)