There's one thing you do in China if you have a lot of free time (well even if you don't...) you watch a lot of movies... DVDs are so cheap here- going to the store to buy some is a regular thing we do every weekend- to fill up the stash...
So today I watched 3 films - 2 of them were really not great, but then- at the end of the day - I watched a movie that I can definitely say is the best I've watched here since I arrived. This movie is called "TransAmerica" - and the story is about a transsexual man - who is on the verge of getting the surgery to become a woman- suddenly learning he has a son from his first and only girlfriend. I obviously wont "bore" you with the details to not ruin it for you... You'll just have to believe me- that this one is really good. I laughed, I shed a tear, I was surprised and scared (well more worried than scared really) and I really enjoyed it...
I've always loved the stories that are a bit strange but totally make you believe they are real (and no- I'm not talking about Sci-Fi). Of course the way the movie is made is really important- including the music first (on my scale it's the most important element) then directing, editing, and acting. The story can be good or bad- I've just proved today that a movie can have a nice story, a believable one, even interesting to a certain extent- but if all the others are bad- the movie will totally fail (so don't watch "Shop Girl" with Clare Danes).
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Tomorrow I'm gonna go to the railway station to try to get a train or a bus to a city called Hangzhou. There I'm gonna meet 2 Israeli's I know from my online life (China Forum) and we're gonna spend Sunday night at their friends' house for dinner. I guess I will get a train or a bus, but because there's a holiday I'm not sure I'll get a ticket. So I might find myself buying a ticket for Sunday and going back home. Who knows.
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