- from lingling from gladys. XD
laogong ah, fainted yesterday right after smsing me that she had a terrible stomachache and may need to go to the hospital. she didn’t even tell me she stayed in the hospital for the whole of last night! but she was well enough to go to vivo with me today :D apparently the stomach virus thing can be spread through saliva, so today was quite a sad day ):
met sumay and binkai at 3.30. HAHA, binkai looks like sumay’s father because of their height difference. :D
AUGUST RUSH!!!!!!
is the BEST movie ever okay. out of the 4 movies i watched in 2 weeks (ps i love you, L change the world. 10000BC, august rush), this is the only show that made me cry, the only movie that made me feel so excited i started gripping laogong’s hand and stamping on the floor and squealing, it really made me feel.
it’s a great movie, especially for music lovers. maybe those without a passion for music will think the show’s really stupid, but all music lovers ESPECIALLY FELLOW JMS HAVE HAVE HAVE TO WATCH IT!
storyline (don’t read if you’re going to watch the movie anytime soon):
(by the way, i’m putting it in small font because it’s too lengthy and takes up a lot of space. copy and paste it into Microsoft word to read if you have poor eyesight :D)
it’s about this guy who’s the lead singer in a band, and a woman, lyla, who’s a pro cello player. they happen to meet and have sex and fall in love with each other, but the next day the girl’s father makes her leave for another country (forgot which country). lyla gets pregnant but in a car accident, she’s told that she had a miscarriage. actually, lyla’s father sent the baby for adoption D: and lyla dosen’t find out until 11 years later.
the boy, evan, grows up in some stupid orphanage and gets bullied and stuff. he loves music although he dosen’t know how to play music, and believes that his parents love him and want to find him, and that if he played music, his parents would be able to “hear” and find him. after leaving the orphanage, he meets this small boy who plays the guitar and sings DAMN WELL OMG, he only sang for 2 seconds and i started crying somehow, OMG. the small boy takes him to where he grows up – this man takes in homeless children and teaches them how to busk. they must give him the money they earn but he gives them food and a place to stay. when evan touches a guitar, he starts to play it and he begins to play it really really really well, by sort of like beating on the strings. and everyone’s shocked, because he never touched a musical instrument before. obviously, the man teaches him how to busk and evan soon becomes his favourite kid. the man sees this sign “August Rush To The Beach” (or something) on a van and renames evan August Rush. but one day evan runs away from him (forgot why O.o), and ends up in a church (and omg, they sing freaking well too). this small girl teaches him the keys in a piano and how to read the scores, and by the time she comes back from school, august has totally learnt how to read notes, and composed a tune, and actually taught himself to play the organ. the girl obviously thinks he’s a monster XD
and the guy in the church sees his potential and thinks he’s a prodigy, sends him to some music school where august learns more about music, and then he composes a rhapsody.
he was only eleven, by the way.
and there’s a major annual spring concert and his rhapsody was going to be performed, and he was going to be the conductor for that piece, and what he didn’t know was that his mum was going to be a guest performer in that concert. but one day before the concert the man (the one who renamed him) took him back. when he’s busking again, he meets this guy (who’s actually his father but both of them don’t know) and they play the guitar together. august asks him what he would do if he was going to perform at a concert but he couldn’t go, and he says “i wouldn’t miss it for the world.” he says he’ll be there, and august is inspired by what the guy says, and just before the concert he escapes from the man and rushes to his concert.
so he is the conductor, and the orchestra plays his rhapsody. and the mother, lyla, was walking away from the concert because her performance was over, but upon hearing the music, she felt something and turned back, “hearing” her son. the father is listening to the radio in the car and hears this rhapsody, and sees the concert banner (which has august’s and lyla’s name) and realizes the guy he met was actually his son.
so the both of them rush to the stage and the couple meet again, after eleven years, and reunite with their son, a musical genius. august sees the couple and realizes they’re his parents, and he knew that they’ve found him, through his music.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
oh, and binkai and sumay: the sentence i copied was “Music always amazes in the way it communicates, without words, without pictures.” i initially felt it was a great sentence, but later i realized that words and pictures are just other forms of communication, and music can’t compare to words and pictures in this way because it’s a whole other language, another form of communication, by itself.
music’s the universal language, one everyone can understand. (:
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