Showtime

Quite a restful day today...not too bad. Woke up in the afternoon (yah it's a luxury =D), then did some work before going out for a short run in the evening. Was intending to come home, shower then do more work...but of course, my plans were foiled...by what else, but TV? Sigh..not much TV during the weekdays, so the short weekends are for me to catch up..though of course, I'm hardly able to do that also.

Anyways, I wasn't intending to spend my time in front of the google box...but I turned to HBO and it was showing this movie called "Little Black Book", by Britanny Murphy. I wasn't really interested, coz it sounded like some action movie. THen I read the snippet, and found that it was a comedy. So I thought, Ok, no harm watching.

Well, the low-down is that a woman, an assistant producer with a TV station, has is a person who isn't a risk-taker. And her mom pretty much moulded her this way. She cohabits with her boyfren and this bf doesn't like sharing his gf-history with her. Egged on by her female colleague, she snoops through her boyfriend's palm pilot which causes her to question why they're still listed in his little black book. And his palm reveals his former girlfriends, and she subsequently discovers that he hasn't been very truthful with her with regards to his past.
Anyways, as the story goes, she found out alot more things, but was eventually played out by that female colleague. Not that her bf betrayed her by having affairs or whatsoever, but he wasn't very forthcoming about his current dealings with his ex-gfs...in particular 2 of them.

It was still funny in the beginning...but in the final showdown, it was comedy no more. She finally establishes the fact that all along, her man still loved the first gf. It was a heart-breaking confrontation at the end. At least to me. Of coz it was just drama, but her world came crashing down in that one nite. This movie isn't a "happily ever after" ending, if u know what I mean. That makes it more sad (for me). I like movies with nice endings, with everyone happy. Idealistic...and boring even, some may say. And I love watching movies with intelligent and witty lines/dialogues. It's hard to find a movie like that, but in the very least, most movies would have a few, if not some, good lines. One of the recent movies I caught - V for Vendetta, I thought their dialogue was intriguing. Anyways, the liners and dialogue in this one was ok...not wonderful, nothing breath-taking, but for some of their lines, it was alrite still. Esp during the movie itself, when the lines come across with the desired impact. That brings to mind how those script producers can visualise the impact/effect what words/conversations/speeches bring.

Anyways, here are some lines that stuck till now:

• "I believe we write our own stories and each time we think we know the end...but we don't."
• If we were to share our lives together, why didn't we share our lives together? I know you don't have to tell me everything, but why wouldn't you want to? Unless there is someone else you are waiting for...
• Life's funny like that, once you let go of the wheel, you might end up right where you belong.
• John Lennon said "Life happens when you're busy makng other plans"...And then he died.

Oh well...time for bed then...Long day today