Friday, October 06, 2006

Little Red Flowers

I love movies, not the Singaporean ones though. The real artistic ones are fine but the money stripping Jack Neo ego trip movies just ain't my cuppa. Ok that's not my point. I'm just not the super arty film person.

Last night when i was browsing channels, i saw this trailer. It looks really good.
Here's an extract from http://www.thepicturehouse.com.sg/coming.htm


Little Red Flowers 看上去很美
SYNOPSIS
A young boy starting school for the first time struggles to fit in to a strictly regimented society in in post-revolutionary China.Qiang is a four-year-old little rebel, possessed of a pair of luminous eyes and a precociously indomitable will. His father deposits him at a well-appointed residential kindergarten in post-1949 Beijing, since his parents are often away. Life at the kindergarten appears rich and colourful, made up of a variety of cheerfully sunny rituals and games meant to train these children to be good members of society. But it's not so easy for Qiang to adapt to this kind of carefully organized, minutely scrutinized collective life. A fierce individualist in miniature, he tries but fails to conform to the model his teachers enforce. Yet he still craves the reward that the other students win: the little red flowers awarded each day as tokens for good behaviour.Based on a semi-autobiography novel ‘Could Be Beautiful’ by Wang Shuo, the best-selling ‘bad-boy’ of contemporary Chinese literature.

I would love to catch the film but i reckon there won't be any company for me. It is one of those Chinese film that are dark, filled with tears, lots of kids... Oh they do have English subtitles. Does anyone wanna watch this with me? Please...

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