Various matters of subbed angstiness
Jul. 31st, 2006 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieOK, I have completely lost it. I've just watched a 20-minute teaser for Silence, a dorama I am interested in, without any subtitles. Yup, it's entirely in Chinese, a language in which I understand exactly 5 words. It's not the craziest thing I've ever done of that nature: I've watched all of three hours of Thakshak, a Bollywood movie, unsubbed, but then I understand a lot more Hindi than I do Mandarin. In my defence, this thing looks like it's been made especially for me. He is terminally ill and she is mute and they were childhood sweethearts who've lost each other years ago. And she thaws him out and he makes her feel not alone. Besides, it has things like sobbing boys, suits, kissing, and a very Bollywood moment of his being transfixed by her joyful face in the rain. Also, he is prettier than I am. So yeah. But I actually think this one just might max out my angst capability. The trailer was getting me upset and I don't like my OTPs to end in death. Maybe this is Taiwanese Kal Ho Na Ho. In one shot, Park Eun Hye actually looks like Kajol. And there is a very K3G-like scene where he takes her by the hand and walks out on his be-suited father, down the grand staircase. Hell, I don't care if it's unsubbed. If I can't find subs for this, I am watching unsubbed.
ETA: First two eps are subbed, on Youtube and I am in love (this user has uploaded them with subs. Look in her videos). It really seems to mix Victorian and Bollywood tropes somehow. I am sort of dreading how this can possibly end, but I confess to being an idiot and kinda crying a bit in the freaking first ep. So yeah, totally recommended. Especially to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lesbiassparrow.
I also ended up watching Legend of Speed last night, a HK movie. Think "Fast and Furious" only with hot guys (sorry, Paul Walker fans but ugh), a lot of angst and a ton of leather. So basically F&F donedangermousie way.
The story centers around a guy named Sky, who is the undisputed king of a dangerous kind of illegal street racing. Sky's life is good: he rules the racing circuit, his flunkies are loyal, his gf loves to wear leather shorts, and his chest is toned. But all is not wonderful for too long, as his OTP dies in a course of a race with his rival and the rival frames him for drug possession, a pretty serious crime in those parts. What shall happen to Sky (who angsts incredibly prettily) and his red leather pants? The fashion in this movie is...different. I have to say I like it, but then I have bad taste. When we first meet our protagonist, he looks like a walking fetish ad: black leather pants, sunglasses, black leather duster, unbuttoned. Cross on neck. No shirt. Granted, he has a gorgeous chest, but I admit to a lot of giggling.
I am about half an hour in but I do like that they didn't make him some kind of a sweet person to whom bad things happen. Sky is an arrogant jerk (who in part brought his troubles on himself. The guy who framed him is the older brother of a guy who lost a race to him in the beginning and had to have his leg broken because it was the agreement). He does have emo issues with his mother (who is a rich, cold, uncaring at all bitch). And he is hot. And so cool that he is about to die from hypothermia. And he certainly loved his gf. But yeah, not a sweetheart.
Also, by staying up until I could no longer see, I managed to get through ep 15 of Mars.
OMG. These are totally my very favorite parts of the dorama.
It seems TPTB were going for QL being Ling's good angel and TD his bad. Interestingly, the very fact that Ling freaks out that he could be like Tong Dao means he isn't. TD is right, QL and himself are similar in one way. Both are trying to bring out the potentialities in Ling. They just happen to be completely opposite potentialities. Of course, QL is the right one: Ling is a good person who is messed up by trauma in his past, not a psycho repressing his inner evilness, the way Tong Dao would like to believe. As is evidenced by Ling telling TD he likes being weak, and he's finally found someone to protect and being all tough is a boring game so TD should play it alone.
I love the scene when Ling comes over to QL's house when he mother is in the hospital and she asks him to stay the night because she is afraid and he is so tender and gentle (guuuuh) when he promises he will stay until morning and 'so my brave QL is afraid of the dark' (of course, having seen the later eps, it's pretty clear who her monsters in the closet are and they are horrible). And she falls asleep holding his hand, and she sleepily tells him she likes him and he smiles and he stays the whole night and AWWWW.
Qing Mei continues to crack me up, with her no-nonsense, pragmatic attitude. I was laughing when she told QL to marry Ling because Ling has a rich father and the father will give them $$$ and all their problems will be solved.
But my favorite part of those eps has to do with the revelation (though you could tell is was a long time coming) that QL has been raped. By her stepfather when she was 16, no less. Argh. Horrible. I love Ling asking Da Ye questions (because after she started screaming after their make out session, that would give anyone ideas), without Da Ye knowing what Ling is about but you see Ling break apart as he realizes that QL has been raped. I love the scene later in his apartment, as he holds her as she just screams. And then they both just slump on the floor (crying boys=hot). And then my favorite scene in the whole mini when he drags her out of class next morning and takes her to a beach and she thinks he will want to break up because she is 'not normal' but he tells her he is not normal either. And I really love that he tells her he won't tell her to forget because one can't and that he doesn't really understand how she feels because he is not a woman, but all he wants to tell her that she is the same in his heart and OMG. Meltdown in my house. And they build that sandcastle with the kids (side note: girl, always get his hair in a ponytail, please). And later have a cute cute double date.
And later have to write an apology letter for skipping school and it's hilarious that he knows so much about it. I love that their happy moments feel genuine.
I also think that while their traumas are horrible, if it wasn't for them, they never would have gotten together. Ling before Sheng's death would have either gone violent nudged by Sheng or developed his own identity but would have been to confident and normal to respond to QL. And QL would have probably not wanted to deal with someone as unpredictable as him if she didn't understand deeply where he was coming from.
I also love the scene where QL has to tell Ling she is moving back in with stepdad. Firstly, he looks hot mad, but also because it so makes sense to me. Both her reaction and his (though I have to agree with him on this one). I think part of the reason he breaks it off is because he feels so helpless and doesn't want to watch the wreck, but also because she seems to have thrown all his alternatives to her living with her rapist in his face. He does think she prefers even someone like that to him and yeah, that (untrue) would suck.
I do love it when he sees her in school later and confirms that it's over and then tells her: "I am happy to have known you. I have never been so devoted." It's so freaking Victorian.
But of course she runs after him and waits at his apartment and meanwhile he is out on the town but he doesn't want anyone but QL so he can't even sex the floozies he picked up and he comes home and she just left and he finds her at the metro because she forgot her money and the last train left and I just love that scene, where he asks her, all despairing, whether she sees him the same as her stepfather, whether she sees all men the same way, as predators and she tells him that his being in the world is the only thing that gives her the courage to walk into that house and there is hugging and omg, my poor OTP.
ETA: First two eps are subbed, on Youtube and I am in love (this user has uploaded them with subs. Look in her videos). It really seems to mix Victorian and Bollywood tropes somehow. I am sort of dreading how this can possibly end, but I confess to being an idiot and kinda crying a bit in the freaking first ep. So yeah, totally recommended. Especially to
lesbiassparrow. I also ended up watching Legend of Speed last night, a HK movie. Think "Fast and Furious" only with hot guys (sorry, Paul Walker fans but ugh), a lot of angst and a ton of leather. So basically F&F done
dangermousie way. The story centers around a guy named Sky, who is the undisputed king of a dangerous kind of illegal street racing. Sky's life is good: he rules the racing circuit, his flunkies are loyal, his gf loves to wear leather shorts, and his chest is toned. But all is not wonderful for too long, as his OTP dies in a course of a race with his rival and the rival frames him for drug possession, a pretty serious crime in those parts. What shall happen to Sky (who angsts incredibly prettily) and his red leather pants? The fashion in this movie is...different. I have to say I like it, but then I have bad taste. When we first meet our protagonist, he looks like a walking fetish ad: black leather pants, sunglasses, black leather duster, unbuttoned. Cross on neck. No shirt. Granted, he has a gorgeous chest, but I admit to a lot of giggling.
I am about half an hour in but I do like that they didn't make him some kind of a sweet person to whom bad things happen. Sky is an arrogant jerk (who in part brought his troubles on himself. The guy who framed him is the older brother of a guy who lost a race to him in the beginning and had to have his leg broken because it was the agreement). He does have emo issues with his mother (who is a rich, cold, uncaring at all bitch). And he is hot. And so cool that he is about to die from hypothermia. And he certainly loved his gf. But yeah, not a sweetheart.
Also, by staying up until I could no longer see, I managed to get through ep 15 of Mars.
OMG. These are totally my very favorite parts of the dorama.
It seems TPTB were going for QL being Ling's good angel and TD his bad. Interestingly, the very fact that Ling freaks out that he could be like Tong Dao means he isn't. TD is right, QL and himself are similar in one way. Both are trying to bring out the potentialities in Ling. They just happen to be completely opposite potentialities. Of course, QL is the right one: Ling is a good person who is messed up by trauma in his past, not a psycho repressing his inner evilness, the way Tong Dao would like to believe. As is evidenced by Ling telling TD he likes being weak, and he's finally found someone to protect and being all tough is a boring game so TD should play it alone.
I love the scene when Ling comes over to QL's house when he mother is in the hospital and she asks him to stay the night because she is afraid and he is so tender and gentle (guuuuh) when he promises he will stay until morning and 'so my brave QL is afraid of the dark' (of course, having seen the later eps, it's pretty clear who her monsters in the closet are and they are horrible). And she falls asleep holding his hand, and she sleepily tells him she likes him and he smiles and he stays the whole night and AWWWW.
Qing Mei continues to crack me up, with her no-nonsense, pragmatic attitude. I was laughing when she told QL to marry Ling because Ling has a rich father and the father will give them $$$ and all their problems will be solved.
But my favorite part of those eps has to do with the revelation (though you could tell is was a long time coming) that QL has been raped. By her stepfather when she was 16, no less. Argh. Horrible. I love Ling asking Da Ye questions (because after she started screaming after their make out session, that would give anyone ideas), without Da Ye knowing what Ling is about but you see Ling break apart as he realizes that QL has been raped. I love the scene later in his apartment, as he holds her as she just screams. And then they both just slump on the floor (crying boys=hot). And then my favorite scene in the whole mini when he drags her out of class next morning and takes her to a beach and she thinks he will want to break up because she is 'not normal' but he tells her he is not normal either. And I really love that he tells her he won't tell her to forget because one can't and that he doesn't really understand how she feels because he is not a woman, but all he wants to tell her that she is the same in his heart and OMG. Meltdown in my house. And they build that sandcastle with the kids (side note: girl, always get his hair in a ponytail, please). And later have a cute cute double date.
And later have to write an apology letter for skipping school and it's hilarious that he knows so much about it. I love that their happy moments feel genuine.
I also think that while their traumas are horrible, if it wasn't for them, they never would have gotten together. Ling before Sheng's death would have either gone violent nudged by Sheng or developed his own identity but would have been to confident and normal to respond to QL. And QL would have probably not wanted to deal with someone as unpredictable as him if she didn't understand deeply where he was coming from.
I also love the scene where QL has to tell Ling she is moving back in with stepdad. Firstly, he looks hot mad, but also because it so makes sense to me. Both her reaction and his (though I have to agree with him on this one). I think part of the reason he breaks it off is because he feels so helpless and doesn't want to watch the wreck, but also because she seems to have thrown all his alternatives to her living with her rapist in his face. He does think she prefers even someone like that to him and yeah, that (untrue) would suck.
I do love it when he sees her in school later and confirms that it's over and then tells her: "I am happy to have known you. I have never been so devoted." It's so freaking Victorian.
But of course she runs after him and waits at his apartment and meanwhile he is out on the town but he doesn't want anyone but QL so he can't even sex the floozies he picked up and he comes home and she just left and he finds her at the metro because she forgot her money and the last train left and I just love that scene, where he asks her, all despairing, whether she sees him the same as her stepfather, whether she sees all men the same way, as predators and she tells him that his being in the world is the only thing that gives her the courage to walk into that house and there is hugging and omg, my poor OTP.
