The Things That Matter

ironically and very strangely, i think one of my best memories in nj was with someone i wasn't very close to. funny how these things go? it was nice to discuss film and art with yuehan during math class (and get eyed by the math tutor) and swop DVDs and VCDs. with him i could talk enthusiastically about films i liked and actually be understood, which was more than i got from anyone else i knew in school. i remember swopping R+J with him which was nice - because most of the time when i raved about that movie no one else had watched it. Nobody Knows, as well. Eternal Sunshine also. and a whole bunch of films i liked. as well as books sometimes, he'd always ask what i was reading and i remember once he was going through Oscar Wilde's Portrait of Dorian Gray.

though we didn't hang out much outside of math class, i think he came closest to the someone i could talk to about The Things That Matter whom i was avidly looking for in school(these people are so scarcely found!). i suppose it's strange i'm never really close-close to the people that i can talk to about these things (i say this relatively) but in a way it's nice because you don't have to be close to them to talk art. there's just an inexplicable bond which allows you to sms them in the middle of the night rattling off a whole string of movies you've watched which were good, even if you haven't talked in ages or aren't very close.

he was also one of the few who actually watched Be With Me and smsed me to discuss it. i know he wants to be a film-maker, which really is something you rarely find nowadays. i don't really know the point of this entry, but here goes to remembering one of the people who made NJ life a little more bearable and interesting.

art is always about pushing the boundaries. pushing, pushing, pushing. i guess that's why sometimes i don't have qualms about watching movies other people might find disturbing and 'immoral' because i just want to see how far one can go with it. and more than that, art is about transcending boundaries. i think it's done that a lot for me - it keeps the world together!

+ posted by M @ 11:56 PM