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Jan. 30th, 2006 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blue_lotus13On Friday night, B* and I went to the Tinseltown to see "Eve and the Firehorse". The Tinseltown movie theatre is most likely my favourite movie theatre in Vancouver. It's comfortable and has good sounds and seats, and it generally isn't crowded. The Tinseltown is located in the Tinseltown mall, which is one of the saddest malls in North America. If you hail from Saskatoon, you'll understand the comparison when I tell you that Tinseltown is even more deserted and sadder than Bayside. Part of the reason the Tinseltown is so sad is because it is a luxury mall built in a very poor postal code. It was designed partially to push "undesirables" out of the area. As a result, no one frequents this mall and the businesses inside are dwindling.
However, on Friday, the mall was full of people celebrating Chinese New Year. There were booths set up all over, selling goods and promoting items and companies. There was a huge stage which featured entertainment. We were quite sad that we missed the tofu eating contest, which had been held at 5:30 earlier that day.
I thought it was a great film. It's the story of a young Chinese Canadian girl and what happens to her family after some family crises. When bad things happen within the family, the mother and two daughters turn to religion. The mother becomes more Buddhist and the daughters pick up Catholicism. The film was both sweet and sad, as the daughters (mainly the smallest daughter, Eve) struggled to come to terms with faith and their own understanding of events in their family. I thought all the characters were fully rounded, and loved the acting of the two little girls (Hollie Lo and Phoebe Jojo Kut). In some cases, Phoebe Jojo Kut almost brought me to tears with her facial expressions. I could really relate to her character. She was a strong willed, dramatic little girl who desperately wanted to be good, and who struggled to understand how she could control her universe. I felt this way a lot as a child and felt myself welling up with tears during the film because I could identify with the character.
The story is set during the 1970s, which amused me greatly. Seeing the macrame, and bad 70s fashion made the experience even more relevant to me. I enjoyed that the film was about Asian Canadians, but to me, this wasn't the main thrust of the story. This was a story about childhood faith, the Asian superstitions affected it, but weren't the whole story. I thought this was a strength, and made it a story with broader appeal. However, there were some nice details including a conversation about "haw flakes" and the fact that all the adult characters spoke Cantonese while the children spoke English, much like many Chinese Canadian families I know of.
However, on Friday, the mall was full of people celebrating Chinese New Year. There were booths set up all over, selling goods and promoting items and companies. There was a huge stage which featured entertainment. We were quite sad that we missed the tofu eating contest, which had been held at 5:30 earlier that day.
I thought it was a great film. It's the story of a young Chinese Canadian girl and what happens to her family after some family crises. When bad things happen within the family, the mother and two daughters turn to religion. The mother becomes more Buddhist and the daughters pick up Catholicism. The film was both sweet and sad, as the daughters (mainly the smallest daughter, Eve) struggled to come to terms with faith and their own understanding of events in their family. I thought all the characters were fully rounded, and loved the acting of the two little girls (Hollie Lo and Phoebe Jojo Kut). In some cases, Phoebe Jojo Kut almost brought me to tears with her facial expressions. I could really relate to her character. She was a strong willed, dramatic little girl who desperately wanted to be good, and who struggled to understand how she could control her universe. I felt this way a lot as a child and felt myself welling up with tears during the film because I could identify with the character.
The story is set during the 1970s, which amused me greatly. Seeing the macrame, and bad 70s fashion made the experience even more relevant to me. I enjoyed that the film was about Asian Canadians, but to me, this wasn't the main thrust of the story. This was a story about childhood faith, the Asian superstitions affected it, but weren't the whole story. I thought this was a strength, and made it a story with broader appeal. However, there were some nice details including a conversation about "haw flakes" and the fact that all the adult characters spoke Cantonese while the children spoke English, much like many Chinese Canadian families I know of.
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Date: 2006-01-31 03:24 pm (UTC)