Okay, back to blog. Blogging in public. Two-storey MacDonalds in the city. It just rained but weather is nice. I've got 2 hours. And I just need to get myself continuing with the feature article again.

So right now, I'm thinking I have only just spoken about the cute Chinese guy jumping from his HDB flat and dying in the film. That is shallow. =( What do I really have to say about the film. Something that links up with his other films. I was planning to mention Mr. K's liking for horror. And how he includes ghostly characters in his films, but he keeps them as 'clean spirits'. I think this is a funny point to carry on the article with, so shall I write about this now.

And then how? See, I gotta think of another thing to continue with. Besides talking about the cute guy dying, and coming back as a clean spirit, and how it is a good idea to portray people trapped in the city like sad spirits, lost souls. I gotta link it. Link with his other two films. And say something more substantial about 12 Storeys on the whole.

Seriously. Why doesn't 12 Storeys excite much thought in me... It can't be that I don't like it... I was acknowledging that it's all so true while watching the film, wasn't I... Is it too realistic for me. Where got such thing as too realistic one. Should be the more realistic, the better what. Could it be that it doesn't stir up the imagination much? So I actually end up feeling less for it? Let's jog my memory... The characters. Guy who jumps, poor plain San San, poor suffering Meng with lots of bottled up frustration and feeling like his dreams were 'sacrificed' in having to provide for the family, Trixie who isn't given much option in life but to be 'who she is', Tee who is equally apathetic...

Sigh, am not concentrating. Got about an hour left. Noisy here. Weeellll, I can concentrate if I want to.

So the range of characters for 12 Storeys is pretty interesting.. And is there a connection between them? It's going to be easier for me to write the article if I can just establish the connections... I DONO... It feels like they all just have no reason for living... Lol... Then what could be my reason for writing on Mr E. Khoo.... Frickin' stuck again.

I think, I will just say, in 12 Storeys the characters live their lives like 'ghosts' or sth.. They feel insignificant.. Or, the young ones.. They feel like they have no motivation.. And this is what I like about the movie.. But maybe I like Mee Pok Man better.. Why.. Because there is resolution..? Is there resolution.. Bunny dies. Is that your idea of resolution.. Noooo.. There is resolution because all the revelations come out.. Yah.. Maybe because in 12 Storeys, there is no sharing of emotions, that it feels harder to understand and connect with the characters.. Although the portrayal of them is definitely right.. Is it really a must for the characters to talk about their own feelings, then you can understand them.. No right.. But somehow, when you see Meng cry, you don't feel for him as a crying scene should normally make you feel for the character? Hmm, weird... Lol... Funny how this is my idea of 'blogging' ! :x :x

But yah, I get it.. That the characters in 12 Storeys hardly feel anything.. But could it just be, that they are so emotionless, that the crying scene of Meng just doesn't seem to fit? 12 Storeys is not quite melodramatic. It's more like realistic hard-hitting drama. Feels kind of dry. The characters' pain should be dry and caustic? Therefore, when Meng's breakdown comes at the end of the film, it almost seems obligatory? Yes. Therefore, I DO like Mee Pok Man better. :)