Music and Lyrics

I have watched this movie twice recently - once Rose came over and wanted to find a movie that we could watch together- could not resist the Dvd happily lying in front of us, popped into the player and finished it - a lighthearted romance comedy perfect for a 'girlie' pillow talk night.

Yesterday, after a pretty busy Sunday- practically running around places:laundry, lunch with bff, toilet cleaning, haircut, dinner and city tour with colleague for the upcoming event this weekend - I came home to continue my laundry, and while waiting for it, I have watched it again.

This time, it daunted upon me that the movie has far more bearings and I was wrong to have brushed it off lightly the first time as any other killing time rom-com. Or perhaps, it clicked with my lost soul at the moment.

The script is delighting, I would have a man that has Alex's type of humour - dry yet intelligent to a certain extent. For instance, when Sophie said she will wear bright orange to be noticeable to him in the cab to pick her up from her place, he replied, "and you can get some roadwork done while waiting...."

The first thing that came to me, "How stupid!" , but it was indeed funny.

It was a story of a man and woman finding their way back into love by finding themselves. Both Alex and Sophie have 'luggage' that they lugged along life; Alex, who never regain fame after coming solo from a popular band in the 80s,struggles with his song writing; Sohpie, a English literature grad - a talented writer who could never pen anything after a horrible love episode in life, tries hard to find a way of defining her life.

Alex thinks that his music is dessert while big names he idolised like Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan, Beatles wrote dinner. He never believe that he could write a 'dinner' piece - yet he could and he did, if he stood up to defend his belief in what is good and not pandering to others, like how he did with the leading 'booty-shaking' Zen-yet so called sexual icon - Cora, for who he and Sophie created the song 'Way Back into Love' - a song for people who were uncertain and wary about getting back into love. The piano intro was simple yet beautiful, Alex allowed Cora to revamp the intro by some rapping and Indi-liked music to allow her confidence and sexual display dance move - Sohpie likened Cora's move as killing two culture at the same time - she called it some sort of "Gandhi type orgasm".

Sophie, on the other hand, never came out from her failing love episode, and never learned to carry herself in front of the jerk turned national best through a novel depicting the love story of a young literature student with her professor.

By constructing a character based on Sohpie's character, the only novelty in the nation's bestseller work is his ability to demonise an ex-lover- an aspiring young writer - magnifying her shortcomings and calling her a mimic, which proved to be fatal to her writing career.

She shivered when faced with the photo of the jerk displayed in a bookstore she and Alex passed by and could not even finish a sentence of her thousand-time-rehearsed speech-"Bumping into the jerk speech" when she came across the jerk in a restaurant with Alex.

In a confronting scene, Alex told Sophie, "You think life is this fairytale, but when it turns out that everything doesn't end happily, you cannot deal with it!"

A line that hit me most.

I have thought life is this fairytale - not that I could have everything I want, but why can't things stay good as it is ? Things changed, people changed over time, and I suddenly find that I am the one remained inertia.


It is then time for me to change my mindset, and perhaps then I could find myself, and a way back to love ?