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July 23, 2005
I admit I cry at movies...a lot. I watch a lot of sad movies and I'm always the one in the theater who's wiping away tears or sniffling during the sad scenes. There's been some movies where I've cried multiple times but I don't think I've ever cried as much as I did seeing the movie Adam and I saw today, Crying Out Love in the Center of the World. The film was shown as part of the second Asian film festival this month. There are movie scenes in which you cry and then there are movie scenes in which you're virtually sobbing--this movie had a number of scenes involving the latter. It was such a tearjerker, you could even here male audience members crying. The movie is basically about this man who becomes haunted by memories of a former love from high school and returns to his hometown to revisit the places they spent together and to listen to the old cassette tape recordings they had made for each other. She was a precocious individual and they formed an intense bond which lasted through her contraction of leukemia a few months after they meet. I like Japanese film, I like intense love stories, but I'm especially moved by good movies in which the male protagonist is haunted by a love who dies prematurely (Waking the Dead with Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly being a prime example).
Afterwards, Adam and I went to Asia Grill. At first, I was really struck by how similar the menu was to Saigon Grill but I was thrown off by the fact that they didn't share the same name. After eating the food and noticing it was exactly the same as Saigon Grill, I realized that they probably are under the same ownership and that it's just called Asia Grill because they also serve Japanese food. At any rate, it's a welcome addition because I love Vietnamese food and Vietnamese restaurants are few and far between!
Posted by Jennifer at July 23, 2005 09:37 PM