A short film review

[John Raabe]

As I get older I find I have less and less interest in certain types of movies - especially those with lots of violence or a frightening or demeaning message. There is enough of the that in the daily news!

Last night I watched a finely drawn human drama - a Chinese film (w/ English subtitles) called "The King of Masks"

Here is the message that is stated near the end of the film. It's what I woke up this morning thinking about:

• The world can be a cold place.

• Occasionally we get the chance to warm it up.

• Being able to do this is one of the great joys of life.

PS - the link goes to Netflix but I found it at my local library.

[Jens]

Haven't seen that one John, but if I may piggy back on here, I just watched West Bank Story today.  Musical, about 25 minutes long.  Laughed my breeches off!  You can watch it at veoh.com

[glenn kangiser]

I haven't seen it but we had an excellent Chinese subtitled movie at our theater here in town --  amazing how good a subtitled movie can be.

Amazon has it for sale too.  Couldn't get to it through John's book link though.

http://www.amazon.com/King-Masks-Zhigang-Zhang/dp/0767847377/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1237002738&sr=1-1