Saturday, January 29, 2005
The World is a Beautiful Place
The movie is a Vietnamese art film that revolves around the story of a lotus flower harvester/vendor, a cyclo (something like a rick-rack) driver, an American ex-soldier, and a yound street vendor. There's nothing much to say about the movie, specially since I managed to sleep at the middle part of the movie. Nonetheless, after asking my seatmates, I was able to piece together the events that I missed.
The movie as I understood it, is many things. It's a love story between two people of the same class yet different stature. It's also a story of finding the one thing you hold dear to you, may it be a person or a form of livelihood. It's also a story of the power of friendship and companionship. But most of all it is the story of a realization that modern society is one big lotus flower, everything we see is just the outer part for when we look at it close, we see the hidden, more beautiful yellow core. This yellow core is comprised of the harvester, the driver, the ex-soldier, the prostitute, and the vendor. They and the lives they live encompasses the true beauty of society. Truly, the world is a beautiful place.
The World Is a Beautiful Place
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always being
so very much fun
if you don't mind a touch of hell
now and then
just when everything is fine
because even in heaven
they don't sing
all the time
The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind some people dying
all the time
or maybe only starving
some of the time
which isn't half bad
if it isn't you
Oh the world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't much mind
a few dead minds
in the higher places
or a bomb or two
now and then
in your upturned faces
or such other improprieties
as our Name Brand society
is prey to
with its men of distinction
and its men of extinction
and its priests
and other patrolmen
and its various segregations
and congressional investigations
and other constipations
that our fool flesh
is heir to
Yes the world is the best place of all
for a lot of such things as
making the fun scene
and making the love scene
and making the sad scene
and singing low songs and having inspirations
and walking around
looking at everything
and smelling flowers
and goosing statues
and even thinking
and kissing people and
making babies and wearing pants
and waving hats and
dancing
and going swimming in rivers
on picnics
in the middle of the summer
and just generally
'living it up'
Yes
but then right in the middle of it
comes the smiling
mortician
@ 
Oh, you actually liked the film? The Other Gabayanos and I were betting you wouldn't have. (we all took the 5pm screening)
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