The first thing I'll talk about will be "All About Lily Chou Chou" the movie and the music. I'll start off with it because this was the reason why I wanted to have a blog. I was 12 when I first watched this movie and I immediately fell in love with it.
This film is cinematographically beautiful; the natural dim lights, the green rice fields, the blue sky, they all make you feel as if you were in a dream or perhaps looking back at a memory. Two hours of continous melancholy and pain: bullying, prostitution, loneliness, suicide, and some other stuff. I won't spoil anything in case you haven't watched it yet, but I totally recommend it!
I found Lily, and with her, the ether. The ether was my escapism- where I could lose myself with the wind and the sea and there would be no pain. Lily's music (although it's a fake band made specially for the movie) healed a part of me. Her soft voice and the instrumental filled me with something I couldn't (and are still incapable) of describing. I could feel the ether by just listening to her songs. "Arabesque" is my favorite because I can really feel the ether when I listen to it. But for the past 2 years, the ether has been slipping away from me. It makes me truly sad, I wonder if the reason why I could feel it back then was because of my deep sorrow. I miss the ether.
Finally, I'll leave one of my favorite quotes from the movie: "The wound that does not heal. The wound that may heal. The wound that should have healed. It grows wider, wider. What if the whole body became one big wound? We can still revive, that is "the wound that heals." From:Lui-hua"
