Sunday, August 01, 2004

"The Return"

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Kai just came back from his company chalet at NSRCC. He shared with me all the stories and the pictures taken. He took many pictures found out his company hired many attachment students.

Timothy called to asked me to watch a midnight show called "The Return" multi award wining film which Rishee recommended. Rishee and Audrey came to pick me up. Rishee had driven a rented car, an auto Mazda 323 for a weekend package of around $190++. Thats a lot of money for a few days of driving. At around 1am, we reached Cineleisure and purchased 5 tickets. Irene was coming to watch also. While waiting for them saw many couples. I felt like a gooseberry between 2 loving couples sad.

Well the show is in russian and its rather an artistic movie. Click the link below to find out more. After the show, we went to collect our cars at Cairnhill. Rishee sent Audrey home at Serangoon as I and him stayed quite near. Reached home around 4am. Thanks for the ride Rishee.




The Return Offcial site

In contemporary Russia young brothers Vanya and Andrey have grown a deep attachment to each other to make up for their fatherless childhood. Running home after a fight with neighborhood kids the boys are shocked to discover their father has returned after a twelve year absence. With their mother's uneasy blessing Vanya and Andrey set out on what they believe will be a fishing vacation with their taciturn father.

Though at first ecstatic to be reunited with the father they've only known from a faded photograph, the boys strain under the weight of their dad's awkward and increasingly brutal efforts to make up for a missing decade of parental supervision. Vanya and Andrey find themselves alternately tested, scolded, scrutinized and ignored by their father through a changing series of encounters and hardships.

As truck stops and cafés give way to rain-swept, primevally beautiful wildernesscoastline, Vanya's doubts about his father give way to open defiance. Andrey's powerful need to bond with a father he's never known begins, in turn, to distance him from Vanya.

Vanya and his father's test of wills escalates into bitter hostility and sudden violence as the trio arrives at their mysterious island destination.

The dubious sanctuary of a rickety light tower, the desperate reassurance of a stolen knife, the cryptic allure of a rusting strong box and the fleeting safety of a hastily patched boat give evidence to the ultimately tragic conclusion of Vanya and Andrey's harrowing father and son journey and the heartbreakingly transitory nature of their reunion.

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