of the delayed movie - 'Be With Me' ~ Eric Khoo

finally seen the most longing film ever - Be With Me! as a matter of fact, i think it's a very nice show, which can be related to our lives. i'm not a fan of Eric Khoo, but tis film's definately brought up the social anthropology issues in our local context, that some of us may be facing now.

the film's actually a collection of 3 short-stories, in which thou each story do not have a interrelationship but they're somewhat tied to and elaborated on from thereon. the film 'Be With Me' comes with minimum dialogue and hence, some even named it the silent movie, i guess mainly becos of the key character of the movie (in the story of 'Meant to Be') where the role was being played by Theresa Chan, a mute and deaf (as well as in real person); thus, the communications was more of a body language interactions than to what a physically-abled way of communication.

my intial focus was the story on 'So in Love', reflecting the homosexuality of 2 teenage girls in their lesbian romance. i like the way the storyline was being portray quite objectively, without any judgements made by either the director or any from the views of public; incidentally, there wasn't any clarifications to the psychological aspects of how the girls may feel being a lesbian themselves. for instance - how they feel falling in love with someone of the same gender; what they are expecting from the relationship; how to convince people to acknowledge them or even how to cope if nobody accepts them, etc; which i feel was quite a challenging question and something worth mentioning, especially with more man and woman engaging in homosexual relationship in our society. how can we better understand our society? maybe with more films interpreting the facts than to hide away the truth.

the last story on 'Finding Love', was the most meaningless of the 3, i felt. a low self-esteem security guard "fatty koh" who's secretly in love with Lynn Poh taking the role of a pretty and sexy executive from the same working building. "fatty koh", who's shy, lowly-educated, has a great social-class deviation from Lynn Poh, tries to confess his love to her by penning his feelings and affections on a piece of 'love letter'. dramatically, the story took a 360 degree turn when "fatty koh" finally braces his courage to express his love via the love letter but was killed on his way to send out the letter (when Ezann Lee jumped off a HDB rooftop and landed on him instead -.-").

but i would say, the movie was well ecologically interpreted and truly a singaporean narration. very inspiring and emotional translation of Theresa Chan's life-tale; a role-model to all who thinks u're less-fortunate and always complaining about your life, then perhaps take a look at Theresa's story.