Many worlds apart

Tonight, Rebecca & I watched the movie 'Phantom of the Opera' at Lido cinema. I was surprised to notice her cry for the masked character. Let me just share my thoughts about this movie...

Firstly, from an artistic perspective, I would definitely give this movie a 9 upon 10. It is a terrific movie production filmed in a musical setting. Even the filming of the background scenery had, in its sense, an artistic outlook to it, amazingly portraying the emotions of the environment around. The singing voices were very impressive & the song 'Music of the Night' is still playing in my head.

However, I'm not an artistic kind of person, I don't have much interest in the arts & neither do I grow up in such a family background. So, in other words, it is difficult for me to comprehend or appreciate such western culture. Likewise, those who are used to listening to Chinese opera or 'wayang', would similarly find it difficult to appreciate this aspect of that culture.

Thus, I found this movie to be very largely skewed towards a musically inclined audience. Basically, people who know how to appreciate such musicals. Indeed, it was almost entirely a musical... almost every sentence was sung out by the actors & actresses. It is no wonder that some people like Rebecca's mother found it 'noisy'... because I found it very 'noisy' too. There was almost no rest of words throughout the movie. My heart wasn't even given any moments of peace to appreciate the quiet scenery... something that I can appreciate.

Anyway, so much for the arts. Definitely not my 'cup of tea'... but no harming trying to spend that time with my girlfriend, if she likes that. I do not wish to exclude myself from any aspect of her life... as far as my tolerance level permits me...