Pretty Women
Zhou Xun reminds me of several people from different angles: Zhao Wei, Shuqi and Sylvia Zhang. Didn't really think much of her till I saw "Perhaps Love".
In "Perhaps Love", Jacky makes Takeshi's singing sounds bad. In fact, Zhou Xun makes Takeshi sound bad too, especially when they were doing a duet. I'm not sure if Takeshi actually has an album, but if they even sell, it must be because of his good looks. He sings like he's talking and he talks like he's reading off a book.
I don't have anything against Mr Drop-Dead-Gorgeous. I think he's got nice features that combine to make him look presentably good, but he's never really made me swoon the way David Beckham did (before he got married to Posh). He's really not my type although I must say his new hair cut gives him a slimmer jawline. Perhaps I'm just more discerning now. If you're not intelligent, I'd let it pass if you sound the part. Unfortunately, dear Beckham is neither. So sorry dude, even though he has crossed the boyish stage to exude manly charm now (with all that Gilette advertisements and being a father of 3), my heart has stopped fluttering for him.
Anyway, this is not about Beckham. *rolls eyes*
I think Zhou Xun is pretty. Big eyes, petite physique (like a Blythe doll?) and I like the way she speaks. She looked like someone with a bit of a rebellious streak in her, which is very attractive because it's incongruous with her image in the movie. In "Perhaps Love" I particularly remembered the scene where she woke up in her empty bed in Beijing after a night of rekindling old times with Takeshi, to a tape recording of how he used 10 years to get back at her and that all the passion from the night before were faked. Her expression of bliss and content from opening her eyes turned to shock. She used none of her facial muscles, just the look in her eyes, and I could instantly connect with that feeling of betrayal, of feeling cheated, lost, despair and simply the inability to believe or rather the refusal to believe that the man she loved and loved her could hurt her so deep.
I felt it. Deep.
Deja vu.
The worse a girl can ever feel is to have a man tell her he's only been fooling with her, or suggest that none of it was real, when everything about them had seemed so genuine.
Takeshi left her, went to the airport, regret and ran back to look for her at home. But of course she wasn't there.
When he did find her, the scene was so powerful, they didn't have any dialogue, (I didn't think it would have been necessary) and my tears rolled along with Takeshi and Zhou Xun. Their embrace was so pregnant with his remorse and her relief and floundering faith.
Hurting the person you love most seems to be something everyone has faced at some point in time.
Now now before this turns weepy.
The other actress who caught my attention recently is the Japanese female lead in "Last Samurai". The one who had her husband killed by Tom Cruise. The sister of Wantanabe in the movie. She is, the perfect epitome of an ornament because in the movie, she hardly have any lines, but she's such eye candy, it's refreshing to see a flower amongst all the armoured men.
Now she reminds me very much of a delicate version of Gong Li, who is so gorgeous I have no misgivings if my partner wants to gawk at her.
But it better stop at that.
My wish is to age as beautifully as Gong Li and emanate the same womanly aura of Maggie Cheung.
We'll see.
;)
In "Perhaps Love", Jacky makes Takeshi's singing sounds bad. In fact, Zhou Xun makes Takeshi sound bad too, especially when they were doing a duet. I'm not sure if Takeshi actually has an album, but if they even sell, it must be because of his good looks. He sings like he's talking and he talks like he's reading off a book.
I don't have anything against Mr Drop-Dead-Gorgeous. I think he's got nice features that combine to make him look presentably good, but he's never really made me swoon the way David Beckham did (before he got married to Posh). He's really not my type although I must say his new hair cut gives him a slimmer jawline. Perhaps I'm just more discerning now. If you're not intelligent, I'd let it pass if you sound the part. Unfortunately, dear Beckham is neither. So sorry dude, even though he has crossed the boyish stage to exude manly charm now (with all that Gilette advertisements and being a father of 3), my heart has stopped fluttering for him.
Anyway, this is not about Beckham. *rolls eyes*
I think Zhou Xun is pretty. Big eyes, petite physique (like a Blythe doll?) and I like the way she speaks. She looked like someone with a bit of a rebellious streak in her, which is very attractive because it's incongruous with her image in the movie. In "Perhaps Love" I particularly remembered the scene where she woke up in her empty bed in Beijing after a night of rekindling old times with Takeshi, to a tape recording of how he used 10 years to get back at her and that all the passion from the night before were faked. Her expression of bliss and content from opening her eyes turned to shock. She used none of her facial muscles, just the look in her eyes, and I could instantly connect with that feeling of betrayal, of feeling cheated, lost, despair and simply the inability to believe or rather the refusal to believe that the man she loved and loved her could hurt her so deep.
I felt it. Deep.
Deja vu.
The worse a girl can ever feel is to have a man tell her he's only been fooling with her, or suggest that none of it was real, when everything about them had seemed so genuine.
Takeshi left her, went to the airport, regret and ran back to look for her at home. But of course she wasn't there.
When he did find her, the scene was so powerful, they didn't have any dialogue, (I didn't think it would have been necessary) and my tears rolled along with Takeshi and Zhou Xun. Their embrace was so pregnant with his remorse and her relief and floundering faith.
Hurting the person you love most seems to be something everyone has faced at some point in time.
Now now before this turns weepy.
The other actress who caught my attention recently is the Japanese female lead in "Last Samurai". The one who had her husband killed by Tom Cruise. The sister of Wantanabe in the movie. She is, the perfect epitome of an ornament because in the movie, she hardly have any lines, but she's such eye candy, it's refreshing to see a flower amongst all the armoured men.
Now she reminds me very much of a delicate version of Gong Li, who is so gorgeous I have no misgivings if my partner wants to gawk at her.
But it better stop at that.
My wish is to age as beautifully as Gong Li and emanate the same womanly aura of Maggie Cheung.
We'll see.
;)
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