Sunday, April 27, 2008

still on proposal daisakusen

why it is so fantastic

-yamashita tomohisa and nagasawa masami make the best couple since tokiwa takako and kimura takuya in beautiful life. and that's like 7 years ago.

-the outstanding supporting cast: tsuru, mikio, eri, rei's grandfather, the burger shop owner, socrates, their cranky homeroom teacher itoya, and of course the fairy.

-i think the hallelujah chance thingy is one of the lamest i have ever seen.

-all the lines that strike a chord with me

-the time markers such as winter sonata, kitajima's 'kimochii, cho-kimochii', arakura's ina bauer

-ken's original speech in the first episode.

- all the lessons learnt

-ken's speech in the last episode

-the part where ken and rei ran after her grandfather to pass the photos, and to tell him that his tamagoyaki was delicious

-the starting part and ending part of the special episode, on the beach

-theme song ashita hareru kana by kuwata keisuke and the insert chiisana koi no uta by mongol 800

-the debate over osaka-style and hiroshima-style okonomiyaki

-"since then, rei never once called me kenzo again"

-the memories, nostalgia, regrets

watching it, seeing what ken, rei, eri, mikio, tsuru have gone through from their high school days to college days then to their respective adult lives, you can't help be overwhelmed, because all these are memories, sweet and bitter. and of course as we grow up, we always wonder if we could ever be like this again, if all these could last forever.

even people who never really had such memories would be able to understand.

that would explain any contempt one might feel for tada, for trying to come into the picture. for daring to think he has a right to.

however good-natured he is, however unintended it all was. that's why at the end, he redeemed himself by having a button in each hand, so that whichever rei chooses, she would have chosen to leave.

however much regrets you may have, unlike ken, you don't get that chance to go back to the past. even if you get that chance, you might not have the guts, because there are some things you might not dare to go through again.

since you can't change the past, change the present for the future.

that second chance is in the present.

yet, however much you are aware of this, however much you are willing to prove that you are a changed man, that you are not going to make those mistakes again, somehow, there is just nothing for you to apply it on.

from ken's perspective, it would be like there has simply been no one since rei.

no one since her.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

how come u can stare at teh screen so long? ALL my experiences with online streaming have me sleeping. regardless of what im watching really! even if it's good!

Melvin

6:17 PM  

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