Today’s the last day I’ll be watching a movie offering of this year’s Eiga Sai. It’s my first ever time to include watching free movies into my always hectic schedule, and there are no regrets, only a clamor for more and a decision to watch out for more free movies. It’s a great way to spend time with one’s own self, and it feels equally great to be able to cry again without worrying over being teased by an acquaintance, coz in almost everything that I watch, I tend to cry a lot. And it’s a good sign because it means I can still feel.
This afternoon, after eating siomai rice meal with buttered veggies and iced tea (P39) at CASAA with S and C, I went straight to NIGS. I have two purposes, one is to study and prepare for our exam next week, and the other’s to be able to see my ex-crush. First mission partly accomplished, second mission failed. At 4pm, I took the Ikot to UPFI and met up with Nori-chan. I forgot to bring her USB… So forgetful these days.
Anyway, the film at 4:30 is “The Bandage Club”. Young people can relate well here, since it focuses on how a group of young people unites to “heal” wounds and inspire troubled youth. It starts with Wara accidentally cutting herself on the wrist and is misunderstood as being suicidal. One day, she climbs over a fence on the rooftop and is surprised to find a pervy boy named Ideno Tatsuya (aka Dino) who convinced her to go down. Upon seeing Wara’s bandage which has flown to a metal stand, Dino thought that she might be a troubled teenager attempting to commit suicide and ties the bandage on the fence, telling her that that way, he “heals” her wounds. Weirded out by the strange boy, Wara leaves without telling him her name. When she meets up with her friend Shio, the latter cries complains of her boyfriend and cries. Remembering Dino’s way of comforting her, Wara ties a bandage on the swing to “heal” Shio’s pain. Shio then suggested to start the Bandage Club, with the help of another boy named Gimo, and of course, Dino. Their mission: to “heal” by bandaging. Later on, they recruit Riski and try to persuade Tempo to join, too. These two girls were once friends with both Wara and Riski but since their dispute, they went separate ways. Suddenly, the group is troubled when somebody tips them off to the police. It turns out to be Tempo who confesses to it before she attempts to kill herself. In a desperate moment, Dino bandages a very tall building, thus attracting the attention of many people and the police. Their plan is to let Tempo know that they are unaffected with her betrayal, with the hope that it’ll prevent her from the planned suicide. This is one funny scene, but also a heartwarming one because it shows the extent one goes just to save a friend. In the end, they all realize that while they “heal”, they unknowingly heal themselves.
It is thanks to this movie that I understand that a little kindness can go a long way. It’s just so easy to be cynical about things and not do anything, but a little kindness, a little optimism, can certainly create change, though it may be small in scale. But if kindness and compassion is to be spread all over the world, it will certainly make a BIG difference. Dino may be strange and even crazy with all his crazy experiments to experience pain, but this is one way of showing empathy. By going through the difficult things in life, he understands more than those who do not even venture into crazy stuffs. His is a philosophy that is manifested more in action than in words.
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