Journal 02.3 Dance.

I have two sad stories to tell. One is from a movie I saw today in our picture book class. In the beginning of the movie, a mother asked Max (her son) to tell a story, so Max answered “There are lots of building. Some of them are tall, and some of them are just common buildings. And there are Vampires either. One of Vampire was very eager to destroy the tallest building. So he started to fight. He conquered the tallest building, but he also started to cry loudly. Other vampires asked him
“Why are you crying?”
“I broke all my teeth!” say the crying vampire.
“But they are all your temporary teeth.”
“No. they are my grown-up teeth.”
Other vampires didn’t say a single word anymore because they understand that a vampire could not be a vampire anymore if he doesn’t have teeth. And they finally left him behind. And the sounds of cry never stop.”
The movie was based on a story called “Where the Wild Things are”, which was illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Though I didn’t see the last part of the movie( I fell asleep haha), I do love the background music. Maybe I’ll start looking for its soundtrack later on.
I heard the other sad story from my lover. A sad story he has post on his Facebook page before. “There is a kind of bird which doesn’t have legs in the world. So it can only keep flying in the sky without taking rest on the ground. It can’t land on the ground so whenever it feels tired; it only can rest in the wind. For this kind of bird, it has the only chance to land on the ground. A chance that coming with its death.”
The story was actually coming from the movie “Days of Being Wild (阿飛正傳)”, which directed by the famous Wang-Kar-Wai. And the touching and sad story was the lines from Leslie Will. For my lover, he told me that this was the part he loved best in the movie.
Though I feel sorry for these two stories, the process of rethink sad stories reminds me of the other “happy story” called “Honey Pie” (it is very easy for us to think the upside when pondering things deeply, right?). I can barely remember the plot of “Honey Pie” expect for scenes like bears dancing hand in hand happily in the forest. The story was from the book All God's Children Can Dancn by Haruki Murakami. And he also wrote the other book called Dance, Dance, Dance. I especially love the word “dance”, so let me name this journal entry “Dance”.