DAY 20: my blueberry nights
I missed you so much today, and I was really happy when you called me last night, even though we were just having a less-than-3-minutes conversation. Maybe right now you’re wondering why I made this blog for you. Well, here is my confession: today I’ve got nothing to do, and when I’ve nothing to do I’d be missing you so damn much.
Trying to stay out of my phone (so that I wont call you), I try to watch DVDs, the first movie was “Letters from Iwo Jima”, maybe you already heard about this movie, or maybe you already watch it. But still, I want to tell you about it. This movie was about how the Japanese army defended the Iwo Jima Island from Americans (at 1944). The main character was the commander of the army (Kirubayashi) on Iwo Jima and a soldier (Saigo) that used to be a poor baker before assigned to war.
The commander always writes letters for his son (Taro), and Saigo always writes letters for his wife. But because of the war, the letters cant be sent, then at the last attack, the commander ordered Saigo to burn all the documents and letters (because Japan lost the island) so that the Americans wouldn’t have any information. But instead of burning it, Saigo buried all the letters that were unsent. And all those letters tell us who lived in the present, about what really happened in Iwo Jima.
Well, this movie was pretty inspiring, it tells us about pride for our nation, about how war is useless and painful, about how precious a family is, and about how to survive in a life we never wanted, and of course about how to communicate with someone we love from a far. (Btw, I forgot, in case you didn’t know, this movie was directed by Clint Eastwood and Produced by Steven Spielberg).
But “Letters from Iwo Jima” didn’t inspire me to create this blog.
The second movie I watched today was “My Blueberry Nights” starring Jude Law, Norah Jones, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, etc. This is the movie that inspired me to create this blog for you. Even if you have already watched this movie, I insist to tell you about it.
Jeremy (Jude Law) is the owner of a café, and someday Elizabeth (Norah Jones) came to his café and asked him about her boyfriend. Jeremy told her that the other night, his boyfriend came to the café with another girl. Then Elizabeth left her boyfriend, but because of the broken heart, Elizabeth went to Jeremy’s café every night just for a talk so that she wont be missing her boyfriend. And someday, Elizabeth decided to leave town, to get a better life without the memories of her boyfriend.
Elizabeth went for a long journey, town after town, jobs after jobs, and people after people (here she met Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz and David Strathairn). On her long journey, Elizabeth learned many things in life, and she shared it with Jeremy by post-cards. She didn’t know that Jeremy was always missing her so much. But Elizabeth never put her address in her post-cards because she always moved town after town, and that makes Jeremy cant reach Elizabeth. Well, that’s why I create this blog for you.
And maybe you would say, “oh please, you still can tell me about anything on the phone!!”. Well here is a dialogue (on My Blueberry Nights) between Ernie (David Strathairn) and Elizabeth:
Ernie : Who you’re writing to? You’re boyfriend?
Elizabeth: No, just someone I know.
Ernie : Why don’t just pick up the phone?
Elizabeth : Well, some things are better written than spoken.
That’s the main reason I create this blog for you.
Even though I’m still here in Surabaya, but I know the situation would never give me the chance to meet you, but at least, I could still tell you everything what I want you to know. Including the fact, that I really missed you. Can I call you tonight??
P.S : every post in this blog, will be titled begins with DAYxxx, this post titled DAY 20 because when I write this post, it’s 20 days since the day we found each other.
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