Buddha in 2046


I just had my driving lessons with Ptr. Banug. This is only my 2nd day in driving but I learned so much. Today, we traveled as far as Buda going in an average of 40 kph. Driving is much better now compared to what I have in driving school 3 years ago. It was fun though my right foot hurts a little hanging while pressing the accelerator. We had a good weather today until we stopped at Calinan to have lunch then we decided to go hippy tripping to Buda. It was okay then until the roads get zigzaggy, uphill and downhill. That's when I decided that we go back to downtown.


2046


Yesterday, I watched 2046. Although I've been told that it's a good movie, I never watched it in the cinema. Many said that 2046 is was year, other versions said it was a room, others said it was a place. All of them are partially correct. 2046, is a year in the distant future, a place where everyone wants to go. Why would everyone wants to go there? It is said that people go there to recapture lost memories and when they get there they would never come back. Only one person decided to go back, his name is Mr. Chow (Tony Leung) and the story revolves around him. 2046 is an alter version somehow of Mr. Chow's life. He wrote the story, with people going to 2046 riding in a mysterious train, whose cabin attendants are androids. He thought he was writing about the future, in fact he writes about his past. As a writer in HongKong in the 60's, Mr. Chow goes back to HongKong to forget about his sad recent affair with Shu Lizhen (Maggie Cheung). While in HongKong, he met several women of his past, including a showgirl whose boyfriend stabbed her in room 2046 of her hotel and a paid girl (Zhang Ziyi), who later occupied that room, and his landlord's daughter. Wishing that he could recapture the happy moments with these women, he just can't. Many have been hurt, may have been involved, many were manipulated and bringing them back isn't worth it. Just to cherish one happy moment and live it just for a moment, he just can't. These women too, longed for those moments with him, but they just can't. And so they lived their lives in 2046, in wishful dreaming, that somehow, somewhere in their lives, they have been happy just to forget the loneliness they have in the present. And these charcaters appeared in Mr. Chow's novel, 2046 with the exactness of purpose and of mind. But Mr. Chow decides to leave 2046 because he knows there's nothing in the past worth living in the present.