港產片

Grew up watching 港產片.  From VHS tapes... to Chinese theaters... to Friday Night channel 26 movies... to VCD's... pirated VHS/VCD's...  online streaming services... library DVD's....and most recently.. United Personal Entertainment. 

With all the VOD at home... and now the kids are old enough we can hit the silver screen so often... there aren't any blockbusters or classics I want to waste my precious attention span on.  I catch myself watching sappy Disney sports movies and skipping to the good parts like the training montage.  So many options... so many choices... nothing that sparks my interests.

This time... though... the new United database was expanded to hold a lot more movies... including international ones.  Three that drew my interests were 我談的那場戀愛, 久別重逢, 焚城. 

Ended up watching the first one on my way to NOLA... and watching 久別重逢 on the way back.  The plots were simple... yet thought provoking.  The actors were ones I grew up watching, 吳君如 and 鄭伊健 respectively.  And the soundtrack and scores from the second movie was a blast from the 90's.  I got off the plane and quickly found the song on Youtube.  The fam will be hearing me sing this for the rest of the month (at least!!)

In a way... this is kinda like mom's version of 粵曲 for me... just as it is for my kids.  They'll never understand it or appreciate.  Nor will they have the nostalgia or comfort for it.