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All About Lily Chou-Chou wasn't the film I'd expected to encounter, but then again, these days I tend to walk into movies knowing little apart from the title, and at best, the basic plot. I had no idea what I was in for. If someone were to ask me what the film is about, I would say that the words "youth", "pain" and "music" come to mind, but these words conjure up different things for different people and are really all too exclusive in the ideas they represent, perhaps even too cliché. I think of age-old discussions revolving around "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead!" with old friends about existential anxiety many years ago. I think of my sister; I think of people I know and the people I used to know, I think of the me that I used to know — I think of the those I love and those I have loved. I remember the bad critique I received when I first performed Debussy — but no one had taken the time to explain to me how one should approach Debussy! At certain times during the film, my fingers had itched ... have I played that before, or have I sight-read it? I was good enough once upon a time to have sight-read that ... I believe this is the first film I have seen which gives true weight to the aspect of living part of one's life online. It makes me wonder if those who haven't "lived" online could relate to it in the same depth as I did. "All About Lily Chou-Chou" provides a startling insight into the darker aspects of the school-age youth today. Coupled with intensely beautiful photography and deeply moving use of music, its surrealistic story-telling seems only to emphasise the truth it portrays. Posted by sniffles at March 15, 2003 10:42 PM