During my Monday 9~10th period Spanish lecture, the professor showed the class (consisting of 5 people with 1 absent) a bloody enthralling Mexican movie, called Como Agua Para Chocolate.

Theme: Good food and horny people

Plot: Tita is the youngest daughter at a Mexican ranch who cannot get married because of her family tradition that demands her to take care of her mom until she dies. This guy called Pedro is madly in love so he marries her sister, Rosaura whose kid with Pedro dies due to her bad cooking. Tita is a magical cook by the ways. She goes crazy later but is cured by chicken broth and her doctor proposes to her and in the end Pedro and Tita dies after making love.

What I like: The camera work that appropriately accentuated the Tita-made cuisines is very applaudable. I also like how the Mommy appears as a ghost and and is still an ass. And my favorite part is how Rosaura dies of digestive problems and lets out a wanting fart before dying.

Etcetera: Not only is the depiction of the emotions very passionate but also harbors the fluctuating nature of humans, dictated by our basic instincts. In other words, I couldn't get what the effing bullcrap the story is about.

★★★★★

☆☆★★★
In 2005, my then best friend told me to watch Battle Royale. I wasn't interested as she simply told me it was about people fighting.
Well I watched it today.There was this one brief scene where the long haired girl killed two guys and she's nonchalantly getting ready to leave. The dead naked man on the right had something weird on his crotch so I paused and looked at it.. Still couldn't figure out what it was. Looked like his testicles got impregnated by aliens and were about to hatch. Anyways it was my first time seeing a non-ghost, heart attack free, cornylessness Japanese movie.

☆★★★★
Three unrelated weird, scary stories.
I convinced Alex that it is an experimental Japanese movie to watch it with me. Eventually I told him it's scary but he was nice enough to watch it.
*The titles have no bearing with the stories at first sight*1. Rattle Rattle
Definitely my favorite one. I laughed like crazy throughout the movie. But it's scary as hell. It's my defense mechanism to imagine that I'm the camera director.
A woman in red follows someone like crazy.
2. Hagane
Spooky as hell. A woman whose upper body is wrapped in a bag. For men it would be a terrible nightmare. Sick and sad and gross.
3. Inheritance
Alex's favorite. Not many heart attack scenes but I like the story. About mother and son. And the typical inclination of horror movie characters to open every scary looking doors and boxes and shit instead of emigrating to Sweden.

moved a matress down some steep stairs. The size of the matress is comparable to a vending machine and I happen to be a fragile Asian girl.
When I first stood it up, it was almost as tall as the ceiling. I slowly moved it out of the room, looked to my right and saw the mirror. In my cute little overalls sweaty as hell, I felt like a mechanic's daughter. With increased motivation I pushed it out the front door, where the stairs await me to fall and die. I always had severe paranoia for these stairs.. and I was fighting the fear. I realize now that it is impossible to capture the thrill I felt that I write it.
When I let the matress role out the entrance(or the exit) I felt free. The unexpected rendesvous with the cucaracha had my energy sapped out of me, but I lived. I lived!