01 January 2011

The Peter Jackson antidote




The bubbly was un-popped.  The Christmas ham unsliced.  So was the cake from Manila’s most fabulous pastry chef (Carlo Estagle), and the cheeses I bought for our New Year’s Eve celebration.  Nothing could be more tragic than spending New Year’s in bed, sick from intestinal flu.

Bored, I popped in a DVD of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings:  The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), like what my roommate suggested.  A wonderful piece of advice any sick man could have.

I thought I didn’t have the patience to watch a very long movie again.  But from the moment I heard Cate Blanchett’s voice and her sweeping overview of the history of the rings, I knew this would be as gratifying as the Moët chilling in the fridge, till the last drop/frame.

It’s Jackson’s rhythm that engrosses.  Hundred of pages of Tolkien text condensed into a three-hour movie, yet cadenced.  It plays like a good read.  You are right there

The most significant movie of the last decade, may yet be the most meaningful for a sick man, or the healthy ones for that matter, on New Year’s.  Find your inner strength, the indomitable will to preserve in spite of odds in the new year, viruses included.

1 comment:

  1. Hmmm... that chef, carlo estagle is also very hot. i see him in the gym quite often. haven't spoken to him though. but he's a chef? I wanna have his cake and eat him too.

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