bridge to terabithia

this is the kind of film worth watching: it's imaginative, it proposes moral imperatives and moral uncertainties at the same time. it shows us the uglier sides to human nature but also redeems it for us though not in a fairytale ending kind of way. the book i've been meaning to read since i was 11 years old, but i never got around to it. has anyone read the book? anyway it's been a few days since i saw bridge to terabithia with WS, but i can't get it out of my mind. it's one of those stories in which the characters continue living beyond the last page/last shot. very few books and movies portray characters that powerfully. either you get a comfortable resolution, or you get the ending has you wondering, "so what really happened?" but with such movies, what really happened doesn't mean that much to you personally, it's just an exercise in superficial intellect/processes of decoding. but with Bridge to Terabithia, you are left still feeling for and wondering about the characters... they exist as real people - the fact of which is both reassuring and terrifying.

watch the movie!! you can stream it from tudou :P. good quality too!

P.S. have a tissue box nearby, though. we both had to reach for it, which is always such an embarrassing moment in movie-watching.