Butterflies come in a pair. If one leaves, the other will be lonely.
Heart-wrenching is the plot of the Butterfly Lovers, as I've witnessed for myself. As the story goes, two celestial beings fall in love with one another in a heaven where their love is strictly forbidden. Which totally sucks of course. Who the hell would forbid love between two people? It's just not right. But anyway, the result: they undergo ten painful lifetimes, each time being reincarnated as a couple who are separated initially and get together in the end. Whilst some claim that the last incarnation is that of Xu and Bai from Legend of the White Snake. Others insist they appeared as the Butterfly Lovers. And thus, the basis of the story is formed.
Some may get disappointed by the fact that the plot is extremely simple and appears to be a very loose adaptation of Shakepeare's Romeo and Juliet. But that's where the difference comes in because, nowadays, movie-makers tend to create complicated plots with sudden twists and unexpected endings, and eventually, everyone lives happily ever after. True, Yanqi and Shan did found their happy ever after, but in their case, it was in their death where they were finally together. And as the name suggests, as butterflies. And they had the liberty to undergo ten different lives to fall in love with each other and get separated. I mean, normal people like us only get one lifetime.
As simple as the plot may appear to be, it provided some contentment for me. Personally, the strong message of Love cannot be measured by time and Ma's persistence to get things to go his way is moving itself. While his choice of acts may not seem that friendly or comfortable to most of us, we realized that the very idea behind his capture of Yanqi's parents was just to get her back by his side. Looking at it from a different angle, I don't think it is fair to name him the villain, because all he wanted was the girl he love. But then again, she didn't love him back and it's not humane for him to force her to do her part when there's no love present. Once again, we've reached that grey area, which can never point us to any conclusion, but just lead us on further on our intellectual discussions,.
The oft-used and cliche storyline of the heroine who attempted to cast of her lover by denying his strong feelings for her despite what her heart actually says is another example of how this movie may just bore the average person and lose their attention after 15 minutes or so. However, the simplicity of the storyline is a new change, as mentioned earlier, in this plethora of movies with plots that require a bit more IQ to comprehend. Simply to put it, Butterfly Lovers still has that 'wow-effect' to move you to anguish and pain, if not tears, as you witness the separation of the two lovers.
In their case, its fair for them to fall in love in such a short time, because they've already love each other ten lives before, all the way to when they were celestial beings. In real life, you might need a bit more time. Like for instance, 6 months? Since june 2008 maybe? Hahahs
It may not be worth the 6.50 paid, but its a good watch, seeing as the universal ideal of undying love surviving through lifetimes is very strongly brought out. Saying that, I want to be a butterfly. Hahahs.
Shaggged. I spent the whole day outside. Half-dragged Fatin just to sent the newly crashed iPod for repair, where I was promised a new one hahahs. I love warranties lol. Went mad at Daiso @Vivo after that, where I spent about 18bucks, letting the total expenditure for the day mount up to 70plus. Hahs. I am so gonna starve for the whole of next week just to earn that amount back.
We do all kinds of weird stuff together, stumble upon new places together and it all remain as special memories. Hard to divert away from the fact that we've already been friends for 5 years, 2009 being the 6th. And all the things we've sometimes 'own' anything else hahs.
Kind of fell asleep after Butterfly Lovers ended(yep, I bought the DVD, and it costed me $23) in front of the laptop and I had a weird dream of course, which left me all dizzy and excited when I woke up suddenly. Hahs. And it dawned upon me that I'm trying to change, all because of a single person. Hahahhs.