As a matter of fact, I did not expect too much for opera. Chorus has been not an option for my radio. My impression to opera came from a movie, Fareneli and a musical, Cat, in which an opera's scenery design should be poor, no audience understood lines and lyrics, and the story is illogical because it served for music. I signed up this EWCPA tour, thinking to (maybe as most those never-gos) gaining experience. After all, it was a rare opportunity. Then it turned out that.......it's great! What a great invention, opera!
In my childhood era, there was one unusual television channel specialized in playing art films. I remember once even a Chinese film channel could play French movies, and Mina Tannebaum alwaysmade me cry. I remember watching Kieslowski used to be a fashion in Taiwan. Juliette Binoche's beautiful face on Blue's poster was visible everywhere. I remember somehow White was often re-broacasted (it's a weird movie to me). I read from newspapers saying that Red failed in the year's Cannes Film Festival, to a rising star Quentin Tarantino (and his Pulp Fiction). I remember on one Saturday night I watched The Double Life of Veronique on my sofa and fell into sleep.
Life is changeable. Even a seemly constant view, one day you will realize that they are never the same. Or maybe the sceneries were gone with the master who created them? I am deeply fascinated by every detail in Red. This film presents me the most appealing atmosphere that only existed in the 90s. I mean the stone buildings and urban landscape of Vienna, Zbigniew Preisner's orchestral music, the simple and structure-less photography, the unsung angelic super beauty of Irene Jacob, and that out-of-date fashion styles, e.g., the low think heels, heavy sweater, and over-sized coat with stupid shoulder-pads.
