i think i'm catching a bug for foreign films - i've signed for a membership with this independent movie rental place just few stores away from here. it is loaded with many foreign movies and i've watched two tonight already. _taboo_ and _amores perros_. i'm sure that i'll be trying to catch up all the foreign movies as much as i can before i get dragged into a real world.

_taboo_ filmed in japan is about ancient samurai militia. i am not sure how to describe it, but from the way i see it, it's about this young dude who has the 'woman's face' that would attract a few soldiers and has caused some exasperations in a samurai's school. for some reason, the dvd case described about the militia recruiting a woman unbeknown to the senior samurai officers, but the movie doesn't even give away about his sexual orientation. i wonder if the country of japan referred gays as 'women' at the movie's setting (it was taken in around 1860s) i think the point of the movie was this young samurai causing big stir in the school and finally one senior officer realized what he was doing that he wished to kill him as he just swiped a beautiful young cherry tree which would probably represent this 'beautiful' young samurai in the end of the movie. i probably don't even recommend this cheesy movie to anyone.

_amores perros_ definitely made my night out after watching _taboo_ because i love raw, realstic quality like this one. this film definitely would make good conversations among PETA members because it includes BOTH positive and negative images on canines in the movie. the filmmaking is somewhat parallel to the likes of _traffic_ or _pulp fiction_ and i just love on how the director inarritu put these three brief 'films' interconnected on this one mothafucka long movie. i believe that this movie could have editted better, but its wonderful plot and visual style will just keep you glued to this flick (with exception to the second series of the movie which is somewhat too inferior to other two stories). i truly believe that this film says it all about raw life with dogs. i don't typically mean like your daily dose of life with a dog like taking a dog out for a walk or seeing a dog being hit by a car. what i'm talking about is the extreme reality of what you don't normally see. i'd like to see myself being compared to this homeless bum character who finally becomes liberated from a fucked up society through an unimaginable yet illegal job. so if you have three hours to spare, get your arse over to a flick store and rent this bad ass movie.