The Days
What's your childhood like ? Does it involved the following ?
- Long fringe, long side burn ? Gold/brown-coloured hair ?
- Rolled-up polo tee / t-shirt sleeves ? Jeans folded up as if Singapore is flooding ?
- The MCM / JPG long wallet, with a long comb, sharpen at the end at the back of your school pants ?
- You walk "Sa Pak Lak, Qi Pak Di" ? As if the whole world is owned by you ?
- You fought with someone over "starring" incidents ? "Kua si mi kua? Chap toh lok?"
- The tea dances at Fire / Canto ?
- The street fighter game ?
If your childhood involved the above that I had mentioned, then welcome to the club! =)
So besides these, whats "The Days" about ?
It's about 2 brothers, their "brothers" (meaning gang members / clique), and their rivals.
It's about one scene too many we had seen much too often.
A promising man mixed with the wrong company and end up ruining his future, his life.
You get the drift......
This story-line itself hit me hard.
As i personally had friends who fall into the exact scenario, and it saddens me... If only I could turn back time, how I wished I could make a difference to their life......
Following the movie, i was sort of brought back into time, reliving those times, the exact same scenes in the movies, the exact same happenings back then. (OK maybe not exact, but it was CLOSE!)
Like what the movie said, "这是我们的岁月！"
Of course there were some things that I would never had done if I can make a U-turn back in time, but since it's been done, I will treat it as a good lesson learnt. =)
It's a pretty good flim, by local standards, and I am happy to see such a flim being churned out by the local movie industry~
Acting by some new bloods were pretty good~
- Justin Chan (as Zi Long) - acted well for his role~ Never really noticed any awkwardness from his side! Plays the "pak kia"-turned-over-new-leaf part well~
- Adele Wong (as Shan Shan) - Overall good acting (ok I admit my assessment was blurred by her looks! =X What to do, I got a thing for matured looking goody goody girl type what...), except for the "Porridge and knife" part, that was quite poorly handled, you can see the awkwardness in her...
- Adora Wong (as Valerie) - Real life sister of Adele Wong! Played the part of the Chao Ah Lian very very well~ either she's an ah lian or she did her homework to good effect~ If its the latter, it's a perfect example of "you reaped what you sowed!"
- Jeremy Levi Kho (as Jeremy) - I can tell his the funny bone in the whole cast~ the part he took up came almost as second nature to him. Played the chao ah beng boss-in-school quite well~ that's how most ah-beng-tao behaved last time anyway, but not all so funny la, usually quite lao lan, that's all~
- Derrick R (as Kau Kia) - I think hor, he belong to the Jay Zhou type la, talk later, 1 kind of expression through out the movie, act cool type. For the personality of his character, i would say he done well, though it might just had limited how much he had inside of him to the general audience.
I am still kinda amazed and can't get over the fact that Adele and Adora are real life sisters!
Anyway, I support Local productions lah!
If Singaporeans don't support Singaporeans, who will support Singaporeans ?
- Long fringe, long side burn ? Gold/brown-coloured hair ?
- Rolled-up polo tee / t-shirt sleeves ? Jeans folded up as if Singapore is flooding ?
- The MCM / JPG long wallet, with a long comb, sharpen at the end at the back of your school pants ?
- You walk "Sa Pak Lak, Qi Pak Di" ? As if the whole world is owned by you ?
- You fought with someone over "starring" incidents ? "Kua si mi kua? Chap toh lok?"
- The tea dances at Fire / Canto ?
- The street fighter game ?
If your childhood involved the above that I had mentioned, then welcome to the club! =)
Welcome to the 1980s-1990s!
So besides these, whats "The Days" about ?
It's about 2 brothers, their "brothers" (meaning gang members / clique), and their rivals.
It's about one scene too many we had seen much too often.
A promising man mixed with the wrong company and end up ruining his future, his life.
You get the drift......
This story-line itself hit me hard.
As i personally had friends who fall into the exact scenario, and it saddens me... If only I could turn back time, how I wished I could make a difference to their life......
Following the movie, i was sort of brought back into time, reliving those times, the exact same scenes in the movies, the exact same happenings back then. (OK maybe not exact, but it was CLOSE!)
Like what the movie said, "这是我们的岁月！"
Of course there were some things that I would never had done if I can make a U-turn back in time, but since it's been done, I will treat it as a good lesson learnt. =)
It's a pretty good flim, by local standards, and I am happy to see such a flim being churned out by the local movie industry~
Acting by some new bloods were pretty good~
- Justin Chan (as Zi Long) - acted well for his role~ Never really noticed any awkwardness from his side! Plays the "pak kia"-turned-over-new-leaf part well~
- Adele Wong (as Shan Shan) - Overall good acting (ok I admit my assessment was blurred by her looks! =X What to do, I got a thing for matured looking goody goody girl type what...), except for the "Porridge and knife" part, that was quite poorly handled, you can see the awkwardness in her...
- Adora Wong (as Valerie) - Real life sister of Adele Wong! Played the part of the Chao Ah Lian very very well~ either she's an ah lian or she did her homework to good effect~ If its the latter, it's a perfect example of "you reaped what you sowed!"
- Jeremy Levi Kho (as Jeremy) - I can tell his the funny bone in the whole cast~ the part he took up came almost as second nature to him. Played the chao ah beng boss-in-school quite well~ that's how most ah-beng-tao behaved last time anyway, but not all so funny la, usually quite lao lan, that's all~
- Derrick R (as Kau Kia) - I think hor, he belong to the Jay Zhou type la, talk later, 1 kind of expression through out the movie, act cool type. For the personality of his character, i would say he done well, though it might just had limited how much he had inside of him to the general audience.
I am still kinda amazed and can't get over the fact that Adele and Adora are real life sisters!
*shrugs*
Anyway, I support Local productions lah!
If Singaporeans don't support Singaporeans, who will support Singaporeans ?
Misc Stuffs from "The Days 歲月"
- Promo: Sisters 姐妹.
- 小老大 Jeremy Tan Dictionary Time (The Days 歲月 Movie Special).
- The Days 歲月: 《还我自由》My Freedom Music Video Trailer.
- The Days 歲月: 《分叉路》Crossroad Music Video Trailer.
Music Videos from The Days 歲月.
-《分叉路》Crossroad Music Video.
-Black Forest - 《還我自由》 My Freedom.
-Adele Wong 《懂》Knowing Music Video.
- "The Days" official site.
:) Wow. nice arcticle