Finished watching Lilya 4-ever by Lukas Moodysson under Sarah's recommendation.

Top: my most straightforward and raw interpretation/thoughts of/about the movie. Grammatical error spotted.

It is a really good movie about a 16 year old girl in Russia, abandoned by her mother and finally resorting to selling her body for the sake of survival. She gets into a 'relationship' with a man who wanted 'nothing of that sort' and promised her a better life in Sweden. So she left her hometown and her only friend, excited but guilt-ridden for she had abandoned him like her mother did to her. She realised she was trafficked into the Swedish sex industry upon arriving at her new room in Sweden and there, she was locked, only to be let out when there was 'work'. Twists at the end not to be revealed.

You really hate the mother for abandoning her and paving the way for her daughter's shitty life but at the same time, you can't help but wonder if she was trafficked as well when she left for America with her boyfriend (in a car as well). By the way, the scene of her running into her mother's arms and wailing "don't go! don't leave me alone!" and her running into a pool of mud as she watched the taxi disappear.. so so heart wrenching. 

Don't think I should analyse it much for it'd spoilt the movie for anyone. Much mirroring involved, and the cylicity, use of imagery. So. Good. Don't even attempt to click on the photo if you wanna watch the movie. Ok actually it doesn't really matter since they're quite straightforward.

I have two questions:

1) what is the purpose of living if life is horrible as Lilya's?

2) why is the body viewed as sacred?

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Oksana Akinshina's eyes remind me of Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine. 

Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia "al santo sepolcro" RV 169

Background music for end titles. Bleak, painful, sad piece of music.
I am in love with this.

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Not so related to movie (or perhaps it is),


Thom Yorke performing "last flowers till the hospital".

Depressing music two days in a row. I am so loving life right now.