Sid and Nancy.

Have you seen it? It's only showing at a selected cinema, ironically. First it was showing at Sunway Pyramid's TGV. Now it's KLCC's TGV. For what its worth, I had to go all the way to KLCC just to watch this one.

Preliminary, two words: absolutely extraordinary.

At its core, more than 100 words for sure.

I must say that the prime reason of me watching was not because of its hype and credits. Instead, I wanted to watch it (badly) because of its casts as I have been a fan of both - Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel for years now. And yes, also because of the nonlinear narrative movie with droplets of cinematography effects. I was never introduced to these kinda movies until a couple of years back. Now, that wise someone is responsible for this inclination (thank you) and of course, thanks to the late Yasmin Ahmad for the increasing awareness of this cinematography culture.


This movie entails about the irony of love and life. Not a love story, but a story of love. Simply said, but not simply done. The plot is filmed in the culture of modern love story which goes about two completely different human beings with diverse ideas about (true) love. One exceptionally believes in true love, one incredibly believes in true fate or coincidence.

The good news about this movie is that it's so real. It's like you're accepting the biting wit of life and adjusting to the unexplainable ways of living life. Somehow or rather, I felt as if I was actually relating to the movie. I felt myself in those positions. I was Tom on the left and concurrently I was Summer on the right. How oddly can that be?

Once I was in Tom's situation. I can remember the situation vividly. I remember the good and high times when things were sweet but I also remember the times when things were rough. Sometimes you fancy a certain subject too much, you create pavements as paths to move forward into the direction that you yearn for. But at the end of the road, a twist of life happens and you have just to let go and face reality. Sometimes when you finally get the thing that you really, really wanted, you either don't want it anymore or you simply can't have it. Life has its ways to offer us lessons to be learned which I myself find it difficult to comprehend from time to time. Every so often also the things that you want just transcend the ability of receiving fate, luck and opportunity and strangely enough, more than seldom that things don't happen the way you desire it to be, however you desired them to be. When that happens, you just have to take that moment of attachment to detach. Let go and move forward. At the end of the day, you know He has plans for you (just like Tom meeting Autumn. hee!)

On the other end, I was Summer too. I have always had these principles in life which I stood by for years only to know that these principles were meant to be broken later. Like Summer, she didn't want to have Tom as a boyfriend and has always been an avid believer of "no strings attached" girl. There was nothing to stop them being together but something just keeps on pulling her back. However, God, working in mysterious ways, "casted a spell" on her and the next thing you know, she was engaged. Call that extremity. She didn't know how it happened. It just happened. And there my learned friends, is how I felt connected to the character and situation. "Things just happen".

"You can't describe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence, that's all anything ever is, nothing more than coincidence. There are no miracles. There is no such thing as fate. Nothing is meant to be."

I would love to watch the movie again (and again). I strongly believe that Levitt and Deschanel played the character well and were able to connect us to the character. The soundtrack's awesome too. Although the ending was predictable in some sense, but the essence of the movie was just too surreal for me to understand. I don't think I ever want to understand. I just want to go through the rush that the movie gives and get connected over and over again.

I beg you to give this movie a watch. You either love it too much or you just find it mediocre. Your call. But the least that this movie can do to you is to teach you that life doesn't always work out the way you want it to be. At least, that's what my sentiments are.