HenMade With L.O.V.E

Watched Academy Award Winner "Departures" with Dardar @ GV Tampines today. This film won the Best Foreign Language Film of the year. Such mixed feeling to watch this type of movie on a rainig day. I enjoyed the show very much though it was on the slower pace with lovely music and scenery.
I would say the movie is balanced between humor and wrenching emotional struggle in departures of the dead. Though in Singapore, wakes and funeral are very common but to see the rite of encoffinment is very rare. Just like the Japanese tea ritual, one that must be performed in perfection. The body is laid out covering with a white sheet and the deceased clothes are then removed to changed to burial clothes with then the makeup is applied. The whole process is prepared right in front of the family sitting and watching, as the one they loved is made to look alive once again before their eyes. At the final parting sending the dead on their way .. everything done peacefully and beautifully.



Life and death is a must process of everyone and there will always come a time when one departs. I've gone thru the birth and death of my loved one and will never forget the way it look when he departs. A movie thats definitely worth watching.