Saturday, April 24, 2010

Yasmin


Chanced upon the film, Muallaf on Xunlei.com. Super excited! Never expected to find a Yasmin film on a Chinese website (if doesn't have Sepet or Gubra, though), and one that I have not watched before. So I decided to check the film synopsis online before watching the film, and came across Yasmin's blogs:

The Storyteller: she really, really was. She took little segments of our lives and blew them up on the big screen. She surfaced our laughter, our tears, our courage, our fears. And all the other emotions in between that we fail to see or refuse to acknowledge. She cast a light on what it means being human, being one of many humans, transcending race, language and religion, and the strange web that weaves us all together, for and against our wishes, and how this is what makes being human so ... well, alive.

The Filmmaker: her last post was on 22 July 2009. She died on 25 July 2009.

The blogs brought fresh tears to my eyes.