To Yenn, Candle, and Krystal:

You good. You all good. You all very, very good.

And why I didn't buy the top? Er, cos it was like $50 over bucks... hahaha... plus I wanted to preserve the lives of every straight Singaporean male......

we will be SAVED!

OK i wanted to do a review on this, but am temporarily suffering writers' block.... wait...

aummmmm...........

fine that didn't work. Let me start off instead with some interesting stuff that happened before I watched the movie.

[First up, this has to do with menses and stuff, so if you feel your delicate sensibilities will get offended, fast forward...]

I was having lunch with Juls and Jordan at the Sakae Sushi at the Heeren. [Terrific offer going on there on. For each buffet lunch, get 2 red plates free. We had 3 plates of salmon sashimi between the 3 of us. Ah oishiiyo.....] After a while, I felt a need to go to the toilet to change my pad. [2nd day yah, gets a bit *hmph* after a while]

I start searching my bag. Doo-dee-do-dee-do... where're my pads...

Where are my pads?

WHERE ARE MY PADS????

OMG I went out with 2 guys on my 2nd day and I forgot to bring them and it's been wat, 4,5 hours already??

I search through my bag, taking out the books I had in it, while the guys continue eating. Finally, I realise that I really DID forget to bring them, and that somehow before the movie, I'd have to get Juls to go with me to a pharmacy to buy them. The thought of all the possible dumb jokes Juls could make about this makes me groan inwardly.........

Anyway, I don't say any of the previous out loud to the guys. However, while we were walking out, and Jordan was some distance ahead, I ask Julian if we could go to Watson's before the movie started. [Jordan wasn't joining us for the movie]

Julian leans slyly over to me and asks, "You forgot to bring your pad is it?"

WTF???? "HOW THE HELL DID U KNOW???" I *almost* shout out to him.

"I don't know! I just know! When you were searching through your bag, the thought came to me that you forgot to bring your pads!"

"WTF YOU MEAN YOU JUST KNOW???"

"I just knew! That's all! I don't know how!"

OMG OMG OMG I seriously think i hang out too much with this idiot. Will someone PLEASE intro me some NORMAL guys.................

Anyways, the movie, yah..........

Saved!

If ever there's a movie to really get me burned in Hell, I suppose this would be a nominee for the title...

Meet Mary. Mary studies at American Eagles High School, a fundamentalist Christian high school in the States. Mary is also part of the Christian Jewels, the requisite cool-girl gang in every high school, headed by the extreme-bitch-ina-holy-facade Hillary Faye. Mary has a boyfriend Dean.

Who confesses to her that he may be gay.

OOPS!!! Mary is so shocked by the news, she bumps herself on the head, and sinks to the bottom of the swimming pool.

Where she receives a "vision" from "christ" telling her to "help" Dean in every way she can.

[There's a reason for all the ""s, and it will be better understood if you guys watched the movie]

So she tries her best to help Dean become, well, heterosexual. Finally, she decides to have sex with him to "de-gay-ify" him. Well, OBVIOUSLY she gets pregnant with his kid, which makes for a lot of madcap religious jokes around the school. Especially when she mixes with the castouts of the school, whom the head bitch calls "Satan's Crew". This includes a rebellious chainsmoking Jew, [a jew at a Christian school!] and the wheelchair-bound brother of the Head Bitch.

If anything, it's tempting to dload this movie, burn 100s of copies and send them to say, City Harvest Church. It plays on LOADS of Christian stereotypes, and parodies them to the extreme. When you see the beatific look on Head Bitch as she sings, you just want to snort along with the Jew. And since she's the Head Bitch, well, obviously, she practices a very hypocritical form of Christianity, in which I am right, and if you think I'm wrong, you must be part of Satan.

An interesting example? The pastor of the school confides to Head Bitch that Mary may be going through some emotional difficulties, and to gently help her through it. Head Bitch responds by kidnapping Mary in a van, and performing an exorcism on her. OMG. Well, of course Mary calls her a lunatic, and in a fit of 'holy' anger, Head Bitch throws the Bible at Mary's back! Now if that's not a metaphor for fundamentalists worldwide, I don't know what is......

In the process of the movie, Mary realises that nothing, not even religion, is as clear-cut as everyone, even the pastor, makes it out to be. What Would Jesus Do? Indeed, nobody really knows. And the end message of the movie is: to know WWJD, each one has to find his own way, make his own path.

And THAT is the only way to God. :p

Highly recommended for Hellbound Yenn to watch... hee... you'll like it.