I am still a teenager

Tre metri sopra il cielo

In fact, we watched this film two weeks ago (in two sessions) in our italian class. Oh God, I have to study for italian or otherwise I won’t be able to do anything at all in the exam…

But whatever, how should I put it – it’s been awhile since I’ve seen such a clichéd, typical teen movie. More than that, it reminded me exactly of the constellation that all Bollywood movies seem to be made of: Guy is a rebellion and head of a motorbike gang, girl is a model student at some catholic school; they meet through their friends and fall in love with each other. Obviously their relationship is quickly getting complicated due to his lifestyle and her arrogance and morality, well, as easily predictable.

However, I guess there were two main points that kind of attracted to the film even though it really is clichéd and silly: The first one is the music, the second one is the rather romantic love story itself. I really want the soundtrack to the movie and the love story just touched my silly young girl’s heart. I can see myself in 20 years re-watching this movie and thinking that this must have been the feeling of falling in love when you were young. And for some reason, it’s this silly italian pop music that brings these feelings out of myself (and not the music I used to listen to when I was young and blindly in love).

It should be noted that it’s been six months since I’ve seen the movie and I still find it somewhat memorable. At the same time, I’ve shown the key scenes (the silly sex scene that is) to Shii and it soiled “Gabriel” by Lamb for him – I’m so sorry, because I find that song very beautiful myself. Typically I don’t go for the technically rather uninteresting, but atmospheric trip hop, but Lamb is an exception. If one has to dissect and over-analyse the song, I’d even say that there is a ‘climax’ to it that could go well in a sex scene, but let’s not delve in that further. It is indeed a little bit like this scene in Kare Kano, only that Kare Kano was a thousand times more tasteful. What should I say now after 6 months? My youth is over, haha.