I don't want to sleep alone

A friend once told me that everyone is essentially alone, no matter how many people he surrounds himself with. I think the picture above seems to capture that.

Another film by Tsai Ming Liang, whose previous film "Wayward Cloud", was so abstract, I still can't understand the fixation with watermelons.

This film has another fixation, a mattress and considering the title, seems rather apt. It provides comfort and support to the people lying on it. But how much more of it come from the people lying there with you?

This film isn't for everyone. Make no mistake, this is art fart (I give this one to your Eu, but the rest of the shows I watch are not art fart!). I won't even try to say that I understand even half of what was going on. When the opening scene is of a invalid person sleeping and the sound of the radio blaring in the background and it doesn't change for 3 minutes, you know you are in some pretty mind bending stuff.

This film is so filled with symbolisms that is boggles the mind. The plot is difficult to understand cause there is simply no dialog. A review said that this 2 hours plus film had dialog to fill 2 A4 size sheets of paper. That is exaggeration. It probably only fills one. But it was very ..... interesting. No other way to describe it. The plot moves along slowly. There is no back story, and you are left to figure most things out yourself as the details are slowly filled in. And even at the end of the film, you are probably none the wiser at a lot of things.

This isn't about the plot, but about the feelings and emotion generated when watching it. I didn't understand it, but deep down, I felt it. The loneliness, the longing, the need for companionship, the betrayal, the caring, the absurdness of everything in life.

The parting shot was of said mattress floating in water with lead male and his girlfriend and the Indian who has been taking care of him to homo-erotic levels. It was absurd, but you can't help feeling envy for them as they won't be sleeping alone tonight.