what a voice... what a scene
It doesn't happen very often but sometimes a song goes straight through you. I was watching HBO and saw this musical called "across the universe" which features Beatles songs performed by the actors. Now the Beatles were probably a good band but I don't like them at all, though I like Lenon's "instant karma".
Anyway, this scene features a young chinese girl, daughter of a Hong Kong performer and she plays a lesbian teenager inthe U.S. singing "I want to hold your hand", wow...... what a voice, and what a nice spin to the setting. It seems so sweet, innocent and desperate, in the end turning away and leaving the scene knowing it's never going to happen for her there. A lesbian teenager in a country which is still a bit on the homophobic end despite of the nation's tsunami of sitcoms featuring gay people the last decade.
Hope you'll enjoy it if you haven't seen it yet...
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