I love films but I'm very selective on what I like, I don't like, I want to see in the theaters, I want to rent instead and I want to add on my list of favorite movies. I don't know about you, but I do think that your list of favorite movies does say something about you and can be a factor when people you meet for the first time start having opinions about you. So I'm just a bit curious, with a list of your top 10 favorite films, what do you think the list says about you?

And yes I seriously just want your top 10 favorite films because the top 10 is all that matters. And don't be putting down "Mysterious Skin" so you can look deep in Sugarland. I see through your pretentious facade. I kid, of course.

Okay to get the ball rolling, I'll start with mine (in no specific order, well except for the top three):

1. Spirited Away (A Japanese anime by Studio Ghibli)
2. Swing Girls (A Japanese real-life film)
3. Whisper to the Heart (A another Japanese anime by Studio Ghibli)
4. City of Gods
5. X-men (the first one)
6. Kill Bill Vol 1
7. Children of Men
8. Ratatouille
9. Monsoon Weddings
10. Monster Inc.

So what does my list says about me?
That I prefer children's films (or at least that's where they're usually categorized under). lol. And I've realized it through watching sooo many films that I end up loving and appreciating cinema more whenever I watch an excellent children's movie. It's not that I have a child-like personality, but there is just something about an excellent children's movie that makes me appreciate the beauty of the world. Studio Ghibli does amazing jobs doing this to me. Their films capture the beauty of rural parts in Japan and the innocence of children's imaginations in simple scripts. And that's what I like. I like the simplicity of things, of life.

Another thing I like about their animes is that they remind me of my childhood back in Asia, where I lived in a rural area or called a province by the city folks. My cousins and I would use what nature has to offer to us as our playthings. We weren't so rich back then. For example we had this huge pine tree (yes in Asia, a pine tree, but there was one I swear) and we would use the "leaves" if that's what you call them as our "noodles". Our parents would thrown away can lids and we would secretly search through the garbage to get them so to use as our "knives" to chop up petals, leaves and fruits. We would used empty sacks of rice as our roofs for the little house we made outside. We would climb up trees and use them as our "homes" too. We would grab banana tree leaves off of our banana trees, get sticks and tie the leaves around the edge of the sticks with rubber-bands and call them as our "babies." And when the tide is low down the river next to our house in the morning we would climb down and make bowls out of the mud. Did I also mention we had a coconut tree in our backyard?

Okay I think I've completely abandon the purpose of this post and started rambling about my childhood. I apologize. We can talk about both I guess. Oh boy. Another "spontaneous rambling" brought to you by pinkflats.

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