Hong Kong International Film Festival

The postal booking for the Hong Kong International Film Festival has started already. As usual, I try to catch as many gay films as possible:

• Innocent
• Tang Tang
• Producing Adults
• Summer Storm
• Simon -
• Hong Kong Indie Shorts - Gay or Not (Chan Wai Yee, Lou Yee Nam, 22 min), made by two high school students, discusses the implications of a rampant homosexual gossip within a Hong Kong school

My Translation Project

I'm supposed to submit my first draft this week but I have just started doing it today. I chose my text "Borderlands of Science" in a hurry and now I really regret it. It seemed to be at the right level at first glance but when I really started working, it's turned out to be quite hard :(

Kaoru!

Last Sunday, I finally watched that legendary episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion in which the (rather wimpy) protagonist Shinji (left) met the cute boy Kaoru (right), fell in love with him, (consummated his love with him?), killed him and griefed over him in that very same episode! I'd never thought it could actually happen on screen!

The episode began like many other shounen animes: Boy meets boy when they are watching sunset by the sea. It's more obvious here than other animes, though, in that Shinji was all shy and blushing while Kaoru was flirting with him the whole time. ( (Full dialogue here) )

That night, they took a bath together and slept right next to each other. (My friends and I have analysed Captain Tsubasa, Gear Fighter Dendoh and many other anime and we've reached the conclusion that friends means people who you share a bath and bed with!)

During that very long bath scene, they sat very close to each other, doing some very sweet flirting, and then (finally!) Kaoru covered Shinji's hand with his. Shinji acted like a teenage girl who's never been touched but he let Kaoru's hand stay there.

They kept talking. And then Kaoru stood up and Shinji's face turned beet red. (It was so cute!) because his face is right next to Kaoru's you-know-what. But Kaoru didn't stop talking. And Shinji just blushed all the way through. Then the night went out. And Kaoru told him I love you.

( (Here's their dialogue) )

And that night they slept together in a cell that's only big enough to fit in 2 single beds exactly. ( (Here's their dialogue) )

At the end of the episode when Shinji had to kill Kaoru because he was the last angel (and therefore a threat to humans), he cried, "You betrayed me! You betrayed my heart!"

And after he'd killed Kaoru, he said, "Kaoru was the first person who said 'I love you' to me." I loved him. He should have been the one to survive. He was much better than I am. He should have survived."