Well updates for all. Three Times theatrical run was ending today, in fact as I'm typing this the last show is running. I decided to say @#%$ sleep today, and went down to Wrigleyville. I got there nice and insanely early so parking wouldn't be an issue. I parked near the Music box, and walked the few blocks to Wrigley Field where I found a relatively nice overpriced scalper selling tickets. I bought one, and hung around the area for a little while until the game. The game was a disappointment (as almost every Cubs game has been lately), but afterwards I wandered off to Southport Ave to get me some Cold Stone ice cream and hit on the ice cream scooper until it was time for the movie to start. After finishing my ice cream I wandered down Southport to the Music Box complete with a few too many markings from my ice cream on me. I was amazed to find that the Music Box actually has a "cheap" show. So instead of the $9.25 ass raping I was expecting, it was about an $8.25 ass raping, which left my anus feeling much less violated.

So anyways seeing the film in this wonderful theater is always a pleasure. The last time I went I was put in theater two which looks like a storage closet converted into a movie theater. This was on screen one however, and the place is quite spectacular. Unfortunately since I had slept about 3 hours this week it was getting hard to keep my eyes open. This was only a problem during the second segment of the film, so therefore I feel incapable of offering any great criticism on this part which I thought was the weakest. The film began in absolutely perfect fashion. The first story was absolutely touching, and its filled with a personal sense of nostalgia, and I thought the close up of the two lovers holding hands was perhaps the most heartfelt moment in all of Hou's work. With films of this nature though its usually difficult for three acts to all measure up, and I don't think the other two did. The last seemed unoriginal to me, and something that had been done a little better by Tsai Ming Liang in nearly all of his films. I'm glad I did get a chance to see it in a theater though, and I can say one positive thing about the last segment. For once a movie where a scene takes place at a bar/club the music was deafening. I'm sick of people talking without raising their voices while a band is playing in the background.