Sometimes movies don't need to convey any meaning or message to shine!

Rating: 8/10 (13 February 2009)

I remember when I for the first time saw the Chinese title of Vicky Cristina Barcelona(translated as Midnight Barcelona), I was thoroughly touched---yet hadn't seen it; normally if the title is this intoxicating, you probably can count on the movie to be accordingly beautiful, plus Woody being the director, I looked forward to seeing it impatiently.
It turned out to be nice enough to glue me on my chair when I saw it at a very late night. It's very fun and relaxing movie, with charming actors and music. I enjoyed seeing it. Afterwards I asked myself why I like Vicky Cristina Barcelona this much, and the answer, satisfactorily, is that there is no obvious meaning or message it tries to convey.
Well, there are a lot of films that contain deep and serious meaning and messages, in the theme or in the camera-directing. Those films are indeed enlightening and they are sort of like our teachers, from whom we learn to live in our world. Yet there are other films that bring us pure fun and in the same process let us relax.
Pure fun is very often in little things.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona is quite little...you guys know what I mean don't you... The whole movie is like the music in it, friendly, delicate, relaxing, yet very sexy, and seeing a movie like it is pure fun. You don't have to think hard to pick up all the fragmentary threads to get the great idea, and you won't be completely shocked and feel ashamed to be human. Watching Vicky Cristina Barcelona, all you need to do is get yourself in a comfortable sofa, try to experience with the characters the beauty of Spain and its art, feel the actors' charm, laugh when the fun comes, smile when you find you can identify with them, move your body with the end music and plan on seeing Barcelona with your own eyes. What is left when you finish seeing it will be your smile and a refreshed body.