once

saw this movie last night.
once.
it's like a postmodern musical,
an unusual love story,
laden with music.
minimalistic.
the main characters don't even get names.
but it doesn't matter.
you feel their broken hearts,
and the tension they feel;
tension between the past and the present/future,
tension between commitment and communion,
between despair and hope.
what i love about this film,
besides the fact that one scene,
early in the movie,
is now one of my favorite scenes in cinema,
is that it doesn't do
what you would expect.
i could tell you more,
but that would spoil it, wouldn't it?
i can say this, though:
this film,
for me,
is about redemption
in ways we don't expect it.