A movie I consider one of my most precious is a 1998 Koreeda movie called After Life ("wandafuru raifu" in Japanese). There's a certain moment when the filmmakers have an argument about what are the soonest memories one can recall. Takashi, the story's hero, says that one can be possible to remember how it feels to be in one's mother womb, and claims it can be proven by the comfort it brings to be totally immersed in hot water. Shiori, the heroine, hears it and ponders... and tests the theory when bathing in the lodge's ofurô (a japanese bathtub). The film is pretty and I think this scene, while not so appealing, is the one which affected me the most, I guess
Well, in this song Katie sings about a lot of stuff happening in a very badly resolved - in her head - relationship... she talks about feeling guilty, about playing games, about a ruined fate, about turning her lover into an object, about repeating mistakes after apologizing...
And that line "I hide from phonecalls under the hot water" - well isn't it that feeling they talked about in After Life, the comfort of a hot tub bath? That welcoming and cosy sensation? Well, but Katie adds to it the will of running away from that torrent of confusing things her relationship has been. She's comfortable under the hot water while she tries to get some courage to answer her lover's calls.
A movie I consider one of my most precious is a 1998 Koreeda movie called After Life ("wandafuru raifu" in Japanese). There's a certain moment when the filmmakers have an argument about what are the soonest memories one can recall. Takashi, the story's hero, says that one can be possible to remember how it feels to be in one's mother womb, and claims it can be proven by the comfort it brings to be totally immersed in hot water. Shiori, the heroine, hears it and ponders... and tests the theory when bathing in the lodge's ofurô (a japanese bathtub). The film is pretty and I think this scene, while not so appealing, is the one which affected me the most, I guess
Well, in this song Katie sings about a lot of stuff happening in a very badly resolved - in her head - relationship... she talks about feeling guilty, about playing games, about a ruined fate, about turning her lover into an object, about repeating mistakes after apologizing... And that line "I hide from phonecalls under the hot water" - well isn't it that feeling they talked about in After Life, the comfort of a hot tub bath? That welcoming and cosy sensation? Well, but Katie adds to it the will of running away from that torrent of confusing things her relationship has been. She's comfortable under the hot water while she tries to get some courage to answer her lover's calls.