So after dim sum yesterday, Alex and I wandered further down Spadina to the Chinatown mall wonderland of cheap cheap DVDs of sketchy legality. I wanted to get Farewell, My Concubine (or, as the front of my copy calls it Farewell To My Concubine–at least it has the right cast list: the Raise the Red Lantern we got has the cast and crew of Silence of the Lambs listed on the back) and Alex wanted to get In the Mood for Love and a couple of other things. We wound up buying nine movies between the two of us. For $35. We will be basking in Contemporary Chinese Cinema (and one Japanese film) for months now.

Then we watched a movie I’d picked up because I’m writing a paper on it. Ironically, it was Chinatown.

Sometimes everything just fits together.