Happy together

I watched the 'Happy together' 10 year anniversary DVD last week. The movie aged good and the acting was top-notched. But the focus of this set was the special feature with the clips that ended up on the cutting room floor.

We learned the story behind the creation of this production. Not a pretty one but I was glad to see the version of the story that WKW managed to pull together in the end.

The two female characters introduced during the process were eliminated from the movie almost completely. Funny thing was WKW kept on recycling his characters and images but at the same time anything that was too familiar might not survive the final cut.

Leaving friends, family, and history behind and restart in another place was an emotional journey. The feeling of waking up in a foreign land without knowing when to return home was draining. At the end, happy together was a simple movie that followed the fundamental emotions of 3 guys who chose to exile themselves. It has a happy ending, not a very conventional one, for the very least, they're still able to make the choice for themselves.