May our hope for better days keep coming!

 

 

 

   The 'rainbow movie' as I like to describe Alex Law's 2010 production, "Echoes of the Rainbow" appeals to me on many levels. It stars Simon Yam who won the best actor award in Hong Hong with Sandra Ng as a sharp-tongued/soft-hearted housewife. We are told the story of this struggling family through the voice and eyes of the younger, inquisitive son. They live in an idyllic neighbourhood in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong around 1967 to 1977.

   Amidst impending political changes, a fierce typhoon pierces the family's peace. The elder brother has been diagnosed with leukemia. We travel with the family to Beijing as they seek a cure. I felt totally immersed in this family's joys and pains as they faced the impending death of the first born.
   The movie is charmingly bitter-sweet as we live through the big brother's teenage romance, his words of wisdom for a sibling, his eventual demise. Delightfully tugging our heart-strings!
   And what of the rainbow? Promises/echoes perhaps of hope fluttering by for a better future? Yes. This movie concludes with the younger son, now older, accompanied by his mother on a visit to the cemetery. He proudly recalls his brother's love. As they leave, a rainbow appears.
   The 'God of Moses' reminds us: "I set my rainbow in the cloud and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth." (Genesis 9, 13)
   May echoes of our 'rainbows,' our hope of better days keep coming!
   Peace to all.