Searching for Paradise

Greetings!

In my last post, I wrote the child in me loved to put beautiful colors here and there on the canvas of life.  I just read Karen's newest post 'The Fountain of Youth'.  There is a picture of a child fascinated by the flowing water of a fountain.  Her post and the picture make me smile.  This is the link to her website http://angelsforu.blogspot.com/

Recently I watched a Chinese movie on YouTube.  It was a pretty good movie.  The Chinese title was "The Edge of the World" while the English title was "Lost and Found".  (Please note that there was another Chinese movie on YouTube with the same English title, but it was a different one.)  Here is the link to the movie.

http://www.Youtube.com/watch?v=pBGZsLaYA40
  
I loved the part about a girl named Ting Ting.  She went to a private investigator with her piggy bank.  Her mother was dying of kidney failure.  Her father had planted a rose garden on where they used to grow vegetables because he knew his wife loved roses.  However, not a single flower had come to bloom.  Ting Ting recalled big winter melons had grown in their garden after some wild red-beak ducks came and stayed there for a few days.  Her father said the droppings of the ducks had helped fertilizing the field.  She asked the investigator to find the red-beak ducks.  She thought the roses would bloom with the help of the ducks.  She hope her mother would recover seeing the blossom of roses in the garden.

On the whole, the English subtitles in the movie were good except for the translation of the lyrics in the second part of the song "Searching (or longing) for a paradise".

In the movie, this was the translation for the second part of the song -

Running out of space to find
All but for some peace of mind

Somewhere birds are flying
Where the sun will shine in the morning
Things that touch my heart string
Will soon be here awaiting

Suddenly I realize
Never mind where's paradise
Hope is always by your side
Paradise is where love lies

However, there were quite some discrepancies from the original Chinese version of the song.

Searching everywhere, to places remote and beyond
All but a waste of energy and money

High above, birds are flying
The wilderness glows in the splendor of the setting sun
In an instant, I am filled with serenity
Hostility or ill will seems to dissolve and clear away

Suddenly I realize
(Paradise) is already* deep within my heart
Paradise is where Love is

*I checked the Chinese lyric online.  The song was sung in Cantonese. The composer used the Chinese word which meant "already is" or "was" in the English language. The one who translated it could have mistaken the sound of the word for "wish or hope". Anyway, the English words on the screen rhymed, and were probably better for a song.

The characters in the movie did not dwell on the sadness of life.  Life moved on.  The private investigator, Worm, found out Mr. Chu's wife had died.  He chose to lie to keep Mr. Chu's hope up because Mr. Chu had four small children.  Lying might seem to be wrong, but life was not simply black and white.  Ting Ting's mother did not live to see the blossom in the rose garden, but the effort of love from all the people involved was not in vain.

Paradise is where Love is.  So it is.

Love,
Q of D