Falling Slowly

Glen Hansard(left) and Markéta Irglová at the 80th Academy Awards after winning Best Original Song with "Falling Slowly."

I was not attracted to this soundtrack, or the song, Falling Slowly, when I first heard it at iTunes store. I was well aware that this incredibly low-budget music film and its soundrack were quite huge hits even in Korea (just like the same music-based film Secret, directed and starred by Jay Chou), but with an indescribible reason I didn't come across with feeling like watching the movie, until I asked Forest to share the movie and soundtrack last week. THEN finally I watched the movie Once (I'd like to emphasize that I did NOT illegally enjoyed the movie; I borrowed DVD at the school library) and no later than 15 minutes I realized the song sounded kinda brilliant in the movie. It was wrong to judge a song at the first sight; but nowadays you do, especially at iTunes store where you pre-hear it only for half a minute unless you pay and download the file.

The first impression of the movie for the first 10 minutes was; well, so, this is Irish English??? Cummon, maan! How can you understand them talking when you even can't even make sure you're listening to English at all? (This was because I turned on commentary subscript on the monitor, (well, not on a screen, for there are only 4 PDP TV at the school library and they're not available if you don't make a reservation on the previous day, so all you can look at for 3 hours to watch a movie is a simple plain LCD monitor, and for what is worse, usually you can't set up the right resolution for DVD, which was the case I had to face this afternoon) so I was wholy depedent on my ears to comprehend what was going on in the movie.) Well, at least I was kinda relieved when I found out the girl was an immigrant from Czech; it was natural her Irish English was far from my catching! LOL

No, I don't have Korean edition of this article, for I wrote the memo in English while watching the film in the first place, which is not so surprising for me; I could've written this very article in Korean, though, of course, but in that case I have to translate the memo myself. Remember Umberto Eco does not translate himself nor compose his works simultaneously (I guess) even though he reads 9 languages and completely fluent in Eglish and French other than his mother tongue, and I don't fully share this reason.

한 줄 요약 : 원스 사운드트랙 노래 좋네. ㅎㅎㅎ (아일랜드 억양은 어쩌고?)