Alderaan21 posted:Oh, Anakin, dear, you really can be stupid, can't you? So much for "giving up trying to argue" with her. You're sleeping on the couch tonight, boy. Although, as many times as he's seen Padmé get captured , I suppose I can't say his concerns are entirely unfounded. So the guy in question is an ex of Padmé's. Oh, Anakin's going to take that REALLY well. -- Aeryn
The very first segment, directed by Jiang Wen and starring Hayden Christensen, Andy Garcia and Rachel Bilson, begins the film with a deft touch worthy of O. Henry, the master of New York short stories. Bilson and Christensen meet in a bar, where he finds a cell phone she left behind. He opens a seductive conversation, interrupted by Garcia as her boyfriend, who immediately reads the other guy. The two of them elevate their confrontation to a level of sly expertise, in a way that is rather remarkable.
Not all of the stories end in a surprise ending, thank goodness. Some are small slices of life. Mira Nair's segment stars Natalie Portman as a Hasidic woman in dealings with an Indian diamond merchant (Irrfan Khan). She's about to be married, and confides that on that day, she'll cut off all of her hair. Such a practice is not unknown in India, but the merchant now is simply a man admiring beautiful hair. And she -- how does she feel?