V for Vendetta

I watched this movie a few years back

when i intended to experience how it felt like

watching a movie alone.

And i enjoyed the movie

especially after learning about dystopias in Literature.

V for Vendetta is a really intelligent movie,

flawless and captivating,

as we see the anarchist V bringing down the entire

fascist government who does nothing much

but instill fear within the people,

and harm them all

by testing chemicals onto them.

50 first dates

Henry Roth, a flirt, unexpectantly fell in love 

with Lucy, a girl who lost her short term memory (STM)

after a car accident on October 13th the previous year.

So Henry started to commit to this relationship,

thinking of ways to win her heart each and every day.

And he succeeded eventually,

though Lucy still suffered from STM loss.

Miracle in Milan

This is a movie i will buy and keep.

The tales of post-war Italy

plagued with poverty, unemployment,

rich-poor gap, indifference of authority etc etc

yet at the same time a hero, 

Toto,

not quite a hero who stands apart from the crowd

and helps them,

but somebody whom the poor living 

in the shantytown can connect with.

Toto taught these people to hope,

to make merry admist their poverty.

However one day when a traitor of their hometown

traded the secret that the town has oil reserves

to the rich,

and soldiers and businessmen seek to chase them away

via force,

Toto achieved magical prowess by his mother

who adopted him from a cabbage patch where he was found.

And so he granted the wishes of many,

and they began making more unreasonable wishes.

And then his dove, a symbol of his magic power was GONE!

Stolen back by the angels to heaven.

So everyone had to move out.

Suddenly, while everyone was on the vehicles,

Toto's mother gave him the dove,

and so everyone got freedom!

Toto and his lover led everyone to fly to the sky

on brooms, from Milan's Central Square,

and there they attained freedom.

Twilight

Twilight is the current favourite of many teenagers,

adapted from Stephenie Meyer's series of four books.

The story is common,

love story between a vampire and a human.

Something i hate about the movie: the mushy and corny conversation.

But well, something nice about it is that

Edward is a vampire who can control himself,

and not feed on Bella's blood.

IP MAN

This movie is REALLY GOOD.

This may sound a little silly but

i think it did

unite the Chinese spirit 

against all odds.

China has endured all sorts of disasters in the past,

before it became a brighter place.

And it was touching to see the Chinese

fighting against their enemies,

in this case the Japanese,

to strive to maintain itself a stable country.

I love the part in which Ip Man feels that

the Chinese martial arts can never be learnt

by the Japanese,

because it includes Confucian teaching

of benevolence within,

something the merely forceful Japanese

will never ever understand.

Connected

Watching this movie reminds me of my childhood days

watching Hong Kong serials 

by Louis Koo, Zhang Jia Hui, Flora Chan

and Meteor Garden by Barbie Hsu.

And Connected is thrilling, better than i had expected.

Maybe because it is made by HK.

In times of crisis, 

you can only trust yourself.

But sometimes yourself is not enough,

that you have to be alert,

and choose your correct partner to get you through the crisis.

Modern Times

Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin in 1936

is the greatest pantomime i have ever watched.

Chaplin is indeed a genius of his time.

He is perfectly aware of his surroundings 

and the happenings of his country - 

serious poverty, unemployment, strikes 

and whatsoever that plagued that dark era.

However in this challenging time,

Chaplin did not forget the necessity of human life -

laughter and happiness,

as we see how he subverts authority

and the government's attempt to change 

the people's lifestyles and characters,

remaining a tramp.

As said by both Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne,

the beauty of Chaplin's films is that

he does not succeed in life eventually,

but remains a tramp.

I am so going to borrow all his films to watch!!

2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick in 1968

is indeed a fine piece of art,

especially the bold execution of jump cuts,

beautiful and starling,

and the lovely music

conveying the atmosphere of the scenes.

The sound of astronaut breathing

in the mission to Jupiter

speaks of the uncertainty and fear

mankind feels with regards to science and technology,

constantly changing, yet unavoidable.

The trepidation of mankind towards the very machines

and robots they invented,

the terrifying control these machines have over us,

and how eventually mankind still emulates machinery.

I first watched snippets of this film in my literature class

at college, and i have been fascinated.

This time i watch it after studying Cinema Studies in university,

i am still fascinated.

I will definitely watch it again in the future...

Cape No.7

Love is not about eternity,

it is about the precious moments 

you spent with the somebody 

you wished to spend your life with

forever...

eurotrip

When you venture abroad,

it's best to take your best friends along!

The Bicycle Thief

The Bicycle Thief is a really moving film,

made by Italian moviemaker 

Vittorio De Sica during the Post-war era.

The movie revolves around this pair of father and son,

who went in search of his father's missing bicycle,

in order to be able to work, to support his family,

as well as connect with the society they lived in.

In tough times, you only have yourself,

and your beloved family

to keep you moving...

The Dark Knight

Well, like most marvel screenplays,

full of action, suspense and fear,

The Dark Knight

never fails to deliver.

However, this time it is not the hero,

but the villain - the joker

(acted by the late Heath Ledger),

who left an impression.

His evil intention to destroy a peaceful world

actually stems from the suffering he

experienced

since the beginning of his life

A broken family -

drunkard father,

battered mother,

abused child he was.

The scars on his face were caused by his father,

when he tried to protect his mother

from his abuse.

Then, he grew up

and married a beautiful woman,

who loved to gamble,

and left herself loads of debt to repay.

Her creditors haunted her,

and disfigured her pretty face.

She became emotionally unstable,

unconfident to face the world.

To make her feel better,

and tell her how much he loved her

whether she was pretty or ugly,

the joker cut up his face,

and left more scars on his face.

But unfortunately,

his wife found him ugly,

and left him.

What a sad life ain't it!

Hence he got admitted to a mental hospital,

and then the destruction of his mind.

He believed that there was no good in the world.

So, he escaped and began to destroy everyone.

At the climax,

he gathered two groups of people

on board two different ships,

according to a system similar to a caste system in India,

the creme of the crop in one,

the average on the other.

Each ship was given a time bomb controller,

which meant that

the first group to press the button

will save themselves

by bombing the other group

on the other ship.

And then it came midnight,

when both groups were supposed to kill each other.

Batman and the joker were fighting

at the top of a skyscraper near the sea.

Joker told Batman

he was sure he would see

fireworks

when the bombs exploded.

But, he was disappointed.

There was still hope in a world

plagued by evil forces,

because mankind were kind

towards one another,

they chose to die in order for others to live.

People still believed in the good of mankind...

And so, the movie soon ended with the joker

being captured, and all good reigned Gotham.

Action-packed movies don't usually leave such a great impact on me,

but The Dark Knight

had such good philosophy

and great cast,

that left me touched by the

beauty of the entire film.

TRI-CHEERS FOR The Dark Knight

and to Heath Ledger,

who protrayed the clown

ever so skilfully.

TV rocks my life!

Since young,

my life has revolved around the

Television!

TV shows and Movies have always rocked my life.

And after i took Literature in JC,

i started to appreciate the shows much more

than i used to,

cuz every little detail in the show,

actually sums up to creating the big picture.

It is the experience that counts.

So read on

my movie reviews...