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!