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2009.11.29
Life of Pi
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2009.11.01
Amelie
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2009.09.21
Terms of Endearment
A very good comedy.
All the stories that Pi goes through are very humorous.
But at the end, after reading the non-animal-involved story of Pi, I am not sure which one to believe.
But the one with animals is certainly better.
I was hoping to find some spiritual guidance in this book,
but it was just pure entertainment in my part.
But it was a very good entertainment, nonetheless.
Posted by 【洪】ILHONG
Small things matter in a life.
But you cannot always rely on the bits of small happiness to drive your life.
Also, one should be able to take care of oneself better, especially in order to take care of others.
A very cute (but a little dragging) movie.
Again, European movies are more honest to their thoughts/feelings than "reality" the movie is set in...
A nice little fantasy in the real world.
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Did I just use the word "cute"? I probably never said that word for years and, these days, that word is either uttered or heard by me several times in a short span of time.
Sigh.
Anyway, Audrey Tautou is again very cute adorable in this movie.
There is not much emotions from me as a viewer, but all the bits of small happiness and one gush of excitement at the end as Amelie does deeds for herself (and her love) is very well organized.
4/5
Posted by 【洪】ILHONG
On one of the movie lists I randomly landed on the Internet,
this movie was ranked top of the tear-jerking movies. #2 on the list was "Kramer vs Kramer".
As a diehard fan of dramas, I finally watched both. I watched Kramer vs Kramer like a year ago - and I cried my eyes out. I rented Kramer vs Kramer first because I like both Hoffman and Streep than actors/actresses in "Terms of Endearment".
After watching both, I found Kramer vs Kramer more tear-jerking than Terms of Endearment. I think it's probably because every character of Terms of Endearment (except a few kids) had at least one gloomy (or unethical) part that made each of them more humane, but also less likely a subject of 100% sympathy - which all characters in Kramer vs Kramer received.
Nonetheless, acting of Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson were really great... especially of MacLaine and Nicholson - which rightfully they won the Academy awards for. MacLaine's acting was amazing...
But as shown in the poster, the movie is centered around Winger and MacLaine, a daughther and a mother. A mother who needs to be extraordinary and needs to have attentions. A daughter who wants simple things in her life but who can't.
A mother who needs the daughter's attention and care.
A daughter who had to deviate from simple happiness she wished for as she was pushed over the edge by her cheating husband and money... (although I still think she could've resisted)
Winger in the movie finds peace and a friend in an affair... but even that's short-lived as she was diagnosed with a cancer. Life's been unfair for her in the movie... But the movie saved a little bit of glory for her in her only sin of having the affair... Her husband was never aware of Winger's affair. To him, she was a woman of her life (once a love), a mother of his children and somebody who did nothing wrong.
Winger found her only justification of her unfortunate events in her only sin - other than her kids.
I felt pity for Winger in the movie, but I also felt the irony of how that pity came by - her death. Do I still think that I'd forgive unethical people if they die?
But, I was glad that she also made mistakes and she was unethical on some level as much as she was saved from possible humiliation out of it.
Not a movie that made me empathetic, but it was engrossing enough with the Winger's life and acting of MacLaine and Nicholson.
4/5
Posted by 【洪】ILHONG
