I was laughing out loud seeing the first part of this clever romantic comedy called [500] DAYS OF SUMMER. It tells the truth about how awkward for a guy meeting a girl he actually likes without knowing what to do about it. Well, maybe other movies have done the same, but this one has gone the closest to reality, or at least my reality around 10 or 15 years ago...when I believed that love would only happen once, and if I couldn’t have that one then I would be doomed to be miserable for the rest of my life. That’s why at the middle or toward the end of the movie, I felt a bit crunchy inside my belly...when the girl moves away slowly one day at a time...without knowing the exact reason behind it. And then, at the end reality bites...so deep that it could only be mended by ANOTHER LOVE...which at that point it would seem very impossible. But the movie has mercy...by revealing that HOPE COMES FAST. There’s no time to waste...we’re still young...so let’s start all over again...and let’s be WISER this time...just in case those complexity of keeping a relationship should happen again. Well, well, well...being single from time to time is not getting any easier, I guess. Thank God, I’m married! http://www.facebook.com/album.php?page=2&aid=15145&id=1556288883#!/photo.php?pid=839939&id=1556288883
Speaking in four languages, that is in English, French and German at the same amount, and also five minutes of Italian, INGLORIOUS BASTERDS is definitely a movie to “read”. Without the translation text you’ll get nothing, unless of course you’re mastering those four languages. Despite of being a war movie packed with action, drama, and the comedy [when you understand the dark humor occasionally] which makes this movie a unique one, I think the most interesting part lies in the hand of one most evil character, Colonel Hans Landa, played marvelously by Christoph Waltz by exposing his ability in fluently pronouncing dialogues in all four languages. Now, of course I will not recommend his evilness to be set an example for our daily lives, but I’d like to focus on his extraordinary ability to COMMUNICATE. There’s a certain ‘class’ or ‘strategy’ in the way he speaks, or persuades, or frightens other people, so much that he’s always getting what he wants. People NEGOTIATE everyday about everything, from the simple ‘what to eat’, until the most complex prenuptial agreement. The better we communicate, the better result we get. I just hope that at the end of every negotiation, it’ll be more on win-win solution rather than ‘hurting’ the other party...or in this movie I should say ‘killing’ the other party.http://www.facebook.com/album.php?page=2&aid=15145&id=1556288883#!/photo.php?pid=839949&id=1556288883
A movie can not be more POETIC than BRIGHT STAR. If you’re into poems, this is definitely your movie. It recites poems in a way I’ve never seen before in a movie. For one, if any other movie would show the ending credit title with songs, it’s not in this one. It uses reciting poems. Oh, how lovely! Following the love story between a young poet John Keits and his first-and-only lover of his life Fanny Brawne, this movie will remind us of how GRAND a FIRST LOVE can be. The story is just as simple as any first love might be, but nothing is simple when it deals with the hearts of the lovers who feel it...please it...break it...endure it...hold it...loose it...and treasure it. You might feel it’s the end of the world when you can’t be with your lover, and it hurts you to the bone to be separated unwillingly. However, it wouldn’t be called FIRST if there won’t be the second, the third, and so on. It means FIRST LOVE ENDS...whether we like it or not. The BEST thing we can do about it is to TREASURE it, and to thank God that we have experienced something beautiful in this long journey of our lives. But the WISE thing we can do about it is to MOVE ON and find ANOTHER LOVE. It might not burn the brightest, but with the right person it might produce HAPPINESS THE LONGEST.http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=15145&id=1556288883&saved#!/photo.php?pid=833813&id=1556288883&fbid=1337630291596
It’s a very quiet movie A SERIOUS MAN. It’s funny at some point, but certainly not entertaining. That’s what a dark comedy supposed to be. Giving no constructive solution what so ever until it ends, the movie tells a story about a man, a teacher in a remote area of America, who has so many problems all at once. To name some: his wife is leaving him for another man, his brother can’t be independent and stays in his house as a burden, his student tries to bribe him to pass school, he needs money to pay a divorce lawyer, and he has to sleep at the motel as forced by his wife. With all those coming at the same time, he is seeking helps to understand what God has planned to him. Since he’s a Jewish, he then goes to several Rabbis who can not help him directly, for they can only share some stories of faith, and the act of God is always invisible. At the end of the movie, GOD answers. Maybe HE always answers our prayers through HIS own way, and we’d better believe that it must be THE BEST for us. As black as it is being a dark comedy, this movie ends with a tornado destroying everything in that remote area. GOD gives lives, GOD destroys lives, GOD creates new lives.http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=15145&id=1556288883&saved#!/photo.php?pid=833812&id=1556288883&fbid=1337629331572
It’s not a sort of movie I would usually see. Wars scare me, and the blood I just can’t stand. But the fact that this movie has won BAFTA for Best Picture drags me to see it. As I see it minutes by minutes until it ends, THE HURT LOCKER tells something that’s actually simple. It’s not about the war, not about politics, nor the bonds between soldiers. It’s about one thing: ADDICTION. And like any other addictive pleasure in the world, an excessive dose of it is not healthy. In this movie, to grab the excitement of that addiction you have to endure the thrills it has to offer. You will wish you were at somewhere else in the world but this place. It’s all necessary to bring up, since the addiction is for DEFUSING BOMBS. It’s not the usual addiction we find everyday, but the procedure is just the same. To get that pleasure back over and over again, the addicted person will always put aside anything else in his life, even his family. Now, earlier I said it’s not healthy, but I never said that it’s a definite wrong. People addicted to their work all the time, and sometimes it brings out the best of them. So, how to have an addiction POSITIVELY? First, make sure it’s not self destructive, like go for drugs or alcohol. Second, your surroundings must accept that addiction, especially your family. And third, do it responsibly, like don’t get yourself killed. Luckily, in this movie, that addicted soldier has it all.http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=15145&id=1556288883&saved#!/photo.php?pid=833811&id=1556288883&fbid=1337628091541
Packed in poetic visions, THE LOVELY BONES showcases a dreadful issue of girls molesting and murdering. The story is about a girl who’s been rapped and murdered, and seeing from her afterlife zone the lives of her left-behind family and the murderer. What interesting about this story is her ability to see her family’s life without her in it. While the movie is giving you enchanting pictures of the places before heaven, the novel to which this movie originated might give you a deeper and more poetic feeling about it. About how this dead girl should feel, and how the family members have to put up with this unfortunate situation, especially the mother who’s once run away from home just to escape the pressure of endless sadness in the house. At the end of everything in life, LETTING GO is the answer to find peace in your heart. And while doing it feels very hard, don’t give up on anything. Not on your husband/wife, your family, or even yourself. Finding a way to stay together is better than being separated just to realize that your HOME is with the ones you love...your FAMILY.http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=15145&id=1556288883&saved#!/photo.php?pid=833809&id=1556288883&fbid=1337627251520
The main idea from CRAZY HEART is an absolute: STAY AWAY FROM ALCOHOL. Like any other restriction statements, it’s so easy to say but so hard to do. Following the life of an old Country Singer who’s facing the low down of his career, we might feel terrible watching such a messed up and lonely life he’s living. And then you would think ‘no wonder he’s escaping to alcohol’. But drowning yourself to alcohol needs no reason. Start LIVING does! And there’s no better reason for it than LOVE. I know it’s a bit cliché, but let’s stick to it a bit longer. This movie offers a kind of love that needs RESPONSIBILITY. When you love someone so truthfully you’ll take your responsibility to straighten up your life and DO IT FOR YOURSELF rather than doing it only to get the one you love. Because it’s better and stays longer. Because it’s true and meaningful. And because sometimes love and relationship don’t go along very well. You may not like the ending, but that’s the only way to proof the main idea of this movie: stay away from alcohol...at any circumstances! http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=15145&id=1556288883&saved#!/photo.php?pid=833808&id=1556288883
I was laughing out loud seeing the first part of this clever romantic comedy called [500] DAYS OF SUMMER. It tells the truth about how awkward for a guy meeting a girl he actually likes without knowing what to do about it. Well, maybe other movies have done the same, but this one has gone the closest to reality, or at least my reality around 10 or 15 years ago...when I believed that love would only happen once, and if I couldn’t have that one then I would be doomed to be miserable for the rest of my life. That’s why at the middle or toward the end of the movie, I felt a bit crunchy inside my belly...when the girl moves away slowly one day at a time...without knowing the exact reason behind it. And then, at the end reality bites...so deep that it could only be mended by ANOTHER LOVE...which at that point it would seem very impossible. But the movie has mercy...by revealing that HOPE COMES FAST. There’s no time to waste...we’re still young...so let’s start all over again...and let’s be WISER this time...just in case those complexity of keeping a relationship should happen again. Well, well, well...being single from time to time is not getting any easier, I guess. Thank God, I’m married! 
