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Hot Fuzz (2007)
A comedy that actually makes you laugh
Hot Fuzz is hilarious, something that I class as clever comedy ... Nicolas Angel (Simon Pegg)is a London cop that "lives to work." He is absolutely serious about his job and when he gets relocated to a small town of Sandford, he cannot just switch off... Coupling with Danny Butterman ( Nick Frost), they become the action packed couple (Bad Boys) to discover a huge conspiracy behind the town's low crime records.
If you ask me, I would love to go and watch it again. This time I want to listen carefully to more in depth jokes that I normally tend to miss when I watch something for the first time.
Donnie Darko (2001)
Time
Just watched Donnie Darko and found it so similar to Butterfly Effect. Donnie travelled back in time to save his girlfriend who was killed on a car accident, a friend called Frank who he shot in the eye after he ran over his girlfriend accidentally, and his mother and sister who would be killed in a plane crash.
The idea of Time Travel fascinated human beings from the beginning of time! When the time was born we all knew that we would stop seeing it grow at some point.
Many people imagine time as a line. They draw a line and point somewhere in the middle of it as the current time, then they place anything before now as the past and anything after now as future.
This film gave me a feeling that time is not really on a line, it perhaps loops back on a circle, or may be it is not even restricted to two dimensions.
The reason we do not understand how to go back and forth in time is because it is really no back and forth option. Imagine yourself at some point over a horse saddle
The point that sits both at maximum and minimum. Move to left or right and you will fall to a lower state, move forward or backward and you will move to a higher state
you are at your optimum states, so there is no way out.
Would you change your death day, if you knew your death would save the lives of people you love?
Finding Neverland (2004)
Barrie's Happy Thought
Happy Thoughts A Short Review on "Finding Neverland" At "Finding Neverland" we view a film that tries to portray the life of J M Barrie (Johnny Depp), the writer of "Peter Pan", 1904.
Neverland is where the time stops and boys remain boys. Neverland is where we all want to live in when we find out how difficult is to be a grown up, a person with responsibilities, and too much in our heads to enjoy simple things
.
But "Peter Pan" the character who is said to be inspired by "Peter", one of the Sylvia Llwelyn Davies (Kate Winslet) son's, is in fact J M Barrie himself. "I am not Peter Pan. He is," Peter says looking at uncle Jim.
This story clearly portrays the internal dreams of a grown up man, who regrets his lost boyhood days and those fantastic times that he had no shadows and he could fly.
But who are fairies? Why did J M Barrie bring fairies into this? Because fairies are children's innocence and happiness. They are symbols of JM Barrie's belief that those little pure smiles will die when we grow up, when we stop believing in laughing and flying
. But there is one way to get back to Neverland
.To find our happy thoughts. Grown-ups have shadows and no happy thoughts.
As it goes for the J M Barrie's life, we can picture a man in great anguish, struggling with his sorrow of an unhappy marriage and troubles of unsuccessful career. Here Johnny Depp gives a dark shadow to J M Barrie's character. His coldness to women around him, and his obsession with his career, takes him to extremes of abandoning his home and spending his time playing with Sylvia Davies' boys, concentrating on the one he thinks is growing up faster than others, Peter.
Barrie tries to teach the pleasures of writing to Peter, as a tool to escape from the anguish of losing his father and the fear of losing his mother.
Perhaps writing was Barrie's Happy Thought.
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
At last Phantom on the big screen
Director/co-screenplay writer Joel Schumacher Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber's company Phantom: Gerald Butlet Christine: Emmy Rossum Raoul: Patrick Wilson
With her angelic voice, Emmy Rossum shook me so hard, I couldn't stop myself to say wow.
She portrayed a very young and naive singer who was torn between two men. She played the role absolutely fantastic and exactly how a 16 year old would dream to play a role like that, in those beautiful "Cinderella at the Ball" costumes and "The Little Mermaid" voice.
The scenery of the film was superb, and the music was the best part.
I also enjoyed the symbolic language of the film: the rose in the black ribbon was so poetic and so was the Phantom's lair. I enjoyed watching the Phantom and Christine's labyrinth underground journey, slowly in the small boat and when they arrived at Phantom's lair, the candles arose from under the water all lit up and my mind was tearing asunder with the beauty of what I was seeing.
There was also many uses of mirrors and reflections through the film... Going inside mirrors, to reach inside your mind, to that hidden lover, whose face is under a mask! And sadly all the mirrors end up broken for phantom.
I expected to see more passion in Raoul and Christine's Relationship, more chemistry to save Christine. But I could feel more passion in Phantom's love, and Christine's body language showed more affection for the Phantom's touch, the way she closed her eyes and felt at peace when she was with him, the way her eyes shone with lust when following the Phantom to the boat...She wanted him and she wanted him so badly.. He was her "angel of music", but.. When Christine saw the face, she reached her "Point Of No Return".
A true and sad story
.
All the way through the film, I really wanted Christine to choose the Phantom.... But Phantom behaved madly and badly.. Won't you if you were in love and the only thing stopping you to get your love was your ugly face?
"Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime . . . Lead me, save me from my solitude . . .
Say you want me with you, here beside you . . . Anywhere you go let me go too - Christine that's all I ask of . . ."
Go and see the musical. It is one amazing movie.
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Dreams
I watched this heart-breaking movie twice in a space of few years. Its reality is so present and so powerful that squashes my heart so tight. In a world that claims to be so advanced and civilised, in the era of space stations and quantum mechanics, human being is still so desperate to find happiness and so unaware of how to get it.
All that Sara, Harry, Marion and others in this movie wanted was love and happiness. They all wanted to be loved, and they all cared for each other, but unfortunately they chose the wrong way to get to what they desired.
I was emotionally down for hours after watching this movie. It really shook my heart.
I specially appreciated the camera angles and concave lenses that created meaning to explain the status of the mind. For example when Sara saw the doctors surgery with a fish eye view or when Marion had such a big head that seemed very heavy with guilt after selling her body for drug money.
I have to admit, I have seen this scenario happening in real life to someone I dearly loved. That's why I have to claim that "Requim for a Dream" is real. It is no Hollywood glamour and shine. Watch it if you have the heart.
Fascination (2004)
Kind of Deja Vu
I gave this film the vote of 4, basically for its music, otherwise it felt like watching some cheap Australian soap...
I could not see any clever twist in Fascination. It was one disaster after another with two absolutely opposite endings ...
The film was patchy with all sorts of obvious conspiracies loosely arranged to get something together.
Yes, an unhappy wife, a seemingly disloyal husband, an affair and behind all a mastermind to use people's emotions for personal aims are all we have seen before and we all know about the thin line between love and hate.
All the way through this movie I watched scenarios that I had seen before on other films and so I had this sense of Deja Vu all the time.
It's All About Love (2003)
A Ballerina Dancing in Snow
We all want love after all. We want family bounds and people to rely on, friends who support us and stick with us when we are in trouble.
This was all about love. The separation was a disease and Eleana (Clair Danes) who worked hard to gain a successful career as a ballerina, got weaker and weaker as the result of not having the love she desired in her life, the love of being a white bride, purity, youth and togetherness with someone she loved.... May be she realised it when it was too late, when she was no longer wanted by the media, corporations who made money out of her talent; when she felt she was missing that long wanted link, to be attached to someone she loved.
When John (Joaquin Phoenix)came back to get his divorce paper signed, it was too late, her heart already was weak, the disease was in an advanced stage. She tried to cure it, she tried to quit her job, but the people who used her including her brother betrayed her behind her back.
So from Eleana's point of view, all she wanted was her life and happiness back. From David and Arthur's point of views, it was all about making money, no matter how many lives would be ruined; they were using people as their business tools. But from John's point of view, it was all about love. You could see in his eyes when he was watching Eleana that how he cared and how he longed for her, and that was the reason he left, because he loved her and he wanted her happiness and success. And finally that was the reason he got involved in the end.
The Ugandans were symbolic to my view, something in John's imagination... He saw them on television screens and when he was dying. He saw them attaching themselves near each other to the place they were born so that they stay as a family and not to separate, to keep love! The fact that John's brother lived in aeroplanes and always in the sky showed the result of this family dis-attachment and confirmed that even when people leave each other, they still think about each other all the time, in their isolation and they still try to make sense by keeping contact...
At the end... we hear John's brother (Sean Penn) trying to communicate with John .... "You are probably somewhere in snow... you are probably somewhere sleeping." So deep inside family members have this connection and that is why by separating families and disconnecting people from love, the world is going to be a very cold place to be and people finish their lives in isolation and from a cold heart somewhere and this would become so natural that no one will care after all.
This also proved that even when these four family members tried to get together at one point, they did not really make it and that killed John and Eleana. In distance Michael, Eleana's brother died in storm and John's brother was in a plane that could not land anywhere at all as everywhere was snowing... so he was going to die as well...
Love is something that has to bound all of us humans together and if we are not connected, sooner or later, the life stops metaphorically and in this film symbolically.
Night at the Museum (2006)
Go for this... It is fun ....
I found this movie to be very entertaining.
Go to this movie to learn about history in a fun way as a well as to see how ones problem solving skills can create opportunities out of problems. After all it does not matter what job you are doing, but how well you do that job and how you deal with the day to day, or I may better say in this case, night to night difficulties that you may encounter.
Ben Stiller is very funny and Owen Wilson has a fantastic appearance as some historical leader. May be after watching the movie, you may be curious to go and find out about some of the people and animals you saw.
Go for it with your family or on your own. All ages will enjoy this. It is fun.
Identity (2003)
Who is the killer?
"Identity" is a thriller with a twist that pulls you all the way through and makes you think hard to find the connection of the characters. These seemingly independent characters get together by chance or destiny in one place to experience a series of mysterious murders, and somehow you have to figure out who is the killer? There are clues to the twist all over the film, right from the start, but there are also other events that create misleading clues to cancel out the real hints. Very cleverly selected plots to confuse you and take your mind away from putting two and two together.
Pay attention to the countdown of the keys ... You may get a clue! Enjoy the film ....