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The Best of Me (2014)
Love story is described in a unique way
It describes the relationship with man and woman. They used to love each other but now they live apart. However even so they're still attracted by one another, having a huge regret for the past.
As for the editing, you will notice the unique way of it. It is usual that story goes through with the passage of the time, but in the story, initially it tells about the current circumstance of them, and as the time goes by, the past stories are inserted one by one. Therefore, you will gradually figure out their past relationship as well as the recent ones.
In addition to that, it is also interesting that the story focuses on when they're grown-up rather than when they are youth. Generally speaking, most of the love stories tend to mention love in youth but this movie relies on the irregular way.
To sum up, you can enjoy how their love move forward with the unusual style of description.
Running on Empty (1988)
Warm but thrilling family drama
The family is in control of the government, so they incessantly move the place where they live in order to keep their privacy hidden. In accordance with such family issue, their sons are also forced to switch their school one after another, but eventually the parents make a huge decision to set their oldest son free from such struggle.
I think especially the beginning of the movie is very impressive. The scene, which the tow boys are desperate for escaping from something, makes you intrigued. Since you have no idea about the circumstance of the family at first, your attention will be drawn by it.
Besides, you'll be thrilled by the story despite the fact that it is basically warm family drama. In the light of family drama, it is well-organized enough to move the audience. At the same time, however, it is really like a detective story from the point of the family being chased by the authority.
In short, the movie can be highly evaluated from the unique way of editing and the story.
Mamma Mia! (2008)
Amazing story goes on with beautiful songs
This is about a girl, who try to look for her real father. Ahead of her wedding, she attempts to find out her father but unexpectedly three possible father turn up, and she is puzzled by the reality.
The story is hilarious but touching, which goes through with some amazing songs. In terms of the story, it is too unrealistic to take seriously as something that is likely to happen in the real lives. In fact, it is hardly possible that you'll be struggled by the three possible father. Thus, it is not easy to feel compassion to the lead character in the way you do in other realistic movies. Admittedly, it could be the weakness of the movie, but that is why you can be fully amused by the story. Considering the story as something less realistic, you can escape from the reality in a sense. This is the distinctive advantage of the movie.
Besides, songs help to make the movie more attractive. Each song is so impressive that they can make you feel emotional. To put it simple, the music can add some attractiveness to the movie.
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Exciting but little bit disappointment in the end
The man, who is recruiting someone to go back in time with him, meets a girl. She is a reporter observing his mysterious plan, asks him to come together. They are getting closer gradually, and in the end, they successfully go back in time.
The story itself is interesting and exciting but there is a little disappointment with regard to the ending. As I mentioned above, it came to the conclusion with their successfully achieved time-traveling. Given that it is basically human drama, it is spectacular that the story suddenly switches the contents to the scientific fiction. It is well enough to attract the attentions of audience.
However, it leaves a lot of questions unanswered: how does he invents the time-machine, when are they exactly heading for and what about the story of sub-characters. Considering it keeps these matters vague, you can say the story is poorly finished.
To sum up, you can enjoy yourself with the movie except the very last part of the story, which slightly let me down.
The Descendants (2011)
The contrast of contents and the environment is unique
It is such a warm touching story that you can appreciate the importance of your family. A family is living in Hawai but is in an unstable circumstance. A mother is barely escaped from the accident but is about to be dead, and as for their children, they are defiant and rebellious to their parents. A father is desperate to fix it up in order to build a healthy family again.
I think it is clever that the the story is set in Hawai. Unlike the uneasy mood in the story caused by the complicated family struggle, the environment where they live is extremely peaceful and tranquil. It is able to curve the tense of the family. Mild weather, beautiful sea and easy-going sub-characters effectively contribute to make the audience soothed.
Moreover, it is splendid that the family are repairing their relationship little by little in response to the death of a mother. Even though death is a negative aspect in the story, you can consider it as something that can bring them together.
To sum up, it is a serious topic to carry out, but you can accept them with the soft mood in Hawai.
The Lunch Date (1989)
You feel good by the typical happy ending
This is a warm and pleasant story. A woman has some uncomfortable incidents in the station, but in the end, she is in a good mood.
I think it is a beautiful story in that it is very touching in spite of its simple story. She repeats the mistake again and again in bumping into the stranger, missing the train and letting her dish be eaten by another customers in a cafe. As she offended by these occasions, you'll also find yourself sympathizing with her, who is in miserable situation. Yet, the film failed to live up to your expectation in a good way after all when you know that she gets the kindness from the stranger. Thus you can say that it is the typical happy ending story without complexity.
Even though, it isn't such an unexpected story that can startle you, it is obvious that you feel very comfortable in the end.
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
This can suggest the true value of your life
It's an emotional movie which gives you a chance to reconsider about your own life. Lead character is a man of hones and thoughtful. He is an earnest person toward his own life but he faces some difficulties in his business, which discourage him to live a life. As a result, he tries to take his life. Yet, he is survived by the angel with a magical power and comes to appreciate his life.
You will notice how wonderful your life is after watching the movie. You might evaluate your life by wealth. fame and success even though you well realize they can't measure the life. Therefore, you're obsessed to pursue them, sacrificing what really matters to you such as ordinal lives with your family and being in health. The main character is also one of them who miss what is inevitable in his life. However, after the strange moment with the angel,he notices the importance of his family, friends and neighbours.
In recent days, you can easily lose sight of true value of your lives because of your life's tight schedule, hence, you should watch the movie and think of your life again.
The King's Speech (2010)
Touching real story
It is the non-fiction drama about the British king, who has been suffered by the stammer, and how he overcomes this difficulty.
I think it is remarkably interesting in that it is created on the basis of the true story. It is common success story of the king, who experiences a series of setbacks and who finally gets over from his fear of dressing people, but given it is not a miracle but the outcomes of his painstaking efforts, you'll be motivated to put forward without terrifying making a mistake.
Moreiver, it also describes the relationship between king and his teacher, a professional of linguistic medication. It is emotional that they are gradually building a beautiful relationship of mutual trust.
In short, it will touch your heart in spite of its simple story.
The Gift (2010)
Thrilling action with unicorn
This is the very unique and perhaps mysterious film. There is a box which has a unicorn inside, and the box is carried by people one after another. Yet, once they touch the box, they are involved in some accidents and finally lose their lives. You shouldn't miss the ending, which reveals what the box means.
The most astonishing things about the film is the fact that the story develops in a very thrilling and exciting way. Usually, the unicorn, which is the key word in this film, reminds you of the fancy stories with the pretty unicorn. In this film, however, the unicorn is an invisible object which forces you to consult your imagination, and furthermore, the story full of action and bloody scene doesn't provide you with the nice drama that makes you feel good. Thus this film tears apart your stereotype toward the word, unicorn.
To sum up, it is a remarkably irregular story with unicorn, but its uniqueness makes the story possible to distinguish from any other stories.
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
In spite of its moving story, you'll be terrified for sure.
It is the non fiction drama about the life of a renowned scientist, who is extremely genius but suffers a mental disorder.
It is basically beautiful story but at the sake time, you'll be slightly thrilled by cleverness of the main character. Admittedly, he is respectable in terms of his magnificent scientific achievement, but as for his real life, he is completely corrupted being as a human and is unable to distinguish the fact and illusion. Therefore, you will hold a contradicted evaluation toward him as great but terrifying. Above all, when you encounter the fact that has been hidden till the end, you have no choice to feel threatened to him.
To sum up, the title of beautiful mind sounds very ironic to me because his superb mind, perhaps, is not beautiful for him.
Walking on Sunshine (2014)
Beautiful story and songs
It is a love comedy of musical style. Since it contains some iconic hit songs, some of them might be familiar to you. They can make it possible that you get thrilled by the story much more.
Particularly, the relationship of each characters are portrayed uniquely in the drama. For example, a younger sister, the lead character, considers her oldster as trustworthy beloved person, but in the light of her love affairs, she can't help see her sister as a rival. She has been bewildered by such an unstable situation, and in other words, she has been in a dilemma whether she should betray her sister or follow her honest feeling for her ex-lover. Under such circumstance, her old sister, on the other hand, can be both protagonist and antagonist for her younger sister. The fluidity of the character's role sounds very new to me.
Over all, story is very dramatic enjoyable, and some well-known songs successfully doubles its feature.
About Time (2013)
This love story tells you how important your time is.
IT is a love story with a small element of science fiction. It describes the love of normal girl and a man who is capable of travelling in time.
What is interesting to me is that the whole life story of the couple goes through in the drama. Beginning from their impressive encounter, it portrays how they get along with, get married and have a family. However, what makes a difference from any other popular love story is that the story goes back and forward because of the ability of time-travel. It makes it possible that the story get complicated and excited. Furthermore, as the title implies, it gives out the message of the preciousness of time. Observing the development of love between them, you'll figure out the value of time because it never goes back and forward in the real life unlike the case of the drama.
In short, it is not the simple story which entertains you from the aspect of love, but the one that conveys the philosophical message to the audience.
Gone Girl (2014)
You'll be puzzled by the mysterious story.
A woman has suddenly gone and it is uncertain whether she was murdered or kidnapped by stranger. People suspect that her husband kills her but he firmly insists his innocence. The truth is revealed in the end but until then you will be continuing puzzled. What is great about this movie is that it includes a few elements of movie genre:love, mystery and suspense. At first glance, it looks really like an authentic mystery with the police who are struggling to solve the unaccountable case. Therefore, you'll also tackle the issue, presuming the possibility of her death, and if so guessing who is the criminal in the way you do when you watch the mystery drama. However, you finally notice that a gone girl, who is supposed to be a pitiful victim, is actually cruel criminal, who isn't reluctant to deceive and kill people. You will feel scared by her characteristic as if you'll be so in a suspense drama. Besides, you'll also realize what drives her crazy is love.
To sum up, it is really complicated story, of which you can hardly name the genre, and at the same time, it is a well-designed story as well.
Otousan no tabako (2007)
Surprising means of buying cigarettes
It is a heart-warming story with a mother,disease-suffering father and their daughter. The daughter,a lead character was asked by his father to buy a pack of cigarettes on her way home from school. Despite her mother's warning, the girl managed to bring it back home for her father. For the first place, you might be startled by the description of a girl, who is trying to purchase a pack of cigarettes if you don't get the reason for her behavior. You might presume it is her who is taking up smoke even though it is illegal. Even a few scene of the beginning is , therefore, effective and technically well-organised enough to stimulate our imaginations. However, I'm not satisfied with the very ending. It was a happy ending, the father finally giving up smoking for some reason and the girl disappointing at her father's refusal, and reading aloud the tale. Followed by the scene, the mother is coming up and joins them. They all imply the repaired family unity with the decision of the father, but I think it needs more explanation such as why father gave up smoking and why she is reading a tale.
Three Days in Kamakura (2012)
Heart-warming story
This story is about the couple who are living in Kamakura. The relationship between them is not as intimate as it used to be, but after the three-day experience, they begin to reconsider their relationship. As for the fact that this film is set in Kamakura, I think it is the best choice. As a Japanese, who has visited Kamakura, this place always reminds me of miserable weather with dark and thick clouds. It is not because of coincidence but because of geographical reasons, thus Kamakura is likely to have bad weather. This climate reflects the chilled relationship of the couple. From this point, it is interesting that the story develops in Kamakura. Th other thing which intrigued me was the role of Ms Yamada. Through the course of the story, she is getting involved with the couple in many times. Particularly, the very last draws my attention: when she became insecure about her husband, who doesn't come back home. It seems to me that this dialogue is meaningful, causing me to think some new story is bound to begin. Simply put, from the beginning till end, her humorous character helps to delineate the tension between the couple, and makes this drama more attractive.
Fish Out of Water (2005)
Unpredictable solution against the trouble.
This film describes a man,who has a little bi of trouble but somehow deals with it in the end with a great sense of humour. In the first place, when you look at story structure, you will notice it is rather simple. The story starts from the depiction about a man ready to go work from his house with paddles in his hands, and then he realises a stranger is waiting for him on the duck. As the time goes by, the number of waiting people is increasing one after another, leading to his final decision of ending up commuting on boat at last. The bottom line is that the basic story is only about his commuting from home to his office. Despite such an uncomplicated story line, however, it is almost impossible to predict what is likely to happen in the end. On other word, you'll never guess in what way he tackles this issue. Moreover, it is also fascinating that this film includes two elements of movie genre, comedy and love. Even though it is a detail to point out that there is a love triangle between a man, a fishing lady and a attractive lady, it will be the another attraction of this film. To sum up, this film, which doesn't seem to be elaborate, is actually well-organised. You'll be certainly amazed by the punchline that the lead character, who was once a fish out of water, successfully overcomes the difficulty.
Whacked (1998)
Shocking in both positive and negative way.
This is one of the most shocking movies I have ever seen. I especially like the editing. This short film consists of three sections; the description of people who are falling down on the bustling street one after another, the scene of man who is in charge of collecting the golf balls on the golf course, and followed by the section that tells the reason of weird circumstances happened to pedestrians. In my view, we find ourselves in a state of excitement because of this structure. In the beginning, we are quite uncertain what is likely to happen afterwards, being irritated by the unusual phenomenon. However, we are convinced about what makes people falling down and what the depiction of the beginning means. In short, this film should be highly evaluated in terms of filming techniques which excite the audience but as for the story itself, it doesn't fascinate me, making me feel rather unpleasant.
Father and Daughter (2000)
It is about hart-warming relationship between father and daughter.
As the title indicates, this film is about the relationship between a father and a daughter. The story itself is common and simple but I guarantee it will be a special movie for you. To begin with, the absence of dialogues makes a significant difference from any other movies that you've ever seen. This feature requires you to focus your attention on the movie throughout the story, and you can immerse yourself into it as if you were the one of the character. Soft and tender music, which creates a peculiar but warm atmosphere of the movie are also noticeable. They change the tone and sound depending on the scene, playing an important role to tell the story instead of the dialogues. The simple colouring and the elaborate use of shadow is also impressive. The contrast between light and shadow doesn't require bright colour in the animation, which provides the comfortable mood. Finally, as for the story itself, it is extremely well-organized given the fact it needs to be summed up within a few minutes. Probably in the beginning you wouldn't predict how the movie concludes, making you less interested toward it. Yet at the very end, you would be aware it is worth watching for sure. The straightforward message of the film, which every single person can sympathize with, will touch your heart. In short, not to mention about the sophisticated techniques of the film, the story will give you an opportunity to reconsider about the relationship with your father.