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The Departed (2006)
Brutal and senseless.
Before watching this movie I had known that Scorsese made a remake of a Chinese film. So I have to say that the casting for the movie was excellent and all actors played the best. But there were several silly flaws in the script. First, of them was a script line with Farmiga. I didn't get Scorsese because of her relationship with two protagonists. It didn't make any sense. What did the director want to show? She slept with both and cheated on one of them. And when finally she learned that the guy she cheated on was a bad guy, I supposed, she felt relief and joy because she wasn't only who was lying. It was kind of primitive. But the biggest my question to Scorsese is about the policeman who contacted with the Di Caprio. So before the end, he just disappeared and appeared in the end having killed the personage who was played by Damon. I can say that it was brutal and senseless. I believe Scorsese wanted to show real Irish gangs and all stuff like that but doing this he fully forgot about any logic of the script.
En man som heter Ove (2015)
Ove's recipe how to change yourself.
This movie was an adaptation of the book "The Man Called Ove". I both read the book and watched the movie. I can't say I liked them but it's the case when you can say that you something could learn from that. I mean I noticed and observed a lot of things from this creation that could help me understand myself better or even to become a better person. I'm gonna write my review considering both the book and the movie. Btw, I have to say that the movie was made pretty close to the script of the book. It's a story of a man who lost his wife at the beginning of his sixties. The man called Ove and he decides to commit suicide because he doesn't see any sense of life without his wife. But all the time he tries to do that he was interrupted by his new neighbor, a young Persian woman who was pregnant. And between all these interruptions we're shown the moments from his past. So we're learning how he met his wife, whose name was Sonja, many details of their relationship. Once they had a road accident and due to that his wife becomes disabled and she couldn't walk anymore. In the book, the author says that Ove never had lived before he met his wife so after she had passed away Ove died inside again. You know, the author of the book tried to show Ove like a man who doesn't like to talk but rather prone to do. So he was a man of deeds but not words. Also, we're shown that Ove is addicted to rules. He always puts rules above people. His wife was an educated person unlike her, Ove never read a book. Besides being a quite educated person, Sonja was a beautiful woman who can choose any man. But for some reason she chose Ove. The author says that she chose him because he had looked at her like no one before, that she saw at him something real and sincere though Ove almost had never spoken. He spoke only when he needed to complain or whine about somebody or something that had broken some of his rules. As we can see he was kind of a bore. And he had nothing in common with his wife. I think that Sonja, like the majority of women, chose him just because she wanted to have by her side a responsible and reliable man. It always seems safe. Is it right? I think it's a matter of personal choice. So finally, the meeting of Ove with his Persian neighbor fully changed his life. He started to pay attention to the people around him and he changed his mind to commit suicide. So in summing up, I want to say that Ove, of course, couldn't be a role model, but at the same time, you could find some of Ove character traits in yourself, and then you could use the Ove's recipe how to change yourself.
La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano (1998)
And he decided to stay.
It's an amazing story about an unordinary man who was born on the liner which became his only place for living. So as we can see from the very beginning his life was really fascinating. But the most interesting thing concerns his gift playing the piano. Being a child he heard the sounds of the wonderful instrument that is called the piano, since then he started breathing by the instrument. He just needed once to hear any melody and he could repeat it without any mistakes. But also he was an amazing improviser he played real jazz and it was astonishing. So over the years, he had spent on that liner he became a part of the boat. But once he met the girl who was crossing the ocean on the liner. And he felt something he never felt. And he understood that to be with her he needs to leave the boat where he'd been living for all his life and he had never set foot on land. So he decided to quit and follow that girl but at the last moment just before the staircase, he changed his mind and stayed. His friend who worked seasonally over there was watching the scene but he never asked the reason the pianist stayed. After years, the liner was supposed to be demolished being blown up. And the last moment his friend came onto the liner and trying to save the pianist, finally, he finds him but the last denied to leave the boat and at the ending, he told him why changed to leave the liner many years ago when he almost did the final step to quit the boat. He told him that he looked at the city on the horizon and imagined all streets over there. And he understood that it would be necessary always to make the choice what street, road, house, shop, etc. to chose. And he was strongly stumped by that. He could not understand how people could do so many choices in their lives. So he decided to stay on the boat...
San wa (2005)
Ultimate fidelity.
I watched this movie more than ten years ago so I decided to rewatch it and while I was watching it the second time I was more attentive to details. I may confess that when I saw the movie the first time my mind was just blown up so it was amazing for me but for the second time I noticed some flaws and gaps. But first things first. Most of all I liked the song and the main idea of the movie. The song, btw, was performed by Jackie Chan. I learned that the scenario was borrowed from the ancient Chinese legend and it's really beautiful. The plot is revolving around the man called Jack who is a noble and honest man. But recently he's started to see strange dreams in which he's a general Meng Yi and he protects the princess named Ok-Soo. After all, it turned out that Jack was a kind of reincarnation of the general. So his mission in the past was to save the princess, and he did it successfully but the price of that was his own life. To be safe the princess had to drink an elixir which made her immortal. So from then on, she was waiting for the general deep down in the mountain which was special and had a unique climate that was proper for living. The princess didn't know that the general, while he was sending an elixir to her, was killed and the girl, being unaware of that, has been waiting for him until nowadays. So Jack who was the reincarnation of the general finally finds her. But instead of being together with Jack, the princess after having learned that he's not the general pushed him away and decides to stay waiting for the man from the past. So I don't understand why she didn't believe Jack and decided to wait for the man who never would come to her because he was killed several centuries ago. Maybe it shows us the idea of ultimate fidelity I'd say even fanatic fidelity. But I suppose that somehow it makes some sense even we can't understand it fully.
Sseul-sseul-ha-go cha-ran-ha-sin-do-ggae-bi (2016)
About life and death.
It's an amazing series that really touched my heart. The main topic of the series is a relationship between life and death and of course, it's not literally. The two protagonists of the series are the goblin who became immortal about one thousand years ago and the grim reaper who was a man that lost his memory and due to that, he was chosen to become a grim reaper. So during all episodes, we can see how the grudge between them since they first met slowly turned into a friendship. Now and then we are shown scenes where grim reaper takes souls of dead people and escorts them to the afterlife only if souls pass life's test. But if souls didn't pass then he gave them a special tea that erased their memories and made them reborn and this was their actual punishment. And I think that it makes sense... So the goblin was only able to die and go to the afterlife in the case he was loved by a mortal girl. And there's an interesting moment about goblin's immortality, the first couple of centuries it was good and interesting for him but further, it was getting torturous and tiring. So he started seeking a girl who would be able to love him. But there was one detail, one nuance... It should have been a special girl, the girl that would be able to see a sword in his chest. Btw, it's the same sword by which he was killed before he became immortal. So nobody was able to see the sword but only the special girl who would love him. So the main intrigue was next when he met her, of course, he loved her and he changed his mind about death. So he decided to live but like I said before the girl was special and could continue to live only in case the goblin's death. So one of them must die... I liked the plot of the series and the ending was really adequate without any fairy tale. So it was about their choices and a sense of life.
Geugeotmani nae sesang (2018)
Love and forgiveness.
This movie is about grudge and forgiveness, about pain and love.
This film isn't about music, but about something that flows into our hearts through music. I don't want to talk about the script or music in this movie. But I want to share with you one moment that probably would be missed by the majority of people who will watch the film. It's about Jo-ha and his mother. About the grudge that Jo-ha felt and the guilt that his mother felt. When he was a child she left him with his drunk father and began to live with another man. So Jo-ha couldn't forgive her for what she did. And all his life he has been bearing that feeling in his heart. But actually, he didn't know that the very evening she left him she was determined to commit suicide because her drunk husband punched her every day and she succumbed... So she was about to jump from a bridge when she had met her future husband who stopped her. So what I want to say is that if we are moved by our egoism then we don't take care of other people despite everything. I mean even if Jo-ha was given the choice to let his mother go to another man or to jump from the bridge, I'm sure that his selfish character would have chosen the latter option. But besides all this, it turned out that Jo-ha had a younger autistic brother who played the piano so a real miracle came into their lives...love and forgiveness...
Lost (2004)
A real story of becoming alive...
I feel something special about this series, something really intimate. It's not about its script it's something much more dipper and for me, the essence of that feeling embodied in Desmond who is one of the protagonists. It shows that there's actually nothing fixed and permanent, and the time that's surrounded us is just one of the illusions which we need to get rid of. And it's al absolutely fair it's up to us to ascend to something real and eternal. I supposed that the creators of the series since the start were trying to show the struggle between two men, Jack Shephard and John Lock. Jack was a man of rationalism and John was a man of a miracle. But for me, it didn't work I mean both of them. I don't agree with all events that had a place at this show but I think that it's the most advantage of the series that you can find and pick up exactly what's close to you. So as I said before my choice was Desmond. It's a man who just except life without any requirements and expectations and it's the only person who didn't see any contradictions between John and Jack. He was able to accept both of them simultaneously without any questions. So, in summary, I want to say that it's a real story of becoming alive and losing all our illusions.
Gwang-hae, wang-i doin nam-ja (2012)
It's just a game of vanity...
It's an amazing movie that I discovered just recently. It's a kind of unique movies that you can't find frequently. I was perplexed by the idea of the film. I have to say that I believed everything that was going behind the screen and if you don't know me I should say that I'm a skeptical kind of man. So the script is the next. The king was poisoned and till he recovered his place was secretly taken by the commoner who looked just like the king. As they say, if you want to check somebody give him power. But the 'new king" passed that test and really showed himself as a real human unlike the real king who was spoiled by the power. But most of all I liked the end of the movie. When the commoner was offered to stay at the position of the king and replace the real king. But he refused to be a king because he had already realized that to be a king it has nothing with being a human but just a game of vanity.
Siddhartha (1972)
And he found it...
Sometimes you can't understand where you should go, what is your final way which will have led you to a place where you can dissolve in harmony and Siddhartha was seeking. He was trying to find an answer to the question that was inside his heart. So he tried everything that he could find to try and it was knowledge, miracles, austerity, money, a woman, and even fatherhood. And every time it became empty and he just moved on... Finally, fully disappointed he left everything he approached behind his back and just went away having nothing. So he was walking just forward, like a ship in the ocean without direction. And one day he met a mere ferryman by a river. I have to say that once many years ago Siddhartha already passed this man but at that time he couldn't notice the gold under the battered cloth of the ferryman. So this time he stayed with him and started just listen to the river not having any goal he just stopped seeking and searching. And he found it...
Life of Pi (2012)
An amazing adaptation of the book.
I both have read and watched the "Life of Pi". So I have some extended experience with this masterpiece of art. And I should say that Ang Lee's screen version of the book is fascinating. It's that rare case when I can say that I'd even prefer the movie to the book. The director made it unbelievable. He somehow contrived to express and convey even that wasn't told in the book. I suppose he had a really close relation to the Yann Martel writing.
From the beginning, reading how Pi could find God at any religion meanwhile not seeing any contradictions between them showed that Pi wasn't an ordinary boy. So he was destined to pass through a huge ordeal and finally to get a unique experience. All people, nature, and animals were intertwined around Pi. There was no doubt that the ocean on one side and the tiger on the other side were two parts of Pi's soul which he finally connected during that amazing journey. For me, the most amazing moment of the movie and the book was the separation of Pi and Richard Parker when the tiger runs away into the jungle. It was a crucial moment for Pi. I think right at that moment he united himself and defeated his inner fear.
Wo hu cang long (2000)
The reason to jump down from the mountain.
You know, this movie is a kind of Asian poetry. It's like a mixture of Zen that is intertwined with Azian martial arts. And first of all, I want to say that to understand and I'd say to feel this movie beside fascinating and picturesque views of the ancient city and bamboo's forest you have to know more about the inner world of the protagonists to get what's exactly behind their actions and intentions. So to get all this fully you need to do your homework before watching this film, otherwise, you'ill only appreciate a visual treasure of this masterpiece of art. Okay back to the movie. I'm gonna write a spoiler so be careful reading the following. I think the main enigma of the movie is the end of it to be more exact the moment in the last scene of the film when Jen Yu had come to the mountain Boutan and met her beloved. So instead of being with him she just jumped down from the mountain to say simpler she made suicide. That's exactly what I want to explain. She did that because she had a pretty free spirit. She never liked to be forced to do anything she didn't want but all her life the people that surrounded her wanted something from her. Jade Fox and Li Mu Bai wanted her to be their disciple. Her parents wanted her to marry a person she didn't love, Yu Shu Lien wanted her to be with her beloved and in turn even her beloved wanted something from her. He wanted her to leave the usual and common life and go with him to the desert. But nobody asked her what she wanted. And the only she desired to be absolutely free and independent. As for me, it was just her immaturity, her own spiritual level. So she wasn't ready to take more responsibility but at the same time after the death of Li Mu Bai she learned the main lesson of her life that's why she ascended the Boutan mountain and after flew away having become free finally. So to conclude, she learned that her place was on the mountain Boutan but she wasn't ready yet to be there but she ascended it, having made it the goal of her next life.
Ojik geudaeman (2011)
This movie inspires people to grow and become better, somebody calls it love...
I was astonished by the girl protagonist of this movie by her strength of spirit and her optimism. Regardless of her blindness and the loss of the parents she smiles like a warm beams of the sun and gives light everyone around her. And each even little thing in your life she tries to transmute into joy. But watching the movie you start to notice that deep down she is a very delicate and sensitive person who tries to be strong outside. I think that she was waiting for her soul mate and when he appears in her life she even being blind at once recognized him. At first sight their union seems unbelievable, he's kind of rude and almost always silent boxer and she's a very intelligent and educated girl. But actually it's only at first sight... because really his rudeness is only a mask and coverage of his deep soul.
This movie has real energy of light which inspires people to grow and become better, somebody calls it love... and I'm sure that it's the most important purpose of our life...