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Soshite chichi ni naru (2013)
Relationship matters
It's story of exchanging kid between two families. Accidentally, during their birth, kids were swapped between two families. Before entering the elementary school, due to medical check up, it revealed. Then two family start to negotiate among them and so on. But it's not that easy to say a 6 year old kid that they are no more their parents and he has to call "papa-mama" to someone else. At some point it turn out that to accept the truth is the hardest part in this world. And it's not true for only grown up, but for kids too. Adjustment to new surrounding and new people may be much more easier for a kid, but when we talk about changing the core relationship, it's not that adjustable.
True masterpiece from Hirokazu Koreeda.
Ballada o soldate (1959)
Soldiers journey transcended everything
Everyone should wish it his or her last film in life before taking the last breath as it's enough to awaken the greatest realization in life that we are riding in a train like the soldier with a destination. On the way we make love and on the same way we lose him or her, because this "temporal world" is the place for all sort "transient relationship". We are running after so many valuable stuffs like catching soap bubble in the staircase like heroine.
Time to time the film will put you reality and also in romantic fantasy. It's a phenomenal experience. "Thirst" for love will keep you waiting and admitting that you are in love without saying a single word. Trust me!
In you life you'll also realize that some people are not worth of any gift like the soldier depicted here. On the other and, some people worth more than you are going to sacrifice for them, which was depicted through the one legged soldier.
In some part of your life, you are just a "hero", who has transcended everyone and everything. But, in the next place, you'll find yourself as asshole, because this is how life works out and, you and me no exception of it as we are under the normal distribution at the end of the day.
Ilo Ilo (2013)
"Relationship" has own "language"
Nobody around us owns the title of a relationship, whatever the relationship between children and parents, romantic partners, siblings and whatsoever. Ilo Ilo depicts a strange relationship between a young boy,lonely as his parents are busy making money and support family, and a maid, also left her young boy to her sister to another country and come to Singapore for earning. Boy shows as a naughty one, but keep in mind, no one comes this world with "evil" heart. Less of care and loneliness bought those stuffs inside him.
Most striking stuffs was that LUCK has it's own way to treat people. The boy found the pattern for lucky number to won the ticket, which only works for his school teacher, but not for him when he was badly needing that money.
You don't have to make relationship by force or by any precedent connections. It builds through "love",goes by "love", ends for "love". Nothing else may exit for time being, but surely not persist.
Piled Higher and Deeper (2011)
"Life is Good" at Grad school!!!
Although the story line was based on the life of grad students, but surely you are not gonna feeling lost, if you are not a grad student! Majority, approximately 42%, of the students left grad school without having a degree. It sounds really weird as the most academically sound students go for higher education and found their place in grad school. The thing that strikes me most as all the grad students come up with a dream that they are going to change the world with their ground breaking research and their name will be on the front wall of history for their contributions to mankind. But the system of graduate school let them forget that they are missing the "key". If education is the "key" to "success", then where's that "key". It's nothing but the self- enthusiasm for your research topic. At the end of the film, two major characters, Winston & Cecilia, found that if you are not change yourself outside the "norm" of your system, how will you change the whole world one day? Otherwise, you can't change the next person of you! Watch this film for self realization & try to believe that "Life is Good" after all those actions and deeds, whatever or however we like it or not!