A lot of people say they like the Korean version, but I like Yann Samuel's version better. His whimsical style in directing which he used in Jeax d' enfants still shows in My Sassy Girl.
Sometimes we date people because they resemble the one we like so much but we never truly had. Perhaps, we look for the next best thing. Or we just romanticize the idea of "what if it was him"
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
Water
I asked some widowers I know why they never remarried, and most of them answered that they enjoy being single. Marriage and being single should be a personal choice. I strongly believe that it should not be dictated by society, culture or government.
*****Synopsis: Hindu customs dictate that widows, considered half-dead after the loss of their husbands, must be closeted in holy ashrams--a practice that still exists today. Set in the 1930s, the film tells the story of eight-year old Chuyia, whose husband dies before she even meets him. And Kalyani whose forbidden romance with a young Brahmin man, a follower of Gandhi, has denounced injustice.
*****Synopsis: Hindu customs dictate that widows, considered half-dead after the loss of their husbands, must be closeted in holy ashrams--a practice that still exists today. Set in the 1930s, the film tells the story of eight-year old Chuyia, whose husband dies before she even meets him. And Kalyani whose forbidden romance with a young Brahmin man, a follower of Gandhi, has denounced injustice.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Hors de prix (Priceless)
Honestly, I wouldn't go for a guy just on looks alone. He's got to have the whole package: chemistry, looks, intelligence and success. He doesn't have to be filthy rich, but I think all women, no matter how modern she is, still believe that men should pay for the bill. Well, at least on the first few dates.
*****Synopsis: Through a set of wacky circumstances, a young gold digger mistakenly woos a mild-mannered bartender thinking he's a wealthy suitor.
*****Synopsis: Through a set of wacky circumstances, a young gold digger mistakenly woos a mild-mannered bartender thinking he's a wealthy suitor.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Harrison's Flower
I would do the same thing as Andie Macdowell did: search her husband, an award-winning photojournalist missing in war-torn Yugoslavia.
A must see movie.
*****Synopsis: Harrison Lloyd has gotten one last assignment, in war-torn Yugoslavia, in 1991, at the height of the fighting. Word comes back that he apparently died in a building collapse, but his wife Sarah (also a journalist for Newsweek) refuses to believe that he's dead and goes looking for him.
A must see movie.
*****Synopsis: Harrison Lloyd has gotten one last assignment, in war-torn Yugoslavia, in 1991, at the height of the fighting. Word comes back that he apparently died in a building collapse, but his wife Sarah (also a journalist for Newsweek) refuses to believe that he's dead and goes looking for him.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Love in the time of cholera
The bible says love is patient. For Florentino, it's very, very patient. But the question is: how long would you wait for love?
I read the book when I was in grade school, I didn't like it because I couldn't understand it then, and I still couldn't understand it now. I respect Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but I really don't understand love's waiting game. I know some people would even go through great lengths like following the person to a different country just to be close. I believe, however, that man should draw the line between love and obsession.
The movie for me just made me cringe. As New York Times says Florentino, the greatest fool, is "both the embodiment of passion ennobled by suffering and a ridiculous clown afflicted with the disease of passion, for which cholera is a pungent metaphor."
*** Synopsis: Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.
I read the book when I was in grade school, I didn't like it because I couldn't understand it then, and I still couldn't understand it now. I respect Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but I really don't understand love's waiting game. I know some people would even go through great lengths like following the person to a different country just to be close. I believe, however, that man should draw the line between love and obsession.
The movie for me just made me cringe. As New York Times says Florentino, the greatest fool, is "both the embodiment of passion ennobled by suffering and a ridiculous clown afflicted with the disease of passion, for which cholera is a pungent metaphor."
*** Synopsis: Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.
Love actually
Enjoyable film, but if you don't get to follow through, it gets confusing. And that's about 10 persons love life. I can't remember the story of the other nine lives anymore, however, I remember Keira Knigthly's - I guess, I like her story the most.
****Synopsis: The characters are falling in love, falling out of love, some are with right people, some are with the wrong people, some are looking to have an affair, some are in the period of mourning; a capsule summary of reality. Love begins and love ends. They flirt a lot. They are all flirting with love. At all ages and social levels, love is the theme. Romantic love and brotherly love is the hotchpotch through out the movie.
****Synopsis: The characters are falling in love, falling out of love, some are with right people, some are with the wrong people, some are looking to have an affair, some are in the period of mourning; a capsule summary of reality. Love begins and love ends. They flirt a lot. They are all flirting with love. At all ages and social levels, love is the theme. Romantic love and brotherly love is the hotchpotch through out the movie.
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