04122007; Miss Little Sunshine

Such a sunshine I've got from this film today.

Basically, as the time was given, it is about the travelling to participate the girls' beauty peasant in California in the US.

Each individual figure in the film; so Hoover's family, has their own characteristics, which is very very very very very interesting, but which is really truthful and warm.

On the road for the beauty peasant for Olive (a girl), a lot of episodes were made; breaking down the bus, death of the grand dad who ate too much heroines, Olive dad's biz break down etc. But the hope wasn't gone at all. every each time Olive has been a genuine miss little sunshine all the time.

I think this movie has a crucial point to look at from the people in general.

That is the requirement of the commercial and homonised expectation of the society to the people, particularly to the children.

On the actual stage of the beauty peasant, where olive stood up, Olive was not distinctively beautiful from others, but she has her own passion to be the little miss sunshine with such a innocent passions she has.

She wants to be herself, and she has her own freedom to express what she wants to do.

She wasn't be expressed by her parents and by the pressure of the requirement of the society.

But she is such a lovely child to be herself and she exactly knows how to do so.

In some stance, I think the moive has a criticism towards the people in general, and let the audiences show how to be myself through Olive.

Even though Olive and her family were treated as being insane, but I think it's such a damn right thing to do, and give a shot to the aggressive people who made their own standards to demand others to do like them.

Anyway, Olive, I want to say, You are the Miss Little Sunshine for a genuine title of it.

11.Nov: reading the Little Prince and walking along the riverside, norwich

Today, it's sunday.

and, it's 11th of november, and it is my 2nd time to remember the people who died during the 2nd world war in england.

Since I have moved into England, I have had a curiosity about the paper flower badge on many english people especially in late october and november.
at first I thought it was just a simple thing, but for the decoration purpose. I thought it was kind of the thing for charity or donation the money to the children in the bad condition.

But it was not such a definite fact. So I asked to the manager where I work, and she told me that it's for remember the victims by the attacks of bombing at 11, in 11th of November during the second world war, in England.

and when I attended the mass in the morning, I had the time for remember the people who couldn't be expected to live longer, but be ghosts during the 2nd world war.

Then, I left the cathedral, then went to the bookshops to look around the books I was interested in. Most of them were the travel diaries. But I didn't find something very attractive to me, but some books like a woman in 60, she travelled with her own bicycle accross the globe, and it was interesting cover, and I am willing to read that book later on.
and some books about the photo icons of London, and I saw the picture of the Peter Pan's status in Hyde Park in London as well, I want to visit there with my sister in winter.

Afterwards, I stepped forwards to Costa on the London street, and Had a time with a medium caffe latte and an almond croissant.
But more crucially, was being with the Little Prince.

It's my 4th time to read the Little Prince. Once in my mother tough, 2nd, in English translted one, and 3rd time to write and draw the same little prince book to gife to someone else, and it's my 4th time then.

Every time I read the book, I feel and find something new inside. This time I read the book after I read the book about the interpretation of the works by Saint-exupery. So It's like I read the book for the first time.

And, There is a story which The little prince talked to the crashed pilot in the sahara desert; Antoine, an author, himself, The most pleasant thing he likes to do is seeing the sunsets on his plant, sitting the chair. and Once he saw 44 sunsets in a day, with moving his chair.

Well, before I want to go further for decoding the meaning 44, I want to emphasise on it; it's entirely my own opinion and thought.
I think the number 44 means a lot of things to Saint-Exupery.
In his book, 44 means, the times of seeing sunsets to the Little Prince, and it was such a magnificant pleasant, and the memorable day to him.
and 44 is the age which means the author closed the stage of his life in the sky in his own plane,
in 1944.

Personally, 4 is not a good number in my culture background.
This is because 4 means death in Korea.
So some flats don't have the 4th floors, and 4th gates.

Ofcourse I think it's kind of superstition, but it's like the 13th Friday in the western countries.
So it's quite bad thing and bad luck to many koreans.
But, the little prince helps me a little bit to overcome, no to think the number; 44 in a bit more positive way, not such a davasted way which I have been accustomed by the cultural influnence for last 2o years in my life.

So Thanks to my dearest author; Antoine De Saint-Exupery.

Ok, Now I want to write something different.
Today I walked along the riverside of Norwich for the first time since I have moved in norwich from manchester.
Well, to be honest, it was not such a splendid walk side like River avon, or Richmond, but it was ok for a walk a bit to drench myself into the walk path.
Even though the weather was very clumsy to slap my hairs and cheeks again and again, I was ok to walk apart from soaking myself a bit in the rain.

I saw the ducks and the swans, and it was such a good thing to have the view of the Norwich cathedral from the walk path of the riverside.
and I saw very pretty houses along the riverside, and also saw some people who did fishing there.

Anyway, This Sunday wasn't bored with the helps from my discreet companies!

Death at a Funeral

Tonight, I laughed at the screen for nearly 2 hours long without tiredness.

Such a truthful and frank black comedy like the name of the director of the movie; Frank Oz.

The movie starts with the British Humour; something slightly simply fun thing without any exaggeration. But Really heatlhy Smile or laughing you could on your own. Very natural laughing you can give to the screen at the very beginning.

Then this plesant emotion has been evolved gradually during the releasing the film for nearly 120mins in the drak space.

Independent, seperate characters appear differently without any cohesion, but all different episodes related to the movie will be tide up, and made up indeed perfectly.

But, it is seen a little bit like out of control a bit; the plot as itself, like the elements which cause the problems between people; drugs, black mails, etc.. those two sources were the most laughing things to me!!! brilliant!!

However, in terms of visual techinque, I felt like I was watching the British Television Soap, rather than the film. I mean the colour tone of the film wasn't something very distinctive trasparent, but seemed to absorb a lot of water from the actual physical place where the film had been taken in somewhere else in England.

Woo...I can't be further detail on it; the visual thing, but it's definately different the colour tone from Hollywood. Anyway, I don't want to say something more about the film technique things now, to be honest I don't know about the above thing very much.

OK!! What I want to say is it's really worth seeing and feeling them; very nice national movie to reprent of England and furthermore to attract the audieneces in the way of they are doing on the film. :)

Healthy Laughing you could have :)

How often do you find the right person?
Directed, and Written by John Carney (2006)
Starred by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
Ireland Film

The Prologue was very Irish; the accent, and the street singer with the broken Guitar, and the street drunken begger, hidden by 'the Guy', who tried to mugthe guitar bag of the money.
The first glance of the film was already attractive to me, then it went further to make up the story line which is really truthful without any heavy snubby and ridiculous ornaments.

It is based on the love story;
'a Guy' who has the broken heart by his ex-girl friend, and works in his father's hoover fixing store, and frustrated about this musical talent, then just sings on the street without particular aims, but reflect his depression and the blame on himself on his written music.

Suddenly, an immigrant girl from Czech comes along infront of him, and gives him a compliment about his music with such an innocent face, without any shame, and any hesitations.But actually who has the most sadest face hidden by the bright shinning smiley appreance she makes upon her reality.

But most importantly, the songs they created, and performed in the movie, time by time were really treasurable and even after the end of the movie. Then I would like to do keep the emoitional happiness to remember of the film again. So I went to the record shop right after the movie, then bought the OST of Once.

It's not something very spectacular, very stimulant love story. But it's very trustful and very Irish indeed, and also really honesty film which doesn't require to the audiences to chase up the pattern of the movie, but just let us to feel them, and to think about the moment; Once in our lives.

Such an well-made independent Movie from Ireland, and was given the prize of Audience of Sundance International Film Festival.

As the Poster caption proclaimed, this movie is not the one to see only once, but more than once.

Marketa Irglova

Glen Hansard 's Guitar in the film

04092007; April Story

2000, directed by Iwai Shunji.

The duration time of this movie is rather short, so it is classified into the mid-length movie rather than short or long length movie.

This is because it lasts only an hour.

As the movies he (Iwai Shunji) has made, the scenes of the movie is picturesque.
The long path with cherry blossoms with flying petals of the flowers from the trees of the sides; left and right. The way of lighting use of the movie, is not exaggerated or over-used, but very gentle and femine as he used to get it to make all kind of his movies.

As I mention some of the plot of the film, it is about the girl who has just entered the university in Tokyo, called Musasino, from her hometown Hotkaido in Japan.

The girl is very introvert and shy but the reason she applied the university is clear; becoz of her first love, adorable senior student in her high school.

She doesn't talk a lot, the screen is full of the images of her and her surroundings.
And the audiences could feel April of Tokyo with the sunny weather and the cherry blossoms everywhere in Tokyo.

It's just like a short lovely break you could have without any tension.

It might be very boring without spectacle or suspense plot or the wave of the story, but it lasts only one hour.

But personally, I think the films like this, which is very monotous and requires nothing to be evaluated or critisized, are needed to show up to the audiences in the modern society.

Coz the audiences, generally suppressed and under controlled by gigantic hollywood films,
need the break, the pause to feel the lack of innocence and the reality of the film.

200807; Moonlight Express

Directed by Daniel Lee, Hongkong 1999.

Last week, I saw the film; Happy Together by Wang Kar-wai, then I became too much attracted

by Leslie Cheung.

He committed the suicide 3-4 years agon on April Fool's day in HongKong.

At that time, I was such slightly shocked then I didn't realise how the great actor he was while

he was being alive.

So from that time; I saw Happy Together, I have become crazy to search his video clips and the movie which he was on. Then finally I found this movie then watched it 3 times already.

-Plot-

Simply it is about Love.

To be a bit more specified, it is a bit tragic love story crossed the borders with some thrilled action pictures on the film. ah,, and I think it could be explained as sort of National movie as well; Back ground of the movie is in Hongkong.

A Japanese girl (Hitomi) had such a nice relationship with her fiancee in Japan, and they promised to get marry soon and moved to hongkong to live on.

However her fiancee (Tasuya) was killed by the car accient; personally it was a bit weird, he made the mistake by himself to grasp the mobile phone on the back seat in the car while he was driving on the road anyway.

Unfortunately, she lost her fiancee, then such got stucked in the memories of him after she

was soley survived from the accident. Then she flew over to Hongkong to step on his previous

life in the new place by herself.

Very very cinematically the man; Kar-bo was turned up infront of the lift in the hotel then she

was being malfunction temporarily to just stare at him due to his appreance is exactly ressemble of her previous fiancee. But Kar-bo is another person, not her

fiancee, and more dramatically he was the undercover spy to dig out the secrets and the hide

finances etc of the mafias in Hongkong.

Another Love story between Kar-bo and Hitomi was films on in the movie.

-Opinion-

I guess the age of Leslie Cheung was nearly 45 at that time in 1999 when he was in the movie.

But looks gorgeus, still so attractive.

Even though he acted the solitary person as the spy and also very violent and blunt, but his own

characters; lovely, cuteness was not gone at all in any movie he was performed.

Plus, very modernised and priceless places in Hong Kong as well. It was another impact to make

the movie much more sophisticated in terms of aura.

Even though we can't see the new movie which Leslie is going to be performed.

But his left works were such a gracious and treasurable to keep watching again and again.

Well, the movie as itself was not that fresh something very revolutionary in terms of artisitic

aspects etc, but the attraction of two actors, expecailly Leslie Cheung,, the impact of him was

so huge and gigantic to spread on the film.

170807; The Bourne Ultimatum

I didn't mean to go to the cinema to see this movie on last Friday.

However, Noot wanted to see the movie suddenly, then we searched the internet to get the

information about the movies and the times in here, Norwich, Odeon.

Anyway, It was ok.

Personally I didn't see the 1st and the 2nd series of the Bourne Series; it sounds like 007; James

Bond? :)

Anyway, I could see the movie as the typical CIA American snubby spy movie and very old

less attractive Mat Damon. whew... he looks quite old with quite deep winkles on his forehead.

So far, at last it reminded me Tureman Show which Jim Carrey acted on several years ago.

Anyway, it was just for fun to release your tensions or stresses with watching abundant actions

scenes.