February 11, 2004
2 minute movie reviews
So I recently saw "Lost in Translation", which was definitely a movie worth seeing. Sean dragged me and some others to go see it because he was getting a chubby just thinking about the movie since they put it back in theatres. Anyway, it seems like a lot of people disliked the movie due to the hype, and found that it was not as 'deep' or 'meaningful' as many had said it was. I actually liked the movie, but I don't believe at all it was intended to be deep or meaningful. The story was a fairly simple story, but it was the depth of character interaction that was the important part of the movie.
Both characters find themselves entirely alone in a world that is extremely different from what they know. Somehow they end up finding eachother and, pushed together by the world around them, they begin to become fairly intimate in a non-carnal sense.
I think this is in a way another movie in a genre I might call "moments in life". The movie does not so much focus on a driving storyline or a plot, but focuses mostly upon the interaction between characters in a small period of time. The characters are not one-dimensional characters with easy to spot stereotypes, but rather are entirely flawed and human characters many people could relate to. Watching the movie is not an experience of right or wrong, good versus bad, tragedy or comedy; rather it is simply watching how people deal with a situation that is forced upon them.
All in all, this was a movie worth seeing, and I'd recommend it to most, although some people don't particularly like the idea of watching a movie with 'no point', as some people will say.
I also saw "Big Fish", which was also a very good movie. It had a fairly simple story of a son who grows up listening to his father's tall tales, and when he grows up, realizing they are false, he despises his father for being a liar. Something like that anyway. The movie is funny, bizarre, heart-wrenching, and tear-jerking. I really would rather not say much more about it simply because saying too much will just spoil the movie. It's definitely worth seeing though.
Both characters find themselves entirely alone in a world that is extremely different from what they know. Somehow they end up finding eachother and, pushed together by the world around them, they begin to become fairly intimate in a non-carnal sense.
I think this is in a way another movie in a genre I might call "moments in life". The movie does not so much focus on a driving storyline or a plot, but focuses mostly upon the interaction between characters in a small period of time. The characters are not one-dimensional characters with easy to spot stereotypes, but rather are entirely flawed and human characters many people could relate to. Watching the movie is not an experience of right or wrong, good versus bad, tragedy or comedy; rather it is simply watching how people deal with a situation that is forced upon them.
All in all, this was a movie worth seeing, and I'd recommend it to most, although some people don't particularly like the idea of watching a movie with 'no point', as some people will say.
I also saw "Big Fish", which was also a very good movie. It had a fairly simple story of a son who grows up listening to his father's tall tales, and when he grows up, realizing they are false, he despises his father for being a liar. Something like that anyway. The movie is funny, bizarre, heart-wrenching, and tear-jerking. I really would rather not say much more about it simply because saying too much will just spoil the movie. It's definitely worth seeing though.
# posted by Yann : 10:45
