Reminds me of the Cary Grant and Betsy Drake's "Room for One More" (1952) it's realistic, funny, and human...what a great movie!
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5 Reviews
Roma
(2018)
it's no Fellini
12 December 2018
Nice but boring (except for the ending and the lone plane flying overhead throughout the movie). Conscientious, well-intentioned, but no Fellini. Not even as moving as its two predecessors: "Ilo Ilo" (2013) and "A Simple Life" (2011).
a film of love
3 October 2009
I absolutely love it! Extraordinary human stories behind the extraordinary beauty. Couldn't help watching it twice every night this week, thanks to WCMU, who broadcast each episode twice. Think I might catch it the third time in this weekend's marathon rerun!
What more can I add? I would love to hear Garrison Keillor's voice as he would be the best narrator for our national treasures (of which he is one himself).
Indeed, our National Parks are a place of love, as one commentator said so movingly in the film.
The history of our National Parks has enriched my appreciation of great nature with humanity... Enough talking, let's go to our National Parks now.
What more can I add? I would love to hear Garrison Keillor's voice as he would be the best narrator for our national treasures (of which he is one himself).
Indeed, our National Parks are a place of love, as one commentator said so movingly in the film.
The history of our National Parks has enriched my appreciation of great nature with humanity... Enough talking, let's go to our National Parks now.
Inglourious Basterds
(2009)
This QT yarn is a bore.
6 September 2009
I kept checking my watch in the theater during the movie. Every scene is way too long, not because of its time length, but because the dialogue is blah and the characters are grossly underdeveloped (except the Nazi Col. Jew Hunter).
The fighting and shooting scenes are sloppy: defying logic and lacking grace. I wish John Woo were doing those sequences. Along that thought, I wish Lubitsch were doing the dialogue ("To Be or Not To Be" comes to mind), and Kubrick did the whole movie ("Dr. Strangelove" comes to mind)!
Maybe all this is a big in-joke to you; to me, it's a bad movie I wish I didn't get. Quentin had brilliant ideas to start with, but he fumbled terribly in the execution.
The fighting and shooting scenes are sloppy: defying logic and lacking grace. I wish John Woo were doing those sequences. Along that thought, I wish Lubitsch were doing the dialogue ("To Be or Not To Be" comes to mind), and Kubrick did the whole movie ("Dr. Strangelove" comes to mind)!
Maybe all this is a big in-joke to you; to me, it's a bad movie I wish I didn't get. Quentin had brilliant ideas to start with, but he fumbled terribly in the execution.
Nanking
(2007)
I sigh as a human being
19 January 2008
Warning: Spoilers
My friend asked me if it's hatred that the Japanese soldiers did the unimaginable in Nanking in 1937. I thought of the fall of Paris in 1940. The animosity between the French and the German was deep in history. But, the German soldiers didn't ravish Paris or the Parisians. I don't know what Hitler was thinking???
What the Japanese hold against the Chinese is not hatred but disgust. Despite a major part of the Japanese language (and culture) is borrowed from the Chinese more than a millennium ago, the Japanese are very different from the Chinese. They are neat, clean, organized, disciplined, efficient, and focused. Anything that the Chinese are not. Since the 19th century, many Japanese view the Chinese as rats, subhuman beings. They have no problem killing, raping the subhumans, like they did in Nanking in 1937, and many other occasions.
My friend was puzzled by the smugness showing in those Japanese interviewees in the documentary. I know why. Many Japanese historical samurai stories boast the feat of raping women. Most notably, Miyamoto. Rape is not a sin or something to be shameful about in the spirit of samurai.
I don't hate the Japanese. I'm just wondering when I watch Clint Eastwood's movie "Letters from Iwo Jima". I wonder how much unnecessary blood had been in those Japanese soldiers' hands before the battle of Iwo Jima? How many Chinese civilians had they killed? How many Chinese women had they raped? How many American soldiers had they disembodied and disemboweled?
I don't hate the Japanese. I only question the hundreds of thousands of people who believe the Japanese didn't deserve the atomic bombs in 1945 in order to end WWII.
I don't hate the Japanese. But I don't understand why the WWII criminals are honored in the shrines and worshiped everyday. Maybe they should not have been punished, as killing rats is certainly not a crime.
What the Japanese hold against the Chinese is not hatred but disgust. Despite a major part of the Japanese language (and culture) is borrowed from the Chinese more than a millennium ago, the Japanese are very different from the Chinese. They are neat, clean, organized, disciplined, efficient, and focused. Anything that the Chinese are not. Since the 19th century, many Japanese view the Chinese as rats, subhuman beings. They have no problem killing, raping the subhumans, like they did in Nanking in 1937, and many other occasions.
My friend was puzzled by the smugness showing in those Japanese interviewees in the documentary. I know why. Many Japanese historical samurai stories boast the feat of raping women. Most notably, Miyamoto. Rape is not a sin or something to be shameful about in the spirit of samurai.
I don't hate the Japanese. I'm just wondering when I watch Clint Eastwood's movie "Letters from Iwo Jima". I wonder how much unnecessary blood had been in those Japanese soldiers' hands before the battle of Iwo Jima? How many Chinese civilians had they killed? How many Chinese women had they raped? How many American soldiers had they disembodied and disemboweled?
I don't hate the Japanese. I only question the hundreds of thousands of people who believe the Japanese didn't deserve the atomic bombs in 1945 in order to end WWII.
I don't hate the Japanese. But I don't understand why the WWII criminals are honored in the shrines and worshiped everyday. Maybe they should not have been punished, as killing rats is certainly not a crime.
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