Thursday, August 20, 2015
Monday, June 29, 2015
'"THE AGE OF ADALINE (2015) MOVIE REVIEW. Everything fades, so does Beauty.
HERE’S a blistering portrayal of a BEAUTIFUL WOMAN who’s on an anonymous run and who finally muster the COURAGE to confront the DARKNESS of the WORLD that engulfs her.
Adaline, through a supernatural consternation, has remained 29 for nearly a century. It’s great to be forever young. Right?
This romantic fantasy film is specially designed to set female hearts aflutter. Do bring along your hankie just in case, as the narrative rolls on, you will feel a tug at your heartstrings. You might cry.
“AM I IN LOVE THIS TIME?”
In order to protects her identity, she bolts and lives a solitary existence until unexpectedly, the love she hungers for comes knocking and things start to go awry.
HAPPILY EVER AFTER? or NOT?
“I AM THIS PROFESSOR’S AGE ACTUALLY.”
THE FAMILY RALLIES AROUND FOR EMOTIONAL SUPPORT.
“The AGE of ADALINE” (2015) Movie Review.
This romantic fantasy film is specially designed to set female hearts aflutter. Do bring along your hankie just in case, as the narrative rolls on, you will feel a tug at your heartstrings. You might cry.
It’s “all kinds of beautiful” in terms of lavish production values with an award winning performance from Blake Lively who brings applause to the lead character Adaline.
Adaline, through a supernatural consternation, has remained 29 for nearly a century. It’s great to be forever young. Right?
In order to protect her identity, she bolts and lives a solitary existence until unexpectedly, the love she hungers for comes knocking and things start to go awry.
The movie is about a woman who develops the uncanny ability to remain forever young.
The film focuses on her, almost as a metaphorical character study, on how the major events and emotions of her life are affected by her condition.
Her daughter grows older than her. She avoids love for fear of death and loss. And, she’s always on the move.
There is a lingering fear in her that one day, the man in her dream shows up, and things will start to change.
“The Age of Adaline” is fashionably directed by Lee Toland Krieger who has probably splurged a fortune to create the vintage fashionista look for the Adaline character. The end result is: she looks absolutely stunning.
The film stars Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman,Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew,Harrison Ford, andEllen Burstyn.
Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively) is seen purchasing fake IDs at an apartment in San Francisco. She goes home to her apartment where her dog greets her. During her 107 years of being alive, she has raised the same kind of dog over and over again. She notes that she is late for work at the downtown library’s office of archives.
While working, she opens a film reel and her life is explained. She was born on New Year’s Day in 1908, got married, had a child, and became a widow. One night, an unexplainable snow began to fall as she was driving to her parents’ house. She suffers a car accident/lightning strike combination that causes her to remain 29 years old forever. As her daughter Flemming grows older, it becomes apparent that Adaline is not aging. One day she is pulled over by a cop, who takes away her ID as it says she is in her late 40s.
One night, she is walking home when two FBI agents put her in a car and try to take her on an airplane. She escapes and decides she will spend her life running. She explains this to Flemming, and they have a heartfelt goodbye. At present day, she adds a cosigner to her bank account and has a flashback to when she opened the account. She had invested in Xerox, and it has paid off well. She is planning to leave soon to live in Oregon.
On New Year’s Eve, she enters the hotel to a party where she meets Ellis Jones (Michiel Huisman). Sparks fly …..
You have to catch the movie for the nail-biting suspenseful finale.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Local Distributor: GSC MOVIES
Saturday, June 13, 2015
LONELINESS versus SOLITUDE.. SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO TRAVEL THIS PATH ALONE.
Loneliness can kill, This ailment can be Brutally Overwhelming if left untreated.
Read hard into the lines of this popular vintage song “WE ARE ALL ALONE” and you will envision what loneliness can do to damage the unprepared soul:
“Outside the rain begins
And it may never end
So cry no more
On the shore, a dream
Will take us out to sea
Forever more, forever more
Close your eyes and dream
And you can be with me
‘Neath the waves
Through the caves of ours
Long forgotten now
We’re all alone,
we’re all alone ….”
LONELINESS is one big, ugly word. No one can escape from it.
It stabs you deep with a sinking feeling, bringing along a strange sense of foreboding.
You can be oh-so-lonely, even in the midst of a swelling crowd.
You can certainly be lonely when no one understands you, much less want anything to do with you.
You can meet a special someone and suddenly this sense of loneliness assails you.
It saps into you like a physical pain because you long to be with that person all the time. Yes, absence makes the heart grow fonder.
LONELINESS is a salient, crushing word.
It gnaws at your heart inciting a tinge of apparent hopelessness.
There’s only so much work you can do to paint a vivid landscape of abject loneliness.
A painter can dabble with a thousand hues.
A poet can put a special burn to the sunrise and the solitude.
But will all these effectively eradicate the illusion that we are not alone?
Every one gets lonely, now and then, for different reasons.
Some turn to friends, relatives or seek solace in prayers.
Whatever it can be, we just have to deal with the destructive power of loneliness. We are born alone and die alone.
Only divine friendships can see us through.
Mother Teresa had long advised us that the most terrible poverty is loneliness, the feeling of being unloved.
The eternal quest of a human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Sure, there are those who put up walls not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break these wall down.
As the old song says, “WE ARE NOT ALONE.”
Monday, June 8, 2015
"LOVE IS ...." (2015) THAI MOVIE REVIEW. Three Cannot Play the Game of Love.
TRUE LOVE, by definition, is complex, multi-layered and what have you.
Didn’t Shakespeare teach us that the path of true love never will run smooth?
“LOVE is ….” (2015) THAI MOVIE REVIEW. A Complicated Love Triangle.
TRUE LOVE, by definition, is complex, multi-layered and what have you.
Didn’t Shakespeare teach us that the path of true love never will run smooth?
Love in all its abstract structure, is also a many-splendored thing. Believe it.
It will come aknocking at your doorstep when you least expect it, and it is liken to a pandora’s box of surprises.
Strip away the outer wrapping, you may savor apparent sweetness that is both lyrical and passionate.
Upon probing further you may uncover a lost love that has gone awry, marred by nosy parental objections with their old fashioned values.
PLOT:
We have Ah Wei, a pure bred Thai Chinese man.
And his best friend Kamol, a true-blue bohemian city dude.
Both suitors are charming, and both are clamoring for the affection of Ah Ching, a sweet teacher who lives in a Chinese Yunnan community within the Ma Salong Valley.
The villagers there are simple-minded.
During their spare time they revel in folk-dances, swaying to the tune of the late Taiwanese songstress Teresa Tang’s songs such as “The Moon Represents my Heart” or “The Darkening Skies tell us the Rain is Coming”.
The friendship of the two friends is tested when they start to woo Ah Ching.
Even Ah Wei, with his selfish nature, is already engaged to be married to Siew Ping. The more wives the merrier, he thinks.
But Ah Ching chooses Kamol and here is where the sparks fly.
Prior to Kamol and Ah Ching`s engagement party, Kamol is unfortunately involved in a car accident and has completely lost his eyesight.
Ah Wei takes the opportunity to muster his self -confidence so that he can win Ah Ching back.
But will this mindless merry-go-round really make Ah Wei happy?
Ah Wei finally begins to wonder if all the consternation he created and left behind has jeopardized his friendship with all his loved ones.
“LOVE IS …” is a moving , well-crafted story of a brotherly bond and the hapless emotions between two bosom buddies.
There is a metaphorical fine line that draws them together and the same line that rips them apart.
It’s worth a watch.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Local Distributor: GSC MOVIES
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
MOVIE: " MURMURS of MY HEART".
LISTEN! CAN'T YOU HEAR THE MURMUR OF MY HEART?
LISTEN!
Can you not hear the distant sound of the sea waves clashing strongly against the rocks, crying the lonesome murmurs of my heart?
(inspired by Sylvia Chang’s art house movie “Murmurs of the Heart.”)
Sunday, May 17, 2015
“GHOST COINS” THAI MOVIE REVIEW (2015) เกมส์ปลุกผี (鬼铜). ARE THE SCARES FOR REAL IN THIS GAME OF DEATH?
THE SKY IS AN ANGRY ORANGE WITH GROWLING CLOUDS. Did you not hear the spirits howl?
YOU DARE STEAL MY GOLD COIN? I CHALLENGE you to play THE GAME OF DEATH!
THESE ARE NOSY KIDS lured by the get-rich scheme of deviously robbing the dead of their possessions.
CAN you hear the BANSHEE wail? It signifies a BAD OMEN.
The UNEARTHLY SILENCE of the GRAVEYARDS gives me the CREEPS.
The SPIRITS claim yet ANOTHER VICTIM. It’s BLOODY!
COME ON OUT! I am NOT AFRAID of YOU!
“GHOST COINS” THAI MOVIE REVIEW (2015) เกมส์ปลุกผี (鬼铜)
BE WARNED that this is a NASTY MOVIE, with its SENSELESS SPREAD of BUTCHERY AND GORE.
If blood is a subject matter that will keep you on edge, then don’t ever miss out on this film.
Basically the plot deals with karmic forces with demonic revenge returning a thousandfold, after teenage pranksters trap their bosom buddy in a graveyard, not after stealing a gold coin from the mouth of a corpse.
This group of teenagers are consumed by greed and pay no heed to deathly warnings.
A Thai belief instructs relatives to put coins in the mouths of the dead for the afterlife process.
But these stubborn teenagers even rob corpses’s money which are stuck in their lifeless mouths. The corpses are decaying and swarmed by maggots. Disgusting.
You bet revenge arrives swift and sweet, clamoring after the irresponsible culprits who are unaware they are toying with fire.
PLOT
Ton and Jack are two students who have a terrible devil-may-care reputation for producing “just for fun” mindless video clips in which they challenge superstitious beliefs.
As their viral clips gain more views, they get bolder and increase the intensity of their pranks.
They deviously scheme to kidnap the unsuspecting Tor, Ton’s younger brother for jest, and bring him into a cemetery to avenge a wrong he’s done to Bee, a woman whom Jack is also in love with.
Ton and Jack carry out their plan.
They take Tor into the cemetery and handcuffed him to a corpse.
When the two practical jokers find a dried-up skeleton, they notice a shiny gold coin in its mouth.
Ton gets greedy and steals the gold coin – suddenly, the corpse stirs.
Ton is frightened and as he starts running, he sprains his ankle and collapses to the ground.
Tor is shocked and about to run away too, but at that moment Ton handcuffs his brother’s hand with his own.
Together, they flee for dear life as the vengeful ghost chase closes upon them.
It is sheer pandemonium for here.
Ton and Tor are forced to escape in the dark, as Jack and everyone run in different directions.
But what all of them will witness later is a real nightmare they’ll never forget – but only if they can leave the cemetery alive.
GENRE
Horror
RUNNING TIME
96 minutes
DIRECTOR
Tiwa Moeithaisong
CAST
Rhatha Phongam, Thanayong Wongtrakul, Hataichat Eurkittiroj, Namo Tonggumnerd.
SYNOPSIS
There is a belief in Thailand which requires relatives to put coins inside the mouth of the deceased so that they can move on to the afterlife in wealth and pomp. However, there is a group of reckless teenagers who keep stealing the gold coins from the deceased.
Consumed by their own greed, the teenagers then set out to steal from a millionaire’s corpse who had a mouthful of gold coins and their action somehow angers the dead man.
Later, the group of teenagers then encounter various horrifying situations as the spirits of the man returns to haunt them.
FOOTNOTE:
THE PROMOTIONAL PICTURES CONJURE GRUESOME SPOOKS. None of these depicted scenes can be seen in the actual movie.
Has Thai bloody slaughter house films lost their luster?
You go guess!
RATING: 3 out of 5
LOCAL DISTRIBUTOR: GSC MOVIES
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
A DOG IS A MAN'S BEST FRIEND. No Question about It.
ME and YOU and a Dog called NICO. Shall I say More?
His name is NICO.
He’s my 1 Year-old pooch.
He has a cute pinkish nose.
“I am as sexy as BRAD ARMPIT,” he woofs.
I am sitting all ALONE on this LONG and LONELY road.
NICO can squint his eyes to look ever-so-soulful.
NICO demonstrates his “pleading” look whenever he is caught doing something naughty.
PEEKABOO, GUYS!
I LOVE THE SUNSHINE !
BEST WISHES for any forthcoming event, DEAR FRIENDS.
HERE we are, Master and Pooch … ENJOYING THE CLOSENESS OF A DOGGONE JOLLY LIFE
I love thinking, immersing myself in my chain of thoughts, therefore I am.
Rant, exploit, obsession, you name it.
I have been through them all, and still return in one piece.
Now, here’s a penny for your thoughts.
Try sitting in the middle of a long, lonely road and look far ahead.
The horizon seems limitless, unfathomable, so out-of-reach.
It’s like you are frantically stretching out your hands, trying to attain something, yet it fraudulently slips away.
It is only humane to put on that brave front,
And smile your warmest smile,
Here’s looking at you, CHUM.
Tomorrow can always be better.
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