tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12287561784816414042024-03-20T08:07:38.840-07:00YJL's movie reviewsYJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00050730611232052337noreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228756178481641404.post-61806189590331057572023-07-23T18:11:00.003-07:002023-07-23T21:50:18.587-07:00Oppenheimer review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoNURIxNCNWnqPY2Mi7lm5b8AIQ34b9W62cIoDc2lFsLOdAm6Q6xslOsI_5QvbR8k9tR9goG506-Hf8_oiwox5e90dC7QEcjA6bR2got5KbzYZ1BliU-pN4bMtSpMa-eYc6fvPahScn2SNqErqnQutV7f98B1hoqp4hpREJSmr0Z1042aFAGq8d_XZKSHh/s1200/FvUVt3hXgAAxP1H.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="758" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoNURIxNCNWnqPY2Mi7lm5b8AIQ34b9W62cIoDc2lFsLOdAm6Q6xslOsI_5QvbR8k9tR9goG506-Hf8_oiwox5e90dC7QEcjA6bR2got5KbzYZ1BliU-pN4bMtSpMa-eYc6fvPahScn2SNqErqnQutV7f98B1hoqp4hpREJSmr0Z1042aFAGq8d_XZKSHh/w253-h400/FvUVt3hXgAAxP1H.jpg" width="253" /></a></div><p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><i>“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”</i> - a line that crossed Oppenheimer's mind as he witnessed the first detonation of a nuclear fission bomb in the1945 Trinity test.</span></p><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;">Truthfully, I’ve never been a fan of historical films (fell asleep while watching Dunkirk, Nolan’s historical war film in cinema). While I appreciate the effort behind in making them, historical dramas with straightforward narratives tend to have a reputation for being overly long, flat and downright boring. </span></p><p class="yiv0916591874p3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"></span><br style="outline: none;" /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIv453ZLNPPPvqFOGAb2WRZGqYk3QW9peo8x9v73xGjzeY9KGjfzN2id5qWFPT4xMc5N423DGvCwM0goyGUolpGFGxkk7wfUOxk-o9XqUndzGgmt5_X7I5cCVKBxK1MSi8ALOIXOBNXQhmEifQ7d8iemjXOtWJE-MXrbvBmDYhQnxc7Z_I2_V2VozdMmxJ/s953/oppen3.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="953" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIv453ZLNPPPvqFOGAb2WRZGqYk3QW9peo8x9v73xGjzeY9KGjfzN2id5qWFPT4xMc5N423DGvCwM0goyGUolpGFGxkk7wfUOxk-o9XqUndzGgmt5_X7I5cCVKBxK1MSi8ALOIXOBNXQhmEifQ7d8iemjXOtWJE-MXrbvBmDYhQnxc7Z_I2_V2VozdMmxJ/w400-h230/oppen3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="yiv0916591874p3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; outline: none;"></p><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;">But here, Nolan shows how a story can be approached differently, by not just merely trying to depict history, but to engage the audience by using his signature moves: nonlinear storytelling between pre and post WWII time periods and foreshadowing of plot points in between scenes, to slowly bring out Oppenheimer’s life in detail. </span></p><p class="yiv0916591874p3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"></span><br style="outline: none;" /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia4GCh6EATqZtPa8SbPU0E6r3oThgxszXtGub2ejj6xSeBmye_0HiOYs-wamb22y7KikgfQX2XU9GkS4T63tA_SOjwe1M_iw8Dkqj_45_eWQDc1zHsJdyljJwt86VuWjfTzzwJhp61QiL9H8LHJxnEvcf8FnnZknkeDwHnTylywClb6-k5gtOOj9QTSuYN/s992/oppenheimer-1-ht-bb-230717_1689624014242_hpMain_2_16x9_992.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="992" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia4GCh6EATqZtPa8SbPU0E6r3oThgxszXtGub2ejj6xSeBmye_0HiOYs-wamb22y7KikgfQX2XU9GkS4T63tA_SOjwe1M_iw8Dkqj_45_eWQDc1zHsJdyljJwt86VuWjfTzzwJhp61QiL9H8LHJxnEvcf8FnnZknkeDwHnTylywClb6-k5gtOOj9QTSuYN/w400-h225/oppenheimer-1-ht-bb-230717_1689624014242_hpMain_2_16x9_992.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="yiv0916591874p3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; outline: none;"><br /></p><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;">The film has many different story parts interwoven with each other across time, with Oppenheimer being the center of it all: history lesson of his academic and professional years, his romance with Kitty and Jean, against-the-clock nuclear race thriller with the Nazis and Soviet Union during WWII, Lewis Strauss’ political espionage against him, and his morality hangs in the balance after his creation of the atomic bomb.</span></p><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkzGKYR9uIvVNFMBtQyg-Tbgxbz1nHy1fyuATB3ZKr9GhtQfwCG7r_qABoILXtxtD1YU3pQTch6OC3_cGm7ccCB1oJzT-tYX0RmwCqAjM9jFYOTfaYphrg2Nnlu6bnQcohVpAoj1IBxy5LZ0lVXcLOvbIH5Co0OmOwiqz-s6htJZikEgtPXtTlSYVA3uE_/s3074/gf-06457-msg-64baf088cfd2f.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2049" data-original-width="3074" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkzGKYR9uIvVNFMBtQyg-Tbgxbz1nHy1fyuATB3ZKr9GhtQfwCG7r_qABoILXtxtD1YU3pQTch6OC3_cGm7ccCB1oJzT-tYX0RmwCqAjM9jFYOTfaYphrg2Nnlu6bnQcohVpAoj1IBxy5LZ0lVXcLOvbIH5Co0OmOwiqz-s6htJZikEgtPXtTlSYVA3uE_/w400-h266/gf-06457-msg-64baf088cfd2f.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"></span></p><p class="yiv0916591874p3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"></span><br style="outline: none;" /></p><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;">Nolan’s success in making all these work together is truly a remarkable feat. It’s surprisingly interesting to watch how the story unfolds, connecting the dots and elements of the entire plot together. There’s much tension and anticipation to the eventual buildup of the first successful detonation of atomic (nuclear fission) bomb in the history of mankind, especially the moment where Oppenheimer finally reveals to Groves that the chances the Trinity test detonation will destroy the world are "near zero" from mathematical theory. <b><i>Oppenheimer:</i></b> "<i>What do you want from theory alone?" <b>Groves:</b> "Zero would be nice!</i>" The story happens at a fast pace that it doesn’t feel like a 3-hour film.</span></p><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM9K-fKYvdL7TeF0m81Vc638RQTy5LyodcmVSgvxaOkfAVyBqJ2-D3QByYoa2WFVG-laOOSAfxw91hEfF7sUvcELXgKoK4MhKyYyCiUvhj2PWWEhdOIr9ewRsAKy71-hS02MCmJ0CZj2FnNXQ4PmyILPpCksVe9DyFGBTTGcbaHFyOk_04DZc3pV7zNqbI/s679/oppen1.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="679" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM9K-fKYvdL7TeF0m81Vc638RQTy5LyodcmVSgvxaOkfAVyBqJ2-D3QByYoa2WFVG-laOOSAfxw91hEfF7sUvcELXgKoK4MhKyYyCiUvhj2PWWEhdOIr9ewRsAKy71-hS02MCmJ0CZj2FnNXQ4PmyILPpCksVe9DyFGBTTGcbaHFyOk_04DZc3pV7zNqbI/w400-h325/oppen1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"></span></p><p class="yiv0916591874p3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"></span><br style="outline: none;" /></p><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;">Oppenheimer is depicted as a conflicted soul, while bearing guilt of causing 220,000 people (Hiroshima and Nagasaki casualties) died due to his creation, dealing with consequences that came out of The Manhattan Project’s legacy - the immense pressure from others (and own desire as a scientist to discover) the further development of nuclear fission into thermonuclear (staged nuclear fission and fusion) bombs that we have today, together with a thought-out political espionage by Lewis Strauss to discredit and silence his political influence by exposing his communist ties at the same time.</span></p><p class="yiv0916591874p3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"></span><br style="outline: none;" /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoR5QCPqbhQjmK1LylIV-aGvYPGo2beHdmn_sPU546N7AFs7aIQGaeyDDlfAw8DJISpaBlGQXh-ilD3D-dWdIG0SSst30ENTc5LQnjFWDN5rlf90Ku4QRB8m7jEACdqT7Y8LtgAJzgub008xeu2iADUK9d9fszqDv0jwuXFYDNmZO5c-JjOUM0ZNnyjSIj/s768/oppenheimer-robert-downey-jr-3b62592.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="768" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoR5QCPqbhQjmK1LylIV-aGvYPGo2beHdmn_sPU546N7AFs7aIQGaeyDDlfAw8DJISpaBlGQXh-ilD3D-dWdIG0SSst30ENTc5LQnjFWDN5rlf90Ku4QRB8m7jEACdqT7Y8LtgAJzgub008xeu2iADUK9d9fszqDv0jwuXFYDNmZO5c-JjOUM0ZNnyjSIj/w400-h299/oppenheimer-robert-downey-jr-3b62592.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="yiv0916591874p3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; outline: none;"></p><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;">Lewis Strauss is a senior Atomic Energy Commission member who resented Oppenheimer for being publicly humiliated before Congress regarding his opposition to the export of radioactive isotopes to other nations, which Strauss believed had military applications. </span>He was also unhappy of Oppenheimer stood in the way for the development of thermonuclear bombs. <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">He’s trying to get approved by the Senate as secretary of commerce within the government.</span></p><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ31WtA7xhiYJFq5Va1OmofFXkBBXUmTSLfiDtkgca027tx1STU_p0-eBEilhFecFtNyoFmUT5q_FdS0Todsx7QcYYe6T_eML-HJvbM2VpNw3ejg__ZNxxnJCLBsqRipUXGWNYCj-kBim2UY8lYxYWW-OSozy6iI90w8rvHTU9jPZiz_2oSqv_o2GNzxaS/s1200/oppenheimer-cillian-murphy-florence-pugh.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ31WtA7xhiYJFq5Va1OmofFXkBBXUmTSLfiDtkgca027tx1STU_p0-eBEilhFecFtNyoFmUT5q_FdS0Todsx7QcYYe6T_eML-HJvbM2VpNw3ejg__ZNxxnJCLBsqRipUXGWNYCj-kBim2UY8lYxYWW-OSozy6iI90w8rvHTU9jPZiz_2oSqv_o2GNzxaS/w400-h210/oppenheimer-cillian-murphy-florence-pugh.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"></span></p><p class="yiv0916591874p3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"></span><br style="outline: none;" /></p><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;">The film morally examines its characters, while being clear about the far-reaching implications of nuclear weapons and the heavy burden of knowledge that they bear in creating them. This further anchored by solid performances of the amazing talents that involve in this film. Oppenheimer has an impressive A-list cast members such as Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Jason Clarke, Dane Dehaan, Alden Ehrenreich, Gary Oldman and many more, not just Cillian Murphy alone. Nolan is smart in choosing who should he collaborate with in all of his films. Oppenheimer will surely be a movie to be remembered for many years to come.</span></p><p class="yiv0916591874p3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"></span><br style="outline: none;" /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEishbDoxTPI7OcJwhGc-ThhQDUc9n_tjHlVqhOpI5RjhNxWE0bdMlmrAZLciR67hQZgwQo8NhPi0-K2K1P0_mKHmnjlVBP8ZSD_Vr3vGnAvl7DHqFv7YBr1gVVKQZVynCpvkFpLe0AIhLb-1H4b5KETcKG5HbKlMiEc532_ly8SPHcHCiJhU4WiwLsmW8V-/s720/F0Rfs1WaIAAMx9U.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="720" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEishbDoxTPI7OcJwhGc-ThhQDUc9n_tjHlVqhOpI5RjhNxWE0bdMlmrAZLciR67hQZgwQo8NhPi0-K2K1P0_mKHmnjlVBP8ZSD_Vr3vGnAvl7DHqFv7YBr1gVVKQZVynCpvkFpLe0AIhLb-1H4b5KETcKG5HbKlMiEc532_ly8SPHcHCiJhU4WiwLsmW8V-/w400-h238/F0Rfs1WaIAAMx9U.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="yiv0916591874p3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; outline: none;"></p><p class="yiv0916591874p3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"></span><br style="outline: none;" /></p><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"><b>Note:</b> It’s advisable to have basic historical knowledge on WWII, the subsequent Cold War between Soviet union and US prior watching the film to have a full appreciation and understanding on the scientific and political motivations behind the development of the Manhattan project. (Everything can be read from Wikipedia)</span></p><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrUXk3iDfRjdrhBay2EaxK7D9ShOgYvefXRS4OYfUy34EZ-PNJg6ZjVjk9EYxGrzzNvQQftkEl0CzI_C93WKHvCOvG2lUcle4MDCp1fpkoj34XpYW0OSBcSaiKA19jZ7FGsTyb0NZMklb4cYrXqASrspqV1OiBYqALpqharnegX7IlqllHXZKeJsodssdf/s1171/oppen2.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1171" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrUXk3iDfRjdrhBay2EaxK7D9ShOgYvefXRS4OYfUy34EZ-PNJg6ZjVjk9EYxGrzzNvQQftkEl0CzI_C93WKHvCOvG2lUcle4MDCp1fpkoj34XpYW0OSBcSaiKA19jZ7FGsTyb0NZMklb4cYrXqASrspqV1OiBYqALpqharnegX7IlqllHXZKeJsodssdf/w640-h430/oppen2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"></span></p><p class="yiv0916591874p3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"></span></p><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"><b>Oppenheimer. 9/10</b></span></p><p class="yiv0916591874p3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; outline: none;"><b><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"></span><br style="outline: none;" /></b></p><p class="yiv0916591874p3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; outline: none;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="yiv0916591874p3" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; outline: none;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><span class="yiv0916591874s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; outline: none;"><b>My Ratings of Nolan’s past filmography:</b></span></p><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 655px;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tenet<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">8.5/10<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dunkirk<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">6.5/10 - yeah don’t enjoy it,
fell asleep<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Interstellar<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">8/10<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Dark Knight Rises<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">9/10<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Inception<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">9/10 - one of my favourite
movies of all time<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Dark Knight<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">9.5/10 - one of my favourite
movies/trilogy of all time<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Prestige<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">8/10<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Batman Begins<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">9/10<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Insomnia<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">7/10<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Memento<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">8.5/10<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Following<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">8/10<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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</tbody></table><br /><p></p><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><br /></p><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><br /></p><p class="yiv0916591874p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: none;"><br /></p>YJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00050730611232052337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228756178481641404.post-32259287376113468102021-01-02T00:13:00.008-08:002021-01-10T02:19:25.462-08:00Pixar's Soul Review<p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPRf8uiT6YN-2ittG1GQVrEyH_jwhGaavfnZk1zRXGrHTao-m7cZofkNQNf3WQTzp3loahacMiiXpTgxIygN7_th78_vAVtaP81OKIEw33i1WHDGATbiyhzeHaMmPYAdrEjsNGLFT84-lo/s1024/disney-pixar-soul-new.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="848" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPRf8uiT6YN-2ittG1GQVrEyH_jwhGaavfnZk1zRXGrHTao-m7cZofkNQNf3WQTzp3loahacMiiXpTgxIygN7_th78_vAVtaP81OKIEw33i1WHDGATbiyhzeHaMmPYAdrEjsNGLFT84-lo/w530-h640/disney-pixar-soul-new.jpg" width="530" /></a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><i> "<b>A spark isn’t a soul’s purpose!"</b></i><p></p><p><b><i>"Oh, you mentors and your passions. Your purposes, your meanings-of-life. So basic."</i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvehgAXAK8cENdSg9wtSir1eBRhesj3OlYMcPjL0-JdlimG1CpE4HtJ0nENnwog1QXoImB2fKfGCZAKq1PkBf1RuwSgFe-8ByZ5PFn7rLbwLOQ7dSHgNVr1t3OiW4qb9juIzJkvFKXHcOo/s600/0fb7cf438f3df8d44a724155ea651e64b4ad20fb.jpg" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="600" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvehgAXAK8cENdSg9wtSir1eBRhesj3OlYMcPjL0-JdlimG1CpE4HtJ0nENnwog1QXoImB2fKfGCZAKq1PkBf1RuwSgFe-8ByZ5PFn7rLbwLOQ7dSHgNVr1t3OiW4qb9juIzJkvFKXHcOo/w640-h374/0fb7cf438f3df8d44a724155ea651e64b4ad20fb.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>OH GOD, PIXAR! You've made it again! How many films can make you see, feel and wonder what’s the value of day to day, minute to minute of life moments that make up your existence? Exceptionally rare. That's what makes Soul truly a masterpiece. Soul wants you to stop a moment, ponder how you're living your life now. Soul is written and directed by Pete Docter again, who brought us various masterpieces in the past such as <b>Inside Out, Toy Story, Monsters Inc, WALL-E, Up</b>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSBVkVFylvQZtlG5cSPoYsNr2mgfSNCeF7UiWHYaFP-q5uVFTLBf_f6-z8KYD_pb2Q1qR3IprlC07ARlu-ck6vdUhcIe36yLSC-RDHqvEGnbMPfRHkpqWS4elOwwswMI_hYN4xQ_ibf1SJ/s2048/5bf242a8-9129-42c8-901b-2ed84b6b253d-SOUL.jpg" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="2048" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSBVkVFylvQZtlG5cSPoYsNr2mgfSNCeF7UiWHYaFP-q5uVFTLBf_f6-z8KYD_pb2Q1qR3IprlC07ARlu-ck6vdUhcIe36yLSC-RDHqvEGnbMPfRHkpqWS4elOwwswMI_hYN4xQ_ibf1SJ/w640-h269/5bf242a8-9129-42c8-901b-2ed84b6b253d-SOUL.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Pixar's greatest achievement always has been the capability to incorporate themes that hit with both adults and kids, making family movies in the sense that parents can take their kids to these movies, being wowed by the deeper themes within and bizarrely not wanting to leave (not like the feeling where they're just here for the kids for them to enjoy cartoons and have fun).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFOibZXZ9uWBaBaurTFmAtMHm-nbEtxe2AHJvIVRpIWGXNJ8UKOTFL6k7tksJtizxtHBPTyymL66odz0LMK2L82xsuyvvPEbFngiQLzXxACfzUgc7F8uhnS6r22P95WoJX01PFL8fMUdyc/s1200/soul-movie-review-2020.jpeg" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFOibZXZ9uWBaBaurTFmAtMHm-nbEtxe2AHJvIVRpIWGXNJ8UKOTFL6k7tksJtizxtHBPTyymL66odz0LMK2L82xsuyvvPEbFngiQLzXxACfzUgc7F8uhnS6r22P95WoJX01PFL8fMUdyc/w640-h266/soul-movie-review-2020.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Director Pete Docter always shows us things we tend to overlook as we grow older, inspire by imbuing us with imaginations we couldn't possibly expect. Soul introduces two memorable leads from different realms, Joe Gardner and 22, who clash and meet together to embark themselves on an emotional journey that will surely make you pause and ponder the smaller, finer details in life, what you want to do and are you making the right choices to get there.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjreIjtb_BbJxxSZyToFPmvJBJbOuAlPn9E7BRIDHBuZYsJDv5PbbUYfcUaDeCS22VD8k7Xll34x-5NNUQ6OWXQPy2_SAAGjcszOQJl_hIvHZuKS0ciCqvsPKlFLcS8EG7E_KKc1l9VzdtB/s1800/pixar-soul.jpg" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1012" data-original-width="1800" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjreIjtb_BbJxxSZyToFPmvJBJbOuAlPn9E7BRIDHBuZYsJDv5PbbUYfcUaDeCS22VD8k7Xll34x-5NNUQ6OWXQPy2_SAAGjcszOQJl_hIvHZuKS0ciCqvsPKlFLcS8EG7E_KKc1l9VzdtB/w640-h360/pixar-soul.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Joe is a 40 something, part-time music teacher who lives in New York City school who lives in regret as he never had the chance to get his big break as a successful Jazz pianist. 22, an unborn soul, who's already very world-weary without ever having lived yet, doesn't want to be born on Earth, as she puts it: <i>"Don't worry, you can't crush a soul here (cosmic wonderland called the "Great Before"), that's what life on Earth is for..."</i> Joe is the character that asks the real questions the entire time and 22 is the one who shows the answers.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjdhlLVKjF-XNYRqPoTEMqHacGJG3cijEoJGOrqwkeVm_OVTXilHGKY6MU3Oa9_JDvW3uiDOdN7vst2-TtWYditnsDh9sb24PltFdtefRVi-GT4BXZP6NsOEaur8nXfYpCvR1LhVCE5fJ6/s681/Soul.jpg" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="681" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjdhlLVKjF-XNYRqPoTEMqHacGJG3cijEoJGOrqwkeVm_OVTXilHGKY6MU3Oa9_JDvW3uiDOdN7vst2-TtWYditnsDh9sb24PltFdtefRVi-GT4BXZP6NsOEaur8nXfYpCvR1LhVCE5fJ6/w640-h360/Soul.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Soul has brilliant imaginative concepts for the afterlife, seemingly giving freedom to the creative teams to create anything they want here, such as how lost souls would look like and behave, where unborn souls are being placed and given fixed core personalities before ready to Earth to be born, how mystics gather when they're in a trance and visit the ethereal afterlife and so many more. Soul introduces a cosmic wonderland, The "Great Before", where unborn souls are being prepared by cosmic entities to be born to Earth once they figure out their "spark", that ultimately gives each unborn soul their individual meaning and purpose. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNMMEYGzWwDwiwaCzpxMuoMTrQsW5ihFVl5S_CqsHccNXSbe9KDj3LWa8PDXstjZZD6KgBDhbCnvTsnsXWDnBNj_TnK03ntfH99hyphenhyphenUWteKobHmAxTR5uDV7Wd0l8umajMPI68S8X98r-k4/s2000/image.jpg" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="2000" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNMMEYGzWwDwiwaCzpxMuoMTrQsW5ihFVl5S_CqsHccNXSbe9KDj3LWa8PDXstjZZD6KgBDhbCnvTsnsXWDnBNj_TnK03ntfH99hyphenhyphenUWteKobHmAxTR5uDV7Wd0l8umajMPI68S8X98r-k4/w640-h269/image.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>This "soul-searching" emotional journey between these two characters will force us adults to reflect what our lives has been, by reaching deep to our inner self and ask things in life, much like 22, who's unable to find her "spark" as she's being brainwashed and convinced she's wrong and she'll never be good enough when she was completely right avoiding Earth because of them, no pun intended (laughing). On the other hand, Joe spent all his entire life, chasing a dream, without realizing what he had sacrificed. As the story progresses, you'll realized that these very two misguided souls are the ones who desperately in need of guidance, from each other.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmqUvM41WaheVFi5gMMOt40keZPEWXa4ImPbEflaJQL8GNh7mhcAFAjWEpculqdAxHaG_r9Y75bTYvB7WjwOqWbbtQAQLAYv7JKitUvt1gek5RJYLPP1QGnU-41pjaUdnZAmRPYQ35E1lU/s960/images2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="960" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmqUvM41WaheVFi5gMMOt40keZPEWXa4ImPbEflaJQL8GNh7mhcAFAjWEpculqdAxHaG_r9Y75bTYvB7WjwOqWbbtQAQLAYv7JKitUvt1gek5RJYLPP1QGnU-41pjaUdnZAmRPYQ35E1lU/w640-h334/images2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Soul is a story that goes straight to your very inner soul. It has a lot of mature themes about the regrets in life, finding your meaning and purpose, noticing and appreciating the finer details in life. Although the astounding creative visuals and comedic, lighthearted animation will surely entertain the kids, but they won't be able to contemplate the existential themes that are presented here yet, until they're old enough to be adults, made monumental decisions in life that provoke them years later to reflect upon whether they've wasted time by placing importance on the wrong aspects of living. That's what Soul really is. In essence, adults are probably the ones who will benefit the most after watching this film.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgEKBpJlFayrFadKrl2zJ7C6rUD3S-MtLIZ8gx48AmraG2DIyUxYJsgC5gt02zPthj4jMhI2UxiJSa5MTNYs9qzJ_kR8at-YnfRk2c52jQZsvimjUPgdRJ7vItqbqicB6kETXINnPhJx_8/s1200/soul3.jpg" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="749" data-original-width="1200" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgEKBpJlFayrFadKrl2zJ7C6rUD3S-MtLIZ8gx48AmraG2DIyUxYJsgC5gt02zPthj4jMhI2UxiJSa5MTNYs9qzJ_kR8at-YnfRk2c52jQZsvimjUPgdRJ7vItqbqicB6kETXINnPhJx_8/w400-h250/soul3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>To reiterate again, Soul is a profound, deep, heartfelt, soulful, meaningful masterpiece. Highly recommended! Not to be missed! </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Rating: 9/10</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p>YJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00050730611232052337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228756178481641404.post-14654877145657087942020-12-30T05:52:00.022-08:002021-01-10T02:24:24.296-08:00Wonder Woman 1984 review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTc-7zQJE6UQd0p3U0wxaFxYGNSLbCT4WgtNa3YzmtIsq3g0b0Oj4ocO87juBEzp8O4ClimyMVug3JmyD7ppk5h0AMSicwT6GYeuenSvMbpL2WavZpBr2r5hMVvtFK7Deh0Rbyz0bLiJi7/s370/Wonder_Woman_1984.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="250" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTc-7zQJE6UQd0p3U0wxaFxYGNSLbCT4WgtNa3YzmtIsq3g0b0Oj4ocO87juBEzp8O4ClimyMVug3JmyD7ppk5h0AMSicwT6GYeuenSvMbpL2WavZpBr2r5hMVvtFK7Deh0Rbyz0bLiJi7/w270-h400/Wonder_Woman_1984.png" width="270" /></a></div><p>Truthfully said, Wonder Woman 1984, the sequel of the highly successful 2017 Wonder Woman, is an emotionally satisfying but logically flawed superheroine film. Why is it so? Is it really that terrible as many would have said it is? Not really. Let’s find out.</p><p>More than 6 decades have passed since the first film, Diana is living a solitary life and works in a museum as an archaeologist. Occasionally, she does her Wonder Woman crime-fighting, hero saving work when she’s around. From Gadot’s performance, we can clearly see that it's due to Diana's love and compassion that drives her to do the things that she does, which she learned from Steve Trevor in the past.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6cSTuJyNIDfakAs_XpsY4f1cDRbkUvfP1iGnCMgwHGlJMtl6kk2_j9_57bi13QN_Qi8jF-6KAMEe2n2Gd_afjKMCduyyT4NLZ6k_AImJtAEEvehpaIreebx7U26kHTPD88O4zbuWucA6U/s1147/Screenshot_91.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1147" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6cSTuJyNIDfakAs_XpsY4f1cDRbkUvfP1iGnCMgwHGlJMtl6kk2_j9_57bi13QN_Qi8jF-6KAMEe2n2Gd_afjKMCduyyT4NLZ6k_AImJtAEEvehpaIreebx7U26kHTPD88O4zbuWucA6U/w400-h199/Screenshot_91.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>The mall heist action scene that was shown early in the film carries the cheesiness of the 80s, seemingly paying tribute to the Silver Age comic era (similar to Christopher Reeve Superman era) version of the character. It does feel fun, lighthearted and welcoming for casual audiences but hardcore fans might feel perplexed due to the sudden change of “age settings” of the character as the overindulgent, campy and cliché nature of Silver Age version might affect the realistic, grounded approach of Modern Age version of Wonder Woman that was established in the first film and the tone of the overall DC Extended Universe.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijy9ACSVQc2aWhjM1aqG3TUjB3lfr_FP0XuC5E7iSuc8uwuV1dwtWGdsfARgtODAtoYybvk_5WL7vRkfQy_C3OOluWusBle3IB5mHckjXTShxDwX857hhwzynIm2yuyU_1p_Mwg_l_z9KU/s1000/ww+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijy9ACSVQc2aWhjM1aqG3TUjB3lfr_FP0XuC5E7iSuc8uwuV1dwtWGdsfARgtODAtoYybvk_5WL7vRkfQy_C3OOluWusBle3IB5mHckjXTShxDwX857hhwzynIm2yuyU_1p_Mwg_l_z9KU/w400-h225/ww+%25281%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>There are a few logical issues brought upon due to the decision of changing from a realistic, grounded and serious approach of Modern Age to the fun, campiness and cheesiness of Silver Age:</p><p><i>1) The fireworks depiction of fourth of July independence day in the middle of winter, should've been New Year instead.</i></p><p><i>2) The mastery of Silver Age capabilities of Wonder Woman - flight and “making things invisible” aren't reflected or depicted in Justice League,</i></p><p><i>3) Steve able to flawlessly drive a 1980s car or plane without issues.</i></p><p><i>4) Steve was in awe of escalators or underground trains (although this can be explained that he’s a soldier in a turbulent period of WWI, he couldn’t possibly know new inventions that aren’t fully commercialized yet.)</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5u_LHtWjvJHmEdfzvqWVRYlsu5bdMGGxvxkDuHxTvjJDIQnpKUC2R8rCa0PYl7h3OjDcG9WgxdwtWKNxP3_ByXjswJJ-kz5qLVkLavKoSWOumC9T0Uq_Hqc7PK5CTVhx0P2eKTCkz6pC/s780/rev-1-WW84-24010r_High_Res_JPEG-e1607962645226.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="780" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5u_LHtWjvJHmEdfzvqWVRYlsu5bdMGGxvxkDuHxTvjJDIQnpKUC2R8rCa0PYl7h3OjDcG9WgxdwtWKNxP3_ByXjswJJ-kz5qLVkLavKoSWOumC9T0Uq_Hqc7PK5CTVhx0P2eKTCkz6pC/w400-h266/rev-1-WW84-24010r_High_Res_JPEG-e1607962645226.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>On a positive note, the sequel further examines the inner feelings of loneliness Diana endured over the years, moved on but still deeply holding on her love for Steve, who sacrificed himself at the end of WWI. The film beautifully captures the painful yet crucial solitary existence of her character, brilliantly portrayed by Gadot in scenes with intense moments of tears. By remembering the love, compassion, kindness shown by Steve when he brought Diana with him to the "Land of Men" outside Themyscira, she's able to continue holding on to be our beloved Wonder Woman. These are the strong key defining moments that shapes how Diana becomes who she is now...much like when Diana making her stand across No Man’s Land in the first film. This shows us why she’s one of the beloved DC Trinity after so many years (Wonder Woman was created in 1941, the other Trinity members are Superman & Batman).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkCXLwxMpi4Mr9bECYBHIzBjZYW3eW6q-JjulK7k2ywa_1RmncpdvlL29lqoVMBK0cptGFNqT1k2WOy6mo_jQ7FjyULHTBAUWWnMXtc4zVrZ656bQl8jjHUTcAZ72EBEcBaj2LuN4zL6AJ/s1072/Screenshot_93.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="1072" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkCXLwxMpi4Mr9bECYBHIzBjZYW3eW6q-JjulK7k2ywa_1RmncpdvlL29lqoVMBK0cptGFNqT1k2WOy6mo_jQ7FjyULHTBAUWWnMXtc4zVrZ656bQl8jjHUTcAZ72EBEcBaj2LuN4zL6AJ/w640-h280/Screenshot_93.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Most casual audience might wonder how can any woman capable of holding the same passions of love for someone who died for so long? Is it realistic enough in this day and age? Just imagine yourself that you’re born and live most of your life in a world filled with women only, suddenly a man appeared in your life, brings you to a different world, made you see things in a brighter way, instills faith, trust, love, compassion in you, sacrifice his life for greater good. How would you feel? The sequel gets the heart of what’s important about the character, the idealism of her character is depicted well.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicZWVXnL5qarjYGGjygZEpy3nnJkWx3W4dOGT1pF-JHVyb12MBnkQ4vu52Xl2e77dREApgOWvqo7HIZdF0RKieKEUneLEhaikpwNNtlbdu7G9x1DlrGqhQ3mzaQUeC5MGv6wrzcXAtmpkg/s928/rev-1-WW84-TRL-00060r_High_Res_JPEG-1600363470-928x523.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="928" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicZWVXnL5qarjYGGjygZEpy3nnJkWx3W4dOGT1pF-JHVyb12MBnkQ4vu52Xl2e77dREApgOWvqo7HIZdF0RKieKEUneLEhaikpwNNtlbdu7G9x1DlrGqhQ3mzaQUeC5MGv6wrzcXAtmpkg/w400-h225/rev-1-WW84-TRL-00060r_High_Res_JPEG-1600363470-928x523.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>Steve’s life gives value, meaning, strength and inspiration for Diana to be Wonder Woman, to protect the world of mankind. He’s the bedrock foundation of Diana. The strong on-screen chemistry between Gal Gadot and Chris Pine carries emotional weight and show the audience that what they’ve been through felt real.</p><p>However, there's another glaring issue that will surely create mixed feelings among fans and casual audience alike: Steve’s soul returned and possessing the body of a stranger instead of returning in full body and soul. The idea of possessing a stranger, using the body to do the things depicted in the film aren't exactly right to begin with...Perhaps the idea was haphazardly implemented with the emotional reason that hopefully Diana would move on with her life and find a new love, in this case the stranger who Steve possess during that time, but still it doesn't sound right logically.</p><p>Aside from that, the film dares to ask big questions such as:</p><p><i>“Is truly getting what you want is the same as getting what you need?”</i></p><p><i>“Are we truly happy by being ignorant, choosing to deny the truth, succumb to our desires, or content with the choices that we made even though it felt wrong?”</i></p><p>Unfortunately, the execution of these thematic elements have been rather flimsy and sloppy. The scriptwriters used a “MacGuffin” - Dreamstone to push forward most of the plot narrative which ironically made it messy and convoluted, as many plot contrivances can be seen throughout the film. The Olympian God, Dechalafrea Ero/Dolos/Mendacius or called the God of Lies, the creator of the Dreamstone, is just briefly mentioned and no further elaboration of his current status afterwards.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrJI1ZgQh5_ZcMmSaJVY2qw65xleEgew_Zb3kVucCwY7wWnm2KCRvDqV8kxhahaP_j1Z5DECvNhJnTWbf5jQ5TWs5XWkCZb9yKZPsxl5hyphenhypheny7caFZO1rz4lQazjPRlxm3Ve-aDFLhjbm-jF/s1800/wonder-woman-1984-rev-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1012" data-original-width="1800" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrJI1ZgQh5_ZcMmSaJVY2qw65xleEgew_Zb3kVucCwY7wWnm2KCRvDqV8kxhahaP_j1Z5DECvNhJnTWbf5jQ5TWs5XWkCZb9yKZPsxl5hyphenhypheny7caFZO1rz4lQazjPRlxm3Ve-aDFLhjbm-jF/w400-h225/wonder-woman-1984-rev-1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>The plot decision of having Diana wearing the Asteria’s golden armor is rather out of place and sudden. The question of how she’s able to find the armor all those years and how she’s able to keep it in her apartment are questions yet to be answered as well. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqJ1nNgL5tpM9H1-xpTqaN59RQ9FUfu1biao-uYFeY_NZl4Sxt5vLanUEt1mJRCEoloOpytNK3vVX3e5uuZQZByp-dVvSFLeWLLSWc84enh4m3tM9DKIl_B8Qul5TX60OzuFU8LsAClXE6/s768/wonder-woman-1984-cheetah-kristin-wiig.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="768" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqJ1nNgL5tpM9H1-xpTqaN59RQ9FUfu1biao-uYFeY_NZl4Sxt5vLanUEt1mJRCEoloOpytNK3vVX3e5uuZQZByp-dVvSFLeWLLSWc84enh4m3tM9DKIl_B8Qul5TX60OzuFU8LsAClXE6/w400-h225/wonder-woman-1984-cheetah-kristin-wiig.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>Barbara’s character was haphazardly developed and shortchanged...following the standard cliché of “an eccentric, but neglected person who lacks self confidence, doesn’t realize how smart and worthy she is until something happened that made her gain confidence through nefarious ways and lose her humanity”. Her character arc is bland and just isn't compelling enough to be remembered. It’s not the issue of Kristen Wiig’s acting performance, she did well for her part, it’s just script issues about her character (Silver Age setting as well).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcdc3-YksChZmXy9Xr8U9mGr6CXUGwXGi9ka1nSu2g4jea54F0NEatsXiiSdi4BWWnNPEbSbD5bkSqguaA0szdEw-SURq4TkTabRB9irxgArmU8FLhvofSj7ypzo589PKbMdQR5vxG4_v2/s1200/2f8376fa-47c3-4ded-9042-7b656cdc0c5a-screen-shot-2020-02-11-at-25814-pm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcdc3-YksChZmXy9Xr8U9mGr6CXUGwXGi9ka1nSu2g4jea54F0NEatsXiiSdi4BWWnNPEbSbD5bkSqguaA0szdEw-SURq4TkTabRB9irxgArmU8FLhvofSj7ypzo589PKbMdQR5vxG4_v2/w400-h210/2f8376fa-47c3-4ded-9042-7b656cdc0c5a-screen-shot-2020-02-11-at-25814-pm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>The other villain in this film, Maxwell Lord, an over-the-top 1980s fraud who cheats, despite being well acted by Pedro Pascal, is also not a compelling villain to begin with. His motives and desires are just mainly motivated by greed and power for no known purpose. The only thing that show us his humanity is his relationship with his son, which is not that complex or justified.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSoC3J43IqXbfX5vQnkg3haiYu_UmZkN7DofjQ5rWw1wVVO5y44HzhTlPC8oAZxFGvpugKo7v4bWd8QjiulpayRG_KqNZbTncwVk3pUVNAwzlELHgDMNFTTOQmHXsp07XDx0ls3cevyThF/s1249/Screenshot_92.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="1249" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSoC3J43IqXbfX5vQnkg3haiYu_UmZkN7DofjQ5rWw1wVVO5y44HzhTlPC8oAZxFGvpugKo7v4bWd8QjiulpayRG_KqNZbTncwVk3pUVNAwzlELHgDMNFTTOQmHXsp07XDx0ls3cevyThF/w400-h229/Screenshot_92.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>Overall, as mentioned earlier, the sequel does deliver well on an emotional level. It understands the main character well, it's bright and filled with hope but the numerous plot contrivances and glaring issues that the script brings shows that it's not carefully thought out before pre-production starts. The decision to adhere to the more classical, campy Silver Age years rather than follow the established realistic, grounded Modern Age has created more unexpected consequences. Paying homage to the old superhero format of yesteryears just doesn't work in this day and age anymore.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Rating: 6.5/10</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Steve:</b> <i>"Diana, I know it's been hard."</i></p><p><b>Diana:</b> <i>"You don't know. You don't."</i></p><p><b>Steve: </b><i>"It can't go on like this."</i></p><p><b>Diana: </b><i>"I give everything I have, every day. And I'm happy to. But this one thing...You're all that I've wanted for so long. You're the only joy I've had or even asked for."</i></p><p><b>Steve: </b><i>"I am so sorry...but that's crazy."</i></p><p><b>Diana: </b><i>"Why, for once, can't I just have this one thing, Steve? This one thing. I can't give you up. So I won't. There has to be another way."</i></p><p><b>Steve: </b><i>"Diana, listen to me. I had a great life. And you only made it better. But you know what you need to do. The world needs you. All right?"</i></p><p><b>Diana: </b><i>"No. I'll never love again."</i></p><p><b>Steve: </b><i>"I pray that isn't true. There's a wonderful, big world out there. This crazy new world. And I am so happy I got to see it...but it deserves you."</i></p><p><b>Diana: </b><i>"I can't say goodbye."</i></p><p><b>Steve:</b> <i>"You don't have to. I'm already gone. I'll always love you, Diana, no matter where I am."</i></p><p><b>Diana:</b><i> "I love you."</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><b>Diana:</b> <i>"Nothing good is born from lies, just wasting precious time. I've never wanted anything more. But he's gone...that's the truth. Everything has a price. This world was a beautiful place just as it was...you can't have it all. You can only have the truth. The truth is enough. The truth is beautiful."</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>YJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00050730611232052337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228756178481641404.post-1924728663277617692020-10-10T06:48:00.018-07:002020-10-12T18:48:24.078-07:00My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk1xQch2JmLaJh_02292Y6B9TnTHQPlBpx-iDORGMvlsnEvB6rgtdPd8wns652TQ9EdcqQUaTY8vankQXHlfUAsp92dNctB2Gd4uVkr9NvLHiBuZnwKvWuMGaPoHB0LVaDltZxMDhldSaJ/s1200/1_RCDTTmwqE7r-lQy9KelvuA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk1xQch2JmLaJh_02292Y6B9TnTHQPlBpx-iDORGMvlsnEvB6rgtdPd8wns652TQ9EdcqQUaTY8vankQXHlfUAsp92dNctB2Gd4uVkr9NvLHiBuZnwKvWuMGaPoHB0LVaDltZxMDhldSaJ/w640-h336/1_RCDTTmwqE7r-lQy9KelvuA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><b><i>"We're not passing each other. The edges have been tied into a ring, connecting us as one."</i></b></p></div><p>My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday is a subtly tender, bittersweet yet strikingly heartbreaking love story between two people from different worlds that was doomed by destiny from the very beginning. First of all, the film doesn't bother to explain the mechanics of why and how certain things happen the way it is (and it doesn't have to), it focuses more on the relationship of the couple in depth and observe how they deal with the reality they're forced to live in.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0TvI0tzzYVhPahN2TaqQWu205lnyvGImBr8M-OiZPmOmA2YJXxIZZbuHhO7-NuoL-9cQXsuaID4Nx_bRzl3oqCCSKZ0etcYm0f6ZMCFNMMFE24bxnk6tg5IU3oNOoHXQeVOCRwn9lfUWI/s648/img_4459.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="648" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0TvI0tzzYVhPahN2TaqQWu205lnyvGImBr8M-OiZPmOmA2YJXxIZZbuHhO7-NuoL-9cQXsuaID4Nx_bRzl3oqCCSKZ0etcYm0f6ZMCFNMMFE24bxnk6tg5IU3oNOoHXQeVOCRwn9lfUWI/w400-h293/img_4459.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>It begins with an awkward boy meets girl scene in a train, where the guy, with no prior experience of love, made clumsy mistakes during an attempt to approach a girl that usually guarantees rejection, but surprisingly that the girl doesn't seem to care and weirdly promised to meet him (a stranger), the next day, even shockingly agrees to affirm their relationship from the get-go after dating him on the third day.</p><p>After more days had passed, they quickly accustomed with each other, with formal honorifics removed, showing that they're getting closer to each other. It gives a sweet, comfy feeling when watching how they interact with each other, albeit with slight noticeable signs that something isn't right.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVgW2M0lWK-aMOtXro68u604u9seTj0i6RBuPKmgH7lF03OVb9vWFUbFvtrSS5eY3W9E3vHF2tP1o-kYRKbQL84CQaoU0mt8WtB9inHnMcGMEEAdPzMyA5_rNxjU4UzwMOnvElrnXU3xhK/s1020/oeR5Pk2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="1020" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVgW2M0lWK-aMOtXro68u604u9seTj0i6RBuPKmgH7lF03OVb9vWFUbFvtrSS5eY3W9E3vHF2tP1o-kYRKbQL84CQaoU0mt8WtB9inHnMcGMEEAdPzMyA5_rNxjU4UzwMOnvElrnXU3xhK/w640-h268/oeR5Pk2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Finally, the heart-pinching, teary moment comes when the truth is revealed during halfway through the film. After the revelation, it feels that your heart keeps aching as you watch the couple going through an unchangeable cruel fate as each moment passing by each day.</p><p></p><p>Both leads did their utmost best by delivering outstanding performances, showing their chemistry for each other while delivering their lines. While I'm trying my best not to spoil the entire plot of the film, but I have to say a few things to express why it pains your heart so much as you're watching it:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The first time when he meets her, is when she loves him the most...</li><li>The things that he does and experience the first time, are the very things she does and experience the last time...</li><li>It's a very cruel destiny for both, especially for her...</li><li>While he can initially experience it without knowing, however, on the other hand, she needs to subtly, painstakingly pretend as each day passes by, knowingly proceed everything as it should be. </li></ul><p></p><p>The ending, as it shows the recollection of scenes earlier the beginning, reflects what the girl actually experiencing at that point in time, showing us that there's actually more than meets the eye, is truly beyond words could describe.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB0VaoUDba3_7wTiCSCEWmkKKNXgIur_BYhP8qhaLRqRE0YS1kR1cMVq1dzHe0JZGN_9eje6v5k3SvOdoL-JnNtKNqLe7AdYjSXhjrB_8ALs-kk54QbvQqXMXSfWZPQi3-5MEjlQ9TSvU7/s848/My.Tomorrow.Your.Yesterday.2016.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="848" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB0VaoUDba3_7wTiCSCEWmkKKNXgIur_BYhP8qhaLRqRE0YS1kR1cMVq1dzHe0JZGN_9eje6v5k3SvOdoL-JnNtKNqLe7AdYjSXhjrB_8ALs-kk54QbvQqXMXSfWZPQi3-5MEjlQ9TSvU7/w640-h262/My.Tomorrow.Your.Yesterday.2016.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Overall, it is a very intelligent, well-made film that deserves an applause for its bold portrayal of star-crossed lovers, despite the fact it's rather heartbreaking to watch until the end. As the credits roll with a melancholic song at the background, I found myself with an aching heart, knowing that they will never meet again but at least they made full use of what's been given and their love for each other is so real, tender and passionate. </p><p>Highly recommended. Many thanks to the person who recommended this brilliant film. It's rather fortunate to be able to watch this film even after 4 years of its release.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Rating: 8.5/10</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>YJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00050730611232052337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228756178481641404.post-15272328365394224572020-08-27T07:29:00.002-07:002020-08-27T08:13:38.818-07:00Movie Review: Tenet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAsVeZtp-6RxZ3fu1N460CLjT99_NXT2AGcskx3T49F6oK0i0u8V5TllQDJNxO17lobpTJ7RML-Bi-hOqfXJFAEJpDLRrKDabHKixq63ItPta9tFTVis3WUxEIOm0mtKoudp7kplgAyXXa/s2048/tenet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1382" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAsVeZtp-6RxZ3fu1N460CLjT99_NXT2AGcskx3T49F6oK0i0u8V5TllQDJNxO17lobpTJ7RML-Bi-hOqfXJFAEJpDLRrKDabHKixq63ItPta9tFTVis3WUxEIOm0mtKoudp7kplgAyXXa/s640/tenet.jpg" /></a></div><p> “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” - a line that crossed Oppenheimer's mind as he witnessed the first detonation of a nuclear device in 1945. Perfectly describes the main villain of Tenet.</p><p>After a career spanning 22 years since The Following, Christopher Nolan never ceases to amaze the audience with his mind-boggling, jaw-dropping, head-scratching existential and epistemological themes, exploring the concepts of time, memory, space, identity and superhero. His unconventional narrative structures of the plot often surprises people, Tenet is no exception as well.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjD77fZuen4Q8Cu8JaXc6Vtcs8BWlFrpcW5XFFxQi2SlUO6e5j59Gze63yGYd7CsyjisSeXq8f6P-1ONIl3C1OQJ9cuvt5ZiukYZL-AQ_0hOcAVuvr_m_mcrwreM-ZVJ7Fwrx6w0CVPRm9/s964/tenet-trailer-2-pattinson-washington.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="964" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjD77fZuen4Q8Cu8JaXc6Vtcs8BWlFrpcW5XFFxQi2SlUO6e5j59Gze63yGYd7CsyjisSeXq8f6P-1ONIl3C1OQJ9cuvt5ZiukYZL-AQ_0hOcAVuvr_m_mcrwreM-ZVJ7Fwrx6w0CVPRm9/s640/tenet-trailer-2-pattinson-washington.png" width="640" /></a></p><p>Once again, this is another creative, never-before-seen blockbuster packed with original, ambitious ideas by Nolan, while also seems like a culmination, or maturation of Nolan's past successful works. Memento has non-linear storytelling, with narratives going backwards and forwards in time; Interstellar has time-travel with manipulation of gravity, the relativity of time in different worlds; Inception has heist structured with the concept of dream layers rather than conventional treasure vault infiltration. Tenet structures its spy espionage with the new concept: Time inversion.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj99aFeoC4c95pS7EJHIh25vwX1PU1UzHKd182zsmGcvPjupz6KAvpkfXa9xaW4fy9BT54YRXHUPvDKUAzYMGKg7XyL7LBiBrZgibYtbmgqTdw6tShsDoI8Yqem1rB70a959HamfXbZO8M7/s768/tenet-7-1598272390.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="768" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj99aFeoC4c95pS7EJHIh25vwX1PU1UzHKd182zsmGcvPjupz6KAvpkfXa9xaW4fy9BT54YRXHUPvDKUAzYMGKg7XyL7LBiBrZgibYtbmgqTdw6tShsDoI8Yqem1rB70a959HamfXbZO8M7/s640/tenet-7-1598272390.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Despite what's being said in the media, Tenet is really not about time travel, but time inversion - or rather the reversion of entropies of objects or persons. Time travelling is the capability to jump to a specific point in time of the past. Time inversion happens when an object's entropy is reversed, giving us the perception that something moving backwards in time. In Tenet, if you want to travel back to 40 years ago, you have to live those 40 years in reverse. Tenet can be said as Nolan's most confusing film, much like the Protagonist's trainer, Laura mentions:"Don't try to understand it. Feel it." </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXFWBezuQyMwUUHHgOTZvlqeLJpZzxcXH6QlBhwipNNSM0krsDR4Invktq97WVm0BO_Dox2PjMzU-wtNIcuv3bvAo6dWj2CH5XAqpjkXV1m2ihdz6cYK7EPottqHjjdVij0qK5doqQMadL/s1000/intro-1592580805.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="1000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXFWBezuQyMwUUHHgOTZvlqeLJpZzxcXH6QlBhwipNNSM0krsDR4Invktq97WVm0BO_Dox2PjMzU-wtNIcuv3bvAo6dWj2CH5XAqpjkXV1m2ihdz6cYK7EPottqHjjdVij0qK5doqQMadL/s640/intro-1592580805.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Tenet is remarkably fast-paced, the movie swiftly opens with a terrorist siege at the Kiev opera house in Ukraine, where we're introduced to the Protagonist (yes, our main character doesn't have a name), the key item at stake is part of the Algorithm, a doomsday device that's capable of reversing the world's entropy, which is essentially the item that triggers a temporal war between the people of the past and future.</p><p>Confused? Your mind's hurting? For many, Nolan's films often requires multiple viewings due to its complexity. "Temporal pincer movements", "temporal turnstiles" aren't that easy to get in the first viewing. In Nolan's past works, heavy expositions are usually provided to ease the cinemagoers to understand what's going on, due to the complex nature of ideas, plot presented in the film, which is the subject of criticism by many. This time it's different. This sci-fi spy espionage action thriller trusts the viewer's capability to think its complex plot points fast and understands it well to make sense of what's going on. Nolan's films tend to be wildly satisfying should the viewer willing to put the effort of giving some thoughts of what it tries to present.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT8TJBSVM0rNDW6S_DDVet2q957uYGgN-agl72EqkCV2ug2TCm19YaYsodNFFrlFGF5ZrVSBTVfuIYWVCJFIfdIcU6Wh2PbW1yHQUPLjLQ2HQch5f7ioJ8CPoQyv0Fq_yBQ-B1oSyjV-1q/s768/tenet1-1598019152.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="768" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT8TJBSVM0rNDW6S_DDVet2q957uYGgN-agl72EqkCV2ug2TCm19YaYsodNFFrlFGF5ZrVSBTVfuIYWVCJFIfdIcU6Wh2PbW1yHQUPLjLQ2HQch5f7ioJ8CPoQyv0Fq_yBQ-B1oSyjV-1q/s640/tenet1-1598019152.jpeg" width="640" /></a></p><p>As usual, Nolan's approach to visual effects and action scene design is heavily grounded and minimum computer rendered effects are done, to provide a heightened sense of reality. Nolan really uses a real Boeing 747 to do the crash sequence. The reversed car crashes, time-synced explosions or even hand-to-hand moving in backwards action sequences are quite impressive.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioCuaOMHoVAjvrrp3J8QsQdZJj8MNfx_9No2x8vmrRI_SrcRyZHdRVHqCHh-HZK_l2yA7dVSQz3UzkzW1D-gFKx3-Z5eTaUOMqnIw6hc2JH1PHErSAyfYwyray1hyjvNTPcqAMfUjQ_-fr/s1400/rev_1_MGR_24002cr_MSG_High_Res_JPEG.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="1400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioCuaOMHoVAjvrrp3J8QsQdZJj8MNfx_9No2x8vmrRI_SrcRyZHdRVHqCHh-HZK_l2yA7dVSQz3UzkzW1D-gFKx3-Z5eTaUOMqnIw6hc2JH1PHErSAyfYwyray1hyjvNTPcqAMfUjQ_-fr/s640/rev_1_MGR_24002cr_MSG_High_Res_JPEG.jpeg" width="640" /></a></p><p>However, it's to say that Tenet is not really Christopher Nolan's masterpiece, despite it's a thrilling, great blockbuster to behold. Tenet does struggles on its characterization part. Many characters in the film are well-casted, lines are delivered wonderfully, but they're not sufficiently well-developed, much of the time was given to the plot and action instead. Tenet still suffers from lack of emotional depth of its characters, a common criticism for some of Nolan's works, voiced out by many critics in the past. It's not as neat as the grand existentialism showcase of Interstellar or Inception's multi-layered dreams (also personal loss of Cobb that affects his work as an Extractor).</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG2IgKEBOEmolPr8BuYWcJls-eoC6ZdMGzaWgbrkzQfki6hUkjnHhElSQ82QvXGXv7vqQ1bvgaisv9WIEDAW-DCKMjuibqiBNhqCTIblZE6fH7RCZWrHbueDDhVfo989L10e4WCgJXYD-l/s1600/John-David-Washington-Himesh-Patel-and-Robert-Pattinson-in-Tenet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG2IgKEBOEmolPr8BuYWcJls-eoC6ZdMGzaWgbrkzQfki6hUkjnHhElSQ82QvXGXv7vqQ1bvgaisv9WIEDAW-DCKMjuibqiBNhqCTIblZE6fH7RCZWrHbueDDhVfo989L10e4WCgJXYD-l/s640/John-David-Washington-Himesh-Patel-and-Robert-Pattinson-in-Tenet.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>The ending of Tenet is less ambiguous this time around, it closes where it starts. It's a neat way to wrap things up much like Memento. Overall, Tenet is an incredibly bold, creative undertaking which took Nolan 5 years to complete the screenplay for us to see it in the big screen now. It's an achievement.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Rating: 8.5/10</b></p><div><br /></div>YJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00050730611232052337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228756178481641404.post-25031484655824482522020-08-27T05:36:00.013-07:002020-09-03T20:39:51.318-07:00Questions & Answers about TENET Explained<p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Q & A for Tenet</u></b></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXMHIPc7OP6nRDntn2JpTIZRul7qLkajW-ppWC-FRJ224rh36M4aKqzXpJzo7bfGamGOif0MhPabIRyjQYdCuHY86NOwXS5xciYM4j9FsDcsImDiGphWp47r0xN9Gp7CZtWskRAjLlcqaF/s2048/tenet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1382" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXMHIPc7OP6nRDntn2JpTIZRul7qLkajW-ppWC-FRJ224rh36M4aKqzXpJzo7bfGamGOif0MhPabIRyjQYdCuHY86NOwXS5xciYM4j9FsDcsImDiGphWp47r0xN9Gp7CZtWskRAjLlcqaF/s640/tenet.jpg" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>*Warning – major
spoilers: do not read if you haven’t seen Tenet yet*</u><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">There are total of 18
questions with answers provided for each of them. Brace yourselves.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What’s
Tenet?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The word “tenet” itself is a palindrome (spelt the same way
forwards as it is backwards), with a definition that says “a principle or
belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It’s also the title that refers to ten minutes forward and
ten minutes backwards that happens in the climactic battle of the film. It’s
also the name of the secret organisation that was founded by the Protagonist in
the future, which also recruits the Protagonist in the past. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hence the reason why Tenet has been described earlier in the
film with a hand movement in which all fingers merge together to combine into
one whole – a closed loop.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI22xIz_zus3ig4zVgEK3-CulMHzJoh0ZPmIx-YX2dqmVLTdOn0jt1dB_xduKjDgicxyFWy1xHOTCN1PbC7iurzp6BnL-kuyD-_zGab1VM_E8zvvpYQY3WeQZ0PBL7qflUTz5-5WG_cB11/s1600/John-David-Washington-Himesh-Patel-and-Robert-Pattinson-in-Tenet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI22xIz_zus3ig4zVgEK3-CulMHzJoh0ZPmIx-YX2dqmVLTdOn0jt1dB_xduKjDgicxyFWy1xHOTCN1PbC7iurzp6BnL-kuyD-_zGab1VM_E8zvvpYQY3WeQZ0PBL7qflUTz5-5WG_cB11/s640/John-David-Washington-Himesh-Patel-and-Robert-Pattinson-in-Tenet.jpg" width="640" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What's time inversion?</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The most important misconception to be clarified is that
time inversion is not time travelling. Time travelling is the capability to
jump to a specific point in time of the past. In Tenet, if you want to travel
back to 40 years ago, you have to live those 40 years in reverse.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The scientific basis of time inversion differentiates it
from time travel. Hence the reason why we see characters in the film inverted
and having to live in reverse in order to reach a different point in the timeline
of their story, meaning they cannot jump back to a week in the past, they have
to live that week in reverse to reach that point.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the
future, a technology has been developed by an unknown female scientist that can reverse the entropy of people
and objects to move backward through time. </span>Time inversion is being used by
the people of the future to start a temporal war (hidden World War III) with
the people of the past, Tenet is the secret organisation founded to stop it. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In Tenet we see time inversion as though we are watching the
inverted objects on rewind while the rest of the scene plays in a linear
motion. This means that boats appear to be sailing backwards, cars motoring and
guns firing in reverse from the eyes of the person who’s inverted. As
Washington’s trainer Laura explains to him as he fires an inverted bullet:
“You’re not shooting the bullet, you’re catching it.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What’s
entropy?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As Nolan puts it in the film's production notes: “Every law
of physics is symmetrical – it can run forwards or backwards in time and be the
same – except for entropy." <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Entropy, is the degree of disorder in a system. The entropy
of an object is a measure of the amount of energy which is unavailable to do
work. Entropy is also a measure of the number of possible arrangements the
atoms in a system can have. In other words, entropy is a measure of uncertainty
or randomness of a system.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">According to the second law of thermodynamics (universal law of increasing entropy), as time moves
forward, entropy can never decrease – it either increases, or remains the same.
Which could mean that what we think of as time is, in fact, merely a perception
governed by our observations of entropy. If we see disorder decreasing, we
think we're seeing something moving backwards in time.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ice
melting, salt or sugar dissolving, making popcorn and boiling water for tea are
processes with increasing entropy in your kitchen. By reversing the entropy,
ice doesn’t melt, salt or sugar doesn’t dissolve, popcorn will never be made, and
water for tea doesn’t boil. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“The theory being that if you could invert the flow of
entropy for an object, you could reverse the flow of time for that object, so
the story is grounded in credible physics," Nolan says. "I did have
(Nobel Prize-theoretical physicist and consultant on Interstellar) Kip Thorne
read the script and he helped me out with some of the concepts, though we’re
not going to make any case for this being scientifically accurate. But it is
based roughly on actual science.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Entropy is like Murphy's Law applied to the entire universe as there are more things that can go wrong than right. The difficulties of life do not occur because the planets are misaligned or because some cosmic force is conspiring against you. It is simply entropy at work.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How does the characters in Tenet
perform time inversion?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">People become inverted by passing though large metal
turnstiles which look like a giant revolving door, which are created at some
point in future. After going through them, you can move backwards in time from
the point you entered. From this point, once you enter another one, you shall
move forward from the point in time you have travelled back to. Characters must
wear a face mask so their bodies can work - <span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">regular air doesn't go through inverted lungs, it goes out</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tenet presents a number of these machines, with the majority
of the action focusing on one vault in an art storage facility in Oslo, and another
in a warehouse in Tallinn. The reason why objects can move backwards in present
time is because these things have manually had their entropy reversed at some
point in the future. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Who
reversed the objects?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is suggested that Russian billionaire Sator and his men
have done so after inverting themselves through the turnstiles. One theory is
that, when these people fired their weapons at different points in time, the
bullets would remain there until “caught” by the weapon that fired them.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">When
entropy is reversed, how does it affects everything around us?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In this palindromic world, everything plays in reverse,
including all bodily reactions. Oxygen moves from your lungs out into the air.
When you're engulfed in flames, heat was drawn out from your body so rather
than burn, you freeze (absence of heat, or rather the entropy or the flow of energy of the flames was
reversed). <span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Protagonist is
shown a bullet with inverted entropy that returns to its gun. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">If you
contact your “forward” self, it will cause “self-annihilation,” as both forward
and reverse entropies of the same object clash each other, meaning you kill
yourself. </span>Protective gear is worn in an attempt to prevent this from
happening.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What was Sator's plan?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A: Russian billionaire
Andrei Sator is in contact with people of the future. Sator plans to set off a
doomsday device, also known as the Algorithm that will reverse the entropy of
the entire planet. He's dying from inoperable pancreatic cancer and believes if
he can't live, no one can. Sator travels back to the holiday with Kat in
Vietnam when they were both happiest, planning to die there peacefully and set
off the doomsday device with a dead man's switch linked to his heartbeat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What's the Algorithm?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A: Nine
objects, hidden in nuclear facilities, form a doomsday device called the Algorithm
that reverses the entropy of the Earth. Setting off the Algorithm ends all life
as we know it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Why is the future working with
Sator?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A: In the
future, everything is destroyed. An unknown agency is working with Sator to
kill everyone in the past, because they're responsible for the damage happened
in the future. At some point in the film, the Protagonist asked Neil if they're
willing to destroy their ancestors, it should threaten their own existence as
well (the grandfather paradox). However, both Neil and Sator replied that it’s
the desperation of survival that triggers the decision. They have no other
choice. The people in the future believe that reversing the entropy of the
Earth will induce change and provide a different better future than the doomed
one that they live in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Why Sator, a madman with a God
complex is chosen instead?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A: Sator grew
up in the Soviet Union in a closed city with secret facilities - Stalsk-12, such as nuclear
research sites with a plutonium production plant. Sator was in the right place
at the right time as a teenager, when he dug up a piece of the Algorithm in the
rubble of his home in Siberia. The female scientist in the future who created the
Algorithm has been hiding the pieces back in time, realizing no one should have
the technology. The unknown agency charges Sator with recovering the pieces and
dropping the finished Algorithm into the "dead drop" (“leaving it
somewhere for someone to find later”) in his nuked home town, where they'll
find it centuries from now. The agency buries time-reversed gold bars that
Sator digs up for payment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Oppenheimer and The Manhattan
Project was briefly mentioned in the film. Who is he?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The first detonation of a nuclear device, conducted on July
16, 1945 was a result of the Manhattan Project which Oppenheimer led. As he
witnessed the first detonation, a piece of Hindu scripture ran through the mind
of Robert Oppenheimer: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oppenheimer died at the age of sixty-two in Princeton, New
Jersey on February 18, 1967. As wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, the
birthplace of the Manhattan Project, he is rightly seen as the “father” of the
atomic bomb. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Who saved the Protagonist at the
opera siege in Kiev?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A: While
foiling the terrorist siege at the Kiev opera house, the CIA secures an
unidentified object (which later turns out to be a piece of the Algorithm).
After retrieving the object, the Protagonist, a CIA agent, is saved by a masked
gunman. We see the gunman wearing a red string on his back -- the same red
string Neil wears on his backpack at the end of the movie. So it was Neil who
saved the Protagonist in the opening gunfight.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPfFGNGRKEXNOkzW09MvVua935axraHFlXWEGGG6wZRVwOeLJ7Axxym-uipUk4MFZGhRpdrS17MvcO6goxdWLRoVJk_FVTZBr8HH5wxOzggqkmLDdjNqY0UB0JkOYeqIQ4l5Wx-lnO4Xep/s768/tenet1-1598019152.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="768" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPfFGNGRKEXNOkzW09MvVua935axraHFlXWEGGG6wZRVwOeLJ7Axxym-uipUk4MFZGhRpdrS17MvcO6goxdWLRoVJk_FVTZBr8HH5wxOzggqkmLDdjNqY0UB0JkOYeqIQ4l5Wx-lnO4Xep/s640/tenet1-1598019152.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p>
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How did Kat survive after being
shot?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Because normal Kat was shot in the abdomen when inverted Sator reverts a bullet. Inverted bullets are fatal as her wound won't heal as the wound (as a result of the bullet shot) keeps ‘reverting’ backwards in time. So the Protagonist and Neil take her backward
in time before transporting her to the Oslo freeport art storage facility, where they enter another temporal
turnstile to allow her to move forward through time again to allow her body to
heal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">14.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Why is Kat under Sator’s control?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A: Kat accidentally sold Sator a forged Goya painting for millions. Sator knows it's fake and blackmailed his
wife to stay with him (prison otherwise), and is keeping her
child away from her as a kind of emotional hostage. Sator also is using the fake Goya painting as a means to access the freeport at Oslo airport, where he also build a temporal turnstile machine in the building for him to access when in need. To gain her trust, the Protagonist and
Neil try to steal the painting from the freeport in Oslo Airport.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What
is the Temporal Pincer Movement? How does it work?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At one point in the film, this term is mentioned by Ives. It
is a tactic used by people who move through the turnstiles to help you receive
knowledge you learned in the future – it’s how Sator has been devising his plan
the entire time. Once the information has been learnt, the idea is to then
invert yourself (so you’re travelling backwards), so you can brief either past
self or someone else. This, in turn, creates a loop of information.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is worth remembering throughout: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Blue” with oxygen
masks = inverted <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Red” and no oxygen
masks = not inverted <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(If inverted and
outside, you can’t breathe regular air).<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The movement occurs four times in the film:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 20.25pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1)<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->During the highway chase scene when Sator threatens
to shoot his wife Kat if The Protagonist doesn’t tell him where the plutonium (actually
it’s 9th part of the Algorithm) is hidden</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 20.25pt; mso-add-space: auto;">The turnstile in Tallinn has two sections, which are separated by a glass
pane – one side is “blue” and depicts an inverted Sator, the other is “red” and
depicts The Protagonist in the present. This means that Sator in the preceding
highway sequence had been moving back in time after going through the turnstile
(we know this, because he is wearing an oxygen mask). Half of Sator’s men enter
through a temporal turnstile, allowing them to move backward through time,
while the other half move forward. Sator makes off with the piece of the
Algorithm with the benefit of knowledge shared between the two teams. A few
scenes later, The Protagonist goes through the same turnstiles and returns to
this scene – he is now inverted. In fact, we learn he was the one behind the wheel
of the car driving the opposite way in the previous highway sequence, so his
past and future self almost collided.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 20.25pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnLhkr3JHARp2UNpgaPRynPgcUTs5P920XpKheLULBVLgID42aDJYxsVLGEKjShccMvyPJ1459SgWZTBExzOQb0sRkxL4cOVcPluTnJZNUQBNE5RFPzL25cXcc8zScj1a_SM1WpUZNn6LE/s768/tenet-7-1598272390.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="768" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnLhkr3JHARp2UNpgaPRynPgcUTs5P920XpKheLULBVLgID42aDJYxsVLGEKjShccMvyPJ1459SgWZTBExzOQb0sRkxL4cOVcPluTnJZNUQBNE5RFPzL25cXcc8zScj1a_SM1WpUZNn6LE/s640/tenet-7-1598272390.jpg" width="640" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 20.25pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2)<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->During the climactic battle sequence involving
the “red” and “blue” team.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 20.25pt; mso-add-space: auto;">Sator plans to activate the Algorithm in the past. He’s buried it in his
former hometown, Stalsk-12, under several bombs. When they explode, it’ll activate the
algorithm buried underneath them, changing the entropy of the world. Sator is
dying of terminal cancer, he’s using his fitness tracker as a dead man's switch
to plan to kill himself on his luxurious yacht when he knows his past self
isn't there, activating the Algorithm to destroy the world.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 20.25pt; mso-add-space: auto;">The Protagonist, Neil and Ives set out on a mission to remove the Algorithm
before the bomb explodes, while Kat heads to the yacht to stop Sator killing
himself before they succeed in removing it from the bomb. The Protagonist goes forward in time with Ives as Red Team, Neil lives as the inverted Blue Team. The woman that past
Kat saw jumping off the yacht when she returned on that day was actually her
future self after she had killed the future version of Sator.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 20.25pt; mso-add-space: auto;">In the end with Neil's help, the Protagonist and Ives remove the Algorithm
in time, which is lucky as Kat decided to kill Sator just as they take it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 20.25pt; mso-add-space: auto;">*A battle follows where one half of the team is working backwards to the
explosion and the other working forwards. “Blue” team of operatives move
through a temporal turnstile to invert backwards to one hour before. They will
experience what the “red” team will experience an hour before they do, meaning
they will then be able to brief them on what has happened/will happen.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 20.25pt; mso-add-space: auto;">To do this, they go back 10 minutes so they can then fill in the
non-inverted “red” team on what will happen. This means that, they work in tandem to prevent Sator’s Algorithm from activating
before the blue team have to move back through the portal to return to a normal
timeline. If it does activate, it will reverse the entropy of the world, which
means the future ceases to exist. The teams will both have 10 minutes to pull off the mission:
the blue team moving backwards to their point of entry, the red team simply
moving forwards to when the blue team entered – “tenet”, where two tens merging
together.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 20.25pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3)<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->During the Oslo Freeport plane crashing incident
where the Protagonist tries to save Kat’s life<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During the rescue operation, the protagonist and Neil in the
past are attacked by two masked men, who was, in fact, one person. That person
is The Protagonist himself, twice. First, we initially see the Protagonist and Neil live forwards in time normally to steal the painting and crash the plane at freeport. They later relive those events in reverse order to save Kat. Here we see the person who the protagonist fights actually is the inverted Protagonist himself, the person who bumps into Neil is actually the "inverted back to normal forward" Protagonist himself.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">4) the entire movie is a temporal pincer movement itself</p><p class="MsoNormal">The protagonist was hired to work for a secret organisation named Tenet, who was actually founded by a future version of the Protagonist himself to stop the end of the World. In the end of the film, after killing Priya to save Kat, he inverts himself back into the past to guide past version of himself, Neil, Ives and Priya about what's to come in future.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">16.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How did they set off 2 explosions in
that building?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A: In the
closed city where the Algorithm is stored, two teams participate in the
operation to stop the doomsday device's detonation. The red team is moving
forward in time, while the blue team is time-reversed. They're using the
"temporal pincer movement" over a 10-minute period, with the blue
team kept separate from the red up in helicopters. By setting a timer, the red
team (those moving forward in time), detonates a bomb in the bottom half of the
building at the 5-minute mark, while the blue team does the same in the top of
the building by counting backward from 10 minutes to the same moment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">17.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What happened at the end with Neil?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A: In the
Algorithm room, the Protagonist and Ives encounter a locked gate. On the other
side, they see the corpse of a masked soldier, who wears a red string on his
backpack. One of Sator's men tries to shoot the Protagonist, but the masked man
springs back to life, takes the bullet and unlocks the gate, allowing the
Protagonist to prevent doomsday. He then reverses out of the tunnel. We later
see the red string on Neil's backpack, when he reveals that he was recruited by
the Protagonist in the future. So the masked soldier who dies is Neil. </span>This
is the reason why Neil was always one step ahead and knew what was coming, why
he knew that The Protagonist never drinks on the job.<span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As Neil explains, this is the end of the story for him as he
has to go back into the inverted side of the battle, so that he can open the
gate and step in front of the bullet meant for The Protagonist. Neil's loop is
closed, but for The Protagonist, this is the beginning of their story together.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">18.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Everyone's working for the
Protagonist?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A: The
Protagonist travels to London to save Kat from arms dealer Priya, who believes
she must tie up loose ends. The Protagonist shoots Priya, realizing now he will
revert back in time and found the secret organization Tenet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Note: Some answers
are modified according to my own understanding about the film. Answers with
‘A:’ are left unchanged from the sites.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Some Questions are
written by me and some are taken from the following sources:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/tenet-the-ending-explained-and-all-your-questions-answered/">https://www.cnet.com/news/tenet-the-ending-explained-and-all-your-questions-answered/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/tenet-movie-title-meaning-scene-clue-robert-pattinson-time-travel-ending-explained-a9689046.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/tenet-movie-title-meaning-scene-clue-robert-pattinson-time-travel-ending-explained-a9689046.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/tenet-time-inversion-meaning-explained-travel-temporal-pincer-move-theory-ending-a9687836.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/tenet-time-inversion-meaning-explained-travel-temporal-pincer-move-theory-ending-a9687836.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><u><span face="" style="border: 1pt none; color: white; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Tenet
is Nolan’s most confusing film, but thrilling to get lost in</span></u></b><span face="" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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release date</span></a></span></u></b><span face="" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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With all major film releases postponed or cancelled due to coronavirus outbreak, coupled with recent MCO (movement control order) enforced by the government to contain the outbreak, one could expect that the situation spells doom for entertainment to any of us cinemagoers. Oh well. But hey, Final Fantasy 7 remake is finally here! Is it the same (and as great) as the 1997 classic masterpiece?<br />
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Let me get this straight first. FF7 remake is a game, not a movie or TV series. But it's something of a marvel to experience, with its compelling storyline, memorable characters and mature theme of life and death. 23 years ago, FF7 was considered a game of its time (the best) and also Square Enix's best asset among the Final Fantasy game franchise to date. It's one of the rare RPG (role-playing games) that literally had fans begging the company to remake it instead of the other way round. So when Square Enix finally announced that they're finally decided to remake this classic masterpiece, every fans was stoked, myself included.<br />
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However, keep in mind that Final Fantasy 7 remake is not the full game though, it's actually just the first chapter in a planned series to retell the entire story of the 1997 classic. This 'remake' only covers the events that happens in Midgar, and ends when Cloud Strife and the group leaves the city to venture out in the world of Gaia. So that means only roughly 4-5 hours of original plot gameplay contained in this stretched 40 hours 'remake'. Another thing to mention, Final Fantasy 7 remake isn't exactly a 'remake', it's a complete re-imagining of the 1997 classic that also tries to maintain what made us fall in love with this world 23 years ago.<br />
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Truth to be told, Final Fantasy 7 remake itself sets a new benchmark for outstanding visuals and real time combat in the FF franchise, while retains its ability to retell one of gaming's greatest tale. Square Enix also made an incredibly bold decision at the same time by opting to take several huge gambles by making certain huge changes to the future direction of the story.<br />
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Needless to say, Final Fantasy 7 remake's narrative and characterizations achievements are strongly supported by its modern updated gameplay and visuals. It remains faithful to its characters and proceeds to expand, explore them further by giving them meaningful stories both big and small, to reaffirm us why we love the characters so much over the years. However, some might find that the various small stories, or side quests (mentioned as fillers in most online reviews) which involves the main characters are a tad too much. Personally, I think it's acceptable.<br />
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Final Fantasy 7 remake is truly a dystopia of our times, carefully showing us how capitalism can go wrong (remarkable considering that it's a 23-year old story). The world of FF7 is economically, militarily, politically dominated by a powerful conglomerate, Shin-Ra electric power company, which made huge profits from "mako" reactors that pump an energy called "Mako" and convert it into power and electricity, fuel various transports, appliances and buildings. Mako energy is drawn from the lifestream, where all life originates from in the world of Gaia. By doing so slowly kills the planet and its inhabitants. Sound heavily familiar now?<br />
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The city of Midgar, also the headquarters of Shin-Ra, also shows wealth inequality as a result of absolute capitalism, which can be shown from its upper plate that houses the president, upper socialites and workers for Shin-Ra while the lower plate houses the slums of the lower struggling class of people. Our main character, Cloud Strife, an ex-SOLDIER (paramilitary force that was set up by the company to wage war against countries like Wutai that against the extraction of Mako), now working as a mercenary of an eco-terrorist group called Avalanche, to blow up Midgar's mako reactors.<br />
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By spending nearly 40 hours of gameplay in Midgar, it allows you to slowly immersive and get to know several old supporting characters better, especially Jessie, Biggs and Wedge. Their expanded screen time allows us to learn why they joined Avalanche and support the cause. Other beloved main characters like Tifa and Aerith are given more screen time for us to get to know them and see how the story's famous and compelling classic love triangle blossomed (more will be shown in later chapters in future). Barret is also there and it's been a pleasure to see how hard he is to the group and yet he has a softer side of him when he cares about his team and most of all, Marlene, his lovely cute daughter. Barret and Red XIII surprising bromance was also added in this recent remake as well!<br />
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Almost everything from the Midgar section of the original game is found in this 'remake', with some scenes tweaked with some differences (compared to the original) that will be further explained near the ending. It's a pleasure to see the residential areas of Midgar's slums, Aerith's house, Sector 5 Church, Seventh Heaven, Shin-Ra headquarters, Don Corneo's mansion in Wall Market, etc...Everything is beautifully and masterfully re-created with utmost care. FF7 remake includes all those iconic moments that we've known and remember all those years...Cloud fell into Aerith's church, or crossdresses to infiltrate Don Corneo's mansion to help Tifa, meeting with the Turks like Reno or Rude, etc.<br />
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Another thing worth mentioning is that, the old turn-based combat system in the original game is completely replaced by a new real time active combat system now. Although you can only control one character at a time, but you still able to give commands to others or swap with them in mid-battle. The game's various boss fight also becomes harder and looks intimidating after the visual updates as well. The monster, robot villains that are carefully re-created will guarantee satisfy you while making you pissed at the same time.<br />
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Not to mention, Nobuo Uematsu the original composer for the beloved songs in FF7 original game is also back this time. It's incredibly wonderful and nostalgic to be able to listen those wonderful character themes when our beloved characters appear on screen once again after 23 years long, especially Aerith's or Tifa's memorable soundtrack themes.<br />
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Despite the major revelation about the changes at the ending that might anger fan purists who loves the original game so much (which left me with mixed feelings and worry about the story's future direction), there's still so much to love and enjoy about what's been done right about this latest FF7 remake. The expectations for this FF7 remake is absurdly high, but Square Enix managed to deliver most of it (even with their huge gamble near the end, I have to trust them that their future installments won't disappoint and hopefully won't ruin what has been a beloved story to many fans worldwide).<br />
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Don't know how many installments this current Final Fantasy 7 story will be told over, but since director Tetsuya Nomura had mentioned that work on chapter 2 is already underway, I'm still hooked to see what's going to happen in the next chapters lying ahead. It's just a shame that we need to wait ages for the next chapter to arrive.<br />
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<b>Rating: 8.5/10</b> (Can't give much higher since it's just a first chapter and Square Enix did made a huge gamble of re-imagining it, needs subsequent chapters to see how it eventually turns out in the end)<br />
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With all major film releases postponed or cancelled due to coronavirus outbreak, coupled with recent MCO (movement control order) enforced by the government to contain the outbreak, one could expect that the situation spells doom for entertainment to any of us cinemagoers. Oh well. Here comes this brilliant Taiwanese drama series, highly recommended by a good friend of mine, that I <b>must</b> give it a try, with a bet that I'll<b> definitely love </b>it.<br />
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Truthfully speaking, I was quite <i>sceptical</i> at first, as no TV series (that I've watched in the past) has never made me truly satisfied until the end. Most TV series are overly long with draggy, repeated scenes, filled with over-developed supporting characters that doesn't contribute much to the story that it tries to present and the list goes on.<br />
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I've made a decision to give this <b>13-episode</b> Taiwanese drama TV series a chance in the end after seeing rave reviews about it. Turns out my friend was right after all. I<b> loved</b> it. This is a very emotional, <b>well-paced, well-planned </b>time-travelling coming-of-age romance mystery drama that stretches and redefines what it means by <b>"fate and destiny"</b>.<br />
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First and foremost, I have to admit that, like any other Asian TV series that comes before, this series does have a few similar issues like cringe-worthy dialogues, melodramatic scenes and plot conveniences here and there (but lesser than expected). However, that doesn't deter much from watching the series. The series starts quite sadly but honestly by the end of <b>episode 3</b>, I was <b>hooked </b>by the <b>'surprise'.</b><br />
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The series takes time to develop the characters to allow us to get emotionally attached with every one of them. Hence, it requires patience from the audience in the beginning to receive the <b>"gradual and subsequent"</b> <b>huge </b>payoffs that comes later in the 2nd half of the series (which starts from <b>episode 7</b> onwards). The twists and turns presented will left you extremely shocked and surprised for <b>every single episode</b>!<br />
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The basic premise of the TV series is that a 27-year old woman, Huang Yu Xuan, who's still grieving after the death of her boyfriend, Wang Quan Sheng, 2 years ago. Due to a strange occurence, she ends up waking in the hospital in the body of a high school student, Chen Yun Ru 20 years in the past. Mysteriously, Chen Yun Ru and her classmate Li Zi Wei look surprisingly identical to Huang Yu Xuan and Wang Quan Sheng! A lot of unexpected twists and turns unravelled as the series goes further.<br />
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It's so much more than just romance! The compellingness of time-travelling aspect of this drama has made each subsequent episode so suspenseful and surprisingly meaningful (especially the romance) when the revelation is provided to the audience later on. The timeline is well thought-out and well-explained as well, to prevent audience from being confused. Oh God! The less you know about the series before watching it, the better!<br />
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I loved how the relationships built throughout the series, making each character fully fleshed out. Each of the character storylines are impactful and moving. The series also ends remarkably satisfactory as well (for me at least, for once, after some thoughtful analysis). I can't believe "Young and Dangerous" was referenced twice in this series! The series doesn't betray and adhere the "logics and rules" of the various plot points that they've shown and set earlier on.<br />
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Lastly, the melodramatic scenes won't work without the fantastic songs that being included in the series. I can't help myself liking Wu Bai's 'Last Dance' and Miss You 3000, even after the countless plays throughout the scenes in the series.<br />
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Ironically, I find it quite fitting that I get to watch this series and Final Fantasy 7 remake (a 23-year old game with exceptional storyline that's recently been remade and released now with latest high-end graphics, it also shares similar <b>themes of life, death, fate, destiny and predeterminism</b>) at the same time as well.<br />
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For those who haven't watch this brilliant series,<b> I highly recommend and urge you to watch this ASAP, before the MCO ends!!!</b><br />
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<b>Rating: 9/10 (Highly Recommended!)</b><br />
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<br />YJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00050730611232052337noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228756178481641404.post-12261364889243271382019-04-24T07:04:00.002-07:002019-04-24T07:21:22.921-07:00Movie Review: Avenger's Endgame<br />
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Hard to think that it's been 11 years since Iron Man (2008). After 21 movies in the Marvel cinematic universe franchise, we are at the Endgame now. Don't worry, the film is such an epic masterpiece that it's hard to spoil it for you. It's a culmination of more than a decade's worth of storytelling work from various directors and actors combined. What an ambitious, emotional, thrilling, incredible roller-coaster ride!<br />
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As truth to be told, Endgame becomes more complex as it goes along. The pacing feels tighter compared with Infinity War. The film rightly focus and delves deep into previous film's feeling of emotional loss and helplessness, exploring it in finer details through our original 6's (Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye (now Ronin)) emotional arcs and deep insecurities since the start of The Avengers Initiative, how each character comes to terms with their losses and achieves closure. In revisit some of the familiar scenes of this spectacular franchise, this created a huge emotional resonance in the hearts of audience.<br />
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Despite the somberness of the situation presented in Endgame, it still managed to imbue suitable amount of comedy elements at the right moment. It does feel lighter and more joyous as expected from a Marvel film despite the aftermath of The Decimation by Thanos' snap. Endgame's greatest accomplishment is that it manages to confidently ties up 11 years of storytelling buildup, by giving specific payoffs that many Marvel fans craved for such a long time.<br />
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Moreover, Endgame features several impressive climactic set pieces that will ultimately applauded by fans of the franchise (of which I dare not spoil), providing a unique momentum and gravitas that further propels it to greater heights after the emotional, character driven moments in the first act. Throughout Infinity War and Endgame, the tears that came out of our eyes (even a little) showed how deeply you've connected with the characters all these years. This is a film that rewards your knowledge of the franchise.<br />
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Most certainly, Endgame will be judged by many due to its rather familiar and arguable plot device and concepts to carry its narrative forward. But I believe it's a minor common issue for all the science fantasy films that come before it. It will gradually work much better after repeated viewings that the narrative is well thought and deserved.<br />
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With so much anticipation and worldwide excitement from all fans and casual moviegoers alike, it's a remarkable feat that the Russo brothers managed to pull it off successfully and exceeded all expectations. This is truly a climactic conclusion to the franchise, which marks the end of The Infinity Saga. It's everything you've ever dreamed of...and more. A satisfying, well-deserved ending indeed. It's a wonderful gift to those invested 11 years of their life in this remarkable franchise. GO <b>WATCH IT ASAP</b>!<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2011</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8/10</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Avengers</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2012</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 159.75pt;" valign="top" width="213"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">9/10</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 198.75pt;" valign="top" width="265"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Iron Man 3</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2013</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8.5/10</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 198.75pt;" valign="top" width="265"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thor: The Dark World</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2013</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8/10</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 198.75pt;" valign="top" width="265"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Captain America: The Winter Soldier</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 120.0pt;" valign="top" width="160"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2014</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8.5/10</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 198.75pt;" valign="top" width="265"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Guardians of the Galaxy</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2014</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 159.75pt;" valign="top" width="213"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7.5/10</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 198.75pt;" valign="top" width="265"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Avengers: Age of Ultron</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2015</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8/10</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 198.75pt;" valign="top" width="265"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ant-Man</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 120.0pt;" valign="top" width="160"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2015</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 159.75pt;" valign="top" width="213"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7.5/10</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 198.75pt;" valign="top" width="265"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Captain America: Civil War</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2016</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7.5/10</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Doctor Strange</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2016</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8/10</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 198.75pt;" valign="top" width="265"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Guardians of the Galaxy 2</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2017</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 159.75pt;" valign="top" width="213"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7/10</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 198.75pt;" valign="top" width="265"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Spider-Man: Homecoming</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 120.0pt;" valign="top" width="160"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2017</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 159.75pt;" valign="top" width="213"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7/10</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 198.75pt;" valign="top" width="265"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thor: Ragnarok</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2017</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7/10</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 198.75pt;" valign="top" width="265"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Black Panther</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 120.0pt;" valign="top" width="160"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2018</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 159.75pt;" valign="top" width="213"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7.5/10</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 198.75pt;" valign="top" width="265"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Avengers: Infinity War</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2018</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 159.75pt;" valign="top" width="213"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">9.5/10</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ant-Man and the Wasp<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2018<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7/10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Captain Marvel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 120.0pt;" valign="top" width="160"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2019<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8/10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Avengers: Endgame<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2019<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">10/10<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br />YJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00050730611232052337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228756178481641404.post-55517042129386808162018-04-29T02:10:00.003-07:002018-04-29T02:19:56.603-07:00Avengers: Infinity War review<br />
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10 years in the making. The most ambitious crossover event in film history. Incredibly bold and audacious, the studio has finally overcome its overarching issues prevailing in all its previous 18 films: lack of stakes and remarkable, compelling villain with clear and understandable motives. They succeeded with the long-teased arrival of Thanos, the Mad Titan in Avengers: Infinity War.<br />
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More than just a power-hungry, egotistical megalomaniac who devoted himself to Death (cosmic entity) in the comics, his portrayal in the film is far more singularly focused and allow us to empathize his reasoning for wanting to wipe out half of all living entities in existence. His intention is to bring peace, harmony and restore balance to the universe, even at a huge sacrificial cost. As he puts it, the universe is finite, resources are finite, when life flourished to the point beyond control, you need to reset it to restore the balance. The Mad Titan is in every way the overpowering villain for which audience have been waiting for nearly a decade. His very presence is dominating, bringing dread and terror to the hearts of many heroes whom we know and loved.<br />
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Finally, we get to see how powerful it can be when someone managed to assemble all the 6 infinity stones, with each stone grants the wielder unimaginable power that represents a different aspect of the universe (Power, Space, Reality, Soul, Time and Mind). It establishes real, high stakes and sends a very clear message that no one is safe in this film. The Russo brothers successfully deliver a heart-pounding, jaw-dropping film experience that never before seen on a big screen, with fantastic character interactions and devastating surprises. The film handles various characters diligently and honorably. The juxtaposition of both humour and dark moments were handled well this time, effectively delivering a somber yet entertaining piece of work.<br />
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Most critics heavily criticizes the overabundance of characters, lamenting that this essentially causing many characters lack depth and development. Well, what needed to be said is that it's been a decade with 18 films released throughout the years, the audience should know almost all of these characters by now. Granted, there's a minor misstep: The Children of Thanos – his four henchman - Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, a.k.a the Black Order in the comics..due to a<br />
lack of time to develop them into anything worthwhile. They're basically portrayed as mere CGI aliens who are effective side-villains for the Avengers to fight against, but it's forgivable considering that the main focus is actually the big boss himself.<br />
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Despite a runtime of 2 hours and 40 minutes, Infinity War has actually raises the bar for ensemble film storytelling in terms of pacing. Everything happens accordingly and how it should be, even it might feel a little too fast at times. Overall, it's Marvel's best film to date. It has the best villain character development in the franchise, with high punishing stakes and making us believing in it. This exceptional achievement will definitely leaves fans and general audience fully satisfied and<br />
desperate for more, questioning how the studio going to end the chapter in Part 2 next year.<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Iron Man</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2008</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8/10</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Incredible Hulk</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2008</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7/10</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Iron Man 2</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2010</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7/10</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thor</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2011</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7/10</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Captain America: The First Avenger</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2011</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8/10</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Avengers</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2012</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">9/10</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Iron Man 3</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2013</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8.5/10</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thor: The Dark World</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8/10</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Captain America: The Winter Soldier</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2014</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8.5/10</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Guardians of the Galaxy</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2014</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this entertaining, hilarious and nerve-racking before. Based on recent
reporting about real-life scandals of Scholastic Assessment Tests (SAT, portrayed
as STIC in the film), Bad Genius deserves its high praise for its highly
engaging storytelling and deliciously clever editing for their heist scenes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;">The titular heroine here is prodigy student Lynn (played by Chutimon
Chuengcharoensukying in her first onscreen role), who has just enrolled in an
elite school according to her father’s wishes. She comes from a lower
middle-class group and her father is a recently divorced schoolteacher. The
film shows her journey of discovery and personal growth as a person </span>as she comes to peace for who
she is and decides who she wants to be<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;"> as she navigates through various teen
social issues in this corrupt, crooked world of ours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;">In order to help and support her working class dad who tries
to find more money for her tuition, Lynn decided to use her genius intellect to
devise a system to cheat in exams for a group of wealthy classmates in exchange
for cash payments. This eventually balloons into a daring venture with an
elaborate plan to cheat in an international exam. Believe it or not, it’s
rather exciting to see how the students find their ways to cheat onscreen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;">The film showed some insights on class inequalities and corrupt
system that plagues the education system. It highlights a social system that
benefits the rich. The class differences of each character draws out their inherent
personalities as well, such as Grace’s (Lynn’s friend who she met when enrol at
school) emotional blackmail of Lynn to get good results to join the acting club
(which leaves one to question whether her friendship with Lynn is genuine or
not), or even Pat’s (who’s also Grace’s boyfriend) enterprising thinking and tendency
to use people to get what he wants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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other hand, Lynn and Bank (Lynn’s rival and interest) are exceptionally
intelligent but not socially groomed or conniving compared with their wealthy
classmates. Their feelings for one another and conflict of interest on ethical
grounds are fresh and wonderful takes on the frenemy formula. It is especially
saddening to see their loss of innocence and their internal anguish at the end.
Bad Genius<em><span style="background: white; border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"> </span></em><span style="background: white;">showed the
consequences, showing that bad things always happen in this crooked world of
ours.</span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">One of the commendable aspects of the film is that no
high-tech fantastical flashy gadgets were used (unlike many Hollywood
blockbusters) to enact the heist, which gives a strong sense of realism to it. I
won’t spoil the technicalities of doing the heist here; you need to see it for
yourself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In an unexpected fashion, the reinvention of the classic
Planet of the Apes franchise has shown that Hollywood can make better remakes
and sequels. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes had raised the stakes in terms of quality
even better than its original source materials. I personally love Rise (the
first film) and I adore Dawn (the second film) very much. So expectations are quite high for this
final sequel of Caesar's story. <o:p></o:p></div>
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War for the Planet of the Apes picks up 2 years after the
events of Dawn (the second film), where Caesar and his fellow apes desperately
tries to find a new place and escape an impending doom of a war that claimed
many lives of apes. Consumed by anger and grief for his loss, the once noble
and empathetic Caesar decides to leave his fellow apes and his role as a leader
in search for revenge. Over the course of the film, Caesar needs to face his
own demons with flashes of Koba haunts his very soul. The movie is about mercy and
forgiveness, let go of hatred, showing us that ultimately it’s our choices that
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The CGI rendered and performance-captured apes are superb
and top-notch like its predecessors. The various expressions of the apes are
beautifully captured and shown on screen. The inclusion of a new ape character,
Bad Ape serves as comic relief, by providing a few laughable moments here and
there. The new human character, a mute orphan girl, Nova (despite origins
unknown and no further character developments provided, based on the character
of the same name in the source material) provides some emotional scenes for
this sombre, tense and heavy film. <o:p></o:p></div>
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However, hard pressed to say, the final sequel proved to be
rather disappointing. Although the same director (Matt Reeves) is at helm for
this final sequel and he’s the co-writer with one of the screenwriters for the two previous films (Mark
Bomback), it seems that the current script lacks the compelling emotional elements that
made its predecessors great, which might be contributed by Rick Jaffa and Amanda
Silver (co-producers, but not co-writers for this final sequel this time). The
second act, which is the constant chasing, imprisonment and subsequent prison break
is rather slow and draggy, which might bore some audiences.</div>
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The trailers, posters and movie title is rather misleading…We
don’t get to see a full blown-out epic, climactic ‘war’ battle between the apes
and humans. It’s not really considered as a war if one side doesn’t stand a
chance to fight against the other. The off-screen death of two characters that
is very important to our main hero, Caesar, which triggers the path of revenge
for him, is rather abrupt and sudden.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The new villain, Colonel is not as compelling or impactful
as Koba, Caesar’s mutinous second in command. The film tries to portray him as
the evil big boss, but the story doesn’t show like so. The colonel does explain
how he becomes who he is now, but the film supposed to show us the horror, not
telling us.</div>
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All in all, despite its numerous shortcomings, the trilogy
successfully develops Caesar as one of the most compelling, fascinating heroes
of recent cinema history. His moral leadership, honorable values and wisdom represents the best of humanity. The kindness that the orangutan, Maurice and the other apes show Nova stands in stark contrast to the Colonel's behavior. Not the best film in the series but it’s enough to
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<o:p> Nova (played by Amiah Miller), shares her name with Linda Harrison’s character from the 1968 original. Nova, like Harrison’s character and the other humans in the original 1968 movie, can’t speak, which is why Astronaut George Taylor (Charlton Heston), who can talk, is so remarkable to the ruling apes. While the original Planet of the Apes never explains why humans lost the ability to speak, War for the Planet of the Apes shows that it’s a further mutation of the original virus, the Simian Flu, which killed off a large portion of humanity following the events of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, now becoming a virus that strips off humanity's ability to speak and intelligence, becoming a primitive mind state. Take note that the original movie is a separate film, not to be mixed with this new trilogy.</o:p></div>
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76 years in the making. The first female-led, female directed comic book superheroine film. The most iconic superheroine in comic book history. The 4th instalment in the DC extended universe films that set to challenge the widely known Marvel cinematic universe films. It's about Diana's origin story, Princess of Themyscira, daughter of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, the golden child of an all-female paradise island protected by the Olympian Greek God Zeus from the outside world. The story remains faithful to her comics origins (mixture of elements from Golden and Silver Age, The New 52) and establishes Wonder Woman as an inspiring, engaging character to women (and men) all around the world.<br />
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The film starts by showing her growing up on the island of Themyscira, trained to be a warrior until an American pilot Steve Trevor crashes there. His revelation that World War I is happening subsequently forces Diana to leave her home to help fight the cause. Although the Paradise Island scenes are beautiful to look at, the film only begins when Diana leaves with Steve to begin the adventure. Wonder Woman takes its time to focus on its characters and various themes about human nature and war. The film successfully captures the heart and soul of its titular character. She's funny, curious, compassionate, sexually aware, naive, kind, resilient, courageous...all wonderfully portrayed by Gal Gadot.<br />
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The film willing to take time to flesh out its protagonist. Traditionally, the character has been the symbol of female empowerment, inspired old generation of women to stand up for themselves, to learn to fight, be strong, firm, don't have to be scared and most importantly, not to demand for respect or equality, but to earn it, to show them (men) that they (women) deserve it. Diana is sincere and genuine about everything. She encourages peacefulness and esteem for human life. Someone who cannot sit back and do nothing, who wants to help others because she can. In a time when death, selfishness and hatred is a norm, watching her stand firm on her ideals and believing so earnestly in love is a profound experience. She carries the ideals of feminism, a woman who knows what she wants, stands for what she believes is right. <br />
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To those fans who have been waiting for this film their entire lives, who have yearned to see Wonder Woman on the big screen with big action moments, you can take a breath and relax. The film's action is engaging, especially the scene where Diana steps into no man's land in the battlefield is stunning to behold. Director Patty Jenkins wisely chooses to focus the key action scenes in slow motion, on Wonder Woman, with her signature theme song as she takes out the baddies, proved to be exhilarating and visceral than what is expected.<br />
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Other than that, it's also a Steve's movie, as much as it's a Diana's movie. Steve Trevor is not your typical male version of 'damsel in distress'. The film takes time to show how important he is to her, and she is to him. The world-weary Steve is a terrific contrast to the optimistic, naive Diana. The film shows how these two people are changing each other for the better. Her faith in the goodness of men is at times heartbreaking when she witnesses the horrors of the world for the first time (it is to say that we, unlike Diana, know how evil the world truly is) but it is also inspiring. How he guides her to remain that faith, what she chooses to believe carry a strong inspirational message for a comic book adaptation.<br />
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However, disappointingly, the film is weak on the villainy department, which is not supposed to be, considering that traditionally DC have more compelling villains than Marvel. None of the villains in the film have any proper development, or even lasting memorable impression on them. However, this is understandable considering the fact that the film puts more focus on the titular character, her origins and her supporting character. Wonder Woman is an action film, a romantic comedy, a coming-of-age story, a period piece and a war movie. It's a hopeful, inspiring story about humanity...Despite the darkness that lies deep within us, there's still something worth protecting for those who still believes the good within. It's hard not to feel wonderful. Wonder Woman is great. It's about time for her to shine.<br />
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<b>Rating: 8.5/10</b><br />
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<b><br /></b>YJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00050730611232052337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228756178481641404.post-71993923848611140712016-11-18T06:04:00.002-08:002016-11-18T06:32:28.962-08:00List of Fantastic Beasts in the film<br />
The following magical beasts and creatures are featured in the film, <b>Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them</b>:<br />
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<u><b>Niffler </b></u></div>
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Rodent-like creatures that were attracted to shiny things, which made them wonderful for locating treasure. Nifflers were gentle by nature and could be affectionate towards their owners but they could wreak havoc if set loose outside.<br />
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<u><b>Swooping Evil</b></u> </div>
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Large, blue-and-green winged magical creature that looks like a cross between a reptile and an extremely large butterfly. When it is not spreading its spiked wings in mid-flight, the Swooping Evil lives in a green spiny cocoon. It can be quite dangerous, as it can feed on people's brains (which it "sucks out"). It also secretes venom that, when properly diluted, can be used to erase bad memories.<br />
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<u><b>Bowtruckle</b></u> </div>
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Hand-sized, insect eating, tree dweller with long sharp fingers (two on each hand), brown eyes, and a general appearance of a flat-faced little stickman made of bark and twigs, which serves well as camouflage in its natural habitat. Serves as a tree guardian for its home tree, which is usually a tree whose wood is of wand quality. Useful for picking locks.<br />
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<b><u>Billywig</u></b></div>
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<b><u> </u></b>Insect native to Australia that's around half an inch long with the colouring of a vivid sapphire blue. The speed of the Billywig means that it is rarely noticed by Muggles. Billywig's wings are attached to the top of its head, and the wings rotate extremely fast, spinning the Billywig so that it can fly. Anyone stung by a Billywig will suffer giddiness, followed by levitation.<br />
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<u><b>Occamy</b></u> </div>
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Plumed, two-legged serpentine-bodied creature with wings that may reach up to fifteen feet in height. It's extremely aggressive to anyone who approaches it. Its eggs are made of pure and soft silver. Occamies can grow or shrink in order to fit available space.<br />
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<u><b>Demiguise</b></u></div>
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<u><b> </b></u>Peaceful, herbivorous creature that can make itself invisible and tell the future, which makes it very hard to catch. It resembles an ape with large, black eyes and long, silky hair. Demiguise are highly sought after as the hair can be woven into Invisibility cloaks. Demiguises have precognitive sight, so that the only way to catch them is to do something completely unpredictable.<br />
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<u><b>Thunderbird</b></u> </div>
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Large, avian creature native to Arizona. It can create storms as it flies, and can sense danger nearby. Thunderbirds possess multiple and powerful wings, with Frank the Thunderbird shown having six wings in total. Thunderbird feathers shimmer with cloud-like patterns, and the birds' flapping can create storms as they fly.<br />
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<u><b>Murtlap</b></u> </div>
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A marine beast resembling a rat with a growth on its back resembling a sea anemone.<br />
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<u><b>Erumpent</b></u></div>
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Huge African magical beast resembling a rhinoceros. A powerful creature with a thick hide capable of repelling most curses and charms, a single long horn, and a thick tail. The Erumpent will not attack unless provoked, but the results are usually fatal. The horn can pierce skin and metal, and the horn contains a deadly fluid which causes whatever is injected with it to explode.<br />
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<u><b>Nundu</b></u> </div>
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Giant mammal similar to a leopard that is native to East Africa. It moves silently, despite its size, and is considered by some to be the most dangerous creature alive. The breath of the Nundu is toxic and filled with disease. Nundu is extremely hard to subdue, and has never been defeated by less than around one hundred wizards working together.<br />
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<u><b>Doxy (Biting Fairy)</b></u></div>
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<u><b> </b></u>Small Fairy-like creature, sometimes mistaken for a Fairy. Doxies have shiny beetle-like wings, and a double row of sharp venomous teeth. If bitten, a wizard or witch should take an antidote immediately. Doxies bury their eggs underground, and Doxy Queens can lay up to five-hundred at once. The eggs generally hatch in two to three weeks. <br />
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<u><b></b></u>Shy creatures that only comes out of its burrow during a full moon. Mooncalves has smooth, pale grey skin, and four spindly legs that end in large flat feet. They also has bulging eyes (like an owl) that sit on the top of its head. <br />
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Plump, fluffy-feathered and flightless bird that has the ability to disappear and reappear elsewhere as a means of escaping danger. Muggles are aware of the existence of the Diricawl as a dodo (a large, extinct, flightless bird). However, since Muggles are not aware of its ability to vanish at will, they believe that they have hunted the dodo to extinction.<br />
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<u><b></b></u>Dangerous and aggressive magical creature, large and hump-backed, with greyish-purple skin tougher than that of dragons. It can repel most spells, has two golden horns, and walks on large four-thumbed feet. Newton Scamander had the last pair of breeding graphorns, along with a young graphorn.<br />
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An unstable, uncontrollable dark force that takes the form of a flying, storm-like, violent torrent of darkness. It was created by young wizards to suppress their magic due to constant physical and psychological abuses in their childhood because of their powers. An Obscurial is the host of an Obscurus. When an Obscurial reaches their emotional and mental breaking point, the Obscurus appears and attacks whatever is the source of their distress. If they lose control of the Obscurus completely, the Obscurial can physically transform into it and destroy everything in their path. Usually, a child possessed by the Obscurus dies around their 10th birthday, but there are exceptional cases where a wizard with tremendous powers can survive longer. When the child dies, the Obscurus vanishes along with them, though Newt Scamander successfully kept one alive when its host died by encasing it in a magical bubble. <br />
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First of all, I have to admit, the latest 14th entry to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, like its predecessors, feels overly familiar and formulaic at times. It's a typical basic comic book origin story with a three-act structure that we've seen plenty of times before in the superhero genre. Fortunately, it's also incredibly well made with great visuals and its inclusion of magic, the existence of the Marvel's expansive Multiverse, infinite dimensions and realities, made it quite different from what has come before.<br />
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Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the titular arrogant, sarcastic yet brilliant neurosurgeon, Doctor Stephen Strange, who found that his hands had been damaged so severely that they could not be restored after a near death experience, effectively ending his career. With no medical procedure able to help him, the doctor travels to Nepal to learn the mystical art of magic, in hopes to find a cure. He encounters a powerful sorcerer, Mordo (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor), which leads him to the Ancient One (played by Tilda Swinton), also known as the Sorcerer Supreme, who opens and widens his perspective of the world that we live in. Sooner, he finds himself caught in the middle of a war between The Ancient One and Kaecilius (Ancient One's former student, played by Mads Mikkelsen).<br />
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From a visual standpoint, the spectacular effects of Doctor Strange is unlike anything audiences have ever seen. Many have noted that the mirror dimension portrayed in the film bears striking similarities of the dreamscapes in Christopher Nolan's Inception, as buildings, roads, city structures were folding into themselves due to reality manipulation by the sorcerers. Although true to some extent, there are some notable differences in the shifting and bending of structures, scenes with things reversing backwards, forwards or freezes in time, magical seals used to conjure weapons or interdimensional travel by the sorcerers and the Cloak of Levitation (not Cloak of Invisibility in the Harry Potter films, mind you) were nothing short of amazing and sufficient enough to make it stand out among others to provide a refreshing take to the genre.<br />
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The film's focus on its titular character throughout the film managed to create a well-developed character arc, providing a satisfying viewing experience for the audience. Although the first arc of the film did felt a little rushed, the frequent humour and fast-paced fun managed to sustain the interest of its audience. However, this comes at an expense of the other interesting supporting characters such as Mordo, fellow doctor/love interest Christine Palmer (played by Rachel McAdams) and to a lesser extent, The Ancient One. The development of these characters' arcs are sidelined and not properly fleshed out like they should be. There should be more master-student interaction between Strange and the Ancient One. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Rachel McAdams did made use of the little screen time they had to perform what is required of them, but it's not enough. Aside from that, the romance between Strange and Palmer is not properly developed.<br />
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Moreover, Marvel has two persistent issues with their films: long list of underwhelming, underdeveloped and forgettable one-time villains with unconvincing motives and the creativity of the way the story is told. We've been given a backstory or expository explanations of the villains, Kaecilius and Dormammu, but nothing in-depth. They're just some villains pitted against our hero to fight with. Marvel has always been playing safe and never dares to take any risk to change their repetitive working formula...the story always unfolds in a simple, straightforward manner or linear timeline, the same can be said for Doctor Strange as well (despite the fact that time is a major thematic element in the film).<br />
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Although it's hard to shake off the feeling that we've seen all of this before, I do believe that this film can be rewatched many times with enjoyment. The greatest achievement that this film has made is that it successfully expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe, enhancing the world even further for many stories to come.<br />
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<b>Note:</b> It's very important not to miss the <b>two mid and post credit scenes</b>, a commonality with all Marvel cinematic movies.<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Iron Man</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Avengers</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2012</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">9/10</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Iron Man 3</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2013</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8.5/10</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thor: The Dark World</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8/10</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2014</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8.5/10</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2014</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2015</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2016</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2016<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><b><i>"You're a man looking at the world through a key hole and you've spent your whole life trying to widen that key hole to see more, to know more and now upon hearing that it can be widened in ways you can't imagine you reject the possibility." - The Ancient One</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><b><i>"Dr. Strange, you think you know how the world works. You think this material universe is all there is. What if I told you the reality you know is one of many?"</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 13px;"><b><i>"This doesn't make any sense."</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><b><i>"Not everything does. Not everything has to."</i></b></span><br />
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<b><i>"You want to know what I see in your future? Possibility."</i></b><br />
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<br />YJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00050730611232052337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228756178481641404.post-57070711702352137372016-10-26T11:29:00.004-07:002016-10-26T11:31:09.555-07:00Movie Review: The Accountant<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Based on an original screenplay by Bill Dubuque, The Accountant is a refreshingly unique, weird but intriguing entry in the crime-drama action thriller genre. The film starts slow and takes its time to build its main character, and as the story progresses, things become more interesting with some unexpected twists along the way. It's an understatement to say that Ben Affleck (who starred the new Batman in Batman v Superman) anchors this film masterfully by delivering a subtle, but feels weirdly authentic performance as the autistic titular character who secretly handles the books for dangerous criminal organisations.<br />
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The film gives its main character a great backstory, giving the audience some glimpses of his troubled childhood, tough upbringing and experiences due to his autistic condition through a series of non-linear flashbacks, which resulted in him with a set of formidable hand-to-hand and armed combat skills. However, his intelligence comes with a price. He's unable to socialise with others well and his inability to emotionally connect with people prevents him from forging close relationships with others around him, much to the amusement of the audience.<br />
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Affleck also managed to bring a surprising amount of humour to the role. Wolff's (Affleck's character) character mannerisms and peculiarities - bluntness in conversation or action often lead to some funny moments. It's rather amusing to sit through and watch Affleck's character as he awkwardly interacts with Anna Kendrick or even when he unexpectedly taking out bad guys. The flashbacks allow the audience to be fully invested into the character as they need to slowly 'piece' together the identity of Christian Wolff by picking up the crumbs through flashbacks and present key scenes in the film. The film doesn't reveal everything about its protagonist to the audience immediately which keeps the film highly compelling and interesting along the way.<br />
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However, the film requires a lot of attention from the audience to keep up with the plot and character revelations. It's quite disappointing to see that Kendrick's role in the film is smaller than expected and the romance between them is paper-thin and not fully developed (the girl tried to approach him many times to initiate conversation for Pete's sake...but he takes it literally due to his autistic condition) J.K. Simmons and Cynthia Robinson did a decent job as a pair of Treasury agents who are working on to uncover the Accountant's identity.<br />
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This film is not your average action thriller with a simple plot and over-the-top action scenes. Despite the unappealing nature of its poster, it's highly recommended for those who prefer a less conventional type of thriller to watch. Don't judge a film by its poster.<br />
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Me Before You, adapted from the bestselling Jojo Moyes book of the same name, with the screenplay written by Jojo Moyes herself as well, is an enjoyable, deeply emotional, affecting and charming film that chooses to focus on the bonds that are shared between the characters despite a simple plot. The story starts off with Sam Claflin as Will Traynor, a wealthy and successful young banker turned into a cynical quadriplegic after an accident. On the other hand, Emilia Clarke stars as Louisa Clark, a cheerful, expressive and easy-going middle class girl who's just lost her job and is desperate to get a new one due to her family's poor financial situation. Soon, she stumbles upon a unique job as a caretaker for Will Traynor without the need of any qualifications. As expected, they soon fall in love.<br />
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In all honesty, despite the simplicity of its plot, Me Before You is wonderfully elated by the genuinely endearing and enchanting performance of Emilia Clarke as Lou. Lou brought colour into Will's world by showing him the cheerful, genuine yet eccentric side of her while trying to encourage the man to start living again by organizing some outgoing events like watching horse races, going to the beach or a seemingly cheap concerto of Mozart's music. Clarke is further assisted by her wonderful co-star Sam Claflin. Their on-screen chemistry allows the moments in Me Before You to work remarkably and largely enjoyable to watch, slowly establishing rapport among themselves and let the romance to unfold in a touching and emotional manner while ignoring most of those chick flick clichés. The film is surprisingly enjoyable and is chock full of witty dialogues that guarantees to make a few laughs here and there.<br />
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Claflin's quadriplegic role as Will Turner was quite challenging as he can only emote with his facial expressions throughout the film. Surprisingly, Claflin's expressions were well done without being too excessive and extravagant. However, the film do lack of worthy 'villains' or 'opponents' for the leads and most of its tensions and conflicts are mainly from human dramas. Moreover, the scenic shots of the British countryside was breathtaking and lovely as well. Another worthy mention is definitely the film's perfect choice of songs for the background music as it adds more flavour to certain scenes in the film.<br />
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Unfortunately, the film suffers a lot of criticisms from the disabled community due to the film's ending. Many easily view it as an encouragement for disabled people to kill themselves (despite the fact that Will is rich, handsome and very loved) instead of finding the courage and purpose to live on and continue to fight with hope alive. But, I don't think Me Before You does that. It doesn't glamourise the disabled or dwell deeply enough with the controversial issue that it raises. It doesn't provide a forced, pretentious happily ever after or a dubious ending. It focuses on the relationship between two main leads instead.<br />
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On a final note, go watch it and judge it yourself. Don't be dissuaded by the negative critical reviews or opinions from your peers.<br />
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<i><b>Will:</b> When I was a kid, this used to be my favorite place in the whole world.</i><br />
<i><b>Lou: </b>I think this would still be my favorite spot.</i><br />
<i><b>Will: </b>That's because you haven't been anywhere.</i><br />
<i><b>Lou:</b> Oh, so where's better than this then?</i><br />
<i><b>Will:</b> Paris, Place Dauphine, right by the Pont Neuf. If I shut my eyes now, I know exactly how it feels to be in that little square.</i><br />
<i><b>Lou:</b> So let's go! We could get on the Eurostar right now.</i><br />
<i><b>Will:</b> You don't get it, Clark. I want to be in Paris as me, the old me.</i><br />
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<i><b>Will:</b> You would have never let those breasts so near to me if I wasn't in a wheelchair.</i><br />
<i><b>Lou:</b> Yeah, well, you never would have been looking at these breasts if you hadn't been in a wheelchair.</i><br />
<i><b>Will: </b>What? Of course I would have.</i><br />
<i><b>Lou:</b> No, you wouldn't. You would have been too busy looking at the leggy blondes, the ones you can smell an expense account at 40 pages and, anyway, I would have been over there serving the drinks, one of the invisibles. Am I right?</i><br />
<i><b>Will: </b>Yes, but in my defense, I was an arse.</i><br />
<i><b>Lou:</b> Yep!</i><br />
<i><b>Will: </b>Do you know something, Clark? You are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.</i><br />
<i><b>Lou: </b>Then let's go somewhere, anywhere in the world just you and me. What do you say? Say yes, Will, come on.</i><br />
<i><b>Will: </b>Okay.</i><br />
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<i><b>Will:</b> This is the kind of place people come to when they've got tired of actually living.</i><br />
<i><b>Lou:</b> I'm happy here.</i><br />
<i><b>Will:</b> Well, you shouldn't be. You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.</i><br />
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<i><b>Will:</b> Lose the scarf. If you're going to wear a dress like that, Clark, you have to wear it with confidence.</i><br />
<i><b>Lou:</b> Only you, Will Traynor, would tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.</i><br />
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<i><b>Will:</b> I don't want you to miss all the things someone else could give you.</i><br />
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<i><b>Lou:</b> I have become a whole new person because of you.</i><br />
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<i><b>Lou:</b> I can't just let this happen.</i><br />
<i><b>Bernard:</b> You can't change who people are.</i><br />
<i><b>Lou:</b> Then what can you do?</i><br />
<i><b>Bernard:</b> You love them.</i><br />
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<br />YJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00050730611232052337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228756178481641404.post-60987302503020184962016-05-06T08:31:00.001-07:002016-05-19T19:20:38.408-07:00Movie Review: Captain America: Civil War<br />
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Once again, Captain America: Civil War shows the best and worst of what Marvel movies can offer. As both a sequel to Captain America: The Winter Solider and The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Civil War is indeed enjoyable, fun movie with great character dynamics. While the narrative isn't quite as suspenseful and gripping as The Winter Soldier, but it does improve on its handling of different characters than Age of Ultron. Throughout the years, Marvel has repeatedly provided movies that bring interesting character pairings to let the audience see how these superhero characters relate to each other and act when they're in disagreement or conflict. This film is no longer just about impressive individual character performances, but also character groupings which allow different characters to react differently for same issues at hand, to work with or against each other within the story.<br />
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After numerous disastrous events: the alien invasion attacks on New York City, the revelation that SHIELD is compromised and destruction of multiple heli-carriers, the fight against Ultron in Sokovia which caused tremendous deal of collateral damage and millions of innocents killed, including the recent mission in Africa which caused more damage, world leaders demanded oversight and accountability over the Avengers by signing the 'Sokovia Accords' - a treaty to force The Avengers to work under the command of the United Nations that determine when and where the team should go into action. Some of the team members began to experience profound sense of guilt after what happened in New York and Sokovia, especially Tony/Iron Man. Tony supports the oversight as he thinks that Avengers is responsible for the deaths and destruction and should be monitored or controlled. On the other hand, Steve/Cap America remains distrustful of governmental agendas after what happened to SHIELD and prefers the Avengers to remain free to act on their own. This created a rift between the team members and triggered the 'Civil War'.<br />
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Despite its wealth of characters, this is still considered to be the Captain's movie. He's the good man who needs to make the tough choices, to do what he believes is right even the world thinks otherwise. He tries to find and protect his friend, Bucky/Winter Soldier, who is to be hunted down and killed on sight after a deadly explosive attack happened at the United Nations conference. On the other hand, for such a carefree, fun, charming billionaire, Tony is rather down this time around, even more than Iron Man 3 and Age of Ultron (aside from the guilt he felt for being responsible for the lives of innocent deaths in Sokovia, he also has relationship issues with Pepper Potts, which is briefly mentioned). The conflict between Tony and Steve is compelling enough as the movie shows both sides do have something to show that neither was wrong.<br />
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Most of the superheroes are given sufficient screen time and introductions (for Black Panther and Spider-Man of course). Surprisingly, Spider-Man steals the show, his appearance is the best thing that happened in the film. Black Panther's fight scenes are cool as well. However, do take note that the inclusion of Spidey is also expendable to the story, including Ant-Man and Black Panther. They could be cut out from the movie without making any difference to the plot, as if they're there to advertise their individual spin-offs. Another worthy mention is Civil War's airport battle scene which is considered to be the best superhero ensemble fight ever depicted on the big screen, with every character getting a moment to show their abilities in battle. It's fun, entertaining and enjoyable. However, it does getting quite unrealistic at times and certain scenes are quite chaotic with fight scenes keep on jumping here and there with different characters.<br />
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Now comes the worst part of the movie...its main villain. Marvel greatest problem has always been its handling of the villains. It seems that Marvel just not interested in developing their villains other than Loki, putting the emphasis on their superheroes' conflicts with each other instead. It's rather unfortunate that the main villain is just some random guy who tries to take revenge this time around. As the bad guy, Daniel Bruhl's Zemo could be the most underwhelming, forgettable villain in the Marvel cinematic universe so far. His schemes rely on far too many coincidences. There's no character development, so when his motives are revealed to the audience, it feels weak.<br />
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Aside from that, there's also a brief moment between Captain America and Sharon Carter that feels unearned, forced and inappropriate given when it happens in the story. In addition, its final dramatic act lacks the necessary energy to bring the movie to a satisfying conclusion and it feels rather forced just to add more conflict between Cap and Tony. Civil War shares similar themes with the recently released Batman v Superman, addressing the issues of collateral damage, the consequences of having superheroes in our world while didn't take itself too seriously. Any fans of the Marvel cinematic universe would be delighted to watch this.<br />
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<br />YJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00050730611232052337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228756178481641404.post-54418344489436501482016-03-26T07:31:00.001-07:002016-07-03T08:17:58.614-07:0021 Questions that many people asking about BvS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This movie raised a lot of questions among the critics, fans and general audience alike. Most of the following questions are taken from the site:<br />
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and provided with answers based on my personal understanding of the movie. Hope it clears some of the doubts and confusions that many faced after watching the movie.<br />
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<b>WARNING: SPOILER ALERT! Do not read further if you do not wish to know the important plot points of the movie. </b><br />
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<b>1. Why Lex Luthor supplying his mercenaries with experimental military bullets?</b><br />
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Luthor hired these people to do his dirty work. Based on Luthor's egotistical personality, he would certainly provide them his own weapons and bullet since he would most likely think the products coming from his own company would be the best. Anyway, LexCorp owns a few arms producing companies which sells various weapons and bullets internationally. Even if you found out that the bullets come from his company doesn't mean that you could charge him saying that he purposefully, personally supplying them with weapons and bullets.<br />
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<b>2. How does Superman always seem to know where and when exactly Lois Lane needs to be saved every single time? </b><br />
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Superman saved Lois 3 times in this film (Africa, drop from tower and trapped in water). Superman can hear everything in the world in different frequencies. He can't be everywhere saving people all the time, he need to choose the ones with the loudest screams (that indicates many people in peril), or through TV news reports and more importantly, people where he's at close proximity so that he could arrive in time to save them. This is Superman's limitation. He can hear the sound of someone struggling in the water (Lois knocks and tries push away the rubbles of building to save herself). Lois screamed when she was pushed from the tower by Lex and Superman was close enough to hear her screams and save her. Superman must have known that she's on a dangerous trip to Africa and should be at close vicinity to save her in time. Since he's in relationship with Lois, I believe he can identify and separate Lois' voice from others as well. However, he can't spot Martha because there's too many loud voices in different frequencies (Martha was never shown on screen that she screamed for help as well).<br />
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<i>"We had a scene that we cut from the movie where he tries to look for her when he finds out that Lex has got her. It was a slightly dark scene that we cut out because it sort of represented this dark side. Because when he was looking for his mom he heard all the cries of all the potential crimes going on in the city, you know when you look. I kind of like the idea that he’s taught himself not to look because if he looks it’s just neverending, right? You have to know when, as Superman, when to intervene and when not to. Or not when not to, you can’t be everywhere at once, literally you can’t be everywhere at once, so he has to be really selective in a weird way about where he chooses to interfere."</i> - Zack Snyder<br />
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<b>3. Why Batman needs to hate Superman so much to the point of killing him?</b><br />
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After 20 years of crime-fighting in Gotham, he gradually thinks that people can be easily corrupted and he lost his faith in humanity. After witnessed the catastrophe that happened in Metropolis with his own eyes, the feelings of powerlessness, which leads to anger (he failed to save his parents, Robin and many others), combined with fear and suspicion fueled his desire and made him convinced that there's a need to kill Superman, despite the fact that Alfred tried to dissuade him from doing so. Bruce said it himself in the film, "He (Superman) has the power to wipe out the entire human race and if we believe there is even a one percent chance that he is our enemy, we have to take it as an absolute certainty."<br />
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<b>4. Why didn’t Superman clean up the World Engine after the disaster?</b><br />
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Why Superman needs to clean up the world engine that sits in the Indian Ocean? Should it be the world government's responsibility to do so if there's a ecological concern? How would Superman knows that it might damage the local ecosystem or not? He doesn't even know that the materials or minerals would become radioactive (becomes Kryptonite) as a result of the explosion. There are no news reports that indicates that there's an issue. Otherwise, Superman would do something about it. Even if he cleans up the World Engine, where he's putting it? People will still be able to locate its whereabouts if it's still on Earth.<br />
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<b>5. Why does anyone think Superman shot a whole bunch of people in Africa?</b><br />
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No one thinks that Superman "shoots" the terrorists in Africa, he doesn't need to shoot them in order to kill them. The African lady serves as a witness at the Senate hearing as she mentioned she heard sharp cracks in the sky (Superman breaks the sound barrier whenever he flies). Superman can just simply evade the bullets with his super speed which causes the terrorists to shoot their own people or Superman can just stand there and simply do nothing. All the terrorists would still shoot him and the bullets that were flying around (deflection of bullets at different angles) would certainly kill them. Anyway, we all know that Superman did not intentionally kill all those terrorist in Africa, except for the General as he threatens to kill Lois. It would take some time for people to start investigate and know that Superman had nothing to do with shooting a whole bunch of people.<br />
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<b>In the Ultimate Edition, it was revealed that the people killed in Africa were torched as if they're burned by Superman's heat vision.</b><br />
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<b>6. Why does Lex Luthor blow up the Senate hearing and kill his assistant?</b><br />
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Lex main goal is to show Superman how much people hated him to the point that they're willing to commit suicide. Lex knows the true identity of Batman and Superman. This is evident when Bruce receives the letter with the newspaper cutting that says "You let your family die" on the same day the explosion happens. This is to fuel Bruce's anger on Superman, to escalate the conflict between them, as it is now believed he (Superman) had something to do with this incident. Furthermore, this also fuels the public anger on Superman as many would have believed that he could at least do something to prevent it from happening. In addition, Lex is a maniac (you think he would care about his assistant other than himself?) and he tries to take revenge on Senator Finch for defying him earlier that he needs her help to get the license for importing the radioactive Kryptonite. This is evident by showing us that he gave a Jar of Piss with "Granny's Peach Tea" label on it to Senator Finch and the speech Lex gave to Finch before she enters the hearing.<br />
As a result, Superman was deeply heartbroken because he mistakenly believes that the employee hated him so much that he tries to kill himself and others in the Congressional hearing. (The employee do hate Superman, but not to the extend of willing to commit suicide and killing others...he doesn't know that there's a bomb planted in the wheelchair lined with lead given by Lex to him.) This incident caught him by surprise. He's in doubt of (blaming) himself, fearing that he didn't see the bomb coming because he wasn't looking, because he doesn't care. But he does. He was heartbroken. Superman is just a guy who tries to do good, to do the right thing for the world but people are cynical and hated him in return. He's constantly under heavy scrutiny for the good deeds he had done. Although he doesn't have to learn to do what's right or be convinced not to quit, but this what makes him human.<br />
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<b>7. What's the point of Clark's hallucination/dream visit with his dad?</b><br />
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No matter what you do, how dedicated you are to save people, something always goes wrong...even though it's good to help people, maybe you shouldn't. There are always consequences for every action that you take. This is the reason why Jonathan and Martha never wanted the world to know his (Superman's) existence, so that he could live a normal life like the rest of us. Jonathan tries to explain this to Clark by mentioning that he tried to save the farm in the past, but a bunch of horses of the Lang's farm were drown as a result of his action to save it. Clark believed that people hated him so much that they're willing to kill themselves to prove it. He blames himself for what happened at the Senate hearing. He could have saved them (but the Ultimate Edition revealed that the inside of the wheelchair was lined with lead - lead blocks Superman's X-ray vision, so he couldn't stop it).<br />
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Superman questions if his presence is really benefiting the people he's trying to protect. He even asked his dad "Do the nightmares ever go?" He questions whether his choice of being Superman was right or not. His dad advised him to find someone for him to hold on to...to remind him that there's still good in the world. Jonathan chose Martha. Clark chose Lois.<br />
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<b>8. Why Batman, the world's greatest detective and a seasoned crime-fighter, would so stupidly falls into Luthor's diabolical schemes?</b><br />
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This is a world-weary Batman who's witnessed many tragedies and atrocities done by men in the past. He's blinded by rage, fear, disappointment and the feeling of powerlessness to help anyone. He could be the world's greatest detective and one of the smartest person in the world, but he's still human. He's so focused on eliminating Superman, who he believed to be a global threat to humanity, that he overlooked the many signs and evidences that this was a setup.<br />
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<b>9. Why Batman kills criminals or even branding them in this movie? Isn't this his one rule that he'll never break?</b><br />
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Bruce Wayne said it: "20 years in Gotham. How many good guys are left? How many stay that way?" After experiencing many horrible tragedies throughout the years (his parent's death, Robin's death), he feels powerless, hopeless. He lost faith in humanity. Over the years of crime fighting, he's disheartened by the fact that nothing much has changed in Gotham after 20 years. He questions the results of his efforts and feels that he had accomplished nothing. This is evident when he said "Criminals are like weeds. You take out one, it'll grow another." Good guys become lesser, people get easily corrupted. As Alfred said it, it is the "feeling of powerlessness that turns good men... cruel". Furthermore, it could be that Robin's death at the hands of Joker changed him. (Robin's suit was shown with Joker's paint message scribbled on it. "HAHAHAHA Joke's On You, Batman!")<br />
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<b>10. Why Batman chooses to forge a Kryptonian spear and 3 gas pellets instead of bullets? Isn't it easier to use bullets to kill Superman?</b><br />
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It's unknown what are the Kryptonite's physical properties in the film. However, it was shown that Alfred needs to use a high-powered laser beam generated by a huge machine to forge the spear. It might be an arduous task to make bullets with the correct fit to the available guns that Batman has in his possession in such a short time (the bombing incident at the Senate hearing forced Batman to expedite his plans of killing Superman) but it's easier to make it into gas. It also depends on Batman's marksmanship skills and there's a risk that Superman might dodge the bullets with his super speed (although we all know Superman rarely dodges bullets shot at him). On the other hand, Kryptonite gas is a lot harder to dodge and a spear can kill Superman instantaneously (bullet takes time to poison and kill him, unless you have several bullets) and can be held in place until the Superman is dead, after the gas weakens him.<br />
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<b>11. Why Batman changed so easily and willing to help Superman after Lois told Batman that Martha is his (Superman's) mother's name?</b><br />
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Bruce and Clark shared the same mother's name (Martha Wayne and Martha Kent respectively). By mentioning Martha's name, it lets Bruce to remember his past...how hopeless he was as he saw his parents were killed in front of him. The whole reason why Bruce becomes Batman, to rid crime and stop corruption, is to stop people from experiencing the same loss like he did in the past. He regained his humanity through empathy. That's why he made a promise and gave his word to Superman that his mother would be alright. From there, he listens to reason. He believes what Superman said is true, his mother was kidnapped and Lex would kill her if Superman didn't kill Batman.<br />
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<b>12. What's the motive (his true intentions) of Lex Luthor?</b><br />
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Lex is an egotistical maniac, a psychopath. He proves that by getting back at everyone who is against him. He has thirst for power and he envies those with a higher power (Superman) than him. This is evident when he went crazy at the speech when he says knowledge and intelligence is power. He is so egotistical that he firmly believes that he's one of the smartest person on the planet (hence the most 'powerful' person) by having knowledge and intelligence. But the existence of Superman challenged that notion. This is the reason why he hates Superman so much and wants to take him (Superman) down, let 'God' bow to himself. He's willing to do whatever it takes, including creating an unstoppable monster to kill him, without thinking much of the consequences, that it might endanger the entire human race as well. He also believes that anyone who has absolute power can't be all good and incorruptible, anyone who's all good can't be absolutely powerful and must have weakness. He thinks Superman is a hoax, a lie and he wants to prove to others that he's right.<br />
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<b>13. Why does Superman stop Batman in the middle of clearly chasing bad guys and let the bad guys get away?</b><br />
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Initially, Superman questions Batman's acts of vigilantism that are becoming more brutal and violent, as Batman is violating basic civil rights of humanity without anyone stopping him. So Superman takes matters into his own hands by warning Batman to stop the things that he's doing now. In Superman's opinion, Batman should let the police do their work instead of pursuing and killing the criminals without trial.<br />
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<b>14. Why is the Knightmare in this movie at all?</b><br />
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I do agree that this particular sequence is out of place and has no impact on the story at all. In the sequence, we could see the Omega symbol and the presence of parademons (both hinting Darkseid, a major, powerful Justice League villain as Omega is his symbol and the parademons are monstrous shock troops used by Darkseid to maintain order of his planet, Apokolips.) Flash warns Batman that he was right all along, that if Lois dies Superman goes bad and mentioned that Lois is the key to prevent the apocalyptic future. It could be a reference to Injustice: Gods among us where Superman changed and establishes a new world order after the Joker tricks him into killing Lois Lane and destroying Metropolis. It is also possible that in this alternate universe that Superman has sided with Darkseid. Flash also mentions that he was 'too early' in the past...Because Flash messed up the space-time continuum by talking with Bruce, it messes up Bruce's memories of that particular time as well.<br />
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Furthermore, there's a scene showed that Lex has seen recordings of Steppenwolf (Darkseid's general and uncle) in the Kryptonian crash ship in the Ultimate Edition. Lex warned Batman that 'he' is coming...hinting that Lex knows Darkseid's existence and he's coming to Earth very soon. <br />
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<b>15. Why does Superman fight Batman if he doesn’t want to fight Batman?</b><br />
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Superman doesn't have enough time left to convince Batman not to fight in a diplomatic manner. The woman he cared most about (Martha) is in danger and he's in panic. He doesn't want to kill Batman and he wants Batman to come to his senses and convince to help him to stop Luthor and try to find Martha while there's still time left. In the Ultimate edition, it was shown that during his investigation of Batman in Gotham, they mentioned that Batman cannot be reasoned with, he's angry and mean throughout the years, only fists can stop him.<br />
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<b>16. Why does Lois Lane go back for the spear?</b><br />
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Why Lois wouldn't know that Doomsday is Kryptonian? Why she doesn't know that the spear can kill Doomsday a.k.a ancient Kryptonian deformity? She witnessed that the spear weakens Superman and she's been on the Kryptonian ship before (in Man of Steel). Anything comes out from there should be of Kryptonian origin. Why people assumed that Lois is a dumb lady who doesn't know how to think logically?<br />
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<b>17. Why does Batman lead Doomsday to Gotham? Why not just get the spear and come back to the uninhabited Stryker's Island, where Doomsday can shoot off his undefined energy powers to his heart’s content? </b><br />
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Batman leads Doomsday to an abandoned port or buildings on the outskirts of Gotham where there's no people around. Wonder woman asked this question to Batman in the film. What happens if Batman goes to get the spear and Doomsday jumps to Metropolis or Gotham inhabited areas? Superman is nearly dead due to the nuclear blast and Wonder Woman hasn't appear yet. What can Batman do to stall him on Stryker's Island?<br />
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<b>18. Why does Lex Luthor create Doomsday, and why does he put his blood in the Matrix?</b><br />
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The specific term for Doomsday is 'Ancient Kryptonian deformity'. The reason why Lex needs to put his blood (foreign material) in the Matrix is to continuously splice, destroy and mess up the Kryptonian genome (Zod's in this case) until to the point the cells of the being is strong enough to adapt and evolve continuously, becoming resistant or immune to whatever killed him before, ultimately permanently acquiring the capability to regenerate and evolve by absorbing energies without technology.<br />
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<b>19. Why didn’t Wonder Woman kill Doomsday instead?</b><br />
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It's not that she doesn't want to, but the Spear is not within her reach (but Superman's). Superman tries to end the battle as fast as he could before the next bigger energy explosion (blast radius is getting bigger and more powerful as Doomsday grows stronger with more spikes) which might put Lois' and Batman's life (or even the lives of the people in Gotham and Metropolis depending on the blast radius) in danger. She was too busy subduing (or restraining) Doomsday the best she could at the time with her Lasso of Truth.<br />
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<b>20. Why the soil/dirt floating from Clark's coffin at the end of the film?</b><br />
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The following picture answers the question...Flight is a manipulation of super strength, super speed and <b>bioelectric field/aura.</b><br />
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<b>21. What does the bat brand mean in the movie?</b><br />
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The bat brand is something batman has recently begun doing to Gotham's worst criminals. These kinds of people are afraid because they're despised in prison and the inmates act as judge, jury and executioner when they find out about it. The bat brand showed you've done a horrible act that leads you to prison and you deserved to be "marked for death."<br />
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It also shows us that Bruce has slowly losing his humanity become after years of fighting crime. He found a way to let other people break his no killing rule for him, he knows it happens but he just doesn't care (same as the fact that he no longer care the lives of criminals in this film). He has lost basic respect for human life, and it becomes apparent when he decided to kill superman.<br />
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During his brief fight with Superman, Bruce realised what person he'd become (similar to the murderer who killed his parents) and regain his humanity, Superman has a human mother, he think of his mother's life even when he's facing death. This allows Bruce to climb up out of the darkness and become a true hero again by saving Superman's mother.<br />
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After 3 years of long wait, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (also known as BvS) is finally here. It has finally come true...two (or three) of the most iconic comic superheroes finally meet each other for the first time in the history of cinema. Does it live up to the hype? Despite all the negative criticisms, it's a significant improvement over Man of Steel, a serious-tone superhero movie with a well-adapted, highly complex, mature plot which acts both as a sequel to the Man of Steel and prologue to the upcoming Justice League.<br />
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BvS features an aged, bitter, violent and darker incarnation of Batman who's obsessed with stopping Superman, fearing that Superman could be a potential threat to mankind in future if left unchecked. On the other hand, Superman also questions Batman's acts of vigilantism that are becoming more brutal and violent. Both heroes were unaware by the fact that they're being manipulated by someone who's intentionally escalates the conflict between the two for his own nefarious reasons. The story strives to explore human and philosophical elements, and it succeeds on many levels. This isn't the older days, where Superman is simply accepted as a saviour with good intentions. Today, we live in a cynical world where people are suspicious of each other and people are motivated mainly by their own selfish concerns. It explores the possible political and societal implications by showing how the world would react to the arrival of a god-like being like Superman. It seeks to reveal the flawed nature of these iconic superheroes by showing the humanity of Superman and the darker side of Batman who's blinded by rage and fear and gradually loses faith in humanity over the years.<br />
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After the controversial conclusion of Man of Steel, the film starts off with Bruce Wayne's flashback dream of his tragic origins (again) before taking us back to the reckless battle between Superman and Zod and let us witness it through the eyes of Bruce Wayne. He's heading to a crumbling Metropolis with falling and burning skyscrapers in an attempt to rescue as many innocent citizens as possible. Bruce looks up in the sky, witness the disaster with a moment of helplessness and realizes that despite all the resources he has in his possession, he's still powerless to change anything. The story builds up slowly to the eventual fight between the two and the climactic battle which involves Wonder Woman in the last act.<br />
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Affleck succeeds in portraying both Bruce Wayne and the Dark Knight, instantly making the character his own. He made his intentions clear in the beginning and the reason why he needs to take down Superman. He may be the best on-screen Batman of our time as his detective skills were properly shown here this time around and his fighting methods were close to source material. While Affleck's Batman steals the show, it is Cavill's Superman who's very much the heart of this story. Cavill was given more lines as Superman this time around and he tries to imbue Superman with humanity, who struggles with the weight of his responsibility to the world, showing us a conflicted character who tries to do good, to do the right thing for the world, but constantly under heavy scrutiny and criticism from every action he takes. The scenes where Superman was deeply saddened after what happened at the Congressional meeting and the confrontation between Lex and Superman (I won't spoil what actually happened) showed the human side of him as a person and not the untouchable god-like being many people think he is.<br />
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Gal Gadot is fine as Wonder Woman, who also immediately steals the show with cheers and clapping hands from the audience the moment she appears in action for the first time, with her indestructible bracelets, Aegis shield of Athena and Lasso of Truth. I'm definitely looking forward to see what Gadot can do as the character in Wonder Woman's first solo film. On the other hand, Amy Adams brings her usual warmth, humanity, and vulnerability as Lois Lane and serves as an important anchor for Superman. The most controversial performance in the film would be Jesse Eisenberg's performance as Lex Luthor. Audience and fans might love or hate with his slightly different take of the character. Eisenberg's Luthor is basically a wealthy, geeky, genius version of Joker. He's greedy, driven by ego and has a thirst for power. He envies and hates those with a higher power (Superman) than him. His worldview and motives are twisted, which makes him all the more unpredictable. In my opinion, Lex Luthor's maniacal manipulations and schemes were as great as the Joker's in The Dark Knight. There's a well executed scene - the climactic conversation between Lex and Superman that shows Luthor's true character and intentions.<br />
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There are some light humour in this film compared to Man of Steel, despite the dark and gloomy atmosphere (albeit not so much compared to Marvel films of course). A few notable ones would be the brief banter between Batman and Superman when Wonder Woman appears on the screen for the first time, when Martha Kent managed a friendly line when she meets Batman for the first time or the constant bickering between Affleck's Bruce and Jeremy Iron's Alfred. Speaking of Iron's Alfred, his progressed friendship with Bruce was very well portrayed and the conversations between them (Bruce and Alfred) provide the necessary relief for such a tense and serious movie.<br />
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However, the film's greatest weakness is its poor editing. It is sloppy and messy at times. It feels that the story is not structured properly and flowing naturally from one scene to another as it should be. You would feel the sudden pull out of one scene just as you're getting attached to it and abruptly placed into another scene that has no connection with the previous scene that you've watched. Aside from this, the film included quite a few of DC movieverse world-building scenes, with one of them feels out of place and unnecessary. It's fine for the filmmakers to include glimpses of Aquaman, Flash and Cyborg and the introduction of Wonder Woman in the film as all of them were handled quite efficiently. It doesn't disrupt the overall movie, except the 'Knightmare' sequence where Batman is wearing a desert coat. Although it provided hints at what possibly going to happen in a distant alternate future (the Omega symbol and the presence of parademons hinted the inclusion of Darkseid in future films), it feels slightly out of place as it was never mentioned again later on in the film.<br />
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As mentioned earlier, this is a definite step up from Man of Steel. Despite all the negative criticisms and mixed reactions from the public, in my opinion, the film hits more than misses and it has accomplished far more than it needs to launch the start of DC's own cinematic universe.<br />
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<b>My personal opinion: People should never compare Christopher Reeve's Superman with Henry Cavill's as they're adapted from different age of comic books (Reeve is from Silver Age while Henry is from Modern Age, they're different versions of Superman in different times).</b><br />
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Zootopia is a vibrantly hilarious, fun, uplifting, heartfelt and exciting Disney animated movie that's ever made with strong themes of prejudice, discrimination and diversity - that we should not judge people by race or looks. The world of Zootopia is filled with exciting, unique anthropomorphic CG animal characters that represents our dreams, ambitions and flaws as well.<br />
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Zootopia is a film that takes place in an anthromorphic animal world without humans where all animals (predators and preys) evolved from their primitive state and live together in harmony (or that's what it seems). It has a central story about an unlikely friendship formed between a cunning and deceitful fox, Nick Wilde and a determined, hopeful rabbit police with a dream, Judy Hopps to investigate a series of missing animal case together. While distrustful and annoyed with each other at first, they soon become best friends, after discovering that they are merely blinded by their prejudices of each other but not who they really are.<br />
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From a serious standpoint, the film takes a hard look at what happens when different people with different cultures live together in the same area. It's definitely not as good and peaceful as you think it is. Fear breeds hatred and hatred allows prejudice and discrimination to exist. We always fear things we don't understand, that causes us to do things that we do, even when we don't really mean it.<br />
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The film also gives one important message: If you want something, you have to work hard to make it happen because dreaming just isn't enough. Judy pushes herself to do the best she could to become a cop, despite her physical looks and everyone in her life telling her to give up on pursuing her dreams. The film successfully make them a really likeable pair, which give the film its heart and soul. It shows an ideal that natural enemies can become best friends, if you put aside your differences and try to understand each other. There are tons of funny scenes around and the film managed to create a lot of laughters from start to the end. The dialogue is witty and you'll definitely find yourself laughing loudly at certain parts of the film.<br />
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Another worthy mention about Zootopia is its elaborate world-building. The breathtaking visuals, especially the initial train sequence when Judy leaving her birthplace to Zootopia, which shows different parts of the city with different species of 'lively' anthropomorphic CG animals walking around the streets will definitely put viewers in awe and amazement. It's magnificent and certainly a feast for the eyes. The film also ends with a beautiful dancing theme song, <i>"Try Everything"</i> by Shakira, which is equally fantastic as well.<br />
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Overall, Zootopia is a movie not to be missed. It's incredibly intelligent, creative, beautifully detailed. Disney certainly sets the bar high for the rest of the animated film releases this year. Highly recommended.<br />
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<b>Note: Just a friendly advice, don't watch Gods of Egypt. Watch this.</b><br />
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<i><b>People need to stop bias against animated films. Animation is a wonderful art form that connects for kids and adults. Animation brings out the kid in us by capturing this long-lost childlike wonder and interest in the world, the little finer things that we overlooked in life as we grow up. It's not just the way the films look that entertains an audience. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters. In essence, we all love to laugh. We all love to be amazed. We all love to be moved to tears. As long as a movie has a beating heart, that's all what matters.</b></i><br />
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<br />YJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00050730611232052337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228756178481641404.post-77881296919245369342016-02-14T20:10:00.000-08:002016-02-14T20:12:17.962-08:00Movie Review: The Big Short<br />
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What makes a script so good that it needs 4 of the biggest Hollywood actors (Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt) to be a part of it? Based on the book of the same name by Michael Lewis, this is a film about four characters: Micheal Burry (Christian Bale), Mark Baum (Steve Carell), Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling) and Ben Rickert (Brad Pitt) who are involved in the financial world and how they come to aware of the imminent collapse of the housing market and credit bubble in 2007/2008 (Subprime Mortgage Crisis) that caused trillions of US dollar losses, millions of evictions and foreclosures, millions of people suddenly lose their jobs and became unemployed.<br />
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As the story unfolds, the film showed how irresponsible and greedy the banking institutions are. No one in Wall Street really cares about what's going to happen as long as it sells and the money comes into their pockets. The financial industry is filled with so many 'complex' financial instruments designed by the big banks to confuse you so that you'll believe that your money is in the 'safe' hands of the advisors/bankers who just taking care of their own personal interests. The film is incredibly thought-provoking and engages the audience by having you see the different perspectives of the film's characters and how they viewed the downfall of the financial system despite the fact some of the characters never actually interact with each other, they're just all connected by a series of events that enabled them to see the collapse of the housing market before anyone else did. <br />
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As expected, the film presents a story that's based on true events with exceptional performances by the casts. How it tackles and explains the financial jargons and processes that are difficult to understand without feeling bored, lost and confused is truly impressive. Aside from Ryan Gosling's character amusing way of explaining Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs), the film also includes cameos of Anthony Bourdain, Margot Robbie, Richard Thaler and Selena Gomez speaking to you directly to explain the financial jargons (subprime, credit ratings, Synthetic CDOs) used in the film. In short, the housing market system is filled with many bad loans that are guaranteed to fail, the bonds (contracts) for these housing properties was rated as 'safe' by well-known credit rating agencies and sold at higher price by the big banks over the course of several years, deceiving investors to put their entire fortune buying them. The film also showed and made the audience realized despite what happened, there's still no proper and precise regulations devised by the governmental system to control and prevent such crisis to ever happen again.<br />
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Worthy to mention, the film also points out that none of the main characters of the story are the 'good' guys. They're a bunch of people who managed to saw a 'highly fucked-up' banking system and ultimately decided to profit from it (which ruined the lives of millions of people in a legally way). Despite that fact, the film does show some complex emotional struggles about what's right and wrong through Steve Carell's character, Mark Baum who had a brother who committed suicide due to inability to handle the various lies and deceits of the world financial system.<br />
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The Big Short is definitely the best movie of the month. It’s incredibly difficult not to be impressed by the film. It's thought-provoking, educational, ironically amusing at the same time. Absolutely fantastic. Highly recommended.<br />
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<br />YJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00050730611232052337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228756178481641404.post-29074248599407888702016-02-12T01:51:00.001-08:002016-02-14T17:07:40.693-08:00Movie Review: The Mermaid (美人鱼)<br />
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Stephen Chow, once a well-known Hong Kong actor in the 1990s with roles in classics like Fight Back to School series (1991-1993), Hail the Judge (1994), A Chinese Odyssey Part 1 and 2 (1995 and 1996), The Mad Monk (1993), King of Comedy (1999), God of Cookery (1996), Forbidden City Cop (1996), Lawyer Lawyer (1997), etc. He made lots of movies that filled with his signature nonsensical 'mou-lei-tau' (无厘头) comedic jokes. Soon, he went on to direct well-received films like Shaolin Soccer (2001) and Kung fu Hustle (2004). However, his recent two films CJ7 (2008) and Journey To The West: Conquering The Demons (2013) just weren't as good as expected. So is this movie as good as (or better) than his previous works?<br />
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The Mermaid (美人鱼) is a film that comes with lots of comedic moments that guarantees to provide some big laughs to the audience. Moreover, it's also filled with environmental messages of concern for all life and a critique of the materialism in Asian culture. Although still not on the same level with Stephen's Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle, it's certainly better than his other recent twos (CJ7 and Journey To The West: Conquering The Demons).<br />
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Thankfully, its message about the importance of conserving our environment is not too preachy and conveyed well enough without any annoyance. The romance between the two main leads didn't seem to be too over-the-top. However, the biggest complain would be the film's "problematic" lip syncing (common issue with all the recently released Chinese film productions). The mouth movements from the casts don't seem to match the Cantonese audio language. It seems as if it was done for cost reasons as using dubbing rather than capturing live sounds from the casts are considerably cheaper as it allows producers to forego expensive sound equipment and sound engineers to do the job. It could also seem to be filmed in Mandarin language as well (opposed to the Stephen's native Cantonese).<br />
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As usual, just like his other films, Stephen casts another relatively new young actress, Jelly Lin as the mermaid in this film as well. There are many recurring actors and actresses from his previous films starred in this one. However, please take note that the CGI effects presented in this film is not as realistic as recent Hollywood films, so please adjust your expectations before watching it. Overall, it's a well-told fairy tale that delivers in providing some decent laughs to the whole family this Chinese New Year.<br />
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A second release from Pixar this year, The Good Dinosaur have a simple, predictable plot that bears striking similarities with other past animations: The Land Before Time (1988), The Lion King (1994), How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and Walking with Dinosaurs (2013). Many were disappointed with the simplicity and familiarity of the plot, considering the fact that it's a Pixar film. Many have even tried to compare this film with Inside Out, Pixar's first release this year. But who says that simple can't be spectacular? Personally it feels unfair to make such comparison as each film has its own merit.<br />
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The Good Dinosaur is an emotionally engaging film that can both entertain and touches your heart. There are some truly emotional moments in the film that delivers some meaningful life messages to our younger generation. These moments, range from touching to tragic, will surely move you to tears. The film is based on a simple premise where the asteroid that supposedly killed off the dinosaurs doesn't hit Earth and the dinosaurs continue to roam free and alive. After millions of years later, primitive humans and dinosaurs co-existed together with the latter remains on top of the food chain. <br />
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The story focuses on the seemingly unusual friendship bond between an Apatosaurus named Arlo and a human cave-boy named Spot. After a series of events that leave Arlo separated from his family, Arlo must embark on a dangerous road journey back home with his unlikely human friend, Spot while meeting with other good and bad dinosaurs like T-Rexes, a pack of velociraptors, a styracosaurus, pterodactyls along the way.<br />
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The bond that slowly developed between Arlo and Spot throughout the journey is the best part of the film. The Good Dinosaur features similar themes of love, friendship, kindness, hope and courage to overcome life's challenges. Moreover, the animation in The Good Dinosaur is awe-inspiring. The landscapes depicted throughout the film are jaw-droppingly beautiful and realistic.<br />
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The Good Dinosaur is meant for the kids and some adults who can see its worth. It is by no means a bad film as many claimed it to be. It might be lacking in originality and creativity we've come to expect from Pixar, but it's still a fun, enjoyable, emotional ride for the family.<br />
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<b>Pixar short film: Sanjay's Super Team</b> - an animated short about a young boy daydreams of Hindu deities as superheroes!<br />
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YJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00050730611232052337noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228756178481641404.post-29730580662677567362015-12-13T07:21:00.002-08:002015-12-13T07:36:35.445-08:00Movie Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After four films, we've finally here...the final conclusion to the Hunger Games franchise. Adapted from the 2nd half of the last book of the series, we've been expecting a final huge showdown between the rebels and the Capitol, considering the intense build-up leading to it. So does it deliver? Unfortunately, it isn't so. Surprisingly, the final chapter of the Hunger Games turns out to be quite underwhelming compared to its predecessors.<br />
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The story continues right after the conclusion of Part 1, where Peeta is brainwashed by President Snow to kill Katniss whenever he sees her. Katniss has finally made the decision to personally kill Snow by navigating through the various traps set by Snow throughout the city with a squad of rebel soldiers. Meanwhile, President Coin, leader of District 13 and the entire rebellion, finally reveals her true motive that could jeopardize the efforts of our main character and the future of Panem.<br />
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Mockingjay Part 2 relies heavily on Jennifer Lawrence's performance and thankfully she delivered her best. The film depicts the horrors and damages of war through Katniss. Without her, the movie would definitely suffer as the story becomes centered in on her and her quest to end it all. However, the action isn't as satisfyingly intense and exciting as its predecessors. The 'war' between the rebels of all districts and the Capitol that we wanted to see is not fully depicted in this film.<br />
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Moreover, some of its emotional scenes feel out of place and poorly executed, especially the death of a major character that comes late in the film. It doesn't provide the necessary emotional impact that it deserves to the audience. The love triangle between Katniss, Peeta and Gale is not fully fleshed out in the series and it abruptly ended without providing a satisfying resolution. Most of the supporting characters in the previous films have significantly reduced roles and screen time in this last installment.<br />
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Overall, the story does provide a relatively satisfying closure to The Hunger Games franchise. Unfortunately, it just doesn't inspire the same wonder as its previous predecessors. Furthermore, the most important question: could Mockingjay have survived as one film? Absolutely. In my opinion, it's unnecessary to split the final chapter into two parts. It could have been a far better film with a run time of probably 3 hours or so. Nevertheless, it's still a decent film to watch.<br />
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