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Das Boot (1981)
Real Waterworld
I have seen this movie last night in Beverly Cinema. It blows me away. This is one of the Great War movies made not to glorify the means but to highlight its futility.
The movie was well directed, and well acted. The scenes make you suffer from claustrophobia and the pinging was just as agonizing. You will feel the pain of the crew in their effort to stay afloat and/or stay down 200 meters below the sea surface eluding depth charges.
This is a profound movie and very real, not one of those anti-german films against war which as real as the TV series "Combat." What "Saving Private Ryan" did in the land, "Das Boot did it in the sea.
Election (1999)
adult-teen relationship
Surprisingly, this movie is refreshing. The satire is relevant and the cast gave good acting. It gives several fresh looks on relationships of all colors, sizes and degrees: dyke-straight, adult-teen, teen-teen, adult-adult, parents-kids, kids-kids, parent with a kid-parent with no kid.
Reese will be a future superstar. I nod a new kind of respect to Mathew Broderick. A well acted film.
The Matrix (1999)
Intriguing Cybercinema
This will be the first of many cyberfictions that will eventually drown Hollywood before the end of 20th millennium. The movie is full of awesome tai-chi actions though that I love. Even if the premise of the ultimate demise of a controlling system that defines and bounded everyday life during the 22nd millennium is somewhat goofy.
The question is once the Matrix, the omnipotent, and omnipresent system was destroyed, what will guide the humanity? Fear? Greed? (Which is the guiding principle of the 21st millennium). If there boundless and infinite possibility upon the destruction of logical sequence, will metaphysic becomes the faith? I can just jump into the conclusion. What is evil and what is good?
Scientists are debating the projection that Sun will not be the major energy source today, and the emergence of hot spots in the oceans redefine the thinking of the only source of life. But this movie is based on the premise that the ultimate energy source will be the human itself as it generates energy and being harvested in energy farm. This premise is illogical, even if we multiply the human during the time of the movie (say 2199, say population at 20B) then each human being is to produce at least a thousand BTU equivalents to replace the Sun. We need the episode2, e=Mx2 to give us the replacement for formula e=mc2 to explain the unexplainable of Mx1, let say Neo is now equal God and he is The second coming prophesied by lot of pseudo-religions. What will be the episode 2 based its premise? Neo the God with Trinity will bear offspring Quadrant to define human existence in the 23rd millennium? Is that it? The premise and promise of infinite possibility, like the removal of time and space is intriguing and debatable and will be a debacle.
Mx1 is a sophistry, let the Mx2 explained the logic.
A Walk on the Moon (1999)
Cheeky Chick Cinema
This chick movie that put the Woodstock Generation on a bad light and just because of that, I hated it. Hey, if the woman in the movie got a seven-year itch, then so be it, but not on the backdrop of Woodstock. Woodstock is spontaneous, and dynamic, it lives in the heart and the mind of the generation of which I am bound. What about the 1969 Republican Convention, that is a good backdrop for this movie.
Melody (1971)
The Tune is just Right
This movie defined my youthful existence. As many of the people who saw this movie, I was on my formative years and as it unrolls on the screen, it feel like the cinema is telling my life.
The soundtrack is embedded in my mind, "Melody Fair" and "The Morning of My Life" by the Bee Gees. I hope parents of 10-12 years old will go with their offsprings to see this movie. It is really one of the movies that reflects and have impact on children of my age (I was 12 when I saw this Movie, and my sister keeps telling me, the plot sucks). I wish they re-issue this in L.A. (In the light of teen screaming no plot movies that abound in the US)