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Deux frères (2004)
Who could not love this movie??????
This is such a fantastic movie. I cried through much of it, and not always out of sadness, but out of happiness.
The movie is beautifully structured internally with lots of symmetry. For instance, Guy Pierce is talking with the female interpreter about leaving the tigers alone versus leaving the statues in the jungle. They have similar but counterbalancing reasons. The viewer is presented with reasons for respecting nature *AND* culture. Sadly, we do neither.
The specials on the DVD are just excellent. They are really worth watching!!! The explanations of animatronics was fascinating, and the work with the tigers of various ages was enlightening. Also, the netting and protection.
Chunhyangdyun (2000)
Beautiful and sad, but in a difficult style
This is a beautiful and sad movie, but the pansori singer, who is kind of like a Korean Homer, and who narrates the plot like a voice in the background, sings in this most unreal and grating style. His guttural voice soars high, then low, and ends on what can only be described as shrieks, even screams. It is unnerving. I had to listen with the sound muted! The one place where it is quite touching is where the pansori narrates the 10 blows on Chunhyang as she is beaten in the chair. The audience is weeping and moaning and moving around. It was quite touching. But the scenery, costumes, and actors are all quite beautiful.
Dharmaga tongjoguro kan kkadalgun (1989)
A long slow beautiful look at the lives of forest monks.
This movie is quite a bit like "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, and Spring."
It must be a Korean genre.
The photography is absolutely magnificent, but the Takemitsu-like music will put off some people. It leaves you with an eerie feeling.
There is a story and not altogether a happy one. These forest monks are still homo sapiens, replete with all the urges and desires and wonderings that drive us mad. In both films, there is an old master who is quite sure of himself and of Buddhism, but that is offset by a younger monk who must leave for the world.
So see both these movies and draw your own comparisons.
Get Your Stuff (2000)
Very cute premise, cute actors but terrible script!
This movie starts out fine and has a very enticing premise: two gay guys who want to be foster parents (aren't they all waiting for an infant to adopt?) get 2 unruly pre-teen boys, but end up loving them. The trouble is that the story bogs down in the middle and goes through some strange wormholes. There are incidents, scenes and action that have no connection. It was impossible to follow a plot at all. What a shame! The scriptwriter must have had a stroke at that point and just wrote gibberish afterwards. It ruined what was otherwise a very cute movie. PS The reference to AA is quite fascinating, and could be seen as being very socially enlightening.