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Pu bu (2021)
A gem from Taiwan
I am brought to this film by the number of awards that it receives. Despite mediocre user reviews, this film is truly a gem for those who understand "The Falls" from the outside as well as the inside. I think this film is going down as masterpiece in mental health related topics.
Score 9/10 highly recommended for a Netflix movie session.
The Farewell (2019)
Love the theme but
The storytelling and character development fall short.
Ping Pong the Animation (2014)
Ping Pong Players
This anime is not really about ping pong. It is about the players that play the sports of ping pong.
Animation 10
Sound 9
Story 10
Overall 9.5
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Superb animation with disappointment story
Watched this with my little cousin. The animation is excellent. And it did create an atmosphere of San Franokyo. But showing the beautiful landscape did not help to push the story arc forward. This movie just wrapped a generic story arc under a robotic future look of SF.
5/10
Kobe Bryant's Muse (2015)
With love, your fans
I can't hold back my tears when I watch this.
Kobe. GOAT. Mamba. The glory. That's what the media likes to call him in order to generate popularity.
But the Kobe in front of the camera here is the most raw and Kobe-like Kobe. A superman who's a human with badges on his front and scars on his back. The lonely kid sitting in the corner. The dreamer who believes in his dreams. The passion. The drive... That's what most people associate with when they mention Kobe.
But what cracks me into tears is when he said "I failed miserably." That's what truly makes a man great, the ability to see through his own weakness and failures and recover from that. That's what we do.
The pain and sacrifices right in front of your eyes. I can't stop my tears. This is the real Kobe. This is the real superman.
The director did an amazing job. Action speaks louder than words. This is the beauty of a motion picture. No words. Just background music. A physical therapist is working on Kobe's foot. Drop down a box of marbles. Kobe has to pick them up with his injured foot. I can't stop my tears.
Raw. Very Kobe. Nothing to envy about. The emotion. The highlight. The pain. The struggle. Behind his 30K pts and 5 rings. Thank you Kobe.
With love, Your fans
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
The Battle of Five Armies : Not A Single Movie
If the Rings was a legendary and unbelievable trilogy of all times, then the Hobbit would a great and enjoyable trilogy that still satisfied the audience. The novel was written in the similar way. While the Rings requires more time commitment and vocabularies to read through, the Hobbit is more geared toward a younger audience (children and teens).
If I review the The Battle of the Five Armies as a single movie, I will point out a lot of flaws. The first would be the pace of the movie. For example, in the beginning of movie, Bard vs Smaug was way too fast. Peter Jackson gave Smaug an infinite amount of armor but a non-existent hitting points. From there, we can tell the second flaw of the movie - too much distortion in the fighting scene. The Orcs can only attack but has no defense ability. The Dwarfs suddenly have the fighting ability as Elves. And this leads to its third vital flaw - the fast change of character. I like how the Elf King and Tauriel changed in the end. However, how Thorin changed his mind was too suddenly that the audience would feel something was missing.
If I review the The Battle of the Five Armies as a conclusion of the Hobbit trilogy, these flaws I pointed out would make more sense and may not be viewed as flaws anymore. The movie created a suspense that was not really exited in the book. Without carrying away the main theme of this movie, The director has to limit the emphasis on Bard's fight with Smaug. The same goes with the change in Thorin. The director wants the five armies share the same development. It was a trade-off between showing Thorin thinking and arguing against himself alone for 10 minutes and developing the massive grand fight for 10 minutes. I would not blame the director to choosing the latter.
Lastly, the unrealistic fighting scene in the movie does not make the movie unreal. In my opinion, the ending in this trilogy was far more sorrow and realistic than the ending in Rings. Tauriel asked the Elf King why things ended this way, he provided a simple answer "because it was real." If an explanation is needed for all unrealistic scenes in the movie, we can find one before the very end. When Gandalf bade farewell to Bilbo, Gandalf said the fundamental of the whole trilogy "you don't really suppose that all your adventures were managed merely by luck, do you?"
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
This is happening.
People tend to forget their negative memories.
But these dark memories from older generations are still happening and producing stories or future memories right now in 2013.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is not an ordinary high school movie that only reveals the positive side; in contract, it discloses the reality - both.
It definitely makes current students and teachers or even the entire society to rethink their way of treating groups of people who are not recognized as normal in this ruthless world.
9.5 out of 10. A meaningful movie with with excellent soundtrack.