Friday, June 8, 2012

The Adventures of Tintin



- look, kid, I'm trying to help you out, i don't think you realise this, but you're about to walk into a whole mess of danger.
- what kind of danger?
- I'm warning you, get rid of the bout and get out while you still can, these people do not play nice.

When i was a child i ever never couldn't dream such a glory in animation techniques, 2D was my world, my colorful tenderminded world. Then the 3D popped-up: now, the world we live, is animation itself. Same feelings even more realistic than the movies whit one little difference: you can create everything and everyone with no limitations, you're free to tell your story how you like to be told. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn is a grate sample of this path. When i saw the trailer i was really eager to watch it as soon as possible, and when the time comes i was really excited. the voices are just wonderful and Daniel Craig done a grate job transforming the feeling of his character.
But, there is a big goof, i think. Tintin himself! he is not like the one in the comic books I've used to read, his face doesn't work quiet well, He is too baby face but the true Tintin - the name i gave to the comic version- is not like this. The Thomson and Thompson are really weak characters, they slow down the speed of the story. Overhand Captain Haddock is a grate lovely character with very professional voice and high impression in the film.
Mr.Spielberg, you're grate! Thank you to give us a chance to taste a little bit from our fantasy dreamy world. I'm not gonna tell you: hey buddy, watch it; you will!


Sunday, December 11, 2011

The White Ribbon


Let's celebrate for the existence of this movie in this frustrating production of silly cheap films, which not only decrease our taste, but also made us to think like a machine. We will forget the pure goal of picture and in this case, cinema. Maybe some think that there is no goal, and the cinema picture anything without any purpose, I do respect them but i don't think like this. Anyway, this movie is different. it isn’t a Hollywood product but it has a very strong structure. The cinematography is brilliant in this movie and compositions are well designed. It couldn’t be a miracle, just a well ordered schedule could result this output. The frames are really like to photos and its not happening by chance. I read somewhere that the movie was shot originally in color first, but then on post-production procedure the crew decided to alter to black and white; what a good decision it was! I haven't seen the color scenes and they have not been released; and I hope this won’t happen! Because i feel the movie this way, believe me or not it was a great feeling, i suggest you not to lose this chance.

The drama on this movie is the one you may seek for, but haven't achieved yet. The crew is wonderful. I liked the Pastor role and its powerful actor Burghart Klaußner. He played his role very effectively and you can track his emotion on his face but not on his dialogs. The screen play was also drastic. This movie has won the Palme d'Or at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.

Truly deserved and more than that. Highly recommended!

Monday, December 5, 2011

Run Lola Run


Wonderful! As the movie begins you will realize that you're gonna face a different movie due to its interesting prime scenes. On the following, the movie takes you deep in the story and with its high rhythm music and picture, keeps your attention on details; details which you'll unconsciously compare on next episodes.

3 different looks to an event is the key point of this movie. sometimes i feel shit about these key points but we live in real world, and in this world you're going too need some! the priority of these episodes are very nice and absorbing. The beginning of the 2 last episodes are really really effective, when Lola asks his boyfriend Manny about love, her crazy continuous questions and his simple silly answers; And the second one, Manny's concern about death and Lola's reaction to his feelings. I also liked Lola's father role, it was strongly played by Herbert Knaup.

the complexity of the story isn't that much you can't handle. but its sweet and when you think of them, you feel good and maybe it made you to think more to find these kind of complexities in your life. Again, every thing was just fine but its make up, i think it could done better than this. this movie became one of my favorites, watch it, maybe you feel same!

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Tickets


No one can show us the meaning of life through a train better than Abbas Kiarostami.
You have probably heard that life is like a train and we are the passengers in it, we must be aware of the departure time, the ultimate destination, and our tickets.

But no one can illustrate this so that your unconsciousness only catches the idea, not your mind.
The film is in three episodes.three episodes with one attitude in common: Tickets.

EPISODE 1: LOVE
It shows and teaches us a true love from an old experienced, life seen man who is a professor and has just fallen in love with his secretary princes. You can see the love, the depth of it through his glasses; And you can learn how to love. At he last seconds of this episode, the writer shows us that love is not just for one person, you can share your love with all of the people in the world as the old man shares his warm milk with the crying baby.

EPISODE 2: IGNORANCE
This episode shows exactly the opposite side of a human.show us how much ignorant a person can be.Show us how a person can bite people an become so lonely to wish to die.
the old woman,wants to go to her husbands funeral,and she is really upset.but she don't have the tolerance and can't control herself,so begins to share hes sorrowfulness so wildly with others that every one gets really so full of hatred that every body leaves her behind.

EPISODE 3: HUMANITY
It's very hard to show humanity in its real shape.everyone interpret humanity as a whole positive manner.but it is not. We, humans, are something in the middle. We have good attributes and bad ones. It is important to see each other in this way; Neither white nor black, just gray.
A group of Celtic FC fans are going to Rome to watch their team's match. They're dying for their team. But something interrupts heir happy trip. An Albanian family steals one of their tickets and at the end the boy who had accused the Albanians of the robbery, gives his own ticket to the girl and here is the most beautiful moment of life, here you can see humanity, passion and love.

I personally enjoyed the first and the last episodes and just pour some tears for the first one. That's all :)

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Mr.Nobody


What would happen if you reverse time, what if u could do that, what year, what day and what hour you want to be, and in that very moment of your life would you do the same? What if you could change your destiny, what if the result is worse than its former shape, what if you meet someone that changes your life in a new way you've never think about it, what if you could express your emotion to the one you've never had a chance to do so: to say i love u, what if you die, what if you can experience a new sip of life?

All these "what if" cases will diverge your storyline in many possible outcomes. In this paradox you can understand meaning of time, you can feel it and finally you can face it. Most people think time is like a river, that flows swift and sure in one direction, but it seems time is an ocean in a storm! No one can never tell what it is, and there is no particular definition for that. In this movie your gonna involve with it more, you may find the answer, and certainly Mr.Nobody will help you.

However, i didn't like Dr. Feldheim's makeup, it was too exaggerate and distractive! and some scenes was a copy of the short movie "Copy Shop" by Virgil Wildrich. I would like it more if there was no edges by colors in Nemo Nobody's different lives. watch it!

Friday, June 17, 2011

Hereafter


You are drown in the water, you can't breath, your eyes are wide-opened; it is the moment after the Tsunami that you have watched in the first moments of Clint Eastwood's new movie"Hereafter".

You are surprised by the editing sparks and visual effects of the Tsunami, but then you just fall from the top to the bottom. The story suddenly changes from an extremely eye-catching one to a slowly and fussy one.

The movie that kind of episodic. We are introduced to some people that are just wrestling with the souls of their beloveds and some people that can be the connector of two worlds. You see, the idea is very astonishing and fabric but the production is not as one of Eastwood's. You can't compare Hereafter with Letters from Iwo Jima, Or Gran Torino Or the legendary Mystic River.

To make long short, you will be disappointed at the end of the movie with that [...]ing cliche ending, so if you want to watch it to fill your time, I recommend you to watch a football match instead, but if you want to see how a great director and legend of cinema can make a trash movie, It's all in front of u!

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Tangled



You must be kidding, how could this possible, these amazing landscapes on an animation, everything is just grate. So many touching scenes and you're gonna love them. Just look at that horse, this amazing character and his mimics, they are really adorable. The Rapunzel's hair is dreamy and i like this taste on animations, these strange unusual events. techniques are really good and they all meant to give you a feeling directors have planed it before.

The love between Flynn Rider and Rapunzel, this romance, is happening slowly and its what i'm talking about, no sudden love just like a blink of eye, this was one of the strong points of story. But there are some other problems with the story i want mention: The firs problem is story itself because it is stereotype: a blond princes is locked up in a place and a good guy shows up and rescues her from there, which has an evil guard and she is Rapunzel's fake mother, Mother Gothel. The rescue man, Flynn Rider, is a rider of a "white" horse. you can predict the end of it easily and you may find this a little annoying (It's on the background, so not much, just a little!)

This animation is really fun, i mean i had a good time watching it. It's very cute, i was almost laughing throughout the hole show, spend your time and watch Tangled, you won't regret it.


Thursday, May 26, 2011

The Limits of Control


This movie is a feeling, a new taste which you've never experienced before. I felt two different personalities inside myself, part of me admired it, its professional cinematography, perfect framing and elegant dialogs; these are the strong points you can rely on them, at least, if i were Jim Jarmusch, i would specifically base my speech on these subjects to defend my movie from critics!

But, part of me didn't like it somehow, the story is really boring and you have to be active participant espressos drinker _ as the main character, "Lone Man "_ , to stay awake! Trust me! " The only "Limits of Control" in this movie is me being pushed to the limits of grabbing my remote control and hitting the OFF button! " said Arnold Agraviador. and he's a bit right! here is another funny review : " feel free to watch this movie on mute, you won't miss a thing! i promise! Even better, watch it at 1.5x speed, you won't even notice! " said Pak Mahn. maybe we shouldn't blame these people, this movie is an artistic one, a movie that cause to sleep, but also insomnia could be a result of watching this film.

In sum, i watched this movie in a same way as i watched a professional film making class, but there are some scenes i want to talk about: scenes that we see a helicopter in the sky, maybe it means that we all are being watched, the nude girl, maybe it's a symbol of man's desire and her plastic (invisible) raincoat verifies that, the people from different nationalities refers to equality of mankind and their same purpose, the drawing which is covered by a blank white cloth, it is a frame for "Lone Man", maybe it refers to that we all have different lives but same frame, and the scene which he used his imaginations to enter that room and finish his mission, here, the power of imagination and dreaming breaks any limits of control.

Watch this movie, specially if you're a big fan of his cinema.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Cars


I want you to watch this animation with your kids because the only thing keeps you interested in, is the gusto you can find in your children's eyes!! We all know the story: a snobbish personality (Lightning McQueen) seeks for more fame while people around blame him for his procedure! So something should happen to change McQueen, a mistake. He has a big race of Piston Cup ahead, but accidentally he lost the way and cause the damage of small town's road, "Radiator Springs", so they made him to repair the road. He finds friendship and love there and he changes.

I don't like simple stories, even for children, but here we face an ordinary story. we have other animations which are very effective while they're also a little complex like "Monsters, Inc." , "Up"or "Wall-E".

Overall, i don't recommend specially if your age is above 14!

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Tare Zameen Par


I don't know what to say about this movie, maybe it's an educational film and it teaches parents how to treat with their children but for me it was brilliant, because i felt that I'm the one whose talents are buried; i thought I'm the one whose path is something else and i have to change this lifestyle to reach to the goals i ever dreamed of.

Ishan, the main character of this movie is an eight years old student who can't conform to a conventional educational system. he took us with him, to his amasing jurney, to his paradise and childish world.

Creativity is dead in academics and this could cause many damages to the children; Homework (1989), is Abbas Kiarostami's documantry which is very close to the subject, in that movie, children are interviewed by director and you can follow the problems of children there, and as i mentioned before, one of their main problems is lack of creativity.

Amir khan's Job is good and the story line is really solid.some special scenes make movie more than what you expected and i assure u that you're gonna love this film. so please if you watched it and thought that there is a child around like Ishan, help him...maybe you're the one who
needs help!!