Had a super hea (lazy) CNY for the past few days, mainly because sis came back from SG and it was time for sisterly bonding <3
So we watched a couple of movies. They were all pretty good actually!
1. War Horse
It’s one of those animal-owner love stories, but what’s different was that is was set in before and during the era of 1st world war. Albert and his family are farmers, but one day his drunken dad irrationally decided to buy a young racehorse during an auction. Actually racehorses aren’t useful in farming, but after some perseverance and patience, Albert trained Joey into a horse that could plough the land and be of some use. Unfortunately war was on them and his dad had to sell Joey to the military and they were separated. Throughout the rest of the movie, the main actor is actually Joey as we sees his adventures from the battlefield, out of it and back into it again.
I especially liked a scene where both England and Germany were on ceasefire and Joey was stuck in the middle of the war zone cause of some barbed wire. Guess who saved the horse? Watch to find out XD
2. The King’s Speech
Really good! It’s a slow paced movie but good acting from Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix Lestrange from Harry Potter) and Geoffrey Rush (Pirates of the Caribbean). And it made me realise that a King’s speech is REALLY important! Esp during wartime.
3. Serendipity
I would have enjoyed it a few years back, but not at this age and what I have learned based on Christian relationship books and personal experience.
It talks about 2 people, who incidentally met and spent half a day together. At the end of the day, they decided to NOT exchange each other’s numbers, but rather write it down somewhere else and see if they still manage to find each other’s numbers through luck/ fate. The girl wrote her number down in a book (Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera) and sold it to a 2nd hand bookstore. The guy wrote his on a 20-dollar note.
Many many years later, they are both engaged to different people. But before they marry, they (simultaneously??!) decide to look for each other. And guess what? They find each other, dump their partners and get together.
Isn’t that adultery?
Ok la, maybe it’s not that serious, but seriously? It’s SO irresponsible and it’s based on solely the fact that they had an amazing afternoon together. Their partners are innocently dumped just because they think that they found their soulmates. This movie is so misleading argghhh
4. Source Code
It seems that people are still trying to earn money off the Inception concept. It’s pretty much similar, in that it suggests that there are alternate universes and you can get stuck there for the rest of your lives etc.
The guy is actually dead but they are using the last 8 minutes of his memory (or something like that, I didn’t really get the concept) to find out the cause of a train bombing so that the authorities can reprimand the bomber and put an end to the terrorism. So the guy basically “dreams” of the scene in the train and goes around rummaging through people’s backpacks and punching people to see if he gets the bomber. And the bomb will not explode after the 8 minutes.
Stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan. I LOVED Vera Varmiga from Up in the Air (which is, about adultery too >.<) and she’s was a great actress in this movie as well.
That’s all folks! Gotta go back to my underproductive studying.
