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Is Duty Enough Reason to Live a Lie?


2010
04.28

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Director: Lasse Hallström

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Cast: Channing Tatum/ Amanda Seyfried/ Richard Jenkins/ Henry Thomas

Dear John is a 2010 film adapted from Nicholas Sparks’ 11th novel. I felt a little confused about the story, especially about the leading actress. Is love selfless or selfish? Two parts of me fight against each other.

Pros: Love is selfless. We all know John loves Savannah, but Tim and Alan love her even more. Actually, they are in desperate need of Savannah’s love. Kind and generous, how cruel it would be for Savannah to see autistic Alan were to be left alone in the world. Her universal love drives her to write the break-up letter and shoulder all the sufferings and pains by herself. Duty overweighs love. Savannah told John:”Just hearing your voice, I would have changed my mind.” Her love is definitely based on sense. Love and marriage are two different things. Marriage is sort of sacrificial love, meaning responsibility and sharing weal and woe, while love is for pure pleasure.
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A Good Woman


2010
03.08

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Today is a special day-International Women’s Day, so I’d like to recommend a special film for all the women.

Film: A Good Woman
Director: Mike Barker
Cast: Helen Hunt/Scarlett Johansson/Tom Wilkinson

A Good Woman is a drama film adapted from Oscar Wild’s famous play Lady Windermere’s Fan.
I just want to comment on a few insightful sentences in the movie.

1. Marriage is based on mutual misconceptions.
How many secrets husband and wife keep from each other, though some of them are out of good intentions? Sometimes the good intentions cause greater hurt rather than telling the truth. Robert doesn’t want to reveal the identity of Mrs Erlynne to Meg just because he doesn’t want to shatter her fairy-tale imagination of her mother. But what is the price? Meg is crazy that her husband falls in love with another woman. She is at the verge of being seduced by Lord Darlington if not her mother finds out her in time. Maybe others would put the blame on Meg, why she just simply believes in her husband?
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona


2010
03.07

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Director: Woody Allen

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Cast: Rebecca Hall/Scarlett Johansson/Javier Bardem/Penélope Cruz/Chris Messina

The film is entitled with “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”. A combination of three names, of which two are woman and one, is city. So you’ve already known it’s about two women’s story in Barcelona. Also, you can’t miss María Elena, the third woman in the story. To tell the truth, I just can’t get all three beauties out of my mind after watching it.

Woody Allen surely knows lots about woman for he created such lively and convincing female characters in his film. Female is more expressive than man. When you read their faces, you are reading their minds too. This is a demanding job, but Antonio, the actor, made it. The moment he saw Vicky and Cristina, he was attracted by both of them.
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Nine


2010
02.28

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Director: Bob Marshall

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Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis/Marion Cotillard/Penélope Cruz/Judi Dench/Stacy Ferguson/Kate Hudson /Nicole Kidman/ Sophia Loren

“They are the only movies telling the truth about the modern world: the death of religion and sexual revolution” the most memorable line from the glossiest film of the year of 2009-Nine, which is also considered with the best cast of the year.
“Nine,” from the Broadway musical, is a movie about a famous director’s creative blockage and sexual confusion, but not quite in the way it wants to be. Straining to capture artistic frenzy, it descends into vulgar chaos, less a homage to Federico Fellini’s “8 ½” (its putative inspiration) than a travesty.
“I can’t make this movie,” the director sings. It seems that he is busily doing everything but making a movie. Escaping from the news conference, dating with his mistress, and keeping falling into nostalgia. The only hope to save him from such messy situation lies in his wife.  (more…)

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