Yi Yi(2000)

Even before watching this movie, I have heard it so many times. The first time was at Mass Media Class,when Yeppy introduce this film at class as a presentation, The second time was just days ago, I thought I have to watch it without doubt.

After 3 hours watching, The experience was just like living in director 's life with his pace and his voice.

The story is about the lives of a family living in a modern Taipei. Everything happens so normal.

The father,NJ, was a family man, who had to deal with pass relationship and his opportunist business partners. He as his Japanese associate puts it: "A good guy". He is also a rather reserve person, holding onto his opinion without making the other person "loose face". Finally I felt NJ was loyal both towards his partners and family. To me NJ represented typical Chinese "composure" and emotion compare to Westerners, such as not hugging his wife when she was distraught or not being blunt with his thoughts.

Ting-Ting, the daughter had to deal with relationship and friendship issues, at the same time she seemed to blame herself for her grandmother's condition. I felt Ting-Ting expressed the most emotion in the film due to her role as a teenager growing up.

The gem of the film was NJ's 8 year old son. The son sums up what were in other's mind. He was naive, determine, playful and thoughtful and such a natural in front of the camera! His letter towards the grandmother's funeral at the end well, even bought tears to my eye,moved my heart. 'You left without telling me where you went...if I ever find out I will come and find you to tell you goodbye'.

'We live three times as long ever since they invented films' says one of the characters in the film. If this statement is true,then by watching this movie you will live even longer.

Trailer of "Children Of Heaven "(Bacheha-Ye aseman) by Majid Majidi

Children Of Heaven(Bacheha-Ye aseman) by Majid Majidi

When I search this movie on internet, I saw a line"A Little Secret.Their Biggest Adventure ."(Google.com) This is my inner voices after watching this wonderful movie .
This movie was trying to tell a story about Ali losing his sister , Zahra's ,shoes and trying everything the little boy could do to reducing the pressure for his family, helping his parents get over hardship with money problem.
This film is played with such innocence and beauty; it is a true pleasure to watch. Ali with such incredible depth and passion. From the start of the film, we see the relationship between brother and sister, played with equal warmth, strained as he explains how he lost her shoes. The sorrow on Ali's face, and Zahra's tears at the news, are truly heartbreaking to watch.

At the end of this movie,The boy run for his sister, his little mistake,his biggest hope,with desperate spirit,even crying after he got the first place.I shocked.That's the reason for this title of this movie.







I was extremely impressed with Children of Heaven and moved by the simplistic and powerful effect the film had on me. The idea that more is always better is proved wrong by this film and the impact that it has made on so many viewers. The extremely low cost of the film, the inexperienced actors, and the lack of technological advancements and images, gives the wrong impression about the quality of the film. In fact, the success of this film shows that the simple things in life are often more important.

Dreams (1990) by Akira Kurosawa

I never really into Japanese animated historical fantasy feature film ,like Princess Mononoke ,Castle in the Sky,etc,. When I watching these movie ,I just know what this movie will tell us ,which the theme is always for protecting environment and human brutal at killing animal.
First,I will list the summary for every dreams below.
Dream 1 – a kid encounters a group of people who act like animals; the kid walks, the animal people walk.


Dream 2 – a kid encounters a group of people who act like flowers; the kid walks, the flower people dance.

Dream 3 – a group of guys walk around in a snowstorm .
Dream 4 – some guy walks down a tunnel – very very slowly, then tries to explain death to a group of really stupid dead people.

Dream 5 – some guy has a completely meaningless conversation with Van Gogh, then briskly walks around inside various paintings.





Dream 6 – nuclear reactors explode, people die, and the chapter ends with an absolute moron trying to defend himself against radioactivity by waving his coat in the air.

Dream 7 – some guy walks around aimlessly in the fog, then meets a bunch of nutty mutant dudes who contribute a "mourning" ceremony that is perhaps the cheesiest, most poorly acted scene in motion picture history.

Dream 8 – a watermill scene with some decent conversations about nature and science.

Dreams is not a really easy film to review, as it is an episodic bundle of various dreams from throughout Akira Kurosawa's life. So watching it is like going from one to another without a fully connecting thread. Thus, each one is like a perfectly contained short film where the director's awesome gifts of his painter's eye is put to the main test. Even when a 'dream' isn't totally working or memorable, or if there's just something not really engaging enough with it (even within the 'logic' of a dream), it's never tiring to look at. At this point in Kurosawa's career, following the towering masterwork Ran, here his mood is more reflective, dark, occasionally brooding, happy, and hopeful in equal measures.
For slow pace and too meticulous in film,I just will skip to overview it if I was alone. However,I keep my eye on the screen until it finished, Because some part of this movie really make me feel the special for this film. Afterall,this is a masterpiece for some of people.

The eye (Gin gwai)

Actually,I never want to see the horror movie in my life ever again after for the freaking out experience in watching TIAN HEI QING BI YAN（天黑请闭眼）in the theater.
This kind of horror movie make me feel that I could hardly bare the blooding scenes for long time.I always will have deja vu after watching this kinds of movie,so I scared to have it again and again after watching horror movie.
However,I have seen this movie long before for Li,Xinjie, which is a beautiful actress who speaking cantonese which is a language I was learning by then.
I was getting goosebumps when I heard that professor larry will show us this movie again.
In "The Eye", Wong Kar Mun (Lee) is a young blind woman who gets a corneal transplant. Soon after her operation, as her eyes are adjusting, she begins to see some pretty scary images; shadowy black figures hanging around people who later die, dead people themselves, and her room keeps doing a pesky trick where it changes on her as she's looking at it, furniture and all. Her doctor, Dr. Lo (a really young looking Edmund Chen) doesn't believe her at first, but then realizes that there may be some merit to her claims, so they go in search of the donor in order to find out what history her eyes' previous owner had, and what kind of baggage Wong Kar Mun has to deal with now.
Based on my first impressions of the film, I was actually expecting a big scare fest like "The Grudge"; short on story, big on scares. What I actually realized is that the two parts that I briefly watched were actually two out of the three genuinely scary parts of the film. (The elevator scene was enough to make me take the stairs today at work, seriously.) The rest of the film is certifiably creepy, but there is actually a decent story to support those creepy parts. "The Eye" has no doubt been compared to "The Sixth Sense" in terms of theme, but it is also similar in substance as well. Even without the scares, the film would be able to stand on its other merits. Some of the special effects in "The Eye" were kind of cheesy (basically Sci-Fi channel made-for-cable television caliber) and in typical Chinese film fashion, the music was horrible, but all told, it is a decent film.

Shanghai Triad (Yao a yao yao dao waipo qiao)

The film was directed by Zhang,Yimou,and main role is played by Gong,Li,which is one of the most famous actresses. I knew her when I was a little child. In this movie, She was so outstanding in her performance as a singing women . She just make what the director want her to be,and make this role vivid like she just been her.

One certainly cannot criticize the performances in this movie. The stunning Gong Li was perfectly cast as girlfriend to Boss Tang, who was himself superbly portrayed by Baotian Li. I thought, however, that Wang Xiaoxiao stole the show with his performance as Shuisheng, the "third nephew of the boss's cousin" (or some such convoluted connection.) Shuisheng is a peasant boy whose suddenly brought to Shanghai by Boss Tang to serve as servant to Gong Li's character. From that position he has the chance to see this essentially gangster family in action, and it's interesting to watch the loyalty he begins to develop for his new mistress.Much has been said by others about the beautiful cinematography and that's certainly true - but I'm also struck by the amazing work of those who constructed or chose the sets, costumes, background characters - they were quite memorable. What a star in Gong Li, and what a director.

In summation, the film is visually sumptuous, the performances are rather good and the story line is clever.

Talk to her By Pedro Almodovar (Spain)

This long story movie with slow pace,leading you with nowhere if you have no patient,But you will get a meaningful thought if you get along with this movie and finished it.However,you still not sure that meaningful thought is the right theme for this movie,because this movie has much more than you expected.A talent to make movies that are not always easy to watch, but certainly thought provoking, beautiful, compelling and stylish.

This is a film about men and their emotions. One man has a relationship with a woman, the most famous female matador in Spain. He cries over the most strange things. The female matador gets in a coma. The other man is in love with a woman, he has only spoken to her once. The man is a male nurse and when the woman gets in a coma he is the one to take care of her. Some people around him thinks he is gay so he is allowed to take care of her, see her naked, touch her. The two men get to know each other while waiting at the beds of their loved ones.The man thought to be gay raped the woman at end,and died for having no hope to see his lover again.However,the woman waked at last,talking with the man who knows everything about this tragedy.

There is a great deal to admire and enjoy in this film - it has an excellent cast, an excellent storyline, and of course - an excellent director. I found that when I was watching the film, I never really knew which direction the plot was heading in - and as a result of this, I was left feeling quite surprised with some of the events which occurred in the film. This was quite refreshing because I find a lot of films to be very predictable, but `Talk To Her' isn't like that.