Monday, December 12, 2011

Watergate #2

Frost / Nixon (2008)

Director: Ron Howard
Stars; Frank Langella
Michael Sheen

English talk show host David Frost offers a battle to Richard Nixon who lost his power because of Watergate incident.

This battle is actually a official interview to Richard Nixon.
Since he never apologize about Watergate,
what every American people want to hear from him is his apology.

And David Frost knows that,
he schemes he can be famous in the U.S. succeeding at his interview.

On the other hand, Nixon's purpose of this interview is to talk about rest of his career to achieve his desire to get back to where he once belonged.
When he was asked about Watergate, he changes his subject soon!
This technique is clever.


On the last day of the interview,
 while their dialogue heats up and gets more stressed.
Finally, Frost catches Nixon's unbelievable state!

Two big desire of two men.


Thursday, December 8, 2011

Watergate #1


All The President's Men (1976)

Director: Alan J. Pakula
Writers: Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
Stars: Dustin Hoffman
Robert Redford


Two young journalists working at the Washington post runs for big news which is known as Watergate.

    Dustin as Carl Bernstein                                         
        
                                                                           Robert as Bob Woodward
                                                                  

They go  out for investigation everyday until they can get clear evidence because the boss of the Washington post knew that this attempt to reveal the relevance between Watergate and White house was too dangerous to publish without evidence.
Boss orders to find 100 % sure resource for this incident.


As Deep Throat (someone knows the fact of Watergate, seems to be working for the Government) gives some hints to them, they come close to the core of Watergate.


Overcoming several dangerous phases,
They Finally succeed to publish.

Two young men changed the world !
All people who are interested in journalism must watch this.

Their boss leaves moving message to them at last,
"freedom of press and maybe the future of the country rides on THIS"


Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Tokyo International Film Festival



#1 House of Tolerance (2011, France)

Director: Bertrand Bonello

First, I simply enjoyed nudes !

Well, All these prostitutes had to be a fire in the dark.
It attracts men.

But what about inside of the fire?
There is no real fire there.
Men are playing in dream, created world. and so are all girls.
All struggle.

Last scene that one girl from this house is leaving seems she is releasing her mind to her new world.
She can live in real world from now on.
That was impressive.
You should look carefully at their faces.
No emotions in the house.

#2 Detachment (2012, United States)

Director: Tony Kaye
Stars: Adrien Brody
Lucy Liu
Sami Gayle

This one is about current situation in American education.

This film tells us how important all children feel love from their parents.
Teachers can understand troubles each student holds.
But most of time it requires "love".
When teachers refuse, it may let them kill themselves out of despair.
How can teachers face to them then?


#3 Albert Nobbs (2012, Unites States)

Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Stars: Mia Wasikowska
Aaron Johnson
Glenn Close

Hard times for ladies to live.
She died in the end, but by living as a man,
she could live with a wonderful dream.

She can say it was a good life.


#4 Trishna (2012, Netherlands)



#5 Corman's World (2011, United States)


A documentary film of Roger Corman.
I didn't know him before, but I realized he is a great man thorough this film.
God of making low cost film.

I'll try seeing his works.


#6 Bonsai (2011, France)



Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Time travel in one day

Back to the Future I, II, III (1985, 89, 90)





Since I caught a cold, I stayed at my room all day watching movies.

Needless to say this series is great !
I have watched it over and over again though.


Maybe it's impossible to see the world with time travel in real....
that cause too much trouble.

Yuki

Hello James !

East of Eden (1955)

Writer: John Steinbeck
Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: James Dean
Julie Harris


I fell in love with James Dean at first sight !!

It took almost one month to read original navel by John Steinbeck
which is so dynamic story covering 3 generations of two families.

This story is basically based on the story of Cain and Abel from Bible.

Both of Cain and Abel gave God Yahweh their presents one day.
Yahweh liked little sheep Abel gave, but didn't pay much attention to crop Cain gave.
Cain got mad at this, and he killed Abel.
Yahweh expelled Cain to east of eden.

The story is just simple like this.

John Steinbeck's East of Eden is telling us that
we cannot help but repeating things like this over generations.

This is about love.






Back to the film,
Elia Kazan had visualized last part of original nocel.

James Dean as Cal (stands for Cain) wants to be loved by his Father Adam,
but somehow his father likes Aron (Cal's twin brother) more than Cal.

Still, Cal tries to obtain father's love.

I want this novel is read by many people in the world.
It may let you dive into the world of this novel and you can think about meaning of our lives.


Yuki

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Justice.


Took a class of Michael Sandel.
I mean I watched a TV program.

This time, our topic starts with the story of Osama Bin Laden.

1. U.S. killed him in the name of victims to 9.11 and fear of terrorism.
Do you think this is Just?

There were about 20 students from China, Japan and the U.S.
Some say this is just and some say not.

To think about this question, we had two more other questions.


2. Four of U.S. soldiers were spying in Afghanistan.
But they were caught in sight of goatherd.
What they should do?
kill them just in case they tell enemy this thing?
release them because they seem nothing to do with this matter?


3. Two planes were hijacked by terrorists.
One is already plunged into a tall building in the big city.
The other one also seems to be dive into the city killing a lot of people down there.
Is it just to shoot that plane to save life on the ground?




As a conclusion, Sandel  gave us some hints.
To think about these questions, there are three main themes.

1. theory of number
It is just to kill somebody to save large number of people.

2. One's dignity
Nevertheless there exists the problem of number, we should respect one's dignity.

3.problems beyond them
All three questions we faced today would be classified here.
We have to think both 1 and 2 at the same time and sometimes it is urgent decision.

It's ultimately difficult to decide and we'll never know which is right or wrong.


What is Justice ?
The more we think over this matter, we dive into bigger maze.

Yuki

Dreams of explorers

Sanctum (2011)



F**k 3D !!
Let me put the story aside.

There was no 2D as an option, so I had to choose 3D.
However this is not an action movie.
There was no good of watching this with 3D.

Ohhh, I hate 3D !
Hate it hate it hate it !
just making it expensive.
I rather watch this kind of film 2D than f**kin' 3D.

By the way, it was telling us the mystery of our earth.
It made me go exploring ! yay !

Yuki