They saw death, I saw love

And I thought I was the one that had lost faith in human nature.

Anyways, we went to our Wedensday International movie night. This time I was so busy, I didn't had any chance to read anything about the movie before hand. But at the very beginning I knew it was going to be on my top list.

The movie was REPRISE. A movie about two upcoming writers in Norway.
I knew from the very beginning I would love it, as the narrator interrupted the flow of the movie to tell us what would've happen if...
The "what if" was so crazy exaggerated and unpredictable that remind me of Amelie's imagination. I loved it and the "what if" was a recurring theme, which at the end of the movie when people discussed it, it seem a common understanding to everyone that every happy "what if" was never real, and the sad darker ones were.

What bother me the most was a special scene where one of the protagonists comes up with a way to make sure his love interest will finally fall in love with him.
Later on in the movie he uses the same trick (at kind of bad times with not so happy conclusions) yet, it was always a reminder of me that THEY were in love, and that THEY always had this little secret to make sure the other person would fall in love for one and other.
But noooooooo, for everyone it meant death wish and suicide just because things were not working as flawlessly as we wish love was.
WHY? OH why was that the general understanding of it.
I was apparently the only one that exit that movie wishing to use that same trick, and tell my grandchildren how after all this time the trick kept working.

Am I the only one that still believes in Truth, Beauty but above all Love?

Go see the movie please, and tell me.

P.S. yeah, yeah, I took freedom off the Mouling Rouge reference, cause... well... Freedom doesn't come for free ;) (Bonus points for catching that last reference)

Turtles can fly

This must be the "harshest" movie I've ever seen.
After seen the trailer I assume the usual "life can be beautiful even in the face of adversity", a common theme in "third world country" movies. Yet this one has left me in shock.
I recommend it , yet I don't think I have the courage to see any other of the Bahman Ghobadi movies.

From the first review in iMDB "A viewing of this film earlier tonight ... was immediately followed, in my case, by a trip to a bathroom stall where I stared blankly at a wall for fifteen minutes amidst a state of pure, and surprisingly prolonged, emotional helplessness"
I can relate.

My thoughts on Cloverfield

Hehe

/sigh

well I had to see it before the spoilers told me how it looked liked.

...

and I did, so mission accomplished