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Name: Yuta
Country: United States
Birthday: 3/28/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: Movies & Philosophy...for now
Occupation: Student
Industry: Entertainment
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Member Since:
12/15/2004
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| The Proposition (2005) Dir: John Hillcoat
"No More." stood out to me more than anything else in this film.
It is spoken by one of the main characters as he makes the most important choice in his life: to choose loyalty to his family or to do what is right.
The great thing about this film is how it creates three dimensional characters. People are not black and white, villains can be conflicted to stop evil and heroes can use evil means to get justice. It reminded me of the film Unforgiven by Clint Eastwood that recreated the Western characterization.
Nice gritty look that matches the dirtiness of their environment.
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| Me and You and Everyone We KnowDirected by Miranda July
The music was really good. It made some of the scenes come to life. Miranda July was great and kudos to her courage to make a film like this.
I liked the framing. But to me, it was on the verge of being too pretentious. I didn’t really like the story though. There were two amazing scenes where they walk down the road as if it represents their whole life together and then the scene when the art curator continues to watch Miranda July on the DVD. The director’s background in performance art really does show through in the style of how the film is put together.
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| L' EnfantDirected by:
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Luc Dardenne
My 2nd Dardanne brother’s film since “The Son.” I’m used to their style now, otherwise I wouldn’t have liked this film as much.
Type of film: social issues presented through characters trying to survive in circumstances relating to their work. People are essentially what they do. In this film, we observe a young couple; Bruno, a young thief, with no direction in life and his young teenager girlfriend, Sonia, who has just had a baby boy.
They are like both like children; immature, playful. Although they are like children, Sonia has qualities that make her suitable as a mother; responsible, loving. Bruno, on the other hand, irresponsible. He treats everything as having a price tag. He sells their baby with no hesitation. “We’ll just make another one,” he says.
To me, the film is about Bruno finally making choices from his heart instead of his wallet. In the final choice that he makes in the film, we see him finally taking responsibility and becoming more mature.
The acting was so real. I wonder how they pulled it off.
Good cinematography. Handheld, shallow space composition, documentary style framing which creates sort of a claustrophobic feeling in the dramatic scenes, and long takes of directly frontal framing as characters do mundane everyday things.
The sounds were all industrial. No Music. Good way to create realism.
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| Muhammad YunusYunus and the bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below."
The Grameen Bank has issued more than US$ 5.1 billion to 5.3 million borrowers. To ensure repayment, the bank uses a system of "solidarity groups". These small informal groups apply together for loans and its members act as co-guarantors of repayment and support one another's efforts at economic self-advancement.
The 65-year-old economist said he would use part of his share of the $1.4 million award to create a company to make low-cost, high-nutrition food for the poor. The rest would go toward setting up an eye hospital for the poor in Bangladesh, he said. The food company, to be known as Social Business Enterprise, will sell food for a nominal price.
Some Quotes:
“We achieve what we want to achieve. If we are not achieving something, my first suspicion will fall on the intensity of our desire to achieve it.”
“Each person has tremendous potential. She alone can influence the lives of others within communities, nations-within and beyond her own time. Each of us has much more hidden inside of us than what we have had a chance to explore so far. Unless we create [an] enabling environment to discover the limits of our potential--we will never know what we have inside of us. Grameen has given me a faith, an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings.”
There is a book written by him. Nice.
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| Gakko II (1996) Dir: Yamada Yoji
I liked it but it was only emotional in once scene when the mother hugs his son's friend. Great film about what's wrong with education these days in Japan. I didn't quiet understand the balloon analogy. I wasn't too connected with the teacher this time. I think the dialogue has some really strong points, but why they work so well is because there is quiet often a comedic relief, that takes away the seriousness away. Sort of cheesy humor, but works. I loved the character that works at the hotel, the one that has accepted his work and how he is so punctual when it comes to time. The honesty that shows through his actions and the scene where he talks about the girl he loved and he couldn't be with because of his condition, was a great scene.
So dake wa wakatte yareyo.
Nan demo iinda.
Sono ii kata okashiiyo.
Sorede naniga ikenaino, naniga fukouheinano?
Jibunde oboe youto shinaito oboerarenai.
Ganbare ba maeni susumu.
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