| Sunday, November 20, 2005 |
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Ever since I started my foreign movies marathon a few months back, I wish I could share with the whole world about all these awesome movies that I have watched. It is not easy , to choose the movies, I've seen many bad ones but also many excellent ones. Take this movie I am just done watching for example.
A Bittersweet Life. A movie about a gangster seen as exemplar by his boss but one tiny attempt to save a girl's life is assumed as an act of betrayal by his boss and thus he sent his pack to kill this man. This lead to revenge, which turns into a bloody mass of murder by the end of this movie. Sounds like a normal action-packed movie? Perhaps, but the art of the film makes it raise above the par. If this is an American movie, it could've been another cat-and-mouse-shoot-bomb-movie ends kinda film. Take 'Hero' as another example. It could've been just another boring wuxia film, but it is done in such details and art the movie become so extraordinary and beautiful. This is what I seek in a movie. And many foreign movies give me just that. No wonder so many American directors now often made a remake of a foreign movies. Even Brit production movies seem to be better nowadays.
My search of good movies ain't just gonna stop here. I have already line up a long queue on my Netflix. Hopefully I'll come across some more excellent productions. For next week, it'll be Men Suddenly in Black, Saw(yeah, baru nak tengok) and Fever Pitch(throw this in so that my mind can relax after watching so many people-killing-people movie). Yosh, I love art-gangster films! |
| posted by efarina @ 10:46 PM |
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