The Adventure with Spirited Away

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Everyone has a dream of adventure when we are young. Chihiro Ogino have the most beautiful and exciting adventure surprise all of us in the year when she was 10 years old. She grow up with this adventure, become a hero to save the life of her parents and herself, know lots of nice person, have a good friend, and remember all of the memories in her life. 

I think this movie it about grow up, friendship, and how to find a real you in different life. I admire her brave, and she becomes the most desirable idle in my childhood, maybe in lots of children’s dream as well.

Haku is one of the important person in this movie. Though there are many characters like bathhouse's boiler-man---- Kamaji, the worker---- Lin, the witch----Yubaba, a silent masked creature named No-Face, Yubaba's baby son Boh, I think Haku plays the most important role in Chihiro Ogino’s life who in called Sen in the adventure. He gives help to a helpless her, give love to a little girl and create the most beautiful dream. 

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Friends make the happiest us in both dreamed and real life. They give us brave, company, love, help, when we are scared, lonely, confused and helpless. The life is getting bigger and better when surrounded by friends. In Spirited Away, I think one of the ideas Hayao Miyazaki wants to express to all children and adults. 

Spirited Away teach me how to become a better person, find different ourselves in difficulties. This also is a dream to many kids, encourage them to be brave and enjoy every minutes in the life. To adults, I think it is more about make the heart feel warm by watch Chihiro Ogino’s adventure. Maybe everyone need a adventure, maybe we all want an adventure, maybe there must be an adventure to make us grow. But I will never forget Chihiro Ogino and her friends give me a dream in that summer, bring all the expectation to the future and a warm heart to this world.

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Thanks, my dear Chihiro Ogino. 
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Edge of tomorrow

                                           
The famous actor, Tom Cruise, has never let you down. The movie ‘Edge of tomorrow’ that Tom appears also gets hit recently. It is a 2014 movie and the genre is action and science-fiction (sci-fi).

http://www.twinfinite.net/2014/06/05/edge-of-tomorrow-first-movie-better-game/

The brief synopsis is that humankind meets the extinction due to invasion of alien race called ‘Mimic’.

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Bill Cage (Tom Cruise) joins the war and takes a mission that is almost impossible without proper weapon. He eventually gets killed by the Mimic but lives out the same situation over and over like a dream. He is stuck in time loop. He explains the future to his comrades but nobody believes him except Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt).

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Rita is a Special Forces warrior who meets Bill while Bill is experiencing the death and waking up over and over. Bill believes Rita is the only way to escape from the time loop. So, he tries to find her when he wakes up. And Rita tells him the way to win the war and get out from the time loop.

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This movie shows a little bit of comic and love scene from the unrealistic phenomenon. Thus, we can enjoy with diverse genres in one movie. Of course, the action is major genre. Also, I bet you have ever thought what you would do if you went back to past. The movie let you think this thought again after the movie and you can forget the hard time in real life for a minute. It is pleasure to share this movie and I hope you all like it!

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By Jae Hyoung JUNG

The Wind Rises__Dream, Love and Idolum

The Wind Rise is a Japanese animated historical drama film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli. The story is from the biography of Jiro Horikoshi, who is a designer of the most important two aircraft in the World War 2.Since every audience has their own understanding of the movie,it got many critical reviews. 

However, in my opinion, the theme of the movie is Love--the love between Jiro Horikoshi and Nahoko, the love of dream and innovation and people's love to the country. All of these love is presented in a very pure and fervent way by the leading character under an well-organised way.Jiro Horioshi is a very simple man who is concentrate on aircraft. But his love to his invention is a paradox with anthropomorphism for a reason that his most important invention——A6M—Zero is used in the Second World War and cause a disaster to other countries and people. Because of this, he was blamed for the result of his purely love to his invention. If we think it in a deeper way, how do we make decisions in a ethic delima when there is conflict between individual dreams and social context?

Furthermore, as his previous movie, Havao Mivazaki created a dream for the audiences from idolum to realistic in The Wind Rise as well. The movie is only for 126 minutes. But while watching the movie, audience always can't stop to be into the story so that forget the psychical time. This is the meaning of dream. At the same time, it is a reminder for everybody about their own love and achievement. Everyone in the world has different and personal experience. But, it is human being to love and have positive value.

A very famous piece of poem " Le vent se leve, il faut tenter de vivre" is quoted many times in the movie. And it is understanding by the director as "The wind rises, make great effort to live".The 80% to 90% to life can't be satisfied with people wishes. But we still need to make an effort to live. In the movie, people still have positive attitude to life although they suffered from war, earthquake and economic recession, That's the main point the director wants to express through the movie.

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'The Notebook' -Most of people are looking forward this love.

<The Notebook > 

Most of people are looking forward this love.

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A touching and pure love story, written in a speckled yellow notebook, is belonging to an elderly man named Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling), he told over and over again to the elderly lady Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams). Allie Hamilton is always quietly listening, curious questioning the results. In a nursing home, the same scenario will be staged every day.

This movie is one of my favorites movies, it conform a lot of expecting from girls about love. Most of people may admire your beauty when you are young, but who will accompany with you until you get old and even forgot everything.

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The story begins in 1940. Allie Hamilton with her family came to South Carolina in the seaside town, where they plan to spend their summer on there. Allie was a young teenage girl at a rave party; she met a local boy Noah Calhoun. After meeting at the party, they were immediately attracted to each other deeply; a beautiful love quietly took place in the seaside town. Although Allie is a rich man's daughter, and Noah just poor local factory workers, but they spent a passionate and happy after this summer, two people had entered deeply in love. Seeing this young lovers about to become husband and wife, continue to enjoy the love, happiness and sweet, but the sudden outbreak of the Second World War put them separate, linked only love them each other's hearts.

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When the war ended, Noah coming back to town from the battlefield after a few years, Allie was not there, and she left from his life, but in Noah's heart still miss Allie. Noah did not know, in fact, after that sweet summer, Allie went back to the water town - a place that they love at first sight to looking for him, but he had already left home to join the army set foot on the battlefield. Allie holding regrets and has a glimmer of hope to stay in the town, but she married with a wealthy soldier who met in hospital.

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After a few decades, there is an elderly man (James Garner) reading a faded notebook to an elderly woman (Gina Rowlands) , he has been living in a nursing home which is her home. Though her ​​memory has faded, but her heart still remember the Loving the passion between the two. In fact, this elderly woman is Allie, and the man who told her the story of this notebook is Noah.

Even if The Notebook is a 2004 American romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes and based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. But I still strongly recommended for people who have not seen.



Here is some quotes from The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks.

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..” 
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.” 
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” 
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

heyheyhey~love this movie "closer"

 

 

 

The movie certainly deals with modern relationships and the fact that there is a diminishing role for affection and trust. One of the strengths of the movie is the reality that one feels while watching it. We feel that somehow we are transplanted in the tangled lives of these four characters. The characters and events are mostly weaved in conversation style from scene to scene. Thus, the communication in the movie is the key element to understand what drives someone in a perfectly good relationship to cheat and risk losing the one they love and love them back.

 

 

 

 

Another year passes by; Dan and Alice are invited to Anna's exhibit. While getting ready to go out, Alice starts a serious conversation with Dan. She tells him she is waiting for him to leave her. She looks directly at him while he is shaving and asks "I love you, why won't you let me love you? . . . Why won't you let me love you? " He gets quiet for a moment and then he insensitively tells her "Let's go to this thing, I will get on my train, I will be away one night. I will be back before you know it" Even though he is trying to divert her from the topic as a way of a supporting response, he is actually denying her feelings. By this point, Alice knows of Dan's feelings toward Anna. She knows he kissed Anna and she knows that he is not completely with her.

 

openning song is awesome, love the girl from beginning say: "hi, stranger"... 



In the opening scene, twenty-four-year-old Alice Ayres (Natalie Portman) and Dan Woolf (Jude Law) see each other for the first time from opposite sides of a street as they are walking toward each other among many other rush hour pedestrians. Alice is a young American stripper who just arrived in London and Dan is an unsuccessful British author who is on his way to work where he writes obituaries for a newspaper. Alice looks in the wrong direction as she crosses the street and is hit by a taxi cab right in front of Dan's eyes. He rushes over. She smiles to him and says, "Hello, stranger." He takes her to hospital where Alice is treated and released. Afterward, on the way to his office, they stop by postman's park, the same park that he and his father visited after his mother's death. Pausing in front of the office before he leaves her and goes to work, he reminds her that traffic in England tends to come on from the right, and on impulse, he asks her for her name. They soon become lovers.


The main theme of the film follows Mozart's opera Così fan tutte, with references to that opera in both the plot and the soundtrack. The soundtrack also contains songs from Jem, Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan, Bebel Gilberto, The Devlins, The Prodigy and The Smiths.
The music of  folk singer Damien Rice is featured in the film, most notably the song "the blower's Daughter," whose lyrics drew many parallels with the themes present in the film. The opening notes from Rice's song "Cold Water" are also used repeatedly, notably in the memorial park scenes.