Black Swan

"I just want to be perfect"

This has definitely got to be one of the more memorable movies of the year. As in the custom, I am one who usually steers clear of this movie genre. Thriller/horror has never sat well with me and trust me, you wouldn't want to be seated next to me while watching this kind of film. I can guarantee you, your viewing experience will be less than comforting. But Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and most of all ballet kinda sold me in the end. 

Pleasantly, this movie doesn't revolve around the art but more around the artists themselves and the level of mental strain it takes to reach a level of untainted beauty, realism and the adamant scrutiny of perfection. But it is only when perfection is not enough, one gets pushed to the edge of sanity. Obsession turns into paranoia which in turn feeds on its victims so fast, too fast one is left with only shards of who they used to be. 

A truly haunting story about a young, fragile ballerina consumed by the need to be perfect. Sigh. 

NOT a must watch. But if you're into gruesome self-mutilation and bloody mind games, go ahead.

Rating: 7/10

Shutter Island

Ok, I know everyone's watched it blabalbla wtvr but I just recently found time to watch it and my conclusion is :

Do not watch this alone in the dark at 3 in the morning. akjsdhflakjsdfhaljsdfh! 

Good movie. Noice.

Dear Nonsense

Being the romantic that I am, I have a soft spot for sappy feel-good movies. However, I guess it was too much to expect as much from this particular movie. It had its moments though. How can one not love Amanda Seyfried? Apart from that, it was just berlghhakdjhfakdfhhhherghhhhhhhhh.

Thats 90 minutes of my life I can't get back.

Redo

With my Friday night being unusually UNOCCUPIED, I had some time for myself to catch this old movie. The movie was pleasantly light enough to take my mind off things apparently, for I found myself google-ing 'Zac Efron' after I was done with it. 

Shucks.

Goodnight tweedledums :)

p.s desperately deprived :'(

The world needs a new kind of army - an army of the kind

Last night, skinny and I watched The Blind Side (coincidentally, so did many other people haha. Liy's take on it here)

"Honey, you are changing that boy's life"

"No.... He is changing mine."

Based on true events, Hancock captured kindness and magnanimity sincerely within the contrasting characters of Micheal Oher, a plus size Forrest Gump and Leigh Anne, a spiffy housewife of conventional upbringing, so perfectly - we can even begin forgive the familiar and stereotypical plot (getting the better of racial complexities etc.).

A no frills film with plenty to offer, it is worthy of your must-watch list :)

P.s. If the film succeeded in setting the fashion amongst its audience to be more kind to the people around them, its work here is done :)

Rat race

In the last package Mummy sent me, she had the pinkest of courtesy to include a book knowing very well that at that time my examinations were about to draw to an end. 

Around the same time, the movie was released and I am the kind who watches the movie first then only will I indulge in the book because only now I can put faces to the characters haha. Blame the hypoimaginative brain please.

Some said that the movie was mediocre with the book being better (yeah, typical comment -the book is MEMANG always better ok) and some said that it drove them to tears. 

 

I absolutely adore Rachel McAdams (ever since Mean Girls *insert ew here*) and that is a perfectly good reason for one to watch the show already. Then the casting crew had to throw in the amazingly delectable Eric Bana to portray Clare's counterpart, the time traveler himself - Henry DeTamble.

Mmmhmm. Its just like toast overladen with strawberry jam. You think "oh this isn't going to be comfortable". But then it goes into your mouth and it tastes wonderful anyway.

The story got to me in a different way though. I was moved by the determination of one woman to make a life for two people entirely on her own. The book pictured her with moments of weakness in places but the movie conveyed it quite differently. 

Again, its about faith. Believing in things you can't possibly comprehend in the current state of time. Waiting for Henry's periodic visits - days, months, even years. 

This is definitely one of your 'aaaaahhhhhhhhh....' stories. Both the book and the movie amazingly did not manage to disappoint me.

My recent tweet read: Now man rush to grow up then long for childhood later on. 

Ironic. Just remember that time travel is not another fish in the sea for the average you and me unless you are some distant relative of Henry's la -.- . 

So I think that its about time we ran a different race. :)

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Honest Lies

It has come to my understanding that lying is fairly inevitable.