Movie day
Have been drop by to thevideo rental store to check out somemovies.Back home get a bath and brunch and start my movie journey.Totally three movie for today from thai movie to Hollywood production.
Movie title : My girl (Thai: Fan chan ) Starring : Chalee Triart ,Chawin Chitsomboon,
Focus Jeerakul,Wongsakorn Rasameetat ..Etc
Directed by :Kongrit Threewimol,Nithiwat Thatatorn
Run time :110 mins
It is by collective memory of Thai childhood which result as a soft-pedal pastiche of childhood life .Set in a medium-sized town on the outskirts of Petchburi about the 20-year-old recollection of a childhood friendship that went wrong, as remembered by Jeab (Charwin Jitsomboon) as he returns home to drop in on the wedding of Noi Nah, his once-best friend.
Now 28 or so, or roughly the age that one first starts attending school reunions, Jeab narrates the start of our journey into the past, where it is quickly taken over by an ensemble of child actors.Separated from the other neighborhood boys by a busy street his mother won't let him cross, the young Jeab (Charlie Trairattana) spends his days playing with Noi Nah (Focus Jirakul), the girl next door whose preternatural intelligence, enthusiasm and energy make her the leader of the two. Jeab and Noi Nah 's dad are rival barbers who won't speak to each other; their mothers are casual friends, and the plot of Fan Chan is minimal.
As Jeab grows up he starts to yearn for acceptance by the gang of boys who ride the school bus, and gravitates away from the gang of girls led by Noi Nah who have appropriated him in their role-play games. Jeab's conflicting loyalties lead to a crisis which is not entirely unpredictable.
The joy of Fan Chan and movies like it is in not predicting it, but rather going along for the ride willingly with the innocence of the children whose story it is (Girls's gang playing elastics and acting family while guys' gang jump off the bridge naked for instances). Lubricating the suspension of disbelief with humor and charm is the strength of Fan Chan, which is refreshingly low on sentimentality and thankfully devoid of precociousness.
There is an intoxicating richness to the everyday life details of Fan Chan, such as the leaf-filled drainwater that the girls pretend is soup during their cooking games, or the way Jeab's father turns off the engine on his moped when going downhill to save gas. Some elements like the heavy-handed use of period music and screen shots of actual period television shows border on overplay. But even for non-Thais the spell probably holds, and for Thais the warmth of memory will overcome any cynicism whatsoever. Jeab himself acknowledges that what seemed like a tragedy to him as a child (and still seems freshly traumatic to us) was eventually forgotten and released, just as with most everything that happens in childhood. His final encounter with Noi Nah serves up a final reflection on the double-edged sword of nostalgia itself
Leading actor : Clint Eastwood ,Hilary Swank,Morgan Freeman
Directed by : Clint Eastwood & written for the screen by PaulHaggis, from short stories by F.X. Toole 2004
Runtime:137 mins
A traditional filmmaking at its finest.Get enough time to know the characters, their motivations, and the places where they live and work.Director itself (Clint Eastwood) is direct, unsentimental over the movie and he never calls attention to himself or to any shot.Get a chance for oneself to learn something about oneself by simply watching the characters in the film in the extremes of human experience. Movie screen proceeded in old, worn-down and rusty way.
Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired boxers .It appeared to be powerful and confident in their word and movement. Like the movie itself, they say what they mean and mean what they say, and not a word more.A lot of awesome quote from the movie such as "Tough ain't enough". They are running a gym of the same color and dilapidation Clint writes letters to a daughter who returns them unopened and Morgan sleeps in rusted cell in the gym. They have issues.
Here goes Hilary Swank. She's too old(31 aged) to start boxing but she's too determined to quit. because she has nothing else and boxing seems to be her everything . She's been waiting tables since 13 and living off chunks of change and what she can scrape off dirty plates. Life has passed her by. Clint doesn't train girls not so much because he's opposed to girls boxing .But she won't go away and, as her trainers, he begins the process of beating her down and building her back up. Together they gradually work their way up the women's boxing circuit, butting heads and regaining their damaged dignity. The message "redeeming ourselves through action to make up for past mistakes" is somehow elaborated in this movie by showing us that sometimes there is nothing we can do but come to terms with what we've done wrong.
Get a chances to see about three times as many punches as in a real boxing match. The movie show how the boxing sport works, not only how to punch , but also rhythm, philosophy, and allure of the game. Watching Hiliary up late night after night, punching her bag For her, it becomes a myopic obsession, giving her life shape and meaning.
Starring: Robert De Nino,Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Amy Irving,Dylan Baker and Elisabeth Shue.
Directed: John Polson. (2005, 20th Century Fox)
Robert De Niro plays David Callaway, a psychologist who's wife (Amy Irving) commits suicide leaving behind their young daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning). Both David and Emily move away to a small country town to try and start a new life but when Emily invents an imaginary friend named Charlie, it ignites a terrifying turn of events. The story including a series of twists. Also entangled in the game is David's potential love interest Elizabeth (Elisabeth Shue), a nosy sheriff (Dylan Baker), a fellow therapist Katherine (Famke Janssen) and two odd neighbours (Melissa Leo and Robert John Burke).
The crucial character is the imaginary charlie.Either he is just someone only exisit in Emily's mind or he does exisit and if so .Who he is ? That's where the twist about and keep me wondering the series of killing screen and who actually does this.Ever heard that in the DVD version get 5 different ending which state the whole story at the end.
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