THE KING'S SPEECH
TRUE GRIT
NANA (5 stars)
This movie isn't your generic chick flick friendship shojo type movie. it deserves all 5 stars in my opinion. the characters face the same relationship issues as any other young women but more interesting then that of the people you or i know in person. The storyline and flashbacks of NANA'S love life and where she is now shows her strength while vulnerabilities are still present. Her room mate NANA is able to learn greatly from her and they build a bond through the break ups, heart breaks, and come backs that are entirely different than what any viewer would expect. It ends happily but it seemed to me that there was more to come. But considering that there are multiple volumes of manga that go to it, i can understand, plus a friend of mine, who i believe to be well informed, told me that they stopped there because the author was sick. i sure hope they make another movie because this one was plane awesome! :D
at first glance, i imagined that both girls would be feuding due the fact that they have totally different personalities, it was totally different though. the story isn't a hostile type movie, in fact they both get along right off the back when they meet each other on a train and realized that they have the same name and are the same age. It's really set "Hachi" (nickname for the pretty in peak, handful of a young women Nana) learns from the less than presentable rocker Nana, who aspires to be a rock star. Her life being less than perfect met Ren, who she lived with for over a year who leaves her to go to Tokyo. In most cases,rather, what i imagined it to be was, that they hated each other . Or maybe she hated him for not staying with her. from the flash backs, it seemed that they were so close and he just vanished and they never kept in touch anymore. that's what it seemed until the last flash back of the movie when Nana goes to Ren's concert with his new band. From then on, my opinion completely changed. turns out they still loved each other and she was really in pain of heart break everyday, the same way he was. She was being strong though, trying to break it off for her own career along with the mistake of thinking he never thought of her anymore. I cried my delirious cry, as my brother tells me, many a time. sniff i think there are some tears still left over. It is pretty heart wrenching though, when it gets to the end of it though. I love it though, and i think everyone should get to watch it.
Paprika
Paprika is the sort of movie that changes concepts, ideas, and influences movies, books, and revolutions. Yea, you might thing that whole last statement is a hyperbole BUT you haven't seen this movie. Both engaging and enchanting , this movie, enter the subconscience into the dream world and sustains the "Alice in Wonderland" theme of stream of conscience. Of course, no matter how good the themes of love, attachement, past, future, desires, and alter egos are, it is a bit confusing to follow. It truly is a classic anime movie though, from it's oddities to its animation. The turn of events are wild and there's no way a first time viewer would be able to GUESS what's coming next.
The film's theme, like i previously stated is based of dreams. The main character is one of the best scientist at lab where her and and her partners, are developing technology to examine and share dreams. Not just for the fun of dream surfing though. The makers want to use it to solve mysteries and the physiological problems of the misfortunate. It all starts out in an officers dream, he's been trying to figure out what's been bothering him so much and Paprika was there to help. It later turns out that someone has gone missing due to the dream devices doing. In fact, more and more people who had been working on the mechanism were acting as if being touched with lunacy and deliberately endangering themselves. Paprika and her crew have to be on there way to figure out what's going on and stop it. But they were dealing with in cohesive imagination, objects lacking all sense, parades on march battling someone on the inside wanting to do them in with his perverted tactics. The climax and conclusion will not allow you to walk away from the movie, maybe because it's so darn weird, maybe because it's so darn good. Whatever the reason, you better finish watching this movie, then get back to my page and tell me how you liked it. :D
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