Sunday, October 12, 2014

Review - The Perks of Being a Wallflower

A movie about pain and friendships.
Starred by Emma Watson as Sam, Logan Lerman as Charlie, Ezra Miller as Patrick, and Nina Dobrev as Candace, Charlie's big sister.

Charlie just lost his best friend, Michael, just before he entered high school. Michael shot himself, and didn't left charlie a single note. So, charlie wrote him a letter, almost every day to tell him about his daily stories.
Entering high school could be challenging, especially if you didn't have any friend to talk to, particularly during lunch hour. Eating alone, makes you feel everybody is pitying you. Lonely, is probably the exact word.

One day, in a football game, Charlie made a friend with a senior named Patrick, which happens to be he has a step sister named Sam. In just moments away, Charlie feels happy since he finally made some friends where he finally doesn't have to eat lunch alone. Everything went smoothly, until an incident happen where he shows his special affection to Sam.

The story is simple, run smoothly between all scenes, its a great movie, with great songs slipped in every scene. The movie tells how human being will blocked every ugly, bad times in their life, and the brain will simply block it until you have insufficient space in your brain or triggers that will made everything burst out. Charlie is simply a poor child, and a very normal human being.

The movie also tells how we human, needs interactions to other people, a feeling that we're "accepted". We are a proper human being, if we fit in to our environment. Sometimes we made stupid things, stupid decisions just to feel "accepted". The movie tells so much stories in just 102 minutes.

I have to give credit a lot to Emma Watson, since she played soo well in this movie. She's just the charm of the movie. Beautiful, edgy and fragile in one place. Come to think of it, all the casts of Harry Potter, is a great actor/actresses. Gotta see Horns after this, maybe.

Well, I am a content viewer, I love this movie so much. I gotta say, I gave 4/5 stars for this movie! Cheers!

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Review - Rurouni Kenshin 2012

This is 2012 movie, and I just watch it last night.
I know this movie as Batosai X, have watched the manga few years back. Love the manga quite well.

Himura Batosai, is a skilled, cold blooded killer. He is named as Batosai as a credit for the numerous killing he made. Started the job since 14 years old, he mastered all kinds of killing tricks. If you wish to see the art of katana (japanese sword), this movie will entertain you.

Kamiya Kaoru is the daughter of a dojo owner. She grew up with a paradigm that a sword is used only to protect others. She's a brave woman, fearless and caring also.

In the new era, if I'm not mistaken the Meiji Era, opium is illegal. One of the tycoon in that era, smuggle the opium and sell it secretly. To guard his business, he hired the best fighters in town, not only samurais but a boxer, and also a finest fighter who claimed himself as batosai.

During that time, lots of killing happens everywhere, the killers put the batosai signature in every killing he made. Every police officers and national guard trying so hard to find batosai, but somehow could not find him everywhere. When faith crossed, the killer met the real batosai. With the X scar in his face, the killer knew that he finally confronted with the real batosai.

Swore no to kill anyone again, himura batosai forced to broke his promise and marched to the tycoon's palace to save kaoru. Helped by his friend, he finally managed to save kaoru. Just like the manga, even as a batosai, himura never seen as a serious man, he always shows his foolish personality. I think this is one of his effort to show his eagerness to change, from a killer to common man.

The movie is filled with blood bath, I have to warn you this. If you wish to watch this with an underage,  I suggest you not to watch it with them. Overall, this movie is quite entertaining, although batosai is a very skinny dude, but I like his act in this movie. I gave this movie 3/5 stars!