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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Review | Cloud Atlas

172 minutes of spectacular non-stop and passionate storytelling.

To: Lena Dunham
CC: 2012, everybody who watches the show Girls
SUBJECT: My thoughts on your show

Dear Lena,

I wouldn't go as far as addressing you as madam, because apparently it's not the norm anymore to address you as Monsieur or Dame when you write a letter. Also it would be a bad idea if I actually address you as Ms Dunham. Anyway, how are you? I am fine thanks, but let's talk about your show titled Girls.

With that show, you have already became a household name in a year which everything is more likely to go viral on the web in milliseconds. With the likes of PSY, Rebecca Black or god forbid Lauren Faust, you have become the voice of thousands of ~~women~~ girls living in urban sprawls while climbing their way through uni. And I say this as a man who just finished high school, almost missed the cut off of my preferred courses in every university I observed,but ultimately got an alternate pathway through one of them*. Seems to be the worst scenario to establish your post high-school life.

Review | Django Unchained

Can slavery ever be a fantasy?

Review | Life of Pi (2012)

A feel good story with a meandering first and final act

I don't really know how a film like Life of Pi can be considered "unfilmable". Is it because the source material contains content that most filmmakers would be too afraid to tackle or is tthat they don't think it's possible to frame the film properly? Since having seen Life of Pi, I think any book or material from any other medium can be filmed, but it must have the right director, the right actor and the right crew who should carry the film and bring the appeal of the book it's based on to a certain audience. Best case scenario would be The Lord of the Rings. Directed by Peter Jackson, who at the time had directed some B movie schlock had directed such an incredibly big and dense story of all three books under a large budget and all he did was to frame everything grand making audiences feel like they're in the LOTR atmosphere.

Life of Pi has the right director from Ang Lee who directed films such as Brokeback Mountain, Lust Caution and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, the right actor and the right team in special effects to actually deliver a story based on Yann martel's best selling adaptation that is emotionally contained as it establishes itself as a heavy handed, then becomes so visually engaging that it goes off the rails with a contradictory and saggy ending.