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Monday, August 26, 2019

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

MISS CONGENIALITY (Movie, 2000)

Sandra Bullock has a warmth that gets you smiling even when the material is weak. She begins the film looking unglamorous and then undergoes a transformation. She starts as an FBI agent and ends up as a beauty contest finalist. 

Bullock is funny and charming, she can't overcome a bad script that makes the movie feel too much like a fluffy, unoriginal sitcom.

Monday, August 19, 2019

Monday, August 12, 2019

Thursday, August 8, 2019

THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS

The film is loud, colorful, frantic in pace, but less than the sum of its parts.
It is an incredibly simple yet irresistible idea for a movie. It's also exactly what you think it's going to be - no more, no less.

Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Hugo

Martin Scorsese leaves his mean streets behind for this exhilarating family tale inspired by the birth of cinema

"Hugo" is unlike any other film Martin Scorsese has ever made, and yet possibly the closest to his heart: a big-budget, family epic in 3-D, and in some ways, a mirror of his own life. In broad terms, the story of his hero, Hugo Cabret, is Scorsese's own story. 

In the way the film uses CGI and other techniques to create the train station and the city, the movie is breathtaking. Hugo seems somewhat a genius with gears, screws, springs and levers.

Scorsese has made documentaries about great films and directors, and here he brings those skills to storytelling. 

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

《無雙》

以假亂真的故事,誰才是「畫家」?

電影《無雙》英文名的直譯是古登堡計劃( Project Gutenberg),古登堡是西方活字印刷術的發明人,印刷術的發明對於文明的演進至關重要。一部關於製作假鈔的犯罪題材電影以古登堡為名合情合理,通過特殊的手法讓假鈔在印刷的過程中顯現出水印是讓假鈔以假亂真的關鍵。

《無雙》是編導莊文強再構思出的一部犯罪動作電影,這次《無雙》故事燒腦,最後結局還來個大反轉。劇中人物就如電影故事,難以分辨的「偽鈔」般,到底是真?還是假?讓人費解誰才是背後的大魔王「畫家」《無雙》看似有不少費猜疑處,如果未來要拍個前傳或續集,都是可以有的伏筆,因為莊文強真的很會編故事。

大魔王「畫家」仍只有一個,那就是李問,因為造假的故事,都是他帶點分裂人格的自我合理化。李問自己對心裡的「畫家」說,「任何事做到極致就是藝術,有心,假貨也可以做的比真貨好。」,於是更認定了舞台,「這個世界上一百萬人中只有一個主角,當主角的都是能夠達到極致的人,可首先要找到對的舞台。」這舞台就是做偽鈔。

「無雙」的中文意思,獨一無二,這也意即畫家只有一個,看似有畫家和李問兩個角色身份在周旋,但其實只有一個兇手,那就是李問。