Movie #3: Seven Samurai

Seven Samurai (七人の侍, Shichinin no Samurai) is Japanese film masterpiece from Akira Kurosawa. I watched this movie in 2015, 61 years after the release. Old movie, indeed, but great thing will last as the time passed, won't it?

I expected I would watch an epic colossal battle of Samurai and those seven samurai would be the heroes who saved the day. Instead, Seven Samurai was a simple yet honest movie (and this is the reason that this movie is so remarkable). It showed true condition in the old Japanese social life without any flowery plot:

Movie #2: Her

The heart is not like a box that gets filled up; it expands in size the more you love. Samantha (Her)

I expected nothing when I saw this movie. I didn't browse about it before. I just knew that it won 'Best Original Screenplay' in Academy Awards 2014 so I was sure this movie would not be disappointing. And yes, it was not disappointing at all.

Five days passed when I wrote this post and I still felt like broken-heart girl.

Five days passed and the Moon Song still played over and over again in my head.

As a strong and independent woman (wannabe), I always tried to hold my tears. However, this movie, in its very beginning scene, succeed inviting tears gather in my eyes. 

Movie #1: Captain Phillips

Captain Phillips Movie Poster

October 30th: I took time to a theater nearby to see Tom Hanks' latest movie, Captain Phillips. With the good score on imdb.com, I knew that I would watch a good movie. And it turned out that I was not wrong. The movie was great.

No spoilers here. Only my opinion.
This movie did not beat around the bush. From the beginning, I already felt the tension. And when one tense moment was still unfinished, others tense moments appeared. This made me curious all the time. As the result, two hours passed without being noticed. At the beginning, the camera was shaking so it made me a little bit dizzy. But I didn't recognize it after awhile as the story sucked me in.

Tom Hanks was awesome. Well, in my degree of handsomeness, Tom Hanks is in number 8 from 10 (just like the score for Piers Morgan). So, I could not say no to watch this movie when I knew Hanks took the role. He was really good on his previous movies and he was also great portraying the captain. And when the other cast was reported being star-struck that she froze during the take, I was not surprised. Who did not?!

And the other casts were also great. The actors playing the Somalian guys were really good for people who had no acting experience before. And those rescuers from the navy..., oh my goodness, I could not stand their voice tone. So calm... So good... So wonderful... It's like when I was hardly sleeping, they whisper in my ear, 'Sleep, dear...' then I would be sleeping in no time.

However, it was quite disappointing when I entered the theater and I only saw 5 viewers, including me. I did not know why this movie didn't get much attention. Maybe it was because different taste of movie. Idk. For me, it was worth to watch.

One thing that made me say this movie's great was it made me thinking after I left the theater; about the rescue, the pirates, and the fact that I'm lucky enough to be able to live safe and sound here.