#TFIOS Soundtracks

Currently listening to #TFIOS Soundtracks over and over again. I adore so much “What You Wanted” from One Republic and “All of the Stars” by Ed Sheeran. Both songs are just trully amazing.

The song written by Ryan Tedder successfully gives me goosebumps. And you, Sheeran, how dare you make this brilliant song?! I cry like a baby! Is this the Augustus-Hazel effect? Probably. All I know, I’m just too in love with the songs. :’)

Put on your headphones.

Play the songs.

Turn the volume up.

And close your eyes.

Hearing the Sunshine

Have you heard a short film namely Hearing the Sunshine?

I'd like to share a bit about this movie. Hearing the Sunshine is a new short film launched by Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). It was premiered in the middle of this year. The film is produced to attract foreign tourists to discover Thailand.

The plot centers around two people who travel to Thailand. The man is a sound artist. He interprets the world around him through hearing. His faith tells that recordings can keep the moments. Meanwhile, the woman whose name is lately known as Ryoko, is a photographer. She captures amazing moments through lenses. They travel separately and meet by accident.

Every time I see the movie I keep smiling because the story between them is sooo sweet. Thailand gives a new unique way in unfolding the myriad experiences tourist can get in this tropical land. Through this film, this country also offer more emotional and personal way in attracting foreign visitors.

Hope Indonesia will have this kind of unique way that accentuates emotional appeal in promoting tourism.

The film is broadcasted online for worldwide. Check the teaser out!

The most favorite quote from the movie Hearing the Sunshine:
"Maybe happiness does not mean that you must arrive at the destination. It could also be the little details along the way."

(500) Days of Summer

I finally got to (500) Days of Summer. Honestly, this is the first time I saw the movie. Maybe you think I’m slightly outdated since this movie has been released in 2009. But yeah, I know this movie from someone’s blog accidentally lately and searched for the DVD hardly. At last found it in Movie Room – Dago. Tee-hee! :D

Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tom Hansen and Zoey Deschanel as Summer Finn. Tom believed he would be truly happy after he met the one he loved, but Summer didn't share the same belief. The tagline of the movie is "A story of boy meets girl. Boy falls in love, girl doesn't."

(500) Days of Summer is a simple and quirky film. It is sooo true-to-life, no love-fantasy. It is told almost entirely through Tom's perspective.

My first favorite scene is when Tom finally slept with Summer. I love the way he walked out in the morning with a super happy feeling, nodded at strangers, high-fived, and they all danced in the street. Suddenly a sweet blue bird fluttered in. Of course the soundtrack by Hall & Oates - You Make My Dreams Come True behind it is the reason why I love this funny scene. That's impressive and perfect! 

Second favorite scene is when Tom came to Summer's party after they broke up. It's funny how Tom's expectation and reality went so different. Haha. And in this scene Tom eventually realized that Summer has been proposed by someone. :'(

Third favorite scene is on the 488th day. Tom and Summer had a conversation after she was married.

S: It just happened.

T: What just happened?

S: I just woke up one day and I knew what I was never sure with you.

T: *sigh*

T: You know what's sucks? realizing that everything you believe in is completely a bullshit.

S: What do you mean?

T: Ah, you know, destiny, soulmate, true love, and all of that childhood fairytale. Non senses. You were right. I should've listened to you.

S: No, I just kept thinking that you were right. Yeah I did. It just wasn't me that you were right about.

When you watch this movie don’t expect it ends happily ever after, but that’s life. Life doesn’t always get like that. I mean, you must have someone that you thought he’s the one but he’s not. He breaks you into pieces and you suffer heartache for long long time. All you need to do is just get over him, time will heal. Though it sounds cliché but it is. I experienced that. By the time goes on, you’ll get over him, you move on, you meet someone who’s a lot better than your ex. And hope he’s the right one for you.

Speaking about the music, this movie has a great taste in music. I love the whole soundtrack. Here are the lists and try to listen to 'em guys.
1. A Story of Boy Meets Girl - Michael Dana and Rob Simonsen
2. Us - Regina Spektor
3. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
4. Bad Kids - Black Lips
5. Please please please let me get what i want - The Smiths
6. There Goes the Fear - Doves
7. You Make My Dreams - Hall and Oates
8. Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap
9. Quequun Ma Dit - Carla Bruni
10. Mushaboom - Feist
11. Hero - Regina Spektor
12. Bookends - Simon and Garfunkel
13. Vagabond - Wolfmother
14. Got You High - Mumm-Ra Shes
15. Here Comes Your Man - Meaghan Smith
16. Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - She & Him

That's all I can share about (500) Days of Summer. Closing line for this post: Everyone has ‘Summer’ in his/her life. :)

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part 2: Done!

Happy 66th Independence Day, my country Indonesia! :D
Anyways, finally I watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II. Yeaaay!

I watched with daddy while mom and sister watched Kungfu Panda. The movie is totally awesome and phenomenal. Must see once again in 3D!
Here is the synopsis:

Image's from Google

Director: David Yates
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, is the final adventure in the Harry Potter film series. Harry, Ron, and Hermione search for Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes in their effort to destroy the Dark Lord. In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe. But it is Harry Potter who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice as he draws closer to the climactic showdown with Lord Voldemort. It all ends here.
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1201607/ , http://www.harrypotter.warnerbros.com

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Nowhere Boy

John Lennon's childhood. Liverpool 1955: a smart and troubled 15-year-old is hungry for experience. In a family full of secrets, two incredible women clash over John: Mimi, the buttoned-up aunt who raised him, and Julia, the prodigal mother. Yearning for a normal family, John escapes into the new and exciting world of rock 'n' roll where his fledgling genius finds a kindred spirit in the teenage Paul McCartney. Just as John begins his new life, tragedy strikes. But, a resilient young man finds his voice -- and an icon explodes into the world.

 

Genre: Drama

Starring:

Kristin Scott Thomas, Aaron Johnson, Thomas Sangster, Anne-Marie Duff, David Threlfall, Ophelia Lovibond, Sam Bell, Jack McElhone, Ellie Jeffreys, Calum O'Toole

Director: Sam Taylor Wood

Running Time:1:37

Release Date: Opened Oct 15, 2010

 

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/nowhere-boy,1162197.html

The Social Network

"The Social Network" is the kind of movie that by all rights shouldn't work. A verbose compendium of scenes of people talking to one another largely in college dorms, a Palo Alto ranch house or a law office conference room, "The Social Network" has another thing not going for it: It's centered on computers, the kiss of death of modern cinema that fatally smothers visual dynamism with dull close-ups of laptop screens and mouse clicks.

But when a talky movie's talk has been written by Aaron Sorkin ("The West Wing"), and those words have been animated by the visual brio of director David Fincher, what looks on paper like a static series of dead-end conversations comes to life as a vital, engaging, even urgent parable for our age. As the dramatized story of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who invented the site in 2004 while a Harvard sophomore, "The Social Network" can't be taken as the literal record of events -- which ultimately involved Zuckerberg being sued by his partners and competitors. Clearly Sorkin and Fincher had higher aspirations for their film. With surgical precision, exhilarating insight and considerable storytelling flair, they make Zuckerberg both a metaphor and a lens through which to understand contemporary culture.

The rhythms and rhymes of "The Social Network" establish themselves in the film's small masterpiece of an opening scene, when Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and his girlfriend, Erica (Rooney Mara, the new Lisbeth Salander for all you "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" fans), trade barbs over beers in a Cambridge pub. Prickly, defensive, always five steps ahead, Zuckerberg is clearly peeved that his date pines for guys who row crew. He's brilliant but clueless, putting Erica down because she goes to Boston University but painfully aware that he can't get into Harvard's elite final clubs. He may be a programming genius, but he's an emotional idiot. When the conversation goes fatally south and the girl breaks up with him, he responds with what has become the mantra of his generation: "Is this real?"

What ensues is a narrative that hews closely to classic American tales of ambition, ingenuity, competition and betrayal; "The Social Network" has understandably been compared to "Citizen Kane" in its depiction of a man who changes society through bending an emergent technology to his will. But with its leitmotif of striving, resentment and cherchez la femme, the story also evokes Fitzgerald at his most longing and elegiac. A modern-day Jay Gatsby, the "refresh" button on his keyboard standing in for Daisy Buchanan's flashing green dock light, Zuckerberg -- or at least Sorkin's version of him -- embodies all those timeless contradictions and of-the-moment tics (the hoodie, those flip-flops) that make for a classic literary anti-hero.

Eisenberg delivers a deceivingly accomplished performance in the tricky role of Zuckerberg, whose recessive, withholding persona is completely at odds with the larger-than-life charisma such characters usually demand. Within an ensemble that includes Andrew Garfield as Zuckerberg's erstwhile partner Eduardo Saverin, Josh Pence and Armie Hammer as the brothers who claim Zuckerberg stole their idea (and who, ahem, row crew) and Justin Timberlake as the Mephistophelian Sean Parker, Eisenberg manages to make his nerdy protagonist the most interesting guy in the room, even at his most awkward and antisocial.

And that, finally, is the most powerful paradox that propels "The Social Network," whose title is clearly intended for maximum irony. As Sorkin and Fincher masterfully bring viewers along on an infectiously giddy journey of discovery and invention, they also manage to infuse Zuckerberg's story with meaning beyond his own achievements, struggles and flaws.

Mark Zuckerberg may not be larger than life, but thanks to this swift, smart, beautifully crafted film, his on-screen avatar gets to impart truths that always will be.

Source: washingtonpost.com

Eat, Pray, Love

Anyone bringing Elizabeth Gilbert's blockbuster memoir of self-discovery, "Eat Pray Love," to the screen has a huge challenge before him: How to overcome the book's episodic, anecdotal structure and penchant for aphorism, to create a dynamic narrative? Even more daunting, how does one dramatize what is essentially an interior journey?

The answer, at least according to director Ryan Murphy ("Glee"), is to photograph Julia Roberts looking by turns beatific, pained and just slightly self-pitying against as many fabulous backdrops as possible. That strategy pays off with uneven success in "Eat Pray Love," in which Roberts portrays the author as she recovers from a disastrous divorce, painful rebound relationship and general spiritual ennui on a year-long trip through Italy, India and Bali.

The film's most crucial constituency -- the book's rabid fans -- are likely to feel well served by Murphy's adaptation, which hews pretty faithfully to Gilbert's story. (He veers off the path most wildly in India, where he was stuck filming Roberts meditating, or trying to meditate, for hours on end, full stop.) And even newcomers, men included, can enjoy being swept up in the film's lavish third chapter, where Gilbert meets a seductive Brazilian named Felipe (Javier Bardem) and embarks on a luscious love affair amid the verdant terraces and soft beaches of Bali.

All that eye candy aside, though, "Eat Pray Love" can't be described as a home run. At least during the movie's first third, Murphy doesn't stop moving his camera, compulsively swooping it around and perching it above the action as if it were a neurotic bird of prey. The perspective is at its most jangled in Italy, where Gilbert is supposed to discover the joys of Italy's language, food and "joy in doing nothing." But Murphy, American that he is, doesn't slow down long enough to convey the country's sensuous pleasures or to flesh out the personalities of the friends Gilbert meets while pursuing them.

Her supporting characters get a little more time in India, where Gilbert meets the expansive "Richard from Texas," played here by Richard Jenkins in a scene-stealing turn as a broken man healing his scars through bravado and spiritual seeking. It's in India, too, that "Eat Pray Love's" most affecting sequence transpires, as Gilbert makes peace with her ex-husband, played by Billy Crudup in a thankless but accomplished performance. (For the record, James Franco plays the post-divorce boyfriend, bringing every ounce of irresistible boyish charisma to the task.)

Roberts, who cannily chose to produce "Eat Pray Love" as the perfect vehicle for her alternately dazzling and relatable talents, manages to tamp down the book's most grating self-congratulatory tone. But in the movie, as in the book, all talk of God, the universe and love and light aside, there's no doubt who the real star is. As a middle-aged Dorothy at large in a New Age Oz, her Liz Gilbert mostly wanders around smiling, sometimes crying, but always somehow looking like a goddess herself, recently arrived to show others the way -- whether she's urging a Swedish student in Rome to eat more pizza or telling a teenage Indian girl reluctantly succumbing to an arranged marriage that she's visualizing a happy life for her. (Uhm, thanks?)

By the time Gilbert arrives in Bali, the extravagant beauty of that island -- made all the more eye-popping by the presence of Bardem -- is likely to inspire filmgoers simply to sigh, sit back and enjoy the view. What, exactly, does Gilbert learn at the feet of the jolly elderly medicine man she feels destined to befriend -- aside from how to smile with her liver? It's never clear, and it doesn't much matter. "Eat Pray Love" finally settles into its own cinematic destiny as an attractive escapist love story, in which the romance is more with the I than with the guy.

Source: washingtonpost.com

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Michael Douglas makes a triumphant return to form as one of American cinema's great villains in "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," the 23-years-later sequel to the movie that captured the go-go '80s.

In its own giddy, glib way, "Money Never Sleeps" evinces just as strong a hold on its times, when terms like "subprime" and "credit default swaps" -- which would have been virtually meaningless two decades ago -- are the lingua franca of the financial realm. The crimes that Gekko went to jail for in Oliver Stone's original film now seem like child's play compared with the shady deals his spiritual heirs have been confecting during his years in prison. Now that he has been released, during a very funny scene in which he reclaims a mobile phone the size of a shoebox, Gekko has renounced his past life of avarice and (what else?) published a book. It's called "Is Greed Good?," a clever turnabout on his most famous line from the first "Wall Street."

That's just one of many in-jokes that Stone lands throughout his sequel, which often exceeds its predecessor in sheer verve and visual style. Using an ingeniously layered visual design, split screens and sinuous mobile cameras that move through scenes like the human sharks who inhabit them, Stone here proves that he's still a director of bold muscularity. If some of his references hit too squarely on the nose -- the shot of a child's soap bubble standing in for the metaphoric financial version, for example, or the vaguely fascist corporate insignia of a malign CEO played by Josh Brolin -- Stone has a knack for pacing, detail and atmosphere that manages to feel authentic and fancifully allegorical at the same time.

In large part, much of that entertainment value derives from Douglas, who tucks into Gekko with gleeful relish, his physical gusto made all the more gratifying given the unwelcome recent news that the actor is fighting throat cancer. His famous hair now gray and less slick, his suits dressed down but still bespoke, Gekko presents the perfect antihero, a deliciously amoral bad guy on a quest for redemption (or maybe just a piece of the new action). The ally he has chosen for the journey is a young entrepreneur named Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf), who just happens to be engaged to Gekko's estranged daughter, Winnie (Carey Mulligan). Disgusted with her father, Winnie writes for an investigative blog, while Jake invests in alternative energy technology and speaks fluent Mandarin.

In other words, Jake and Winnie personify the future that Gekko, who speaks witheringly of those crazy kids with their derivatives, either can't or won't grasp -- or maybe he's just too busy seeing around corners to beat them at their own game. The wily suspense of "Money Never Sleeps" lies in how deep Gekko's reptilian instincts go, a question plumbed in the course of a peripatetic tour through New York's most decadently gilded precincts, with a stop along the way at the Federal Reserve.

"Money Never Sleeps" may belong to Douglas's Gekko, but Mulligan and LaBeouf provide attractive, believable foils to his slippery sleights of hand; veterans Frank Langella and Eli Wallach, in roles reminiscent of Hal Holbrook's in the original, offer words of bygone wisdom echoed by the image of a buffalo seen in one aging character's office.

Set to music by David Byrne, Brian Eno and Craig Armstrong, "Money Never Sleeps" possesses the lift, acceleration and speed of the very bubble it seeks to puncture. Stone has managed to wring unlikely entertainment value from what we now know was the longest recession since World War II. With style, wry humor and a healthy dose of cautionary polemic, he's made some of our most troubling recent history great fun to watch.

Source: washingtonpost.com