Friday, April 17, 2009
Lately, I've spent more time watching movies than usual. Cinema is such a joy of life that you should make it as a daily habit yourself. I mean, it's just great if you could spend a certain time in your daily timetable to enjoy a good movie. To me, to watch a movie often costs time and since I always feel lack of necessary time I don't watch movies very often. But, undoubtedly, a good movie always captivates your spirit; let you be in merry or tristful mood, due to the story of it.
Since I watched V for Vendetta, I have tried several movies but none of them was possible to bring me that such intensive inspiration as the character V could do. The aftertaste of the movie lasts such a long time that I can not feel the interest in any others. But surprisingly there are two isolated movies can bring me out of the shadow of V for Vendetta, and they just merit being considered cinematic masterpiece.
They are The Prestige and The Illusionist.
They are all telling you about the world of Thaumaturgy, the two movies are both mysterious but they have different styles. While The Prestige's core is about world of true magician performing on the stage based on "tricks", The Illusionist tends to refer to the supernatural powers of human.
The Prestige
Being voted 8.5 out of 10 in IMDB, you can imagine how good it is. The Prestige, from the very first scene to the ending, always forces you to pay highest attention to the progress of it. With the purpose-built scenes, which are ever-changing from past to present, it's hard and even confusing for the viewers to understand what is real and what is hallucination. As a result, the viewers get lost, as the judiciously crucial idea of the film makers.
There are two protagonists, both of them are magicians, working in the same circus and be friend each other. One guy's wife accidentally died in one performance of the magicians and he blamed the other one to be involved into his wife's death. Thus, the animosity of loss was essence to which the movie based on. They eventually split up out of the circus and worked individually. Each of them still kept performing magic skills to earn a living but they were jealous of other's tricks as well. They tried to discover secrets of other's performance and invented a new higher-level magic. Generally, it's quite hard to evaluate who is dominated between them.
When one of them showed off a new magic called Transported Man, the trick persuaded audience that the magician could transport to two different positions in such a transient moment, the other one felt himself astounded and was insane to find out the key secret of it. Since then until the ending, the movie dealed with solving the conflict of that two guys. The unique of the movie is that even you might be intelligent that high, you still are possible to anticipate which is next because of such perfectly sophisticated scenario. Yes, you will be misleading all the time watching it, even when reaching the ending, you still are impossible to fully understand some details. Only after rethinking of the key details, connecting and analyzing them, could you be able to answer the big question existing in your mind of why-is-that.
One of the movie's metaphors that I can feel is that human always possesses good or bad side inside his or her ego. I mean the charitableness and brutality of one man can be just close and once their hands are dirty, they are. The ending of the movie was just astonishing and unexpected. Only one thing I dislike is that the film makers created an incongruous spot towards the secret of Transported Man. It's unreal. They used a machine to duplicate one "real" person and it's the point. They said it's pure science rather than magic or trick, but that detail even makes the movie become unbelievable.
Anyway, that's cinema. And The Prestige is still a masterpiece of the makers, which is nearly perfect from every single scene. There is no hot scene at all, excepts some romantic kisses. There is no violence, either. It did not thrill the viewers but still made sense to them. Really a top-choice movie to be watched.
The Illusionist
The Illusionist differs from The Prestige mainly for the content, although as said they all tell about the magician, but The Illusionist is love affair-based so that it is more emotional and touching. There was a boy who loved a girl, and unfortunately it was a forbidden love because of the different social classes they were from that mattered. The girl was aristocrat while the boy was just poor, but they still fell in love to each other. A really tearful calamity happened that separated them for years and when they had a chance to meet each other again, it was 15 years later.
The boy, who had become a famous illusionist, and the girl, who had become a beautiful noblewoman, knew that their barrier was just lengthened and it was quite hard for them to be together again. But they still tried to be together! After 15 years, the love of their still was that intensive. But seemingly they were not that lucky since there was the third man existing between them, the Crown Prince, who intended to marry the girl, just as a political conspiracy. The noblewoman tried to flee from the rude Crown Prince in order to be able to stay with her beloved man, and it was all about how the movie's progress going: a love conflict among three people.
The ending of the movie is unanticipated. I mean, the ending itself is too astonishing that you never can predict, under any circumstances. It is just amazing and really really touching, I totally satisfy with it that much and have no complain about it at all. It's no way to make such a more perfect ending rather than that. So, I will skip about re-telling the content of the movie but commenting some outstanding details of it.
The Illusionist, this word itself can describe that the protagonist here, even somehow still be a magician who performed in the stage, in front of the audiences his magician skills, but the magic here was seemingly supernatural power. He even did the necromancy or controlled the speed of time when he raised a tree growing up just in a moment, or called up a soul of some dead ones. The film makers must want the viewers to think about the man as a God, an evil or an angel or anyone who has power that a normal "real" person could never be achieved. Who is he really? You will keep asking yourself this question by the time watching this movie, and it's the point. It is explained only by the ending, and just watch it then you can answer.
Generally, his magic is somewhat materialistic and even superstitious or ultramundane. And, it's the main point that differs from magic of The Prestige. You know what I mean, when you watch both of them.
Besides the love affair-based scenario, the movie also related to political side. The Crown Prince was on behalf of bad guy who wanted to make coup d'état to achieve his own conspiracy. He was rude, ambitious and be an egoist. He did not have love inside yet he used woman just as a good exchanged for certain purposes. As a result, he got what he deserved. The metaphor of the movie is that love itself does not have any barrier from social classes. It isn't the difference in classes that baffles if two people fall each other. If you love someone, just tell him or her, and together try to cherish the affection and raise it up as much and as long as you could.
The Illusionist is just suitable to watch with your-special-person or just by yourself, with friends if you wish. It is worth watching! It is no doubt that once you search for some movies mysterious but still romantic, so The Illusionist is your best choice. From the begining to the end, the movie makes you excited, even it didn't explain the serect of the man's tricks, but you still accept it as a natural thing: Magic shouldn't be explained. Just enjoy it!
12:44 19th April, 2009
Since I watched V for Vendetta, I have tried several movies but none of them was possible to bring me that such intensive inspiration as the character V could do. The aftertaste of the movie lasts such a long time that I can not feel the interest in any others. But surprisingly there are two isolated movies can bring me out of the shadow of V for Vendetta, and they just merit being considered cinematic masterpiece.
They are The Prestige and The Illusionist.
They are all telling you about the world of Thaumaturgy, the two movies are both mysterious but they have different styles. While The Prestige's core is about world of true magician performing on the stage based on "tricks", The Illusionist tends to refer to the supernatural powers of human.
The Prestige
Being voted 8.5 out of 10 in IMDB, you can imagine how good it is. The Prestige, from the very first scene to the ending, always forces you to pay highest attention to the progress of it. With the purpose-built scenes, which are ever-changing from past to present, it's hard and even confusing for the viewers to understand what is real and what is hallucination. As a result, the viewers get lost, as the judiciously crucial idea of the film makers.
There are two protagonists, both of them are magicians, working in the same circus and be friend each other. One guy's wife accidentally died in one performance of the magicians and he blamed the other one to be involved into his wife's death. Thus, the animosity of loss was essence to which the movie based on. They eventually split up out of the circus and worked individually. Each of them still kept performing magic skills to earn a living but they were jealous of other's tricks as well. They tried to discover secrets of other's performance and invented a new higher-level magic. Generally, it's quite hard to evaluate who is dominated between them.
When one of them showed off a new magic called Transported Man, the trick persuaded audience that the magician could transport to two different positions in such a transient moment, the other one felt himself astounded and was insane to find out the key secret of it. Since then until the ending, the movie dealed with solving the conflict of that two guys. The unique of the movie is that even you might be intelligent that high, you still are possible to anticipate which is next because of such perfectly sophisticated scenario. Yes, you will be misleading all the time watching it, even when reaching the ending, you still are impossible to fully understand some details. Only after rethinking of the key details, connecting and analyzing them, could you be able to answer the big question existing in your mind of why-is-that.
One of the movie's metaphors that I can feel is that human always possesses good or bad side inside his or her ego. I mean the charitableness and brutality of one man can be just close and once their hands are dirty, they are. The ending of the movie was just astonishing and unexpected. Only one thing I dislike is that the film makers created an incongruous spot towards the secret of Transported Man. It's unreal. They used a machine to duplicate one "real" person and it's the point. They said it's pure science rather than magic or trick, but that detail even makes the movie become unbelievable.
Anyway, that's cinema. And The Prestige is still a masterpiece of the makers, which is nearly perfect from every single scene. There is no hot scene at all, excepts some romantic kisses. There is no violence, either. It did not thrill the viewers but still made sense to them. Really a top-choice movie to be watched.
The Illusionist
The Illusionist differs from The Prestige mainly for the content, although as said they all tell about the magician, but The Illusionist is love affair-based so that it is more emotional and touching. There was a boy who loved a girl, and unfortunately it was a forbidden love because of the different social classes they were from that mattered. The girl was aristocrat while the boy was just poor, but they still fell in love to each other. A really tearful calamity happened that separated them for years and when they had a chance to meet each other again, it was 15 years later.
The boy, who had become a famous illusionist, and the girl, who had become a beautiful noblewoman, knew that their barrier was just lengthened and it was quite hard for them to be together again. But they still tried to be together! After 15 years, the love of their still was that intensive. But seemingly they were not that lucky since there was the third man existing between them, the Crown Prince, who intended to marry the girl, just as a political conspiracy. The noblewoman tried to flee from the rude Crown Prince in order to be able to stay with her beloved man, and it was all about how the movie's progress going: a love conflict among three people.
The ending of the movie is unanticipated. I mean, the ending itself is too astonishing that you never can predict, under any circumstances. It is just amazing and really really touching, I totally satisfy with it that much and have no complain about it at all. It's no way to make such a more perfect ending rather than that. So, I will skip about re-telling the content of the movie but commenting some outstanding details of it.
The Illusionist, this word itself can describe that the protagonist here, even somehow still be a magician who performed in the stage, in front of the audiences his magician skills, but the magic here was seemingly supernatural power. He even did the necromancy or controlled the speed of time when he raised a tree growing up just in a moment, or called up a soul of some dead ones. The film makers must want the viewers to think about the man as a God, an evil or an angel or anyone who has power that a normal "real" person could never be achieved. Who is he really? You will keep asking yourself this question by the time watching this movie, and it's the point. It is explained only by the ending, and just watch it then you can answer.
Generally, his magic is somewhat materialistic and even superstitious or ultramundane. And, it's the main point that differs from magic of The Prestige. You know what I mean, when you watch both of them.
Besides the love affair-based scenario, the movie also related to political side. The Crown Prince was on behalf of bad guy who wanted to make coup d'état to achieve his own conspiracy. He was rude, ambitious and be an egoist. He did not have love inside yet he used woman just as a good exchanged for certain purposes. As a result, he got what he deserved. The metaphor of the movie is that love itself does not have any barrier from social classes. It isn't the difference in classes that baffles if two people fall each other. If you love someone, just tell him or her, and together try to cherish the affection and raise it up as much and as long as you could.
The Illusionist is just suitable to watch with your-special-person or just by yourself, with friends if you wish. It is worth watching! It is no doubt that once you search for some movies mysterious but still romantic, so The Illusionist is your best choice. From the begining to the end, the movie makes you excited, even it didn't explain the serect of the man's tricks, but you still accept it as a natural thing: Magic shouldn't be explained. Just enjoy it!
12:44 19th April, 2009
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