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THE LITTLE PRINCE
In the story of The Little Prince, the little prince had a rose that he loves very much on his planet and which he placed in a glass casing. When he came to Earth, he saw that there were millions of roses and saw that his rose was not so special or unique afterall. ItBEFORE SUNRISE
Watched the film "Before Sunrise", besides being a romantic movie, it's a very interesting film that discusses a lot of topics. One question raised was on reincarnation; if the world only had 2 million people many years ago and it has 2 billion people now, and if 叔.叔 SUK SUK TWILIGHT’S KISS 叔.叔 Suk Suk (retitled as 'Twilight's Kiss' for its North American release), a 2019 Hong Kong film directed by 楊曜愷 Ray Yeung, opens with a man washing a taxi and ends with the same man sitting in a church. However the film's focus is neither onEVENING SKY
The backdrop was made up of the setting sun with a base colour of yellow over it and then further compounded with an overlayer of pink that tinges the tips of the clouds and dominates the sky with a pinkish glow, making it a truly pink-coloured sky. And then there are the evening clouds floating 牯嶺街少年殺人事件 Taipei Story (1985) A Brighter Summer Day (1991) Yi Yi: A One and a Two (2000) I finished watching the above 3 films directed by Taiwanese director Edward Yang. FROZEN – TANBOONWAH Finally caught Frozen (yes really late considering it came out in November). Surprised it's even still showing. Overall, it was a good movie but I definitely wished they had gone even more in-depth with Idina Menzel's character, Elsa. She was the most intriguing character in the story, facing alienation from everyone around her including herED SHEERAN ÷
Finished listening to Ed Sheeran's ÷ album. I think that the 4 tracks on the deluxe edition really should have been included on the standard edition because they're better than some of the ones there and excluding them means a slower bpm on the standard edition becausethere
BLUE VALENTINE
Watched Blue Valentine starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams few days back, it's a really interesting examination of how a marriage fell apart. It's especially jarring when they juxtapose the scenes when they first met and began their sweet courtship and the scenes in the present time where they don't seem to be listening to TANBOONWAH – A PLACE TO STORE MY THOUGHTS… This is the kind of wide doe-eyed innocence and wishful thinking exemplified by Marie-Laure, one of the two central characters in this novel. However, in this case, if we were to skip ahead to the end, we would miss the mesmerizing epic grand scale on which events unfurl. 《男儿王》 NUMBER 1 《男儿王》 Number 1 Even before opening in local cinemas next week on 22 October, Singaporean film 男儿王 (transliterated into its english title as 'Number 1') has already garned significant attention for snagging two nominations at the upcoming 57th Golden Horse Awards: 'Best leading actor' for Mark Lee (李国煌) and 'Best makeup and costume design'.THE LITTLE PRINCE
In the story of The Little Prince, the little prince had a rose that he loves very much on his planet and which he placed in a glass casing. When he came to Earth, he saw that there were millions of roses and saw that his rose was not so special or unique afterall. ItBEFORE SUNRISE
Watched the film "Before Sunrise", besides being a romantic movie, it's a very interesting film that discusses a lot of topics. One question raised was on reincarnation; if the world only had 2 million people many years ago and it has 2 billion people now, and if 叔.叔 SUK SUK TWILIGHT’S KISS 叔.叔 Suk Suk (retitled as 'Twilight's Kiss' for its North American release), a 2019 Hong Kong film directed by 楊曜愷 Ray Yeung, opens with a man washing a taxi and ends with the same man sitting in a church. However the film's focus is neither onEVENING SKY
The backdrop was made up of the setting sun with a base colour of yellow over it and then further compounded with an overlayer of pink that tinges the tips of the clouds and dominates the sky with a pinkish glow, making it a truly pink-coloured sky. And then there are the evening clouds floating 牯嶺街少年殺人事件 Taipei Story (1985) A Brighter Summer Day (1991) Yi Yi: A One and a Two (2000) I finished watching the above 3 films directed by Taiwanese director Edward Yang. FROZEN – TANBOONWAH Finally caught Frozen (yes really late considering it came out in November). Surprised it's even still showing. Overall, it was a good movie but I definitely wished they had gone even more in-depth with Idina Menzel's character, Elsa. She was the most intriguing character in the story, facing alienation from everyone around her including herED SHEERAN ÷
Finished listening to Ed Sheeran's ÷ album. I think that the 4 tracks on the deluxe edition really should have been included on the standard edition because they're better than some of the ones there and excluding them means a slower bpm on the standard edition becausethere
BLUE VALENTINE
Watched Blue Valentine starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams few days back, it's a really interesting examination of how a marriage fell apart. It's especially jarring when they juxtapose the scenes when they first met and began their sweet courtship and the scenes in the present time where they don't seem to be listening toGOD’S OWN COUNTRY
God’s Own Country, a 2017 gay romance film released in the same year as Call Me by Your Name, is like an updated modern British version ofBrokeback Mountain.
WALK THE LINE
Just watched Walk the Line, the 2005 biopic on Johnny Cash (and his second wife, June Carter Cash). In terms of book terminology, the film is more a memoir than a biography because it did not Johnny Cash's later years which really is a pity because his later years (including his cover of 'Hurt' andTAYLOR SWIFT
I gave Taylor Swift's latest album, folklore, a good listen. While the album's good and categorised as indie folk, I don't think it's as indie and as folksy as it could be. The album does still pander to mainstream tastes and feels like it still has the mainstream audience in mind. I say that becauseLEAN ON PETE
Lean on Pete, a 2017 film, is a very nicely crafted third feature film from director Andrew Haigh. The director, whose previous two feature films are Weekend and 45 Years, has continued his very perceptive and insightful take on a coming-of-age film about a 15-year-old boy. Charlie Plummer who plays the central character Charley Thompson,EVENING SKY
The backdrop was made up of the setting sun with a base colour of yellow over it and then further compounded with an overlayer of pink that tinges the tips of the clouds and dominates the sky with a pinkish glow, making it a truly pink-coloured sky. And then there are the evening clouds floatingA CLOCKWORK ORANGE
A Clockwork Orange directed by Stanley Kubrick was released in 1971 but was banned in Singapore all the way till 2011 when it was shown with an R21 rating as part of a film festival. I do not really have issues with the violence or sex depicted in the film given that filmsnowadays can
LONG SHOT – WHY A REVIEW IS NOT A SUMMARY AND WHY I WRITE Long Shot - Why a review is not a summary and why I write long reviews rather than make short summary video reviews "A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit he is that man." While he was alive, famed film critic Roger Ebert often liked to quotethe
FROZEN – TANBOONWAH Finally caught Frozen (yes really late considering it came out in November). Surprised it's even still showing. Overall, it was a good movie but I definitely wished they had gone even more in-depth with Idina Menzel's character, Elsa. She was the most intriguing character in the story, facing alienation from everyone around her including herHER – TANBOONWAH
Love this simple song from the movie ‘Her’, really captures the idea of how the two characters in love are together and yet apart at the same time. Spike Jonze 本来就是一位不会被 conventions所约束
BLUE VALENTINE
Watched Blue Valentine starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams few days back, it's a really interesting examination of how a marriage fell apart. It's especially jarring when they juxtapose the scenes when they first met and began their sweet courtship and the scenes in the present time where they don't seem to be listening to TANBOONWAH – A PLACE TO STORE MY THOUGHTS… This is the kind of wide doe-eyed innocence and wishful thinking exemplified by Marie-Laure, one of the two central characters in this novel. However, in this case, if we were to skip ahead to the end, we would miss the mesmerizing epic grand scale on which events unfurl.I AM MOTHER
Totally amazed after watching 'I Am Mother'. The entire film, especially the Mother character, is much more complex than anything I've seen. The motives and logic behind Mother that push its actions are so far thought-out and complex, even from a screenwriting perspective. Take for example, the issue of Mother killing babies justbecause they
THE SESSIONS
Just watched The Sessions, a 2012 film, with John Hawkes as a person suffering from polio who can only move his head. He had to contort his spine to portray the role and had to lie down for the entire movie, no other physical expression or movement is at his disposal for conveyingof emotions
《男儿王》 NUMBER 1 《男儿王》 Number 1 Even before opening in local cinemas next week on 22 October, Singaporean film 男儿王 (transliterated into its english title as 'Number 1') has already garned significant attention for snagging two nominations at the upcoming 57th Golden Horse Awards: 'Best leading actor' for Mark Lee (李国煌) and 'Best makeup and costume design'.THE LITTLE PRINCE
In the story of The Little Prince, the little prince had a rose that he loves very much on his planet and which he placed in a glass casing. When he came to Earth, he saw that there were millions of roses and saw that his rose was not so special or unique afterall. It LUKE COMBS – TANBOONWAH I really like Luke Combs' first 2 albums. Surprising because I haven't really listened to country albums since Taylor Swift went pop (I'm not counting Lady Gaga's Joanna album because the country leanings on the album aren't really that consistent across the album). Luke Combs' This One's For You (Too) and What You See IsA CLOCKWORK ORANGE
A Clockwork Orange directed by Stanley Kubrick was released in 1971 but was banned in Singapore all the way till 2011 when it was shown with an R21 rating as part of a film festival. I do not really have issues with the violence or sex depicted in the film given that filmsnowadays can
DIANE WARREN
Posts about Diane Warren written by tanboonwah. This song came to the forefront of my mind last week. Written by Diane Warren who is in my opinion, one of the most prolific English songwriter.CHEF – TANBOONWAH
Caught the new film from Jon Favreau, Chef! This has to be the year's best film thus far. The only other close challenger for that title is X-Men: Days of Future Past. The film not only features great food (as expected from the name of the film), a great cast, it has excellentpacing too.
A LITERARY CRITIQUE/REVIEW OF ‘ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE A Literary Critique/Review of ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ by Anthony Doerr. “If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen.”. This is the kind of wide doe-eyed innocence and wishful thinking exemplified by Marie-Laure, one of thetwo
TANBOONWAH – A PLACE TO STORE MY THOUGHTS… This is the kind of wide doe-eyed innocence and wishful thinking exemplified by Marie-Laure, one of the two central characters in this novel. However, in this case, if we were to skip ahead to the end, we would miss the mesmerizing epic grand scale on which events unfurl.I AM MOTHER
Totally amazed after watching 'I Am Mother'. The entire film, especially the Mother character, is much more complex than anything I've seen. The motives and logic behind Mother that push its actions are so far thought-out and complex, even from a screenwriting perspective. Take for example, the issue of Mother killing babies justbecause they
THE SESSIONS
Just watched The Sessions, a 2012 film, with John Hawkes as a person suffering from polio who can only move his head. He had to contort his spine to portray the role and had to lie down for the entire movie, no other physical expression or movement is at his disposal for conveyingof emotions
《男儿王》 NUMBER 1 《男儿王》 Number 1 Even before opening in local cinemas next week on 22 October, Singaporean film 男儿王 (transliterated into its english title as 'Number 1') has already garned significant attention for snagging two nominations at the upcoming 57th Golden Horse Awards: 'Best leading actor' for Mark Lee (李国煌) and 'Best makeup and costume design'.THE LITTLE PRINCE
In the story of The Little Prince, the little prince had a rose that he loves very much on his planet and which he placed in a glass casing. When he came to Earth, he saw that there were millions of roses and saw that his rose was not so special or unique afterall. It LUKE COMBS – TANBOONWAH I really like Luke Combs' first 2 albums. Surprising because I haven't really listened to country albums since Taylor Swift went pop (I'm not counting Lady Gaga's Joanna album because the country leanings on the album aren't really that consistent across the album). Luke Combs' This One's For You (Too) and What You See IsA CLOCKWORK ORANGE
A Clockwork Orange directed by Stanley Kubrick was released in 1971 but was banned in Singapore all the way till 2011 when it was shown with an R21 rating as part of a film festival. I do not really have issues with the violence or sex depicted in the film given that filmsnowadays can
DIANE WARREN
Posts about Diane Warren written by tanboonwah. This song came to the forefront of my mind last week. Written by Diane Warren who is in my opinion, one of the most prolific English songwriter.CHEF – TANBOONWAH
Caught the new film from Jon Favreau, Chef! This has to be the year's best film thus far. The only other close challenger for that title is X-Men: Days of Future Past. The film not only features great food (as expected from the name of the film), a great cast, it has excellentpacing too.
A LITERARY CRITIQUE/REVIEW OF ‘ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE A Literary Critique/Review of ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ by Anthony Doerr. “If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen.”. This is the kind of wide doe-eyed innocence and wishful thinking exemplified by Marie-Laure, one of thetwo
I AM MOTHER
Totally amazed after watching 'I Am Mother'. The entire film, especially the Mother character, is much more complex than anything I've seen. The motives and logic behind Mother that push its actions are so far thought-out and complex, even from a screenwriting perspective. Take for example, the issue of Mother killing babies justbecause they
THE SESSIONS
Just watched The Sessions, a 2012 film, with John Hawkes as a person suffering from polio who can only move his head. He had to contort his spine to portray the role and had to lie down for the entire movie, no other physical expression or movement is at his disposal for conveyingof emotions
WORLD OF CINEMA IN 2019 The world of cinema in 2019 was composed of either great films without great leads or great actors in okay-but-not-great films. Joker and Judy are prime examples of the latter (both leading stars got academy awards best actor/best actress respectively) while Parasite and other films nominated for best picture are examples of the former. HowTAYLOR SWIFT
I gave Taylor Swift's latest album, folklore, a good listen. While the album's good and categorised as indie folk, I don't think it's as indie and as folksy as it could be. The album does still pander to mainstream tastes and feels like it still has the mainstream audience in mind. I say that because PARASITE – TANBOONWAH Korean film Parasite is really good 😮 No wonder it won the Palm d'Or at this year's 2019 Cannes Film Festival and has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Those two facts alone mean that you should go watch it. I'll just say it is a very enjoyable and entertaining cinemaexperience. The
CHEF – TANBOONWAH
Caught the new film from Jon Favreau, Chef! This has to be the year's best film thus far. The only other close challenger for that title is X-Men: Days of Future Past. The film not only features great food (as expected from the name of the film), a great cast, it has excellentpacing too.
HEAVEN IS WHEN I’M WITH YOU With my back against you, cradle me in your arms, hold me close and let me feel the rhythm of your heart. With those big hands of yours, hold mine firmly in them, and let me feel your clasp on this tiny heart of mine. Lean in close on my face, kiss me hard fromED SHEERAN ÷
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PHILOMENA – TANBOONWAH Finished Philomena some time back, I find the film to be very interesting. There were several scenes that established and showcased the gulf between the two main characters' background, the snobbish and highly intelligent Martin Sixsmith played by Steve Coogan and the polite and simple-minded title character, Philomena played by Judi Dench. My favourite sceneCLOUD ATLAS
Love this movie very much, watched it twice in the cinema. Definitely in my top 3 fav movies of all time. The first time I watched, I actually fell asleep halfway (not because it was too boring but because I was way too tired that particular day), and even then, I loved the movie very TANBOONWAH – A PLACE TO STORE MY THOUGHTS… This is the kind of wide doe-eyed innocence and wishful thinking exemplified by Marie-Laure, one of the two central characters in this novel. However, in this case, if we were to skip ahead to the end, we would miss the mesmerizing epic grand scale on which events unfurl.THE SESSIONS
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First Reformed directed and written by Paul Schrader is not a bad film but it is also not a great film. It has the same themes as Taxi Driver (also written by Paul Schrader) but while Taxi Driver is certainly a masterpiece, First Reformed is just a good filmFERNANDO MEIRELLES
City of God and The Two Popes, both films directed by Fernando Meirelles are both really good, especially the former. City of God has such a strong opening scene with perfect musical urgency that it immediately grabs you hooked on the film. It strongly reminds me of the opening scene for 2003 Korean film Oldboy A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night directed by Ana Lily Amirpour is one of the best directorial debut film ever. Everything from its high contrast monochromatic colours resembling a graphic novel and classic vampire films to its subversive themes and image compositions is just sheer brilliant. Even the title alone is subversive to theCITIZEN KANE
Citizen Kane "Rosebud", the first word spoken on-screen in Citizen Kane, succinctly summarises the theme of this 1941 film directed by Orson Welles. It paints an epic story about a man's futile lifelong search for the elusive quality he lost: childhood innocence and his subsequent transformation into a singular force of compulsion causedby his
牯嶺街少年殺人事件 Taipei Story (1985) A Brighter Summer Day (1991) Yi Yi: A One and a Two (2000) I finished watching the above 3 films directed by Taiwanese director Edward Yang. 袁富華 – TANBOONWAH Posts about 袁富華 written by tanboonwah. Article published at: https://www.sindie.sg/2020/10/film-review-suk-suk-2019.html Film Review: Suk Suk // 叔.叔 (2019 A LITERARY CRITIQUE/REVIEW OF ‘ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE A Literary Critique/Review of ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ by Anthony Doerr. “If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen.”. This is the kind of wide doe-eyed innocence and wishful thinking exemplified by Marie-Laure, one of thetwo
TANBOONWAH – A PLACE TO STORE MY THOUGHTS… This is the kind of wide doe-eyed innocence and wishful thinking exemplified by Marie-Laure, one of the two central characters in this novel. However, in this case, if we were to skip ahead to the end, we would miss the mesmerizing epic grand scale on which events unfurl.THE SESSIONS
Just watched The Sessions, a 2012 film, with John Hawkes as a person suffering from polio who can only move his head. He had to contort his spine to portray the role and had to lie down for the entire movie, no other physical expression or movement is at his disposal for conveyingof emotions
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City of God and The Two Popes, both films directed by Fernando Meirelles are both really good, especially the former. City of God has such a strong opening scene with perfect musical urgency that it immediately grabs you hooked on the film. It strongly reminds me of the opening scene for 2003 Korean film Oldboy A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night directed by Ana Lily Amirpour is one of the best directorial debut film ever. Everything from its high contrast monochromatic colours resembling a graphic novel and classic vampire films to its subversive themes and image compositions is just sheer brilliant. Even the title alone is subversive to theCITIZEN KANE
Citizen Kane "Rosebud", the first word spoken on-screen in Citizen Kane, succinctly summarises the theme of this 1941 film directed by Orson Welles. It paints an epic story about a man's futile lifelong search for the elusive quality he lost: childhood innocence and his subsequent transformation into a singular force of compulsion causedby his
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THE SESSIONS
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THE HATE U GIVE
'The Hate U Give' (which abbreviates to THUG as the film explains), is a very powerful 2018 film. I have to admit that I first watched it because it was set in the Simonverse, the same shared fictional universe of another 2018 film 'Love, Simon'. While 'Love, Simon' is about a closeted gay teenage boyTAYLOR SWIFT
I gave Taylor Swift's latest album, folklore, a good listen. While the album's good and categorised as indie folk, I don't think it's as indie and as folksy as it could be. The album does still pander to mainstream tastes and feels like it still has the mainstream audience in mind. I say that becauseFIRST REFORMED
First Reformed directed and written by Paul Schrader is not a bad film but it is also not a great film. It has the same themes as Taxi Driver (also written by Paul Schrader) but while Taxi Driver is certainly a masterpiece, First Reformed is just a good film CALL ME BY YOUR NAME 'Look - you had a beautiful friendship. Maybe more than a friendship. And I envy you. In my place, most parents would hope the whole thing goes away, to pray that their sons land on their feet. But I am not such a parent. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured ofCITIZEN KANE
Citizen Kane "Rosebud", the first word spoken on-screen in Citizen Kane, succinctly summarises the theme of this 1941 film directed by Orson Welles. It paints an epic story about a man's futile lifelong search for the elusive quality he lost: childhood innocence and his subsequent transformation into a singular force of compulsion causedby his
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN No Country for Old Men vs There Will Be Blood. I have just watched these two films back-to-back. Both were released in 2007, both were filmed in the same location, both were adapted from novels although There Will Be Blood is only very loosely adapted while No Country for Old Men is faithful to its source material, both present dark grim pictures of what men are capable of and most importantly THE KING OF ESCAPE (LE ROI DE L’ÉVASION) The King of Escape (Le Roi de l'évasion) from director Alain Guiraudie who also directed Stranger by the Lake, asks what happens when a chubby gay man who likes mature men (ie old men) gets tired of his life, has a mid-life crisis questioning his life choices and 叔.叔 SUK SUK TWILIGHT’S KISS 叔.叔 Suk Suk (retitled as 'Twilight's Kiss' for its North American release), a 2019 Hong Kong film directed by 楊曜愷 Ray Yeung, opens with a man washing a taxi and ends with the same man sitting in a church. However the film's focus is neither onA CLOCKWORK ORANGE
A Clockwork Orange directed by Stanley Kubrick was released in 1971 but was banned in Singapore all the way till 2011 when it was shown with an R21 rating as part of a film festival. I do not really have issues with the violence or sex depicted in the film given that filmsnowadays can
TANBOONWAH – A PLACE TO STORE MY THOUGHTS… This is the kind of wide doe-eyed innocence and wishful thinking exemplified by Marie-Laure, one of the two central characters in this novel. However, in this case, if we were to skip ahead to the end, we would miss the mesmerizing epic grand scale on which events unfurl.THE SESSIONS
Just watched The Sessions, a 2012 film, with John Hawkes as a person suffering from polio who can only move his head. He had to contort his spine to portray the role and had to lie down for the entire movie, no other physical expression or movement is at his disposal for conveyingof emotions
《男儿王》 NUMBER 1 《男儿王》 Number 1 Even before opening in local cinemas next week on 22 October, Singaporean film 男儿王 (transliterated into its english title as 'Number 1') has already garned significant attention for snagging two nominations at the upcoming 57th Golden Horse Awards: 'Best leading actor' for Mark Lee (李国煌) and 'Best makeup and costume design'.THE LITTLE PRINCE
In the story of The Little Prince, the little prince had a rose that he loves very much on his planet and which he placed in a glass casing. When he came to Earth, he saw that there were millions of roses and saw that his rose was not so special or unique afterall. ItSCARLETT JOHANSSON
I think it's a pity that Scarlett Johansson was forced to withdraw from taking on the role of Dante "Tex" Gill aka Lois Jean Gill, a transman, due to the backlash. I agree with her defence of taking on the role. You don't need a deaf person to act as a deaf person, youdon't
GOING TO A TOWN
This is a powerful video against Trump, with such striking imagery used. Lily Allen remains in my opinion, one of the smartest musicians in the industry, a brilliant satirist with wit-laced lyrics in herpenned songs.
A LITERARY CRITIQUE/REVIEW OF ‘ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE A Literary Critique/Review of ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ by Anthony Doerr. “If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen.”. This is the kind of wide doe-eyed innocence and wishful thinking exemplified by Marie-Laure, one of thetwo
LOVE WILL LEAD YOU BACK This song came to the forefront of my mind last week. Written by Diane Warren who is in my opinion, one of the most prolific Englishsongwriter.
TAYLOR DAYNE
Posts about Taylor Dayne written by tanboonwah. This song came to the forefront of my mind last week. Written by Diane Warren who is in my opinion, one of the most prolific English songwriter.SHINSUKE SATO
I actually think that the live action adaptation of Bleach is rather good. I’m most impressed by the costumes and action choreography which are the most difficult to translate from animation to real life. TANBOONWAH – A PLACE TO STORE MY THOUGHTS… This is the kind of wide doe-eyed innocence and wishful thinking exemplified by Marie-Laure, one of the two central characters in this novel. However, in this case, if we were to skip ahead to the end, we would miss the mesmerizing epic grand scale on which events unfurl.THE SESSIONS
Just watched The Sessions, a 2012 film, with John Hawkes as a person suffering from polio who can only move his head. He had to contort his spine to portray the role and had to lie down for the entire movie, no other physical expression or movement is at his disposal for conveyingof emotions
《男儿王》 NUMBER 1 《男儿王》 Number 1 Even before opening in local cinemas next week on 22 October, Singaporean film 男儿王 (transliterated into its english title as 'Number 1') has already garned significant attention for snagging two nominations at the upcoming 57th Golden Horse Awards: 'Best leading actor' for Mark Lee (李国煌) and 'Best makeup and costume design'.THE LITTLE PRINCE
In the story of The Little Prince, the little prince had a rose that he loves very much on his planet and which he placed in a glass casing. When he came to Earth, he saw that there were millions of roses and saw that his rose was not so special or unique afterall. ItSCARLETT JOHANSSON
I think it's a pity that Scarlett Johansson was forced to withdraw from taking on the role of Dante "Tex" Gill aka Lois Jean Gill, a transman, due to the backlash. I agree with her defence of taking on the role. You don't need a deaf person to act as a deaf person, youdon't
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This is a powerful video against Trump, with such striking imagery used. Lily Allen remains in my opinion, one of the smartest musicians in the industry, a brilliant satirist with wit-laced lyrics in herpenned songs.
A LITERARY CRITIQUE/REVIEW OF ‘ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE A Literary Critique/Review of ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ by Anthony Doerr. “If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen.”. This is the kind of wide doe-eyed innocence and wishful thinking exemplified by Marie-Laure, one of thetwo
LOVE WILL LEAD YOU BACK This song came to the forefront of my mind last week. Written by Diane Warren who is in my opinion, one of the most prolific Englishsongwriter.
TAYLOR DAYNE
Posts about Taylor Dayne written by tanboonwah. This song came to the forefront of my mind last week. Written by Diane Warren who is in my opinion, one of the most prolific English songwriter.SHINSUKE SATO
I actually think that the live action adaptation of Bleach is rather good. I’m most impressed by the costumes and action choreography which are the most difficult to translate from animation to real life. ABOUT – TANBOONWAH Film Reviews @ My personal list of greatest films of all time (ranked first from top) Citizen Kane (1941) – Orson Welles 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – Stanley Kubrick In the Mood for L FILMREVIEW – TANBOONWAH Lilting (轻轻摇晃), the 2014 directorial debut film by Hong Khaou who later went on to direct Monsoon, is a bilingual (English and Mandarin Chinese) film that blends together several complex themes: gay romance, coming out, generational gap, traditional values, old age cross-cultural and cross-language romance, language barriers, reliance on memories for self-comfort and immigration issues BUTTERNUT 食评 FOOD REVIEW 这里的沙律与其它地方千篇一律的做法相较,自然显得格外与众不同。其中的微妙在于老板与老板娘亲手准备出来的食物,无论是沙律、烘烤沙律、披萨或意大利面,都品尝得出是用心准备的。这里标定的沙律(default salad)都包括了招牌的胡桃(butternut)在里头。这在本地少见的食材其实属南瓜 宋冬野 – 安和橋北 MUSIC REVIEW – TANBOONWAHTRANSLATE THISPAGE
宋冬野的《安和橋北》專輯我聽了大概一年了,總覺得這專輯無論是曲或詞都寫得非常好,很有意境而且也很到位。牛逼的是整張專輯每首歌都是宋冬野自己作曲、作詞。我覺得從專輯中因翻唱而躥紅的歌其實都不是裡頭最好的歌,例如《懂小姐》、《斑馬,斑馬》,《莉莉安》、《鴿子》。从这里到那里
我每聽一次《會呼吸的痛》都一定會感覺想哭,因為歌詞真的是太揪心了。宇恆是這首歌的作曲人。聽作曲人唱自己寫的歌總是特別有感觸,就像聽曹軒賓唱同樣是梁靜茹的《可惜不是你》因為是他作曲的。 宇恆 – 從這裡到那裡 – TANBOONWAHTRANSLATE THIS PAGE 聽完了宇恆的「從這裡到那裡」專輯,我覺得獨立式的音樂雖然聽起來有種unpolished未成品的感覺,但其實比主流的商業成品更有一份誠意,察覺不到任何嘩眾取寵的商業成分。特別喜歡專輯中的以下三首歌:50次的悔過、朋友們都結婚去了、還是一個人。 陳綺貞 – TANBOONWAHTRANSLATE THIS PAGE 這歌是陳綺貞寫的詞,難怪覺得詞好好。尤其是這句“家徒四壁,是甚麼包圍空虛”呈現的畫面感足以把空虛,anintangible
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這歌是陳綺貞寫的詞,難怪覺得詞好好。. 尤其是這句“家徒四壁,是甚麼包圍空虛”呈現的畫面感足以把空虛,anintangible
concept,立體形成人們能想像的一間房子面對著空蕩蕩的四面牆像把空虛都囚禁著,from intangible to something tangible,這就是作詞人的力量 宇恆 – 會呼吸的痛 – TANBOONWAHTRANSLATE THIS PAGE 我每聽一次《會呼吸的痛》都一定會感覺想哭,因為歌詞真的是太揪心了。宇恆是這首歌的作曲人。聽作曲人唱自己寫的歌總是特別有感觸,就像聽曹軒賓唱同樣是梁靜茹的《可惜不是你》因為是他作曲的。姚若龍的詞真的就像偷窺了我內心。想念真的是可以一直活在體內的痛,跟呼吸一樣是停止 盧廣仲 – 好想要揮霍 (陳綺貞作詞) – TANBOONWAHTRANSLATE THIS PAGE 這歌是陳綺貞寫的詞,難怪覺得詞好好。尤其是這句“家徒四壁,是甚麼包圍空虛”呈現的畫面感足以把空虛,anintangible
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A LITERARY CRITIQUE/REVIEW OF ‘ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE’ BYANTHONY DOERR
While inside prison, I spent 5 days reading this Pulitzer Prize-winning book which I feel is the best book I have ever read in my life. I felt so strongly about the novel that it inspired me to spend 1 whole day (immediately after finishing the book) to write a book review. To retain fidelity to my original handwritten 2-page draft that was composed within the span of a day, I am reproducing the critique below albeit in a typewritten format and chose not to do any edits to my original draft. Rest assured only the format is different, no words have been added or removed or changed from my original handwritten draft, the words are 100% exactly the same. This will more accurately reflect my lack of a dictionary and internet to google whether what I spelled or quoted/made reference to is correct or not and also the time constraint and paper constraint I faced while writing it (which will explain why my concluding paragraph is cramped with themes that I can explore further should I choose to, if given more paper to write on while inside prison). A Literary Critique/Review of ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ byAnthony Doerr
“If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen.” This is the kind of wide doe-eyed innocence and wishful thinking exemplified by Marie-Laure, one of the two central characters in this novel. However, in this case, if we were to skip ahead to the end, we would miss the mesmerizing epic grand scale on which eventsunfurl.
“Sublimity is the instant when one thing is about to become something else.” Anthony Doerr’s second novel – a long ten years in the making – is the medium through which the author has crossed the Rubicon, stepped off the precipice, taken a leap of faith via his unconventional writing and been exalted and elevated to the pantheon of literary greats much like Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Debussy’s Clair de Lune, all of which feature heavily in this tale. This work could very well be Doerr’s magnum opus and is a masterpiece in every sense of the word, hence worthy of the decade-long wait. Doerr’s epic novel has earned him a well-deserved place among his aforementioned greatly revered heroes. The story is set in Germany and France’s Saint-Malo and Paris. It is however not set in the glamorous belle époque period with its familiar grand old world charm but instead the stage here is World War II, itself a character constantly in the background; never far from our protagonists’ minds. Like the intricately crafted little model house of Number 4 rue Vauborel featured in the story, Doerr’s novel intricately weaves the various timelines between the two main protagonists: Marie-Laure, a blind young girl and Werner, a smart White-haired boy. Doerr not only deftly switches perspectives between the two protagonists, he also successfully juggles two on-going timelines, switching back and forth between the past and future until the two timelines coalesce. This is a similar technique employed by British author Jeffrey Archer in his ‘The Fourth Estate’ and to a lesser degree in ‘Kane and Abel’ but Doerr here has outdone his contemporary with more literary finesse displayed. Doerr’s prose is also lovely and mesmerizing with its rhythmic pace and never feels superfluous for a second. He writes beautiful descriptions of the scenes and evokes lively imageries. Other less skilled peers of his such as author Dan Brown often launch into long descriptions of sceneries; diatribes that are excessive to the point of making the writing seem like a travelogue. Doerr sidesteps this skilfully as all the scene descriptions are essential from the perspective of his sightless girl whose mood changes the colour of the depicted scenes; the world is gray and devoid of colours when she is depressed and only recolourises when her mood lifts. Doerr smartly maintains suspense readers’ interest and curiosity by keeping the chapters short – especially in the opening pages of the book in the first section curiously-named ‘Zero’ – before switching the narrative and perspective to elsewhere. This results in mini-cliffhangers that force the readers to keep the pages turning. Like the old adage made famous by the line in the beloved French classic, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince): “The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart”, Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has an over-arching theme of goodness in people that permeates throughout the story. This intrinsic human quality is present in many of the novel’s characters that have performed selfless acts that not only generates no benefits to themselves but may invite trouble to their doorsteps. Marie-Laure’s father, Daniel LeBlanc made miniature models of the city to help his daughter find her way; Etienne (Marie-Laure’s great-uncle) takes the pair of father and daughter in despite having no obligations to; Madame Manec engaging in espionage/spying reconnaissance activities, thereby putting herself in unneeded danger; and finally Werner who eventually takes the righteous path of saving the lives of Marie-Laure and her great-uncle, saving the former several times even. “You must never stop believing” and “… how to see her is to believe once more that goodness, more than anything else, is what lasts”; these are words spoken by Madame Manec and Dr. Geffard to Marie-Laure, underpinning the importance of believing in goodness and its perpetuality. Much like an experienced auteur, Doerr never once runs into creative sclerosis and the characters in the story – every single one of them – pops out of the pages and are fully fleshed out with their own moral dilemma and unique personality. From the gemologist-turned-sergeant major cum primary antagonist von Rumpel who is obsessed with finding the Sea of Flames but still depicted as loving his daughters and also being morally upright by keeping his promise to Marie-Laure to leave after she answered his question; to Frederick who stood his ground and refused to partake in abusive bullying tactics despite the prospects of facing punishment himself; and to Marie-Laure’s papa who presents an optimistic and hopeful front to his daughter despite feeling despair within himself. These are not one-dimensional characters and there are no traces of stereotypes or tropes. Do not be fooled by the naivety of ingénue Marie-Laure, she displays admirable beyond-her-years grit and tenacity. Volkheimer though a giant, is friendly towards Werner. He even goes through a redemption when he asks Werner to take his rifle and presumably save Marie-Laure. Redemption is also another theme in this novel. Werner undergoes a similar redemption arc – after indirectly causing the death of the red-haired little girl – by sparing and also saving the lives of Marie-Laure and Etienne through both hiding of knowledge and taking direct action. Even inanimate objects like the Sea of Flames at the central of the story are infused with life and vigour through Doerr’s prose. It is no mere MacGuffin inserted into the narrative out of frivolity. The Sea of Flames is akin to the heart of the story both figuratively and literally as it plays an essential role around which the plot’s events revolve around and is a cut multi-faceted diamond with a flame within it. Other items like the numerous shells that pique and held Marie-Laure’s interest, highlights Doerr’s knowledge in mollusks. The shells have spirals which are like mazes. This leads to the next theme which is the inter-connectedness of people like in a maze or universal network. Werner and Marie-Laure are first connected through vast space and distance by radio waves through the radio broadcasts of Marie-Laure’s grandfather, Henri who is known to Werner and his younger sister Jutta as ‘The Professor’. When Marie-Laure and Werner first talked, Werner mentioned Clair de Lune to her to bridge an immediate closeness to her. The invisible electromagnetic waves form a network connecting people and souls all across the universe. The inter-connectivity of people also sets off chain reactions from Marie-Laure’s actions of bravery leading to a reaction in Werner changing and being brave by taking charge of his actions. This is evidenced by the conversation between them: ‘“When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery, I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?” and Werner replies “Not in years. But today. Today maybe I did.”’ The above exchange also highlights two other important themes: the inevitability of life and extraordinariness in ordinary acts. Light is also an important character by itself, personified by its ubiquitous presence throughout the novel. It is described in vivid details and appears as various forms including electromagnetic waves (EM waves) and radio waves which as aforementioned plays an essential role of connectivity especially between the two main protagonists. The book’s title ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ refers directly to the concept that light is actually invisible. Visible light is colour but “the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, … mathematically, all of light is invisible” the novel explains so, since the visible part of EM waves or light is insignificant and a small portion minority compared to the larger portion majority of invisible EM waves or light. The persistence of souls is also explored. EM waves abound all around us in our daily lives, sunlight filtering through trees, in the air, through radio, through a field light, even in different less recognisable forms such as in the form of coal as explained by the novel that a plant captures light and then decays into the soil and buried under for millions of years before eventually forming into a coal. Souls from the departed can similarly transform and be found in this ‘light we cannot see’ and travel and persist all around us for all of eternity. Hence the novel’s title also alludes to the souls of our departed loved ones existing around us. The owl appearing to Frederick near the novel’s end and a simple wind could all be a soul taking different forms; the former owl could be Werner visiting his friend after he died. The radio and mollusks (shells) are all complex systems, intricate networks and are small pieces in a universe; mazes unto themselves. From souls, religious themes are also explored such as when Marie-Laure asks whether blind people will see the face of God. The Sea of Flames is the physical manifestation and embodiment of the theme and question of science versus faith; logic versus superstition. Does it really have powers to protect its owner? Is it really cursed and causing bad things to befall on people around its owner? Doerr leaves these questions unanswered and is certain in the diamond’s ambiguity. After all, Marie-Laure who was its owner did not die and got out of life-threatening seemingly impossible situations while others around her died such as her beloved father, Madame Manec and even Werner when he died, he did not have the tear-shaped stone withhim.
The concept and theme of purity is also explored. Doerr postulates that purity of any form – be it racial purity or political purity – can never be achieved. Since the moment we are born, we are under constant corruption from the environment and world around us, including the very air that enters our bodies and hence the body can never be pure; we can never be completely rid of impurities. Doerr likens this to how the “entropy of a closed system never decreases.” Permanent order can never be formed, there will always be disorder and chaos; impurities are natural. Doerr’s words transform the intangible into tangible such as when Marie-Laure’s reading of Braille becomes blurred when she is feeling distracted. In reality words in Braille books can’t possibly distort or blur. Her distraction caused by anxiety leads to the blurring in her reading. Doerr’s mastery of the language also shines through such as when he uses an oxymoron ‘beautiful ugly’ or ‘belle laide’ when Werner describes Marie-Laure’s eyes or when he uses vivid metaphors like “… it’s like reaching into a sack full of cotton and finding a razor blade inside” when Werner hears talking on the radio after months of static and “It’s as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished.” Doerr raises thought-provoking notions through questions such as “The brain is locked in total darkness, … inside the skull, never in the light. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light. It brims with colour and light. So how, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?” He also pays immaculate attention to details, a quality that shows through his prose. These are all displays of his proficiency as a master wordsmith. Doerr also references literary greats such as Jules Verne and ingeniously incorporates elements from his predecessor’s into his narrative. Professor Aronnax from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea works in the same National Museum of Natural History as Marie-Laure’s father; Captain Nemo’s experiences are in tandem parallel to those of the novel’s characters. Human resilience, overcoming adversity and phobia such as Etienne’s agoraphobia and the trauma and devastation caused by war are all themes explored in Doerr’s novel. Even at the novel’s end, Doerr is unconventional by unexpectedly having the male protagonist, Werner be killed. Long after the last word is read, Doerr’s characters linger long in the reader’s mind. Every other book read after this novel pales in comparison as Doerr’s story continues to reverberate and also illuminate and shine a light of hope and optimism through our lives’ dark periods for eternal perpetuality like all the light we cannot see in the story.Advertisements
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SO THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGINS… I have created this blog to store my thoughts and to organise my writings for easy retrieval and reading. They contain mostly film reviews. There are also some music reviews, book reviews, food reviewsand poems.
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HELLO WORLD
‘Hello World’ is a very cerebral animation film. Its visuals and concept of world within world within world are very reminiscent of Inception and Interstellar. If Christopher Nolan ever venture into animation, this is probably what it would look like.November 7, 2019
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MIDSOMMAR
I watched Ari Aster’s 171 minutes director cut’s Midsommar. It doesn’t really feel that long despite the length. There wasn’t really any wasted scene and the worldbuilding is immensely rich and very believable probably due to it being rooted in actual Swedish folklore, culture and traditions. Both the production design and costume design ought to be nominated for Academy Awards. The attention to details is incredible and a sight to behold, especially the awe-inspiring architecture presented in the film. The film also gave a very good portrayal of gaslighting. However, despite these being said, I think that this is definitely a weaker film than the director’s previous output, the amazing Hereditary. Midsommar’s script and scene composition both pale in comparison to its predecessor. And because it’s rooted in a foreign isolated culture that seems faraway, it’s not as relatable as Hereditary or to other recent good horror flicks like Jordan Peele’s Us.November 7, 2019
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JOKER
其實我比較同意大多數影評人給予這部電影的影評。電影是值得看但導演Todd Phillips沒有達到Joaquin Phoenix同樣的水平。這部電影雖然大致上是好,但細看不難發現些顯著的弱點,例如劇本沒寫的很好,是Joaquin Phoenix盡所能利用限有的劇本發揮得淋漓盡致。執導方面雖然有些場景例如跳舞下階梯的畫面算是做的很好、印象深刻,但我總覺得比較多是Cinematographer(Lawrence Sher)
的功勞多過導演的功勞。而且我覺得執導方面沒有個明確的方向。這片明顯是要效仿Martin Scorsese的Taxi Driver和The King of Comedy。就連監製也是他本人,同樣的請了Scorsese常合作的Robert De Niro。但是「paying tribute/homage致敬」和「明顯抄襲導致沒個人風格」是不一樣的,導演這裡是犯了後者。一部電影的好壞是由1. 導演
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依重要性這樣排下去的。導演對他執導的電影的vision永遠是取決電影的好壞最重要的關鍵。電影最明顯最差的地方就是在結尾。最後那段真的很沒明確的方向,完全不明白導演在電影快結束的時候是想要表達什麼。如果你翻查Todd Phillips之前執導過的電影其實大多數在Rotten Tomatoes只有60-70%的評分或甚至更少。 最後想說的是Joaquin Phoenix這次應該終於可以拿回奧斯卡獎了吧?November 7, 2019
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JOKER REVIEW
https://in.mashable.com/entertainment/7266/joker-review-joaquin-phoenix-holds-together-a-beautiful-yet-problematic-film This review gives pretty good in-depth analysis down to its direction, cinematography, editing and script. Several points I agreed with: ‘When it comes to demonstrating the violent side of Fleck, Groth is smart (he actually cuts away from the violence and it’s actually more disturbing).’ and ‘no other movie has used stairs to represent the themes of regaining normality and descending into madness better than Joker.’November 7, 2019
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WEATHERING WITH YOU
I am not exaggerating when I say that I honestly find the ending of ‘Weathering with You’ more unbelievable than the fact that the girl can stop the rain and clear the sky. Why would there be no contact between the two protagonists for 3 years? Why doesn’t she have a phone? Why can’t he just ask his female Tokyo friend to pass messages to her or even his former boss to do so? Why can’t theywrite letters?
November 7, 2019
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ANOMALISA
This gives further evidence why Charlie Kaufman is the absolute best screenwriter around and one of the best directors. Being John MalkovichHuman Nature
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November 7, 2019
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EVERY LANA DEL REY SONG, RANKED CRITIC’S LIST https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8528500/lana-del-rey-best-songs-ranked Agreed with them on several points such as Yayo’s initial version being better and Young and Beautiful’s DH version being superior. I want to quote what was written about the no. 1 ranked song on this list, “hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have – but i have it” because I really agreed with what was said fully, that Ultraviolence should have killed her commercial prospects but it didn’t and went on to develop her music in a different direction: “Many of her greatest works felt like her final proclamation, songs so dramatic and fatalistic she might never be able to top them: “Born to Die,” “Ride,” “Cruel World,” “The Other Woman,” “God Knows I Tried,” the “High by the Beach” video, “Swan Song.” It was a form of control, the tantalizing prospect that Lana could culminate her career in a tragedy of her own making; the musical equivalent of the “Born to Die” video’s fiery car wreck. She even recorded an entire album, Ultraviolence, that probably should have killed her commercial prospects, but backfired miraculously. Like no other pop star this decade, Lana Del Rey wanted to define herself on her own terms, or not at all.”November 7, 2019
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