Monday, February 21, 2011

Movie Reviews - Salt, 2012, Kung Fu Panda, Slumdug Millionaire, CJ7

SALT A nice movie of Angelina Jolie. It’s action pack from the beginning to end. This is a well-braided story in which the feeling-of-wanting-to-know-the-story-more in every step of the plot. There was also a smooth transition from each step of the plot.
In the side of the school of thought, it depicts “FEMINISM” considering the dear Evelyn Salt is a lady herself but this lady shows the dominant character portraying Protagonist and not the typical character showing the inferiority complex of a woman making her character the underdog of the story. The movie does mention of the settings Korea, United States and Russia and the conflicts in between.
This further depicts TERRORISM. There was a Russian leader who was training kids to become a swarm of terrorists in the fight of Russia attacking the U.S but in the course the protagonist was caught by Korea alleging her as the Russian SPY. Then there was a story of suicide bomber in wanting to kill the U.S President. There was the story Russian President who died by tarantula venom or something like that as planned by SALT.
It’s a story of Salt conniving by the Russian force to attack U.S. by Salt engaging herself to the American Police Force as a SPY as a deep secret mission. Then came the story of her beloved husband being kidnapped and killed by Her Russian leader himself. Then out of Salt’s disgust, the terrified created terrorist -SALT killed her trainor Terrorist. Then came SALT’s plan to kill and betray the Russian force. There was a changed of personality and of principle on this part. All throughout the Story, different characters have shown different colors of characters from the white side turning to the black side.
Then the end part shows Salt depicted as the character who have decided to stop the destruction of some part of the world.

2012 Watched this on the bus while heading to an election campaign sortie. 2012 is a futuristic movie prophesying the END OF THE WORLD. It’s filled with heavy special effects portraying the movies depiction of the end of the WORLD.
It depicts that salvation will be only via a modern ship in CHINA in which the ticket costs a billion dollars each. It shows the division between the rich and the poor but all along the story shows the goodness of the World’s leaders by making a decision of letting the workers/people enter the ship even in the absence of money.
The story revolves around the story of a family. There was a pending prophesy by a seemingly crazy disc jockey man who have predicted the end of the WORLD. There was also the story of the scientist who found out the scientific basis that indeed it will happen as per the help and study of his Indian friend. His Indian friend who was the main person who discovered the coming END died in course of the story without receiving any help.
Simply, it’s a story of survival.

Kung Fu Panda A cartoon movie depicting China’s culture and tradition. The story of Chinese famous characters like tiger, snake, turtle, etc. acting as the trained warriors. Then the prophesy came that the community will be once again attacked by the jailed enemy.
Then came the day of choosing. Then came the Big Fat Panda, chosen as the dragon warrior, a character in contradiction to the five trained warriors who was prophesied to be the community’s warrior.
The Panda was so restless and is confident that he’s not gonna make it. But the story shows the moral of acceptance, the honor of accepting the responsibility, the moral obligation of protecting the people(in this sense the animals, being them as the characters at play) and simply the honor of being having the faith of shouting “I’m gonna make it, I’m gonna win this battle.”

Slumdog Millionaire

The story is about the journey of young boy named Jamal Malik, an orphan living in poverty in the slums of India who won the Who wants to a millionaire game based in India. The movie uses a lot of flash backs to show the protagonist’s story via his life’s experiences on how he was able to know the answers of each questions.
All along the story, the story shows the life in India having it as the main setting of the story. Then realism strikes showing friendship, luck, corruption, brutality, poverty, child trafficking and simply showing the ordinary way of life in India.
I want to call the director of this movie the director who’s deeply into flashbacks. Guess this is one of the products of India’s Bollywood.

CJ7 This is a movie product of the combination of Realism mixed by Surrealism. This shows the reality of life of an ordinary poor Father, working so hard to send his only child to a prestigious school. On the course of the story came the alien moving creature character that gives hope to the Family.
This story shows the importance of education, of hard work, further depicts the real-life problem of bullying and the power of Faith and of Hope.
A very nice portrayal of the simple way of life being injected in the middle with fanaticism. The mixture simply works.

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