Dr J's Movie Reviews

Match Point

Went to see this Woody Allen film with Dr D and Dr K the other night in the city and mistakenly thought this was gonna be a chick flick. Instead it turned out to be a rather ugly film about relationships and lies and deceit and lust. Not exactly light popcorn fare, but it was a very interesting movie.

You walked out of the movie feeling extremely uncomfortable and ugly. And yet that is what the director wanted you to feel. You were supposed to see the mess that lies and broken relationships caused. It was awful.. but artistically awful.

Made me realise just how awful we can be as poeple towards each other... we try to dress things up and pretend like we're nice people, but underneath all of our facades lies the potential for us to be truly horrible people.

Perhaps Love

On a much lighter note, durign my Friday overtime I managed to have enough time to squeeze in a DVD and watched the Asian hit movie-musical of the year in 2005 entitled "Perhaps Love". It was an awesome movie that intertwined the stories of 3 seperate love triangles involving the same people into one beautiful story. It also helped that the actress was really charming and had a real presence on the stage. Luved listening to the mainlander Mandarin in it (much more articulate than Taiwanese) and am def considering buying it once I find a store that sells it.

I must say that it wasn't as good as Sekia no Cushin de, Ai wo Sakebu, (my favourite Jap drama/movie about the sweet girl Aki who falls in love with Saku and then develops leukaemia and dies a slow sad death) but it was still very very good and the production quality was similar to Moulin Rouge.