OSHIN (2013)

OSHIN, Old Japanese Story, Very Touching and Heartbreaking 

Stars   :  Kokone Hamada, Aya Ueto, Goro Inagaki 
Score   :  7.5 / 10
 

I'm still the lucky ones because knew OSHIN. Some generations after me definitely do not know anything about OSHIN. What is OSHIN? OSHIN is a Japanese television series that aired on Indonesian television, TVRI (Televisi Republik Indonesia) in 90s. I've forgotten when exactly aired on TVRI, but certainly, I watched it. I also had OSHIN cassette when I was in elementary school and often played it. My father had bought it for me at that time. Unfortunately, I've actually forgotten the story. I only remember that OSHIN is a heartbreaking story from the land of cherry blossom (in Bahasa: Negeri Sakura), Japan. 

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

Just Love the Landscape, not the Movie

Stars   :  Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Jon Daly, Sean Penn
Score  :  6.5 / 10

 

Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) is a single man 40 years old. He works at Life magazine and has a good position, as a manager in negative film asset department. Mitty has a high imagination. He loves to dream and imagine. Some people in the office think that he is a weird because of that. Mitty does not have a close friend, including a woman, because he is not smart when face to face with a woman. He was too shy and quiet. He only has a friend in the office, Hernando (Adrian Martinez), a Mitty's crew. Mitty choose to join a dating agency to get female friends, then he met Cheryl Melhoff (Kristen Wiig), a widow with a kid. Cheryl works at Life magazine too. Mitty was interested and love Cheryl.

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The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

A Christmas Musical Animated Movie

Stars   :  Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara
Score  :  7.0 / 10

 

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a second movie Christmas-themed, which I chose to fill Christmas in 2013. Unlike Christmas movie in general, The Nightmare Before Christmas is very far from the beautiful things that we usually find when Christmas come. This movie featuring the main setting in a place that is 180 degrees opposite from Christmas, a dark town called Halloween Town. According the name, Halloween Town is a town that is filled with shades of Halloween. The atmosphere is very dark. The buildings are far away from a beautiful word, old-fashioned and not maintained well.

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Rush (2013)

When The Big Lessons Appeared in Competition, There were Only an Impress, a Friendship and Support 

Stars   :  Daniel Bruhl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde
Score  :  8.0 / 10

 

RUSH is my third favorite movie in January 2014. There will be a lot of films included in my favorite list in early 2014. The next three films that will follow soon in my favorite list are Back to the Future III, Hannibal and Captain Phillip. Last year, my friend who has a hobby on food photography advised me to watch RUSH. But because of the airing time of RUSH in theaters is almost over, I do not have time to watch it. I watched RUSH in 2014, it is a bit late, but no problem than not watching it ^.^ And after watching it, I agree when he told me that I should not miss RUSH. A good story and contains good moral message.

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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

5 Oscar at The Academy Awards 1992 

Stars   :  Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins 
Score  :  7.8 / 10

 

This review has a connection with the previous (Red Dragon), because The Silence of the Lambs is a sequel of Red Dragon. As I mentioned before, those are part of trilogy based on a book by Thomas Harris. In this sequel, there are two striking differences from the previous, protagonist character and the story focus. This time, the story involved a beautiful protagonist character, Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), a woman who was an apprentice in FBI. If Red Dragon story focused on murder cases, the Silence of the Lambs focused on Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins). Why? A simple reasonable answer is The Silence of the Lambs is a bridge to get to third sequel, Hannibal, which told a lot about Lecter.

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