Seven Pounds

First I had no idea what film I would see. I had a feeling of Seven and a bit of 21 Grams. The movie put me into a puzzle in his first half and showing some clues of the whole picture.
Will Smith played very well. I like the films which concentrate on one character to reveal his/her aspects of the personality. He played his role to make me believe the character rather than the old roles he played.
The movie became so emotional at the final scenes that I can't believe it is an American movie.
I don't like to say anything about the movie because I liked it very much and don't want to spoil the story more. Find a good time, place, mood and even a partner to see and enjoy.

Babel

I would not believe that it is a Hollywood movie if its director was American.

You are faced with a simple story divided into three sub stories happening in three different countries. It is so wisely mixed up that you can not find the chronology until you reach the ending scenes. Then you notice that the story first begins in an Arab country then in Japan and last in USA-Mexico region.

The first scene catching my eye was the strange look on the tourists face when entering the village, a place that no tourist bothers himself to step in. It is a remarkable shot contrasting the east and west people.

Also, the next point that had my attention was that about more than half hour of crying. Every character in the story cries but each cry is so different and strange. It was the best composition that you can imagine yourself in place of other people with different cultures and trying to feel the same.

I like Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel a lot and one of the reasons is that it is not a single-culture story.

SE7EN

I saw se7ev for the third time translated in Persian and transmitted by the Iranian TV. I expected to see a full cut version of it and fully changed dialogues in some scenes. However, I enjoyed the move for the third time and saved the remaining four time slots for the future.

Seeing this mo I for the first time was very shocking. As story goes on, you cannot guess what will be happen. Although after a couple of killing it reveals the most important motive of the killer but the story and also the movie do not want the audience to guess in advance what is going on.

When I saw it shortly afterward for the second time I considered the dialogues more carefully to get the idea better. It worked out some story puzzle made in my mind. Clearly, the joy was not the same as the first but it was different.

If a movie left you thinking after the The-End sign, I consider it a good movie. I can say after a decade and for the third time that it is still a good movie.

This time a frame of the most important scene, the killer pointing gun to the young detective’s head in the rain, caught my eye. This part satisfies all the things the director was after: No clue to recognize the face of the killer, showing the power of killer, and in my point of view, the influence of the killer to choose the story line.

There was also another point regarding to the titling of the movie. At the end you saw Kevin Spacy’s name not in the beginning. This is another director trick to hide the killer.

Anyway, there is always some stories and believes about the numbers. The number Seven is believed to be a holly number. As it is sporadically used in almost all cultures such as Seven Sins, Seven days of a week, seven trays (haft sin in Nowrooz ceremonies in Iran and Persian-oriented region), seven seas, and so forth, the movie showed seven killing in seven days according to seven sins. [And this is my seven paragraph too ;)]

The hidden memory

The Hidden(1987) is a story of an alien who can use human body on earth to live and satisfy his needs but he is not alone. Another alien is after him for revenge and terminating him.

The first time I saw this movie was a couple of years after the release. I was young and passionate about movies and Sci-Fi stories. The mixture of three elements of Sci-Fi, Police story and action made me a good feeling about this film and it remained in my memory.

Anyway I saw this movie last night. I have to admit that it is a regular movie. In spite of wining some unknown awards, I now rate it 2.5 from 5.

Time is a complicated matter to me. Sometimes, time is good when is past and Sometimes it makes things worst.

Delicatessen

Delicatessen (1991) is a French black comedy by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, starring Dominique Pinon.

Delicatessen is set in an unspecified time and place with a post-apocalyptic appearance. Food is in short supply: grain is used as currency and animals are scarce and extincted. The story happens around a bizarre group of neighbors living in an apartment building, over a butcher's shop, who pay the butcher a weekly rate for both food and board. However, the food they eat is in fact human flesh, as the butcher regularly murders the workers that he hires to do odd jobs.

The hero of Delicatessen is Louison, an unemployed circus clown, who is the latest part-time worker to move in. He develops a romantic relationship with the butcher's daughter, Julie, while trying to survive constant attempts on his life. He is ultimately rescued by a vegetarian underground terrorist organization who calls themselves the Troglodists.

I like to thank Gog who suggested me this movie; I found it today and have seen it some hours ago. The opening of the movie is like a complete short film. The first 5 minutes of the movie caught my eyes in many aspects especially cinematography. Such a conversationless opening thoroughly depicted the main root of the film.

The main idea which can make it Sci-fi is shortage of food. After a while I recalled Soylent Green where they made biscuits from dead human flesh. Another thing I want to mention is that whole the story at last conclude within itself. All the answers are in the closed circuit of the butcher's apartment. There are two main out-neighbor elements, the post man and the terrorists. The point about them is that they enter the story mostly at the end and they fight wit each other. The directors used them well in conjunction with other neighbors and made some comic scenes.

at last but not the least is the cinematography of the film by Darius Khondji, an Iranian cinematographer who has been in Hollywood recently. it is one of his early but perfect works.

What if

"The lake house" is a fantasy movie released in 2006. It is directed by Alejandro Agresti and Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock played the lead roles. Its story is about love and loving a person in different place and different time!

All the movies based on time travel or being informed of events in the future (or even past!) use a medium. In a TV serial it was the newspaper of tomorrow. In the movie "Frequency" it was a radio and in this movie it is a mail box in front of a lake house.

The lake house has some special characteristics. It is built on lake water, water flows underneath but the house is there. It is very symbolic. Another characteristic which is also covered in the dialogue is that it has no walls and mostly it has windows. The house could itself be the medium but it was not and I liked that.

Anyway writing a story which is going to play with time is hard, especially when you want to use butterfly effect in it. The movie try to make us beware of that at that tree scene and make it well but it could not satisfied me in the other scenes.

What if I could change my life by writing to a girl living some years ahead of me? Just imagine!

Reli-Fi

"The Fountain" is directed by Darren Aronofsky. The movie released in 2006.It is his next movie after "Requiem for a Dream".
I can't say I like this movie. I may rate it 2 or 3 from 5. If I want to compare it with his previous work, I have to say I am disappointed. I expect a very better film.
The movie starts by mixing three different characters from different eras. At the end of movie, you can understand these characters belong to past, present and future. The base character is a man (the same man in tree eras) and the main stream is love. The man from the past loves a woman who is hard to achieve. The man from the present loves a woman who is achieved but there is a fear to loose. The man from the future loves a woman who is wishfully going to achieve if the mission accomplished successfully. At the end there is another mixing of the characters that let the viewer choose the ending.
Any way, when I look the movie up in IMDB, I noticed it is also categorized as science fiction. In Sci-Fi you are looking for a base resumption which the whole story is happening around it. I can't find such resumption but I find that the resumption is philosophical or mostly religious. The resumption is metempsychosis or transmigration of souls. This is the main idea of religions or ideologies like Buddhists, Yoga and Eckankar. You can find a single soul in those three men of times and is somehow depicted in the last scenes. So I may categorize this file as Reli-Fi(religious fiction) more than Sci-Fi.

Fallen Art

Fallen Art (Polish Sztuka spadania) is the name of a 6-minute, animated short film written and directed by Tomasz Bagiński. It is his Second film. In 2006 it has received the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award.

Plot:

Atoll, An old, forgotten military base somewhere in the Pacific. Soldiers who lost their minds, due to the hardships of past missions, and exemplary officers the Army can't yet get rid of are sent there. There, far away from civilization, laws and rules they nurture their insanities.

Sergeant Al cultivates his love for young and brave soldiers.

Dr. Friedrich cultivates his talent for photography.

And the old, mentally lost General A creates his art. He uses neither paper nor canvas. He attempts something completely different.

It is very beautiful. You may find some clues but the whole idea is amazing. If you consider it as a philosophy, it will be so easy to define the leaders' actions.

300 Cartoons about Persia

I lately saw the 300 movie trailer. it bothers me some how. I planned to write about it after I see the movie. Today in a weblog I read something about it and i liked the idea. here is the link and the content:

300 the movie is an ongoing collaborative art project featuring art by
artists using the theme of 'ancient Persia'. Driven by an admiration for arts,
and united by a common concern about the barbaric and demonic portrayal of
Persians in Frank Miller's graphic novel and
the movie 300, we have come
together to voice our objection in a uniquely artistic fashion. The call for art
has just been released and the initial gallery will soon be set up. If you are
an artist and would like to participate, please send your art to submit at
300themovie dot info .You can join the growing list and link to us by copying
the following line of code on your blog or website.
300 the movie

Code 46(2003)

It is another Sci-fi and love story movie. This time the assumption is men are enable of deleting the memory of an event from anyone's mind.
It is not a bad film. Story telling is a bit different. The near future architecture shown in the movie is very beautiful and acceptable. Vast empty spaces in the airport with lots of light tube on the ceiling and the sound of see waves is remarkable.
A wise and good usage of multi language greetings is used all over the movie-even Persian. Maybe some viewers can not understand the dialogs if they had no background of other foreign languages.
Anyway everything around human being will change but love will be still a questionable matter!?

Childeren of Men(2006)

This a Sci-fi Movie from Alfonso Cuarón. The Idea like all other Sci-Fi Stories is reversing one of obvious facts of life. Here, Humane race looses his ability of fertilization. the next generation is going to see his extinction amongst whole the other problems we see today like global warming, pollution, terrorism and illegal migration.I like the idea very much (apart from that part showing only Moslem's demonstrating).

I also liked the role of Clive Owen, it was very different. I may suggest him for the next 007. Michael Caine acted very justly. He managed to show an old man in new time still attached to his first years of youth. some one else could play the role of Julianne Moore but Claire-Hope Ashitey as Kee Played very well. There is a sequence of good scenes from the city war section.

I recommend it to all my friends who like to Watch Sci-Fi movies without any glory or space shuttles.

007

007 is a super man actually. He is not about to do and act like a ordinary man. He is fast, strong, wise, good looking and fit. he seduces every women he likes and he is loyal to the Queen.
The Movie Casino Royal is about to break this. The new actor is so different from oo7 ancestors in many ways. Pierce Brosnan acts this character as it must resembles to people. Daniel Craig on the other hand, plays this character as an ordinary man. he fell in love, got hurt and face the pain and even death.
I noticed the idea of recreating this fiction characters and make them to be regarded as ordinary man in the movie "Batman Begins". The turn is now for 007. We have to wait to see who is next.

Sweet November

I saw this movie a couple of days before the Plot summary is as follow:
Nelson (Keanu Reeves) is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara (Charlize Theron). She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later that day she tracks him down. One thing leads to another and Nelson ends up living with her through a November that will change his life forever.

I cant find anything interesting in the movie although I like Keanu Reeves acting. I can just say it is a good movie for a couple to seat on a sofa eating chipse and enjoy being together not more.

I think the idea one of the critics wrote is enough to end this post
"...If I were a guy, and a gorgeous woman took me into her apartment, had passionate sex with me and supported my ass for a month, it’d change my life, too! Perhaps this is more romantic science fiction than anything".

Unique Feelings!

I've just seen a movie called "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ". I checked in IMDB.COM before I saw it. The genre was Drama, Romance and Sci-fi. The sci-fi is my favorite so watching it gets a high priority. Now I have to say that it is beyond sci-fi. The other aspects are tenser and vastly affect my idea about the movie. Let me explain more.

Time line of the movie is so condensed that make you hazy at last if it is a story of 3 years or 3 days. Actually scenarist professionally combined the events with the characters memories. At first 20 minute of movie you are introduced with 3 different scenes in which people talk about Valentines Day (so 3 years resembles) but at the end of the movie you can imagine a day in doctor office, a night in home erasing memories and a day recovering their feelings and memories.

The only sci-fi aspect with the movie tackles very nice is the problem of human memory. Is there a unique memory for every event? Do our memories of a unique event affect each other? Can I change my memories or mix them together? Can someone eventually and completely erase memory of an event from his or her brain?

The last but not the least aspect of the movie in my opinion is the matter of love, simple love not the very sophisticated ones. In the movie we saw some couples who are in love in a sort of way. At the end we notice that they do every thing to erase their memories in order to forget their love and begin another but at last their efforts are in vain and they can not forget their feelings about love. Joel can't let them erase the sweetest memory of his love. Mary falls in love again with Howard. Clementine can't stop facing Joel in the last scene because she is still in love with him.

We all have lots of memories from childhood till now. We will gain a lot more until we die. We can easily remember the worst and the best ones but on remembering our sweet and lovely memories our feelings are an odd and sharp mix of sorrow and happiness. These feeling are very unique that nobody really likes to erase the background memories.

Time destroys everything

The title is a tag line of a movie called Irreversible.
The movie follows a backward chronological story like Memento.
The emphasis on the violence is so tense and long duration that every watcher gets the bad feelings deep inside.
I can't & won't tell the story here but if you want to see a film so different from regular movies, I recommend it.