Holy Motors

It begins with a strange scene inside a cinema where people watching some kind of movie and the scene changed into a man who just awoken in his dark apartment with his dog in the bed then slowly light his cigar, walking around his apartment till we see him with the tree painted walls, which he found a keyhole, and it turns out that the key is literally one of his own finger, he push and open the hidden door on the wall that leads him to the cinema at the beginning of the movie.

鉄男 • Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Very fresh experimental type of movie with industrial ambient when it started at the beginning and the special effect put in black and white, and strange dance of salaryman with industrial music played in the background start the mood right up for us to be ready for some more upcoming absurdity. Tells about an infecting machine in absurd composition of lightning and detail shot, you'll see mostly close up and detail shot change rapidly with rapid epileptic lightning stimulation, a lo-fi make up effect covered by the absent of color, and the craziest stop motion i ever saw.

The Machinist

Delusional emaciated insomniac factory worker, Trevor Reznik. Claimed that he never been sleeping for a year, his boss think he's on drugs or something and would not be able to pull down a works with heavy machinery. Trevor met a strange man Ivan, who claimed to be his co-worker. One time at a day, Trevor saw Ivan at the factory, working, but he gaze in disbelief as in; "Is he there or not?".

ノルウェイの森 • Norwegian Wood

Basicly it's a romance story happen in late 1960's, in the revolution era in Japan. Romance, suicide, erotic things, those stuff are here inside the story. But whatever, i'm not gonna tell anything about the story, it makes me shiver uncomfortably writing it.

그림자 살인 • Private Eye

The story start with a medical student who find a dead body in the wood. He doesn't know that the body belongs to a son of a goverment official. In confusion he find an advertising from a detective who earn a living by snooping cheating wives, tell to the husband and take a picture of it, and sell it to the paper. He try to hire the detective to find the killer. After refusing several times, the detective agreed as the money reward is really big. That is the beginning to the whole story which includes opium smuggling, Japanese occupation in Korea, police corruption, and child-prostitution.

HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL

Frederick Loren, a mysterious millionaire who offers $10,000 to a group of carefully chosen individuals. If they can stay 12 hours night in the haunted house, a place dripping with murder story from the past. Well i consider everything i tell beyond this is spoiler, so you just have to watch it. What is good is how the story are drifting you away slowly, haunting you with carefully crafted dialog and moment. It never be boring even one second i watch this movie.

砂の女 • Woman in the Dunes

At first i wasn't interested in this movie, because i thought it will be just some senseless erotic stuff. But it turns out to be one of my all time favourite. The calmness of the music and the bizzare hypnotic intro screenplay that really make a good start up for the movie, which is really calm, intoxicating and terrifying at the same time.

Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Basically it's a story about Steve Zissou who live in a boat as a marine researcher, who made a movie about his journey. I love ship, i really like the small compact bedroom inside a ship, very subtle and comfortable. I just love it on how everything in the movie is peculiarly iconic. Great location, sets, music. The straight-forwardness of the dialogue which probably won't happen in real live yet believable, even if it most likely happen in a comic. It made this movie mixed up between drama, fantasy and comedy.

Blade Runner

I wasn't interested in this movie before, but after few trailer and listen to the sounds, i just felt an incredible dystopian future in this movie. Found out also that Han "ford" Solo are the main character, must be a good movie. The story is about alternative future with blade runner hunting "human made" human named replicant that are stronger and become a killer. Not quite interesting but the design of the environment are really awesome! a mixed future America with Tokyo-esque feels, a lightsaber umbrella, a flying car, and a haunting music score wrap it all in one.

告白 • Confessions

Revenge is the main theme of this movie, but how the story tell through confessions is the one that make it interesting. The screenplay which really fresh and innovative oftenly using slowmotion and compotition that usually used on advertising and music video, and heavy use of soundtrack, somehow i feel like watching an advertising or a music video for almost two hours. The story are disturbing and terrifiying, but told in beautiful shot and acting.

Mùi đu đủ xanh • The Scent of Green Papaya

One of the movie that makes you feel content when watching it. It tells the story with minimal dialog, natural ambient, and beautiful way to see life around from the point of view of Mùi, a little girl who work as an apprentice maid in rich vietnamese family. Started as apprentice, we see through with Mùi's daily activity serving the family, cooking, cleaning, get bullied with another kid. Untill she grow up and married. With minimal dialog, i think it's really easy for everyone to follow the story.

2001: a space odyssey

I just recently watch this slightly boring movie with mindblowing imagery (especially that year on 1968). It started reaaally slow on black out orchestra, then some image that i thought was just some photos, and continued with the first arc of monkey story, and well, you just have to watch the movie then. There isn't much dialog or story but the way kubrick envisioned the future are somehow accurate. This movie are really making another space movie on that era and sometimes after, are dumb comparing to this (oh that include star wars too).

There Will Be Blood

Few months ago i found Jonny Greenwood album which is a soundtrack of a movie, There Will Be Blood. It contain pure orchestra without any electric element add-on as we usually found in movie score these days. From hearing the score, i thought the movie was gonna be silent, kind of metropolis-esque image in my head. Finally i got a chance to watch the movie, and the first few minutes are actually indeed silent, absolutely no dialogue, and that kinda satisfy me hahah!

집으로 • The Way Home

Selfless grandma meet a city boy, on a summer holiday a mom deliver the boy from the city to a remote area which is the grandma live in. Change is the main theme of this movie, at first the boy pitying his grandma, selfish and careless. Through the time with his grandma, and through the love by a selfless grandma, the boy start to change and finally express his true feeling when they depart.

살인의 추억 • Memories of Murders

Bong Joon-ho second movie that are based on true stories, it's about murder of several women. The murder killed them only when it rains. It's hard to find a track of murder on the scene, because it all wiped on mud and waters. What worst is that this one dumb detective tag along with a rude detective who's logic are so-so and non cooperative local on the crime scene. Then at some point come another detective who is better at this, but when things are going to be better there's always a flaw that make them stuck.

地球防衛軍 • The Mysterians

Just recently watch this movie, a classic Toho, The Mysterians. One reason to watch Toho stuff is to watch the monster, but i find Mogera is only a minor problem in the movie. But still it is entertaining to watch this classic piece. The Mysterians who only want 3 km of earth area, until everyone realize that they were actually want to invade the earth, then military started to attack and attack until they fly away from the earth.

Long Way Round • Long Way Down

2 men, 2 bikes, 20.000 miles, that's what about Long Way Round, my favourite show which about travelling around the world from London to New York with bike, and only using plane or little ship if there's no road. It's Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman who crossing through some Europe country then Ukraine, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Alaska. Few years later they do another journey from Scotland to South Africa and the show called Long Way Down. They crossover through some Europe country then to african country like Sudan, Rwanda, Egypt, Malawi, Uganda, Ethiopia, etc.

PAPRIKA

What if your dream become true, literally? That is what happen on Paprika, a professor invented a machine that can make you see someone dream trough some screen, and make the person who dreamt become conscius inside their dream somehow. As the story goes something goes wrong and some people dream come to life. You'll see how the animator make surrealistic dream in motion. It's hard to remember a dream when we wake up, how about see it in blue-ray? Check these magnificent screenshot.

Ultra Q

Classic show from Eiji Tsuburaya, the creator of gojira. It's the first title from Ultra series which followed by Ultraman as the second title. The show are pretty much like twilight zone, just much better. 28 episodes in black and white with no subtitle, but somehow it's still entertain me so much.

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