A Week In Movies - Monday: Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko
This is a movie that I only first saw rather recently. It’s about a troubled boy, Donnie Darko, who awakes one morning on a golf course, which he slept walked to that night. Back at his house it turns out an airplane engine fell out of the sky onto his room. The rest of his family’s left unharmed but no one can explain where the engine came from. There was no plane to report such an incident.
Donnie soon discovers a light coming out from him and leading outside the room. He follows it to the fridge then sees in turn away. This is his fate path. He can change it.
There’s book exerts throughout the move that when read give you a better understanding of what’s going on and why.
This movie is very interesting and well written and will leave you analyzing and speculating. It’s definatly one of those movies you have to watch multiple times to really understand.
If you decide to watch this, and you should, ensure you get the director’s cut. It contains lots more then the original, plus the original barely makes sense.
A week in movies - Sunday: Milo and Otis
The Adventures of Milo and Otis (AKA: Koneko monogatari)
This is one of my favourite movies of all time and something I watched tonnes of times throughout my childhood.
Milo and Otis is the story of a farm kitten and puppy who become good friends. One day they are down by the river and Milo (the kitten) climbs into a box and invetiably floats away. Otis, being a good friend, chases along side of him. Eventually they get separated and thus they must work to finding each other. They’re shown each on their individual adventures and meat a lot of crazy animals along the way. The movie spans over an entire year as the friends hunt for each other and eventually have kittens and puppies of their own.
The entire film features nothing but animals and therefore features no talking. There’s storybook style narration throughout the film and the narrator says what the charcters are saying. For example “I’m frolicking!” exclaimed Milo.
With a comedic story and a feel good ending, this Japanese made movie is a must see.
Filed under Media | Comment (0)1 Week of Movies - Saturday: Rail of the Star
I wasn’t sure what to write for the blog so I decided to use our massive movie collection as creativity fodder. That’s what spun this idea: Review one movie, something really good that people may not have heard of or seen, and do this every day for a week. It gets a post on the blog every day, you get to read a good review and it tries my ability to commit to something and follow through. Join me as I introduce you to a movie I saw some time ago that I can say even made me cry at parts.
Rail of the Star
Based off an autobiogripfical Novel by Chitose Kobayashi, this anime follows the life of Chitose (or Chiko to her friends) as she grows up during World War 2. Living in Korea as a Japanese girl, Chiko learns about life in the hardest of ways. Her father gets drafted for the war and while he’s away her younger sister dies. (A tearjerking moment indeed.) In the end the family makes for their escape to South Korea - That which is occupied by the US.
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