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Knick Knack (1989)
story of a cute snowman
It is a funny animation movie. It is a story of toys, and main character is a snowman locked up in snow dome. He tries to exit from snow dome, but his trying never succeeds. The methods which he tries are interesting for audiences. It is also funny that his trying seems impossible at all for a toy. However, no matter how he does it, he cannot go out. Other toys are watching the trying snowman while laughing.
I focus on following point. That is, it is animation movie. Advantage point is that animation can do that which human cannot or never happen. This can be said in this movie. Snowman lives in water because he is in snow dome. Human cannot do that. Moreover, there is a scene that snowman falls from high place. If he is a man, he would die. However, the snowman survives. One more advantage point is that animation character can express their feelings more clearly than reality world. Especially, their face expression is nice. For example, snowman express his sorrow by dropping his eyes, nose and mouth made of coal. It can indicate his deep sorrow. Human can never do that. I think this movie is good because we can recognize nice points which animation movies only have.
The Crush (2010)
He is a sincere man.
I had shivers from the beginning of this movie. A boy's unexpected action makes me so. He loves his school teacher and applies for marriage, but he fails. After that he decides to do outrageous thing. His decision is daring. Therefore, people who watch this movie become tense and uneasy. This short movie has reality.
There is no bad point about camerawork. For example, camerawork is fine when it makes audiences pay attention to one thing. When the boy gives teacher a ring, camerawork is pointed on the ring. Moreover, I want to emphasize this movie's expression method. That is how to cut scene. Especially, I focus on the scene which the boy shoots a man. In fact, the man is teacher's boyfriend, and the boy decides to shoot him(with a toy gun). When the man is shot, screen becomes the color grey and points only one point of a building. After that, the man notices that he is not killed. I think this expression is very presentable. By watching this scene, audiences should be sympathizing with the man. Audiences can experience being shoot with a gun. However, audiences will notice that the boy don't use real gun, but toy gun soon. It makes them feel relieved.
Whacked (1998)
First scene is nice!
This short movie is very interesting for me. If you interested in the movies which have active question, you should watch this one. At first, a lot of people who walk through on the road suddenly fall. Men, women and children fall. This situation already interesting and the reason makes you feel amazed. The movie has power to capture people's eyes. I cannot tell the reason here, so please check yourself.
About this movie, I would like to review about two points. They are active question and color. Active question is set to attract attention of audience. Especially this movie has good active question. There is unusual situation that people fall suddenly on the road at first. After that, we can collect the answer which we cannot expect. It is very important that the answer is not easy to collect. It is because people aren't interested in the answer that they can collect easily. As a second point I want to review about color. This movie is a black-and-white image. The difference between colored and black-and-white movie is reality. Most of all people are used to watch colored images, so we tend to think colored image represents real world. On the other hand, black-and-white image has no reality for us. I think the black-and-white image makes audiences more unrealistic impression and it is important to emphasize this unrealistic situation.
Fish Out of Water (2005)
He is clever
This short movie had a unique content. This story is about a man's relaxation. The man is main character whose hobby is to be on a boat on calm ocean and he faced some obstacles. However, he solves them by a unique idea in the end.
I want to emphasize the importance to consider of the title of the movie "Fish out of water". The title asks us, "How about living in your way?". The "Fish" represents him, and "water" does society. He looks strange at first because he is on the boat every day and he walk with boat's paddle through the town. The only people who look and greet him are the old couple living near his house and a woman who is fishing every day, too. That is, he may be out of the society. He is a man without sociality. But, I don't think so. I think his "water" is not the society, but other things such as the boat, the calm. On the movie, he was losing them at first, but he could finally get his "water" again. However, can we get back our "water" again? We are too busy to live on and too tired. We are losing our "water", too. All of us have own "water" in our mind; it may be friends, workplace or being alone. There is no problem that we choose any thing. The important thing is not to be out of them. By keeping being in them, we can live on our way. This movie made me reconsider about it.
Home Alone (1990)
He overcomes a lot of difficulty.
It is a movie that is impressed with laughter. A main character is a boy who have a lot of brothers and sisters. One day his family go to travel. However, he is forgotten and stays at home by himself! At such time, robbers come to his house. Then he decided to protect his house from the robbers. It is exciting that the boy's plan for protect his house. He uses a lot of everyday items such as iron, toy cars, bolls and more. The robbers are mad at the measures. It is very funny scene. Moreover, audience will get impressive, when they watch it to the last. They will feel that family is important.
Especially, the movie's construction is great. There are some turning points and pinch. Main character experiences some relationship with people and pinch, and he learned something. At first, he is enjoying his lonely life. However, he feels cry because there is no one in the house. At the last of the movie, he learned that his family is important for him.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Amazing movie with nice music!
I love this movie! The stage of the movie is 18th century in the Caribbean Sea. It has very famous character whose name is "Captain" Jack Sparrow. Although it is not known well, he is not main character, but sub character. The main character is a blacksmith named William Turner. The main subject of the movie is William's love. However, the movie has a lot of other stories, for example, ship battle, adventure, mythology, comedy, love of family and something. This thick story catches audience's hearts.
Especially, the movie's back ground music is amazing. Each music has each meaning. For example, when "Captain" Jack Sparrow appears, the same music is always being played. The music sounds cool, and makes audience get a sense of expectation. On the other hand, each evil character has each music. What another fantastic point is that the music is made from modern music and traditional music. It makes us think that audience is in a magical space between the past and the present.
Star Wars (1977)
My most favorite movie! It certainly makes you excited.
I love this movie! It is amazing! It is the first Science Opera movie in the world. A main character named Luke who lives in a devastated planet gets caught in a galaxy war by his destiny. There is Rebel Alliance Army of justice, and Galaxy Empire of evil. He joins in the Rebel and fights against the Empire. The story is very fascinating for me. In addition to it, characters are also interesting. They have individual personality. Although this is a story of distant world, these characters make audience get a sense of affinity. Their looks are far from us, but they have something real like us.
There is one scene which I love. That is when Darth Vader of Empire attacks Luke's fighter. When Darth Vader gives him the last blow, laser attack comes to Darth Vader from a pilot named Han Solo of the Rebel. Darth Vader looks backwards quickly in his fighter. This production is very fantastic. It is because, although Darth Vader cannot see anything of his back, he looks backwards unconsciously. This scene makes audience be excited. By the enemy looking back, audience recognize that the help comes, and Luke will save. This scene emphasizes them.
Born with It (2015)
a realistic movie
This short movie shakes my heart. This is about Japanese discrimination against black people. Main character is a black boy with Japanese mother. His black father already died. When he goes to new elementary school in country side of Japan, he is made fun of his skin color by his classmates. He doesn't like the situation and run away from the school, but his mother encourages him to go to school.
When I saw it, I felt like crying. I couldn't believe that it is real of Japan. I think that there is no racial discrimination in Japan. However, this movie expresses reality. Moreover, I was surprised that one of my classmates has the same experience.
I will explain from the point of screen writing. This movie's construction is very nice. This is overcoming type movie. That is a main character has problem, but s/he overcome it at the last. Speaking of this movie, the boy has problem that he is black and being discriminated. Once, he runs from the situation. However, his mother gives him a chance to overcome the situation. In this point, her role is important. Without her, he will never be able to conquer the problem.
Porcelain Unicorn (2010)
The big courage of a small boy
This short movie moves my heart. It is in World War 2 and a boy is main character. He is a German soldier and he found a Jewish girl in occupied house. Although he must catch her, he allows her to escape because of his conscience.
We can catch characters feeling easily despite there are few words. For example, the girl's scary appearance looks real. Moreover, the boy's delusion is expressed by moving his eyes confusedly. By looking on her eyes many times, his delusion that he should catch her or not is expressed. In addition, I think that camerawork is nice. The conversation between the two occurs in a hidden hole in the house. It is dark. It is not easy to watch, and it is a very narrow space. There is no other intervention. Therefore, we can concentrate on only the two. Moreover, camerawork is very near to their faces because it is narrow space. To do that, we can feel their breathing and expression clearly.
Father and Daughter (2000)
Taught my heart
This short movie taught my heart. The story is about a father and a daughter according to the title. The father leaves when the daughter was young at the first place of the movie. After long time ago, she can see him again at last. What is interesting point being we can sympathize with her feeling despite no dialogue. Instead of conversation, there are expressive music and drawing. The music taught my heart. When she walks lightly with his father, the music sounds happy. On the other hand, after separate from him, music sounds something lonely. Moreover, there was some sounds of things such as birds' cry and the bike wheels turn. They made the movie more expressive because the quietness of the scene stands out. The quietness leads the feeling of her, loneliness. The drawing is amazing, too. The picture is simple, but it rather expresses idyllic taste. The scene of the movie should not be in city or something busy because this story matches for a calm place. The simple pictures make viewers focus on only the father and girl. There is not something useless. I couldn't understand meaning of characters in the movie. The more you see it, the more you discovery. I want to watch this one again.