A few days ago I watched 'Spring Summer Autumn Winter and Spring'. It's about two monks who live on a floating house on a lake. The way its shot is stunning, it makes me want to run away to Asia and live on a mountain or something...which I would probably do. The film stuck with me because it has a strong message in it, which I wont give away but you really feel like you have actually learnt something after watching it...whereas if you watched something like 'Night at the museum' or anything with Matthew McConaughey in you'll either think it was ok at the time and forget it within 10 minutes OR if you watched the latter, you will swear and shout cause you have just lost an hour and a half of your life that you will never get back. So yeah good film :)
After being impressed with both of the Kim Ki-Duk films I had seen I watched another called 'The Bow'.
Its about a young girl and an old man who live on a fishing boat at sea. The man found the girl when she was 6 and she has been there for 10 years, never having left the boat. I know what your thinking but its not like that. It is agreed that they will marry on her 17th birthday. They are both very happy and content until one day when a boy comes onto the boat to fish...I wont say anymore but I thought like the other films of his that I've seen it was shot beautifully. And the ending was really surprising too.
Another film I watched recently and LOVED was 'The lovely bones'. It was so beautiful, and sad, I had a lump in my throat for most of it and I don't often cry in films. I loved the scenes shot in her heaven, which were of course filmed in New Zealand. I need to try and read the book again really, I got half way through but I couldn't really get into it.
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