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Sunday, June 08, 2003 He loves me, he loves me not Since last time I fell asleep in middle of Matrix Reloaded, I decided to stop watching American movie, at least commercial movie for a while. Luckily, there are several foreign movies shown on Buffalo recently, such as L'Auberge Espagnole, Bend it like Beckham or The dancers upstairs (although made in America, it is about Chile, and directed by great great John Malkovich, one of my very favorite actors). I picked He loves me, he loves me not, because I was completely in love with Audrie Taotou, the Amelie in Amelie. Furthermore, I was quite intrigued by the structure of the movie and its reflection on reality and perception. It turns out I would rather not have known about the story before I went. I got less surprise and heartbeat as the movie goes on. But it is still a very special, smart and interesting movie, in spite if the triviality and simplicity of the topic. Audie Taotu is still a dreamer and voyeur as she is in Amelie, but not the cute type this time. It is always an enjoyment to follow every movement of her. French movie seems not trying very hard to make stunts, but you see the delicacy and cleverness everywhere. In all, this movie is an combination of romance, suspense and black comedy. But I really don't want to write too much about the story as most of those movie reviewer have done, which really deprived the pleasure of seeing the movie- in case someone read my blog, which, though I know is very rare. Let me go back to Matrix Reloaded a little bit. It is not really so bad, I fell asleep because I had a long day that day, and we went to see the 11:00pm show. And I'm sure I'm not the only one that's totally overwhelmed by the first episode and felt a kind of disappointment at the second one. Special effects on Reloaded are good, ok, even better. But that’s never my priority. Some scenes in the beginning strongly remind me of some Si-fi films like Star war or Star Trek. These kinds of film really make me asleep. And about the dancing scene in Zion, I even thought it was a music video from Hip-Hop MTV. I was reading an article in New Yorker the other day questioning what’s wrong to live in Matrix. Well, that is how I feel about Zion. There is no refreshing moment such as “red pills or blue pill, reality or matrix”, or “guns, lots of guns” (when Neo came into Matrix to fight with agents) in the first episode. In “Reloaded”, I don’t see the profundity and cool-ness I found everywhere in the first episode. My heart kept sinking when I saw familiar plot and idea thatI can found in many other main-stream movie. However, I will still go watch the third episode in November, anyway. posted by lmeimei @8:08 PM| permanent link| | |
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