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Saturday, January 03, 2004 My kind of movie ranking of year 2003: 1. Dancer upstairs A movie for intellectual grown-ups. But be sure to watch on DVD with English subtitles, so not to miss the beautiful script muddled in Javier Bardem’s exotic English. A good movie is supposed to teach you something or guide you to learn something: Like I was petrified at Nina Simmone’s voice and song “Who knows where all the time goes” at the beginning and end of the movie and crazily searching her songs, like I started to reread things about Kant to find out his relevance with terrorism. 2. Cold Mountain Perfectly classical, inspiring at aesthetic point, just smells a little too much Hollywood classic. But Jude Law’s eyes! 3. Lord of rings: return of the king Why not extend to four episodes, so audience will not keep going to restroom during the 3-hour-something movie? 4. girl with a pearl earring The movie is an enticing moving picture (literally), extracted from the original Vemeer paintings. 5. mystic river Shakespeare’s tragedy reappears in modern small town close Boston, the dramatic and poetic tension is no less. Good acting. Not a good choice during holiday season. 6. Pirates of Caribbean There is nothing wrong about entertainment when you make it in the right way and with right cast, like Jonny Depp! 7. Whale rider A little girl’s innocent eyes could light up a prosaic movie. 8. 28 days I watch it on DVD next day I watched Cold Mountain, I sensed the strong similarity of the implication in the two movies. For many people, war and survival are excuse, human is animal by instinct. 9. Matrix reloaded It would be wise to shut up when there is no more stories. Actually, these are all movies I’ve watched last year, not even enough to make a “Top 10” list. So it is just a ranking of movie I've seen. posted by lmeimei @9:27 PM| permanent link| | |
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