My small review of Samaritan Girl

Couple of years back, I watched a documentary on teenage prostitution in today’s society. I forgot the name of the documentary but it covers the many major cities across the globe. It blames girls, their parents & foremost the guys who is looking for it & technology which is making things very easy. (Cyber café & few cell phone & two people are good enough to make the thing happen.) Ok. Now coming to the movie, it is not about teenage prostitution. But this movie is about two teenage prostitutes (Jae-Young, Yeo-Jin) & a father.
Movie was divided in to two parts. Part one is about two teenage girl’s friendship. The second part is about Yeo-Jin and her father relationship. Part 1 shows both girls deep friendship & how they do the things. At the end of part 1, Jae-Young dies from after jumping from hotel room to avoid the arrest. She dies later in the hospital but this start a new beginning to the life of Yeo-Jin. She feels guilty & starts goes after all the client & start paying back. In this process, one fine day girl’s father (police detective) sees her own girl in action. Distributed & shocked & confused father follows & revenge on the clients. You will see lot of disturbing scenes. In one-case girl’s father walks in to the client home & insults & hits the client while he is eating his meal with his rest of the family with focus is on the teenage daughter. Again you will not see, sex or nudity or blood on the screen. Movie ending was is quit poignant. Movie touches many aspects i.e. morality of the society & confusion & deep emphasis on relationships. It is very difficult to make movie with this kind of subject & director (Ki-duk Kim one of the favorite director) did very good in its presentation. Definitely worth watching movie.

My small review of Facture (2007) movie by Gregory Hoblit

Brief plot is a man killing his cheating wife. Sounds old plot right? We have seen so many movies & we will continue to see the same in future too. What is so good about this movie is, in first 10 minutes of movie, he shoots his wife & he surrender to police with written confession & gun. Rest of plot revolves around how he comes out clean & the whole plot is very suspenseful. Very smart script aided by terrific action by Anthony Hopkins. At times plot narration was slow, but it holds you up to the last minute. There are very good one liner dialogs.

For example “knowledge is pain” I always feels the same at work.

My rating 7.5/10

9/6/07 weekend movies

Bridge to Terabithia (On screen)(8/10)
Two kids fairytale story about friendship & imagination etc. Movie ending was realistic {blends both elements of reality and fantasy together perfectly} & music was haunting. Incidentally this is my 2ed movie on this theme. (first one is Pan's Labyrinth) I will write more later.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)(DVD) (9/10)
Daughter comes home after shortened vacation with new boy friend & declares that we are in deep love & they are getting ready for marriage in the next week. Guess the situation of her white parents. (catch is daughter boy friend is a black man.) In today world this is not a shocking but considering first time movie was released in 1967. During that time, racial segregation was very common in parts of America. Rest of the movie revolves around sequence of unfolding events during the afternoon & evening of day in their house. You will see pretty good character development & nice action from the cast. Worth watching movie.

Sling Blade (1996) (8/10)
Lead character comes from metal institute & he was forced to make a choice in today world.
Some parts of the movie was slow but good movie.