Well, the following movies are not the movies of the year as acclaimed by the mainstream movie review. Since I've only watched two movies this year, so they have come into my movies-of-the-year list. Is not that I don't want to watch movies but finding the time away from kids for movie seeing is near impossible in this and perhaps next one or two years.
The most anticipated movie of the year is the sequel and completion of The Dark Knight. It was good that the director / writer has decided to end the story in 3 series only. Unlike other superhero movies, you may have unfinished story. Thus, this sequel was timely told. If you have watched the first two series, you may notice there's a continuation theme. In the first movie, we were introduced with the origin of fear and the purpose of fear. In the second movie, chaos was the main theme. This was paired with sacrifice. The third instalment focused on hope. Although the third instalment may not be as good as the second one, it is still a good movie. At last, our hero has retired. To him, everyone can be the dark knight. A good ending.
The reason of watching Life of Pi was not because of Ang Lee, but for the novel. The novel with the same title was quite famous in early 2000. Unfortunately, I have not read the novel before, which is good as I can watch the story in motion picture. I have to say the movie has portrayed the best story telling by far. In the movie, the main actor (named Pi) has to face some life threatening events, testing his faith. After surviving from a ship wreck, few survivors went adrift on a boat. As food has become scarce, the cook has killed a fellow sailor. This was followed by Pi's mother. Out of anger, Pi took over the cook's life. Now, what if the cook is a hyena, the sailor is a zebra, the mother is an orang utan and there's a tiger with Pi himself? Which story would you prefer?
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