Wednesday, October 24, 2007

cool movies for 2008

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

vigilante vs paedophile

who would you root for? A 32 year old paedophile who is suspected to be involved in the missing of a teenager or a 14 year old vigilante who takes justice in her own hands.......Sounds like a pretty darn easy question ya.....but no....not for me personally during the course of this movie.....which is why I will by now list this movie as the most twisted movie I have ever watched.....not just literally but the fact that it toys with your logic.

Jeff (Patrick Wilson) is a 32 year old paedophile who preys on teenagers on the internet and his new target Hayley (Ellen Page) was about to meet him face to face after 3 weeks of teasing. Little did he know that he is now at the other side of a trap that he must search his soul and fight to get out of this.
Hard Candy works because who exactly is the protagonist? Who does the director want you to root for? There are no Aragorns, James Bonds, Jason Bournes type characters. Both characters are flawed and not 100% evil. That is why this movie is so sick until it is good......no blood needed...no gore nothing.....this movie just toys with your mental mind be it who to support or the sick tendencies of the paedophile or the vigilante who ended up wanting to perform a castration procedure....The castration scene on the other hand was one of the sickest thing filmed. Its worse than (hostel+hills have eyes+sin city+kill bill+whatever you think is gross) x 1000 times. Nothing was shown but the exasperation of the paedophile and the way they toy with your mind is just insane. I actually felt sick after the entire scene that lasted a full 20 minutes and wanted to stop but I wanted to see the comeuppance of the vigilante...I ended wanting the paedophile to kill the 14 year old.......and does that make me a sick person....I have absolutely no idea....maybe I am just a guy......that is why this movie is so sick.....you know its wrong to root for the paedophile but at least I wanted to




Watching this movie tells me that 2 wrongs doesn't make a right. Be it dealing with a paedophile etc. Maybe it is because of Wilson's freakin awesome performance....(and probably that was why I wanted him to win in the end). Of course a movie is not a movie without its flaws. 1) Page's character though a vigilante has absolutely no likeable qualities in her. 2) unrealistic that a 14 year old girl can manhandle a 32 year old guy time after time 3) over the top bravado by Page's character. 4) The ending didn't really make much sense. Ultimately it is truly a great movie with only 2 main leads helming an entire movie. Wilson should've gotten an Oscar nod for his performance




I have never ever supported an "evil" character so much other than Chris Wilton in Match Point. Sandra Oh had a cameo role which lasted prolly 5 minutes.....

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

whims whims whims

all these complains in singapore are driving me insane......

the forum is the best place for me to read all the nonsense singaporeans come up with......

firstly you complain about the seats in dhoby ghaut mrt station...yes i agree...those seats are really darn slippery but is it so important to make a big deal out of it.....I sat on it, slipped a little and dealt with it...... complaining that its a hazard and all that little information which I clearly have forgotten are just too frivolous......(something like that tall benches cannot be reach by short ppl, the short benches are still slippery) Really.....is it necesssary to have such a big tirade over a bench that you are going to sit for probably at most 5 minutes.....so let's not have any benches in train stations then since they are such a hazard....

secondly a parent complained about a tough maths PSLE paper and claimed that his son being in the top class in one of the top schools came home depressed and started crying over the paper and still had a paper the next day. And he said exams should be set in a way not to demoralise the students since the PSLE is just to stream students to secondary schools......(brain fart for a minute cos i have so much in my mind and nothing to type)

immediately jumping on the bandwagon is this lady who wrote "Yes I agree that this year's Maths paper was indeed difficult" Ermmm.. hello....how would you know that....you mean you saw the maths paper your child took?

This is hubris....so are we going to set exams based on students morales.....so why not just give them a primary 1 standard paper and make them all happy or better still give them a perfect score for the PSLE to make them all happy so all of them can go RI, RGS or something....And since they both agreed that its not an important exam, WHY do you even bother to go to the extent of complaining if to you its NOT important. Again another classic example of DEAL WITH IT! (probable case of this person is that his son is aiming for 100 but thinks he got 99 and went home crying)

Singaporeans have the nads to complain but never have the ability to suck it up.......plain and simple and they complain on things that they should just take it in their stride. yaah I hate people who walk slow and especially those who choose to do that at the end of the escalator which would possibly cause an avalanche of human beings but do I go to the forum.....I DEAL WITH IT cos I know some people are just slow..........and that would be a prime example of a hazard...not slippery seats....

this post may sound angry but I really am not....Singaporeans must learn to be gracious or Singapore will never move forward......