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Seen this movie on Jiffest 2009. It was the only japanese film , and from my experience Japanese films are really good, very different from other films and this one is reaaaaaaaally good.
This film started showing a dead body 'preparation' and they can not decide whether the dead person is a man or woman..hahaha...and then it flew back to a scene where an orchestra is performing, and because of the ticket-selling is bad, the orchestra was dismissed. A young cello player - who have pursued this career for a long time, and very optimistic about the future of this orchestra, even offered to have his wife designed a website for them - have to let his dream go, sell a 'professional' cello that he just bought, and ask her wife to go back to his hometown.
He looked for a job and went to a interview to a company which he thought was a travel agency. He finally figured out that the company give 'dead person preparation' service . He was immediately hired and was offered big salary, he even went home from the interview with an advance salary.
He hated the job at first but he slowly takes the job very seriously and even loves the job. He risked his marriage, lost a friend because of this job. But because of his strong heart, his passion for his job,he finally gets it all back and even get closure with his dad that had left him and his mom since he was a child.
This movie move not in linear way, it can move to the past or to the later story without you knowing it...It shows someone's integrity to one's job though everyone was against it. It shows a lot of 'dead preparation' service, each family has their own way to say goodbye to their died family member.
This film is perhaps the best I had in jiffest 2009, I laughed a lot, cried as much through this film. Loves it!!
Please watch this film..I beg you..hahaha...
-2010.01.01-
"You should know upfront , This is not a Love story"
It is indeed not a love story...it is about finding n losing love I think.
It moves back and forth through 500 days of Summer. Summer here is not the season, it's the name of the main character in this movie. And the movie tells us about how Tom - a regular male working as greeting card writer - met Summer and had 500 days Summer-ed. Those 500 days were ups and downs for Tom , we can see Summer brings out the best and worst in him.
Can not tell much about this movie, you should really watch it yourself. The story is common (I think). But how the story is put together in this movie is really refreshing, the characters are so alive, all the jokes & conversations between them, and Summer's unpredictable acts made me think "Hey, I wanna date her!" hahahaha...
There is one more thing that I love in this movie, when they move from one day to another, the frame shows the day-number and the background shows the mood.. Like when their relationship was in bad term , the background was dark, gloomy ..and when it was all good, the background was big orange sunshine.
Ooooops, almost forgot to tell you..its soundtrack album was soooooo good too..my fave: Us - Regina Spektor..*I'm her big fan, he2^^*
-2010.01.01-
Two stories about two women at their own time are told side-by-side.
One.
Julia Child (Meryl Streep),an American, moved to Paris following his husband who was assigned there. Being a housewife, she was looking for things to do, trying out hat making lesson, bridge lesson, and somehow led her to cooking lesson. Having a very supportive husband and being a very competitive person , she managed to be the best in her class, even get to teach person and after so many struggles she had her book published.
Two.
Julie Powell (Amy Adams) moved to Queens from Brooklyn, hated it there, needed to find something new to fill her days beside being a government employee (I think her job is soooooo depressing, listening to people's complain), a housewife. She started a blog with the challange is to finish all recipes from recipe book co-authored by Julia Child in one year.
Julie compared to Julia is less competitive, less happy, but she find the way out of it from Julia Child's recipes, life experience. But if we look at their life in linear way, we can see so much similarity, though they're from different era, they both needed something to do - obsession - target - hobby , and finally led them both to cooking...
I love Meryl Streep!! Her character is so funny, lovable...All through the movie, I don't care about Julia Powell's story (though I think this movie is supposed to be about her blog project)...I only want more of Julia Child!!! hahaha....
I like this kind of story, life story...life-changing story...It's a good movie to start a new year...makes me think of my resolutions...;p -2009.12.31-
