Saturday, October 21

watched the prestige yest afternoon...abt 2 professional magicians who used to work tog but became rivals in trade after a miscalculated accident and from that day on, their lives become webs of deceit and exposure, secrets and revelations, as they feud to outwit and destroy one another...their rivalry takes them both to the peak of their careers, but with terrible consequences...but want to reveal too much of what happened in the end, but its definitely a worth-watching one...
not very used to christopher nolan's style of directing initially...its hard to catch the entire pic in the first half of the movie, but i agree with shawn that other directors may not be able to direct a similar plot in this manner as well as him...its was towards the next half of the movie that everything pieces tog but of course u need to pay attention to every details of the plot in the beginning to fully comprehend the reveal at the end..
the movie is very thought-provoking..it leaves much to speculate and deduce certain actions carried out cause it doesn't explain in details reasons behind every action carried out...i wld say its one of the better movies which i've watched in quite some time..anw, i love the chemistry between hugh jackman and scarlet johansson, esp after watching scoop last week....
watched death note last night...obviously i can't compare the 2 movies tog since they're of diff genres and furthermore prestige has left a high expectation and standard...i can understand why its such a popular manga in the first place..an original storyline with an intriguing plot...abt a high sch student who chanced upon this notebook which can be used to kill people whose names are written in its pages and this guy decides to use it to 'cleanse' the world of evil and hold the scales to judge criminals based in his discretion..
its much of unrealistic settings with imaginary characters and happenings which could not happen in real life...of course, sometimes thats how movies captivate us, by bringing us to an imaginary world..but i took the storyline with a pinch of salt...the highlight of the movie wld prob be how the investigation is being carried out abt the mysterious deaths of the criminals...i've always enjoyed detective stories and case-solving plots and this fulfills this part of my interest....
the greatest disappointment from this show was not from the movie itself but the 'missing' trailer of the sequel at the end of the movie...it was supposed to be screened as of written in the advertisements but apparently we waited to no avail...maybe its just cathay cinemas..

jel; 7:16 pm