Reviews

Umimachi Diary / Our Little Sister, (2015)

Story based in Japan but storytellers all around the world could place same story on many points around our Blue Planet.

I watched this movie many times and when I see it on cable TV I stop every time.

Why ? I don't how much movie budget was but result is great.

I watched Akiro Kurosawas movies in my early childhood but this common everyday battle of acceptance painted by Hirokazu Koreeda, Akimi Yoshida, Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzu Hirose, Ryo Kase, ... brought movie masterpiece on the "daylight".

Every time I watch movie I see something I missed last time I watched movie.

Clever and intelligent people(man or woman) have only one healthy option : "to accept" others. If they are not clever, intelligent and don't accept, lose is coming in future when you least expect !

Long story short. This girls have same father but different mother, they are living in same country but different city and when father is out of story railiway connects them and "their warm hearts". And story goes.

It is difficult to make second and third part of this movie because story is "told" so good.

But it looks in the movie like this "bunch of people" are becoming "very close family".

I watched this movie long ago but I remember very well Joan Fontaine.

She was really excellent actress playing "white" role in all of her movies I watched (black&white movies).

In this movie she is trying with love to soften character of the man who is under his face trying to hide dramatical relationship with his past. Simply she is trying to heal his heart.

She is fighting with ghosts of the past all over the place.

Good heart and love are only weapons she is using to save him.

It's easy to be a bad person. She was acting a good person and that is a pretty difficult task.

I will always remember gentle look and her eyes full of love.

I watched this movie after long time on TV today. It is a slow movie. It is a movie to think. Some questions asked are same in every country ,some unique for former Yugoslavia and people living there. When you have people around you always have many questions. Love and where to go. Sometimes we go to soon , sometimes somebody comes too late... I don't know why.

Some questions are answered, some not but it is a movie too watch with one reason: Too give an answer to all questions asked and to listen given answers. It is a movie about LOVE in former Yugoslavia but LOVE between american woman and man from Serbia. It's a complicated love story but that makes every LOVE greater when complications are solved.

Travel and love because every travel or love are only part of our journey and best teachers we are going to meet in our lives.

If you like Woody Allen movies this is going to be another on your list.

Professor Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix) has rightful goal to help desperate woman but he is wrong doing. He intervenes in one case and acts like God, thinking how to kill corrupted judge (perfect murder), but what about bigger picture.

God has bigger picture and this judge is not only one. There are many judges like him and God is looking who is welcome in their gang and after that preparing punishment for all of them, not only judge.

When people are angry about what is God doing or not doing they forget that this society is not Gods work. It is work of someones doing and others not doing.

You can help God but not with devils tools. One way is clearing road to hell, their future home. There is no happiness on that place.

Wheel of fortune is on his side but his decision is wrong.

First victim when he kills judge is his goodness.

Between thrill and pleasure professors choice is thrill.

I always was fascinated with so many things inside purse of every woman. In this movie flashlight saves life of Jill Pollard (Emma Stone) when professor makes attempt to kill her. Strangely enough but in the same time helps her to stay alive. How? You will see, but flashlight is his gift to her.

All actors with no exception are good, deeply involved in their roles and making this movie worth watching.

Claire Peterson (Jennifer Lopez) after problematic marriage is feeling vulnerable and looking for something new. She needs to hear from man (not husband) something she already knew looking in mirror, that she worths. Husband cheats her (first time was when he married her).

Beautiful and attractive woman is alone at home, sexual heat between her and younger neighbor and she makes no mistake having sex with this boy. This was result of mistake when she married.

After sex she feels guilt because somehow she knew being taped. She offends boys pride and after this we have plot.

As a revenge her e-mail is hacked, Noa (boy) tries to embarrass her...

I could criticize Jennifer Lopez but she has "bigger picture". She knows what she is doing and where she is going so...

This dynamic movie is small part of JLo puzzle.

Human borders regardless doing bad or good are visible with difficulties.

When I think about Mexico, first associations are food (for example burritos), mariachi and sadly so many news about brutal murders. This movie is about Mexico and some good people (Jennifer Lopez and Antonio Banderas) trying to find people involved in killing many woman workers from factories near border with USA.

This is movie about huge deviation in Mexican society. Origin of this deviation is poverty in all aspects,mental, material, human... Mexican governments are solving this problem with military and corrupted police, without trying to deal with cause. Because of that you have " domino effects " on Mexican border with USA.

We have two people putting their career way ahead lives. From mine point of view, it's stupid and wrong but this is moral victory for them. They are trying to do something impossible from their position but if it is possible to change position everything is possible.

One life of good person is lost.

Put your life in front of career, because career may trick you that it is life. Don't be tricked. When you realize career is not life, life can become your career.

This movie is like life not so easy to watch, but good for thinking about...

Main plot begins when Scott (Adrien Brody) finds "love bomb" in small Italian café. Everything else happens around this plot and is called ordinary life with many problems characters have in life.

Almost every character is loser except two of them who experienced lose before and they wanted something else. Do good deed, expect good. Do evil deed and expect a lot worse. Someone picks money but what about love? Someone picks love but what happens with money?

You can live life without love but what kind of life, and on the other point of view how to live without money? Shakespearean, TO BE OR NOT TO BE.

Good movie, well written and directed by Paul Haggis, good acting especially main characters Moran Atias (Monika), Adrien Brody (Scott) and Liam Nelson (Michael).

Definitely watch this movie.

Anger brings even from good persons to say something they wouldn't in normal occasions.

What would you do if you have 90 minutes, 2 or 3 hours, days or months before death?

Plot in this movie begins when main character is informed by Doctor , death is near. He is trying to do the right things before death while Doctor is chasing patient in attempt to save him from doing something wrong.

Message for us is that we try to do things in our lives while time is not pressing us. To share precious moments with people who love us or we love them. Be careful, some we think love us are faking it and some we love don't deserve it. Like there is not cocoa in white chocolate some people are acting love but you can check ingredients of both things. Checking people is even easier and sometimes can be amusing.

My rating of this movie would be higher but I don't like one scene, precisely totally useless scene. Eyes are window, mirror and way to the soul of every person, especially woman so when doing some things you should look that person into her eyes.

Story about solving problems or making them even bigger. This is story about parents and their kids, invited to this world without knowledge where they are going and without consent. Then something happens between parents and child, we have problems and some parents think problems can be solved better by other people. What about love?

What is limit for showing love to your better half ? Maybe I would do something else but this character is being radical.

Love is like mission impossible so everything is possible. Sophie asks boyfriend something ,and he hesitates but after sometime he realizes what love is and...

Mila Kunis is like always...

You have minimum two reasons to watch this movie. One is good life story,another is Mila Kunis. No no I am wrong three reasons, good life story, Mila Kunis choosing this script and Mila Kunis acting!

Intriguing story about human greed. Is it easy or difficult to overcome human greed ? Eternal story about Achilles' heel and when you find it are you going to use it quickly or you are going to play with it. Excellent Geoffrey Rush as Virgil Oldman. Everything that generally makes movie good and enjoyable to watch is met here. You are not going to be bored.

The Best Offer was given to our main character but is he going to check it before accepting or he is going to hesitate and then accept it... Something like that. Sometimes when you are high in social scale you don't see things that are near you and you make yourself vulnerable. You don't see everybody who is watching you and everybody who is watching don't have good intentions.

Story about taking and giving or vice versa giving and taking lives, love, money, emotions , everything that is exchangeable in todays society. Two brothers, one is policeman ,another is coming from jail are dealing with personal problems and with each other. Is it possible to forgive your brother doing something you despise ? Are people going to help you when you stumble or kick you in the ass ? Story about human nature, precisely different human natures mingling around. Is it possible to begin loving someone from small human gesture and not wanting anything material, but truth ? Is shocking truth better than sweet lie ? Is it possible that person who is killing love someone ? Maybe is love something he is coming back because he is trying redemption after he finds someone who is not spoiled, who is better than him. What to do with our bad choices ? And on the end sacrifice for another.

We are seeing several roads of love, they are all bumpy but sincere and when everything is on table and when you are free of thinking what if ...why that... there are not any obstacles anymore.

Maybe this movie is giving more questions than answers but from mine point of view he is helping us to give our answers to this questions.

Small critic about time given in movie to Natalie. Mila Kunis knows how to use time even not speaking in movie so more time would be better and her participation would be bigger and more significant.

Watch it and than think about it. Don't think about watching it !

This movie would be different without Mila Kunis. It seems to me like it was made for her. Her best act until today for me. She is so good acting that it would be the same even the movie is without sound. Her acting was full of life, natural... She brings up meaning to this movie and Justin Timberlake is from my angle just doing his job. Personally I was waiting to see her in movie like this from "That '70s Show" because her potential was underrated and positive energy she gives not used as should be.

Watch this movie, you are going to remember it. Movie could be maybe better but Mila Kunis no way because again she is so good.

Good story, great picture, pleasure for eyes !