Stranger Than Fiction

Harold Crick is an IRS agent who’s life is calculated to the dot everyday… Everyday he wakes up at the same time… brushes his teeth the same way… takes the same amount of steps to the bus stop… goes to bed at the same time… That was until one day when strangely enough he hears his life being narrated… and he finds out he was about to die some time soon… but of course he is the only one who hears it… for a moment he thought he was going crazy as no one would believe him but after going to a therapist… he was refered to a literature expert… they figured that if his life was being narrated… his life must be like a book and if they could figure out what kind of story it was… they could figure out how he was going to die… As the movie goes on… Karen Eiffel… is introduced as the author who was writing Harold’s life… she’s having writer’s block and is trying to figure out how to kill him off… Meanwhile Harold comes to term that his life was about to end and decides to do everything he always wanted to but never got to… like play the guitar… and get the girl he loves… Then he finds out that Karen was the one who was “narrating” his life and seeks her out… to try and convince her not to kill him…

I was pleasantly surprised with this one… it turned out to be much better than I thought and I really loved it… funny… with a good bit of drama… but the best bit as Jun put’s it… was the cinematography…

Babel

4 stories… intertwined… In the remote sands of the Moroccan desert, a rifle shot rings out–detonating a chain of events that will link an American tourist couple’s frantic struggle to survive, two Moroccan boys involved in an accidental crime, a nanny illegally crossing into Mexico with two American children and a Japanese teen rebel whose father is sought by the police in Tokyo. Separated by clashing cultures and sprawling distances, each of these four disparate groups of people are nevertheless hurtling towards a shared destiny of isolation and grief. In the course of just a few days, they will each face the dizzying sensation of becoming profoundly lost–lost in the desert, lost to the world, lost to themselves–as they are pushed to the farthest edges of confusion and fear as well as to the very depths of connection and love… (From Yahoo! Movies)…

I loved this movie… it was great… powerful… very stirring… Could very well win the Oscar…

Rotaract Carlton Recruitment 2007

Well… the new semester is about to start… which means I have to start taking responsibility for being the vice-president of the Rotaract Club… man I knew I shouldn’t have taken the job… The first task is to recruit people and man it’s more difficult than I thought… It seems like there aren’t many people out there who knows about Rotaract… and then they are not interested in doing community service… and I’ll totally spaced out as to what the hell we are supposed to do… man I wish someone could tell us exactly what to do… I feel so useless… anyway if you are between the age of 18-30 and you live in Melbourne or the suburbs around and you are interested in community service… e-mail us at rotaract_unimelb@yahoo.com.au

The Holiday

Iris (Kate Winslet) is a journalist who lives in a little town in England… she is absolutely in love with Jasper… a colleague and ex-flame… when he annouces his engagement out of the blue… she suffers an anxiety attack… Amanda (Cameron Diaz) is a movie trailer maker who lives in Los Angeles, California… She has trouble committing to a relationship and finds out her current boyfriend is cheating on her… Both are desperate to get away from their current situations… Amanda finds an add for a house exchange program where two people can switch houses and cars for an agreed period of time… When Amanda arrives in England… she meets Iris’s brother Graham (Jude Law) and is immediately attracted to him… In LA… Iris is tries to heal her broken heart… she meets Arthur Abbott a retired and widowed screenwriter who is lonely and becomes friends with him… She also meets Miles (Jack Black) a kind-hearted movie score composer… As they spend time away from their lives… they learn to right the wrongs in their lives and find love on the way…

A great light-hearted romantic comedy… the review is coming a little late though… I think everyone has already seen it… but I enjoyed it… although I think Iris’s story is more interesting that Amanda’s…