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Kung Fu Panda: A Hroe

Kung Fu Panda: A Hero 

      The Kung Fu Panda is an animation and action film also, it is very interesting and meaningful The leading character is a panda whose name is Po He is lazy, but he has his own dream He wants to ... be a great master to save people in bad life by kung Fu. In order to make his dream come true, he goes to a faraway temple to learn kung fu from a master. From then on, began to hard life. His master teaches him all kinds of kung Fu and he keeps working hard. At last he becomes a real kung fu master.

     Kung Fu Panda produced by the west, but the background is include a lot of Chinese style element. Such as, building and places so on. Director Mark Osborne spent 30 years to studying the Chinese culture and making the film lasted five years. I think the producer of the director is to make a global audience better to understanding and know more about the Chinese culture.

     In fact, let me the deepest impression was "old turtle". He was Po's teacher and he was very goodness and wisdom. He always said to Po "Yesterday is a history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift that is why it is called present. "I think that is true, we have to forget the past making hard and challenge some thing new, but never give up. 

     This movie is not only interesting, but also edifying. I think we should learn something like brave, persistence and insistence. When you are in trouble, you do not give up you can think about Kung fu Panda. When he met the bad guy Lord Shen, he was still facing and defeat it to protect everyone. I was admire him was a hero.

      In sum, we have to likes Po was never give up easily for he study Kung Fu. Finally, he proves himself by his success. It was an interesting and motivational story. I think we still can achieve by our efforts and strong wills. As long as we do not give up our dream and nothing is impossible. Eventually, I think this film was very attract for people to see because the Panda was very interesting and always make us laughter.

Life of Pi: Courage and faith

           The movie Life of Pi is a 3D adventure movie, which started with a voice to tell a story about a teenager Pi survived in the disaster of a tiger called Parker. The famous director Ang Lee used 3D movie maker to show the thrill scenes. This movie had some nominations in Oscar and won several international awards. I deeply admired the courage and strong of Pi. At the same time, the ending of the movie implied imaginative meaning.

In the opening scene, Pi’s father was a Zookeeper, his family sailed to Canada with animals. Unfortunately, they suffered from shipwreck that the ship sank into the ocean. Pi survived with a tiger while being afraid, he looked at the sky of hopelessness. However, he told to himself he had to survive. We can see the strong and brave in Pi’s eyes. He made a fishhook for fishing and shared the food to the tiger. Even though they suffered with the great waves, flying fish and whale, Pi never gives up. He overcame many obstacles of hunger and fear, Pi and tiger made a relationship in the journey. In the last scene, Pi reached the Mexican coast, he defeated the disaster. When he was lying on the beach, the tiger walked into the forest without looking back.

This is a fantasy 3D movie that showed a journey of Pi was living on the boat with a tiger. Pi had enough courage and strong to defeat the obstacle and survive. Subsequently, Pi and tiger built up a relationship because they had to survive, they need each other. Many beautiful scenes took place on the ocean. A voice throughout the movie liked telling a story, and the music made the audiences feel exciting and passionate. The film group used technology in the cast between a real tiger and digital photography, there’s enough funny scene to make the audiences enjoy the adventure story which showed courage and positive spirit, and to me the beautiful script helped me to understand the meaning of the story. Life can be not easy, no matter how difficult it is, the only way to attain victory is being brave to defeat the obstacle. As people who have the faith to keep us walking along to our dream.

Qi T Chen (Elaine)

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Forrest Gump: Real Man

       Forrest Gump starts with a white feather drifted the place where all appeared in the movie. The music is relaxed and pleasant and it played by Alan Silvestri. In the last part of the movie, the white feather drifted down on Forrest’s legs and he put it in his favorite book. The actor named Tom Hanks, plays Forrest Gump in the movie. His mother named Sally Field, who plays Mrs. Gump in the movie and Directed by Robert Zemeckis, this movie carries the message with love, family, hard work, density, never give up, and acceptance. The movie is about a boy just got 75 on his IQ test who how to fight his life and his love story with his girl called Jenny.

       The script based on the novel named Forrest Gump by Winston Groom. In Forrest’s childhood, his teacher talked to his mother, “your kid is different.” However, his mother always told him, “you are no different with everybody else, you are no different!” his mother clamped a pair of hands on Forrest’s shoulder. Fortunately, Forrest met his girl called Jenny in middle school until college. During his teenager, he went to college because he got a special skill which is he can run faster than other people else. Then he became a famous football player and met Mr. Kennedy President. After he graduated from college, he went to the United States army and participated in the Vietnam War. During his army life, he met his friends called Bubba who he likes fishing shrimp and his dream was opened a shrimp company and owned a shrimping boat. Forrest was the only listener to him. After, they met their leader named Lieutenant Dan. Unfortunately, Bubba died during the war. In the fate of the life, he became a popular Ping Pong player and met Mr. Johnaon President. Therefore, Forrest didn't forgave his brother Bubba and he made Bubba’s dream come true. After Forrest came back home, he built a shrimping boat captain and shard his stock to Bubba’s mother. Whatever he did, whenever he went, he always missed his Jenny. Jenny didn't love him at first, however, Jenny came back to live with Forrest. In the movie ending, Jenny left their son to Forrest, and Forrest carried his son to school. After little Forrest went to school, Forrest sat on the chair in the bus stop and started memory his whole life.

       One of my favorite scenes is the conversation between Forrest and Jenny. At that moment, Jenny was a traitorous girl, and she left him again after the conversation finished. Jenny’s lovely eyes looked at Forrest, “Why you so good to me?” Forrest stared at her and responded, “You are my girl.” His eyes were tender. Jenny smiled, “I always be your girl.” As a result, they hugged together tightly. Jenny left him again. For me, this conversation was romantic, but it was broken-hearted for Forrest. Hopefully they will have a happy ending.

       In sum, Forrest Gump tells the story of the real man how to change his destiny and find his love in the end. In our society, not everyone is smart. We don't know our future, the only thing we can do is try our best to do every one thing. Just like Forrest’s mother taught Forrest, she said, “Life was like a box of chocolate, you never know what you are gonna get.” Afterwards, he focused on every one thing and he did the best job. He didn’t care the people how to see him, he just kept doing the right thing based on himself. 

Now You See Me：the magical view

     Now You See Me was released on May 31, 2013, and was directed by Louis Letervier. It was an American film that tells the story of a group of high IQ thieves. They using the newest technology, and the gorgeous stage as a cover, complete the turn of theft in plain sight. 

There are four main characters in this movie. Jesse Eisenberg as J. Daniel, who is the leader of the Horsemen and he is an arrogant illusionist and street magician. Woody Harrelson as Merritt McKinney, a hypnotist, mentalist, and a self-proclaimed psychic. Isla Fisher as Henley Reeves, an escapist and stage magician. Dave Franco as Jack Wilder, a sleight of hand illusionist, street magician.

  The main plot of this movie is that the Four Horsemen demonstrate their new magic in Las Vegas, which is the combination of iPhone, iPad and other mobile devices of the new magic. They stole 3.5 million Euros and threw it above the stage. In under the watchful eyes of the people, through the intelligent mobile phone screen display, to put the money into the victim’s account. This victim is an ex-magician, who has made money by revealing the secrets behind other magicians' tricks.

In my opinion, this movie is very attractive and magical, because people can not guess what will going to happen next, people even difficult to know the real person who is control this event. The obstacle the Four Horsemen faced is that they have to be mysterious and avoid to arrest by FBI. ‘’ The closer you look, the less you see” is the most classic sentence, and I think this sentence was connected the title of this movie, because no one knows who control the Four Horsemen in the middle. However, the viewer just can know what is they goal at the end, I think that is Now You See Me.

  

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Ray ( 2004 ) is a biographical film focusing on 30 years in the life of rhythm and

Blues musician Ray Charles. The independent produced film was written, produced and directed by Taylor Hackford, and stars Jamie Foxx in the title role. Foxx received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. In the late 1940s. Young Ray Charles (Jamie Foxx), the blind son of a Sharec Ropper, boards a bus in Florida. He travels to Seattle Washington where he uses his unexpected talent for the piano to get a job playing for a nightclub band. The club’s owner soon begins to exploit Ray, demanding sexual favors and controlling his money and career. After discovering that he is being lied to and stolen from Ray leaves the band in disgust. In 1950 Ray joins a white country band who make him wear sunglasses to hide his damaged eyes from audiences. They go on tour and Ray is introduced to heroin. He also suffers from traumatic flashbacks relating to his childhood. The elder of two brothers Ray is raised by a fiercely independent single mother, Aretha Robinson (Sharon Warren).The family is poor but young Ray finds solace in music. He learns to play the piano from the man at a local store. By age seven, he is completely blind. As Ray travels on the road he is becoming to be more and more popular with his music. Ray ends up meeting Della Bea, a preacher’s daughter. He falls in love with her, but Ray goes out on the road and meets up with Mary Anne a singer who teams up with Ray. Della Bea finds Ray’s drugs in his shaving bag and demands he stop using. Ray refuses and walks out on a pregnant Della Bea. Ray begins an affair with Mary Anne. And then he falls for Margie’s and the two begin an affair. Mary Anne leaves Ray and his band but not before throwing a brick through the windshield of his car out of jealousy over Ray and Margie. During the 1960s Ray is becoming more and more popular. While sleeping in a hotel room Ray’s sleep is interrupted by the police who burst in and arrest him. They tell him that they are acting on an anonymous tip that he has drugs in the room and are there to arrest him. Although heroin is found and Ray is charged for possession, he gets off on a legal technicality because the police didn’t have a search warrant. The film shows Ray having a party in L.A when he is informed that Margie had died of a drug overdose and he is devastated by the tragedy. In reality her death from an alleged drug overdose did reportedly upset Charles but it did not occur until 1973.In the year 1979 the state of Georgia officially apologizes to Ray and makes ‘ Georgia On My Mind ‘the officially state song.

Ray Charles, the piano man was just like his mom say to him “blind but not stupid”, actually Ray was really talented guy. Thought blind since childhood, he was a remarkable pianist. But the blind it wasn’t the only obstacle that he has, he manage his blindest really good but he used to have more problems with using drugs and sleep with too many women’s even after being married. This movie would be worth seeing for the sound of the music and the sight of Jamie Foxx performing that it looks deeper and give us a sense of the man himself is what makes it special. Yes there are moments when an incident in Ray’s life instantly inspires a song ( ‘I doubt’, ’What’d I Say’). Ray Charles was quiet man this movie not only knows it, but for my opinion understand it. But just because Ray was quiet it doesn’t mean that people can’t learn from him. For my opinion Ray’s life is an inspiration for people who have problems in life or obstacles that they must overcome.

Philadelphia: A City of Freedom and Human Rights

                                           Philadelphia: A City of Freedom and Human Rights    

                  The movie, Philadelphia was released in 1994. The movie is a Hollywood drama that has an important subject of our lives on discrimination. The movie is a story of attorney Andrew Beckett, who works for a law firm and has won several cases for his company. Tom Hanks won a best actor of the year for this movie role. The movie also won several awards. Tom Hanks plays a gay man who has AIDS. Though, he becomes a victim of discrimination because of his sexual orientation and AIDS.  Andy gets a promotion for the good job that he did for the law firm, but one of the attorneys notices the telltale lesion of skin cancer that he has on his forehead. The attorney knows that this skin cancer is a sign of AIDS. However, Andy has no idea that he has AIDS but the attorney thinks that, Andy is hiding his diseases.

          Andy tells his boss how excited he is, “I sincerely appreciate your faith in my abilities” and his boss says, “Faith Andy is a belief in something for which we have no evidence of, it does not apply in this situation”. However, when Andy’s boss finds out that Andy has AIDS he start looking for a way to terminate him. One time, when Andy has friends over, he gets sick and heads to the hospital. The doctor tells him that he needs to check his blood. While, Andy checks his blood, he gets a page from his co-worker. Andy calls him back to find out why his co-worker needs him. His co-worker tells him that they are missing some documents, but Andy tells him that he left it at the desk, “I left it at the desk last night” but his co-worker could not find it. After a month Andy gets terminated because of missing documents.  They set him up by dislocating the documents. Therefore, they can terminate him from the company because they think they will contract his disease. Joe Miller is a lawyer who advertises on TV, promising to save your driving license and helps people who get injured in their work, plays by Denzel Washington. Andy wants to sue his company, so he can have peace with himself and to donate the money to charity, if he wins the trial. Andy asks a lot of lawyers to help him however, nobody wants to take his case because he has AIDS.

                At the beginning of the movie Joe Miller was homophobia. However, he finally feels sympathy for what Andy is going through in life, therefore he decides to be his lawyer. For example, at one time a man approaches Joe and tells him that he is doing a good job and ask him if he is gay, but Joe gets upset and calls him a, “fagot” but the next day in courtroom Joe Miller tells the courtroom, how unfairly people treat gay people.  Joe Miller becomes a totally different person in overnight also it is unrealistic. In the movie, Andy’s boss says a lot of abhorrent words about Andy, “He brought AIDS into our offices into our men’s room”. Andy’s boss treats Andy as a useless person because he had AIDS. However, a person does not intend to get sick or they do not choose to be gay. The Opera that is Andy’s favorite song makes the movie more dramatic especially, when he interprets the song it makes the movie dramatic. It makes a lot of people to feel sad and also puts us in deep thoughts. The song makes Andy like he is going to die the next day. The movie, Philadelphia is one of the best movies of Hollywood. People should never be discriminated against their sexual-orientation, well-being, race, gender, and social status. We should treat all people with dignity and care. In the movie lawyer Joe Miller says, “It does not say God created all STRAIGHT men equal, it says God created all men equal”. All human beings should enjoy freedom of speech, beliefs, and freedom because we all are created equal.

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Forrest Gump: Keep it simple stupid

Forrest Gump is a comedy-romantic-drama film. Tom Hank was the main actor of the film, Forrest Gump. Also, he is the narrator of the whole movie. The film starts with Forrest sitting on a bench at a bus stop, and telling his life to the people that come to sit next to him. “Hello, my name is Forrest, Forrest Gump. Do you want a chocolate? I can eat a million and a half of this. My mom always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get” says Forrest. He wears a clean white suit, but a pair of old and dirty sport shoes. This opening scene implies that there must be a different story of this man, or he is something different from the other people. In my opinion, this is a fascinating opening which makes audiences want to figure out why Forrest dresses in this way.

Forrest Gump is a sub-normal IQ man who was born after the second-world war. However, he succeeds more than the other people around him. He always thinks simply and does things that he wants without complex reasons, such as Jenny, his best friend and also the only friend of Forrest, told him to run. Then, Forrest just ran. He believes good things will happen and gives people hopes. In contrast, Jenny and Lieutenant Dan, the officer of the United State army, are kind of opposite examples characters. They are decadent and want to give up their life when they meet obstacles. Lieutenant Dan becomes an alcoholic after the Vietnam War because he lost his legs. However, Forrest Gump’s positive attitude to life influences him and helps him get a new life. The most interesting part of the film comes when Forrest Gump runs for an American soccer team and plays ping-pong ball. This film carries an inspiring message about determination, courage and love. It also teaches us sometimes “keep it simple stupid” is favorable to life. It will touch your heart while you watch this film.

Forrest Gump first ran in 1994, twenty years ago. Personally, I think the movie has two main ideas. On one hand, the film tells audiences about Forrest’s romance. On the other hand, it shows both the 60 decade and 70 decade history of the United States, for example, the president’s shooting and the Vietnam War. The film attained the Academy award for Best Picture and for Best Director in 1995. Tom Hanks’s outstanding acting in the film wins an Oscar for Best Actor. There is no unnatural posture or face from Forrest Gump, which will make you once believe he is a real low IQ person. Showing the movie in a narrative way is also a special aspect of this film. For English learners, you can watch this film a few times and won’t be boring, because you can always learn something from the clear and vivid expression. I recommend this film for everyone, drama fans, romance fans and English learners alike. 

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Birdman: Flying High Up Again review

Birdman: Flying High Up Again

     “We were the real thing, Riggan. We had it all. We gave it away. We handed these poseurs the keys to the kingdom.” Birdman who is the main character Riggan Thompson’s inner imaginary person whispered this to Riggan Thompson. This quotation makes audiences think about whether Riggan stays in the play, or leaves for his benefit at the beginning. In this year’s Oscar ceremony, the movie, Birdman, got four awards: the best picture, the best screenplay, the best director, and the best filming. This film is the new work that Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu directed ambitiously after a four year break.

Riggan Thompson is an old man, who used to be a celebrity in Hollywood in the past, but he is now a forgotten actor. The movie, Birdman, shows that he is trying to come back as a real actor who acts with his all passion and retakes his place in the theatre. His first play is based on a novel written by Raymond Carver. However, one of his co-actors is hit by a stage light before the preview, and the director has to replace him with another. Fortunately, they cast Mike, who is the best actor in theatre and widely recognized by the public and critics, but he is out of control. He always acts as he pleases. He has a hypocritical attitude, and is a sexual pervert. In the first preview, his true characteristics are revealed in front of the audiences. There is a scene where he acts as if he is drinking alcohol. He wants this preview session to be real, but his cup is filled with water, not alcohol. He tries to mess up the preview session and stage. He says, “There is nothing real here on this stage except this real chicken in refrigerator”. From this scene audiences can see how his characteristics are unusual and cause Riggan’s trouble. Riggan has to make up for his fame through his first play.

Another problem Riggan encounters is his family issues. He got divorced from his wife, and his daughter had issues with drugs. His daughter always tries to defy him because Riggan didn't take care of his family, and he still doesn't care about his family in order to focus on his play. He is recognized as no good by his daughter, his new girlfriend and co-worker. In his complicated situation, Birdman is whispering to him to go back to Hollywood in order to redeem his reputation and popularity which Riggan had before. This movie shows how Riggan turns out to be out of his mind through communicating with Birdman, and how Riggan and Birdman are in a tug of war over the real actor. When I saw Riggan’s situations, I felt a pity that some middle-aged people, who already retire, have same crisis what Riggan experience. Middle-aged people also want to follow their dreams, but their dream is usually blocked by the mighty wall of harsh reality.

The biggest problem of his resurgence of his reputation is that many critics don’t recognize his play as “the play” from what they think of him. They don’t consider Riggan as a professional actor. In the middle part of the screen, one critic censures him, “You are no actor. You are a celebrity.” In this scene, we can see that the director of this movie wants to tell audiences that the Hollywood industry shows only what people want to see, but not real acting. Most of the Hollywood stars are acting for their benefit, not for genuine art. This message actually makes me lose my words because there is an ironic content. Although director criticizes about pop culture of Hollywood, and praises the high culture of the theatre, his movie is made for pop culture. I really want to say Alejandro Gonzalez, the director of Birdman, is very courageous.

This film throws a question to us: “Can Riggan fly up again?” and gives us some lessons about what limitations you encounter and how much courage you should put forth to overcome your own limitation. Overall, the movie, Birdman, is well-organized with plot, directing, music and characters. If I have to pick a fault of this movie, it contains racism at the beginning of the film. In the first part of the movie, Riggan’s daughter, Sam, bursts out, “It all smells like fucking kimchi.” When I was watching this scene, I thought that this scene degrades Korean culture. It is because sometimes they call Koreans as kimchi when Americans say mean things about Korea. As I am Korean, I felt not quite satisfied with this scene. Without this part, I recommend everyone should watch this kind of movie that has some sympathetic content that touches our heart, and gives useful lessons for improving our tired lives. 

Chef (2014)

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Chef (2014)

Starting from scratch never tasted so good

            Chef is the comedy-drama film that shows the connection to the two important things is work and family. The director of Chef is Jon Favreau who is also the writer, director, producer and main actor. Favreau plays to be Carl Casper who is the creative head chef at the popular restaurant in Los Angelis. Casper divorced from his wife Inez (Sofia Vergara), and they have son Percy (Emjay Anthony). Although the movie is about cooking as the name “Chef”, but the message of the movie is about the relationship in the family. The movie also makes the audience realize to the important thing in work and family.  

            Casper works as the head chef in the restaurant. He loves cooking, and he also spends a lot of time with his food, so he doesn’t have enough time to take care his son. It also makes their relationship become estranged. Casper tries to create the new menu for the restaurant, but the owner doesn’t want it, so Casper decides to quit his job. At that time, while Casper doesn’t have a job, his ex-wife and son asks him for back to Miami where is their hometown. It changes Casper’s life again. He begins to reconnect with his ex-wife, and he realizes that he should improve the relationship between him and his son. Casper decides to fix up the food truck for selling the Cubanos (Cuban sandwich) and sells it along the way back to LA. He asks his son to join him, and this is the opportunity to enhance their relationship between father and son. 

            "I get to touch people's lives with what I do and I love it and I want to share this with you," this are the words of Casper that he teaches his son. It makes me know that he is a really good chef and a good father. However, I think one more thing that makes Casper’s business popular is Twitter that his son usually posts the pictures of the food truck on the twitter and people follow it.  Eventually, the movie will give  the audience feeling warm in heart by showing the relationship in the family and intention for the dream. I highly recommend this movie for everyone, especially watching together with the family.

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Real Steel: Real Underdog

                                                                            Real Steel: Real Underdog
   
    Spoiler Alert! Real Steel is a sci-fi, action, sport, and drama movie. The film was directed by Shawn Levy, and released on October 7,2011. The movie is set in the near future when robot fighting is the most famous sport of all. While this sport is going viral, Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) a former boxer, who tries to be renowned as a robot fighting controller, can’t find his spot to stand in this industry. This was until his son Max (Dakota Guyo), who Charlie has never taken cared of, finds an abandoned fighting robot name Atom. Max believed this robot is a game changer for them. Together, they fix, train, and fight on a stage, and make the world know who these underdogs are.

    From the title, plot, and genre I thought I was going to see full-stream robotic fighting like in Transformers. I also thought that I would have seen Hugh Jackman performing the similar role as in his X-Men franchise. Unfortunately, I was completely wrong. I watched a heart-warming relationship between father, son, and a robot. That is because the plot made Hugh Jackman as Charlie play a somewhat contrasting role with Max. Whenever one thinks something, the other one will come up with the opposite or incompatible decision. I think it helped the movie float smoothly, and it keeps the tone of the film in a good balance. Both characters also develop a relationship with Atom, which gives the impression like Atom is an artificial intelligent robot which it is not. In addition, many of scenes are giving this impression. For example, the one that Atom is sitting in a dressing room, and he is staring at the mirror. The sound, and the angle of the shot suggest that he is alive. I believe there are other viewers who think in the same way.

    The movie is talking about a fictional sport, yet the sensation is totally like you are witnessing a real sport. It is so motivating. It is so exciting. Especially, the last fight. You can feel the challenge of Charlie and Max facing their competitor. They are not fighting on the stage, but the tension is strong enough. When the fight is on, you feel motivated, and you will be crying along with the characters. This is the moment when Charlie is fighting as a model for Atom, and Max sees his father fulfill his dream. At the end, Charlie said to Max, “I really want you to know…no, I need you to know.” Max replies, “Don’t worry. Your secret’s safe with me.” I find these quotes interesting because they haven’t even said “I love you.” Instead, it emphasized something else that has same the meaning, remarkable, memorable, and touching. Many emotions are going on in one movie. There are not many movies that can make you feel like this, but this one is among one of them. Real Steel wasn’t a box office success, but it is a successful as an experience.

Forrest Gump: A Life of Unintelligent Guy Forrest Gump is the drama and romance movie created by Robert Zemeckis in 1994. The main actor is Tom Hanks, who plays the role of Forrest Gump who is not intelligent and he is more inferior to other people due to his mental and physical ability. This story tells and narrates us about his previous life since he was young. It is the inspiration for some people, who might not be smart and intelligent like Forrest, to be successful like him because he always does for other people not for himself. Moreover, this movie won six Academy Awards in 1994 including Best Picture and Best Actor in leading role awarded by Tom Hanks. This movie is also admired and acceptable from a lot of movie critics to be one of the best movies ever. Opening scene begins when Forrest is waiting for the bus at bus stop and he narrated his previous life to people who are sitting and waiting for the bus. When he was young, he faced with his physical problem and he could not normally walk or run like others. Unfortunately, his friends and people physically and verbally abused him all the time; however, he could overcome his physical problem. It was because he only thought that he had to run straight and away from the danger according to Jenny, who was his friend and lover, said and taught him. Due to his talent, fast running, he was admitted to study at college and being a school’s footballer. After graduation, he was chosen to be the army to Vietnam War. At there, he met his best friend, Bubba, and they had good time during army camp. During the war, when he was in trouble and he thought about Jenny said to him “Run Forrest! Run! Don’t be brave. Just run away when you were in danger”. Finally, he survived from Vietnam War and he could help his friends to survive also. Nevertheless, his best friend named “Bubba” was dead because of wound from bullet shooting. Importantly, this is my favorite scene because we can see that Forrest never think about himself, he always do and act for other people surrounding him because he is a good guy whereas some people look him as a fool and stupid guy due to his mental problem. Obviously, he could handle his obstacles with unconsciousness. He just ran and ran. He just did and did that he had to do. He proved to everyone and became like a hero from Vietnam War. Moreover, he began to be a fisherman due to his promise with Bubba and succeeded in his career life as the owner of Bubba Gump. Although his life is not much beautiful such as friend and love, but he could handle and go through it. He always remembers like his mom said ‘Life is like a box of chocolate, we never know what you’re gonna get’, it taught him that people do not know what is going to happen in their life because everything is not sure and being like we wish. However, Forrest met with Jenny and they got married each other. Regrettably, she was dead because of disease. In the end of story, Forrest sent his son to the school bus. We can see that the feather in this story that flow through the air is like the Forrest life because his life is flew and it seems to be unknown for its own destination. Forrest Gump is the movie that I have watched for several times since I was young. Although this movie is not a happy ending story like the romantic movie, but I learned that it is like a true life and story of people. Our lives are not exactly sure that what will happen and they are not beautiful like a heaven. Life contains of happiness and sadness like Forrest’s life. Moreover, I realize that people should have Forrest as an inspiration because he never give up on his destiny because he was born with disabilities like physical and mental problems, but he succeeds in his life because he just does what he want to do to achieve his purposes. The good examples are the scene that he ran across the states of America because he just wanted to run and he left everything behind him, especially Jenny and also the Vietnam War scene that Forrest tried to help Bubba and his friends whereas he didn’t care what is going to happen to him like death. This movie is worth enough getting the Academy Award and Tom Hanks becomes one of the best Hollywood actors until now in my eyes. Anyway, I recommend anyone to watch this movie to inspire you in the way of life.

Big Hero 6:The City In Need Of Protection And Love

             The movie Big Hero 6 is the 3D Computer-animated film which filmed in America. It

tells us about a superhero team fight with the masked man, in order to protect their city which is called San Fransokyo.It describes Baymax takes care of Hiro’s emotion and companies with Hiro when Hiro needs him. It’s the emotional movie, which wins Best Animated Feature in 87th Academy Awards.

    The script is based on the superhero team of Marvel Comic. The story describes a 14 year-old robotics genius who is called Hiro Hamada lives in the fictional city, which is named San Fransokyo. His older brother Tadashi inspires Hiro to attend the robotics center of his university, where Tadashi and his four friends, Fred, Honey Lemon, Wasabi and Go Go study in. For enrolling the university, Hiro gives a mass hit, the microbots for the presentation. The president of technology company Mr. Krei uses Hiro’s microbots to create such a conspiracy and almost destroy the city. Hiro, Tadashi’s four friends and Baymax, which is created by Tadashi, are made up in a superhero team and fight to protect the city.   

        The voices are featured by the main characters that Ryan Potter as Hiro Hamada, Scott Adsit as Baymax, Damon Wayans as Wasabi, Genesis Rodriguez as Honey Lemon, Jamie Chung as Go Go and Joseph Miller  as Fred in the film, which is directed by Chris Williams. My favorite scene is also the most emotional in the film, the superhero team rescues Krei and destroys the microbots, but the transmission’s portal remains active. Baymax detects Abigail is still alive inside the portal and he leaps into the portal to rescue her with Hiro. When they find Abigail, Baymax has been in low power to go back through the portal. He uses his armor’s rocket to push them back through the portal and he stays behind. Hiro is not willing to leave Baymax, he cries loudly and says “I can’t leave without you. I need you, Baymax”. Baymax comforts him “wherever you are, I will always be with you.” Hiro endures the sadness to leave without Baymax and brings Abigail back through the portal .Baymax is great, in order to save Hiro and Abigail, he sacrifices himself. He just does everything for Hiro when Hiro needs. Baymax is just a health care robot and he knows how to care and love people, who need it. At last, wherever the evil happens, the superhero team is saving people who need to far away from it.

            In sum, Big Hero 6 tells the story of the superhero team how to protect their city
and everyone as they can. Virtually they love everyone in the city. When Hiro isn't happy, Baymax will perform conjuring tricks to Hiro, embrace him and company him to make him happy. When Hiro has troubles, Baymax will try his best to help Hiro. Mr.Krei use Hiro’s microbots for the plot, but Hiro don’t blame on him and rescues him. They are trying their best to forgive someone who does something wrong, love someone who needs it and protect someone who is in need. The city is in need of protection and love. Love everyone as you can, the city will get more and more peace.  

My Movie Review ( The Maze Runner)

Montserrat Cosio

3/11/2015

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The Maze Runner: Trying to Save Everyone

The Maze Runner is an action movie by Wes Ball. This movie is about a group of boys that just like Thomas ( Dylan O’Brien) were brain-washed and put in a maze experiment. Nobody could remember their past, the only thing they knew was that the maze was dangerous and they wanted to get out of that place. In addition, Thomas was the fastest runner in the group, so he was the one that had to figure out how to get out and save everyone. First, he had to put together the pieces of the clues he discovered. This action movie carries a message about a boy that cares for his family, because the boys became his family, and that he is never going to leave them. He will try to save everyone. This story shows that no matter if you do not have the same mother or the same blood, the people that care and worry about you can also be your family.

I like the story and the action of this movie because it's not like the other action movies like the Hunger Games. In the Hunger Games is more killing and the characters worry more about saving themselves, and in this movie it shows more how the boys worked with each other to survive. The action in the movie, I think is the maze, because is where all the danger occurs in the story. For me, the importance of the movie is that there is a group of boys that support each other to survive in the maze. In the movie, the scene where Thomas find a clue to get out of the maze, Thomas say to the boys “ I just…. feel that I need to save everyone. To redeem myself”. This is an example that shows that Thomas was trying to save everyone and attain liberty. Subsequently, The Maze Runner for me is one of the best well made-adventure with great energy and considerable style. I recommend this movie for everyone, specially action fans and adventure fans alike.