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Jimmy So
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Forever Young“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”By Jimmy So“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is about a man who
takes 86 years to kick the bucket. The man, Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt), is
born old and grows younger, but the curiosity is in seeing
how the man is born and how he dies; the misfortune is that his demise takes
two hours and forty-seven minutes. To my knowledge, nothing quite...Read more
Ancient discovery
“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”
by Jimmy So
Much of movie-going is about expectations. What hopes and aspirations hang upon “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”? Do we dare expect a repeat to the good times of the first three Indy installments, a return to the bullwhip market of the nin...Read more
Young Americans
“No Country for Old Men” and “Juno”
What country is the Coen brothers, or, more accurately, Cormac McCarthy, referring to? Adapted by Joel and Ethan Coen from McCarthy’s novel, “No Country for Old Men” seems inhabited by plenty of old men. One such man opens the film, or at least, the voice of him does: Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), his barito...Read more
Redemption song
“Atonement”
The talk has been about the dress (shiny green) and the long track shot
(long). There's more to "Atonement" than that, but is it a good enough
movie to convince us that fiction can atone for reality? Atonement
might be a theological term, but break the word apart and it almost has
a mundane quality: at-one-ment. Briony Tallis, the protagonist of the...Read more
