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Thursday, January 23, 2014

Review: Kuroshitsuji

Just watched kuroshitsuji live action.
Basically the story is very different to manga. Apparently it is done intentionally since they do not want this movie to end up with "that cosplay movie" stereotype.
Brave move yet a good one!
I will not go into much details. 
In summary, the story revolves on kiyoharu (ciel) and sebastian investigating mummified like victim cases which apparently has something to do with kiyoharu's past.
The action was great! Mizushima and Yamamoto did their fighting scene well! ( assumingly they did not use any stunts).
Here you can see nice performance by Yuka whose face reminds me of Matsu Takako. Her expressions was quite dramatic. 
I do not feel that much from the actress who played kiyoharu though ( forgot the name). Seems so so to me. 
I can not think of anyone else as sebastian except mizushima! And boy, did he fit in perfectly! 

From the guidebook, I found out that mizushima has actually rejected this project many times until the crew asked him to work behind the scene and he finally thought that he want to be working in the screen ( kudos to all the crew who succesfully persuaded him!)

Mizushima also took his part really serious, he even developed his own detail such as almost not blinking during sebastian scene since he thought sebastian's character was "saying more with eyes than mouth". He worked with the designers for sebastian wardrobe, shed weights to be 50 kgs, practicing fighting scenes and all related with buttler world.

There were several things that bothered me enjoying the show: 

1. Why setting up the bomb for 30 mins!? Gosh! If you have a bomb you want to detonate why took it so long?
2. And if you have a hostage, as a killer, why not kill her/him while you have time?
3. There was this scene when rin and kiyoharu hide for a while just outside the room full of bad guys. It actually only took less than a min for the bad guys to reach their place but even until rin got her flashback scene and argued with kiyoharu, none of them came to their place.
4. It was said they only have 15 mins for recovering from inhaling the potion. Yet, kiyoharu still alive longer than that she even can climb the stairs ( until rooftop) bringing a suitcase filled with bomb which brings us to no. 
5. It was shown the bomb will detonate within 5 mins. But, it actually did not detonate until kiyoharu reach the rooftop. It was actually nonsense since she waa under poison effect and almost died. To take that until the rooftop more than 3 storages with that kind of state?

Anyway, it is a good movie indeed.
Plus, you can enjoy shirota yuu's cameo.
Eye candies, ladiesss!!!

Over all score : 7/10

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Trust

Today, I was shocked by a fact that a friend I have considered pretty much close to me have been actually married not from him. I felt betrayed in some level. I thought we trust each other. Apparently it only applies one way. I am greatly disappointed (not meant to be a drama queen, though) I do not have special feeling for this person, yet, the fact he never told me about this thing amazed me. He did not trust me. I and my friend, who told me about this, realized several things that people around us have been tried to warn us that time but we do not take it seriously because we thought they were just kidding. We knew him better, that was what we thought. Now we understand why. It also apparently that would mean only one thing. They knew. We had this chat group consisted of four people. Now I can only trust one. The other one who was acknowledged as a relative to his, I lost my trust on her too. Apparently, she knew. She did not say a thing though To be fair, I have never asked about what his status So it is actually not entirely his fault not letting us or me know. His status not been that important to me and my friend whom I still trust,yet, he have told me several personal stories and I thought he trusted me with them so there is no reason why I should be suspicious at any level. and because of that, I thought if he already get married then he will let me know personally. And he has been married for 3 years! before he came to Japan and met me! I felt like it has been a fake friendship Again this serves as a fact that 1. you can not trust anyone entirely 2. being opened to a friend you considered close does not always mean and require the other way around 3. if you do not want to be bitter about it : be opened yet do not expect people will do the same or you will be disappointed. I am still in disbelief.

Monday, January 6, 2014

controlling your mind

sometimes i am scared with my own mind it can be poisonous yet sometimes it can be powerful i guess it depends on how you manage it

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Graveyard conversation

Today, I went to my godmother's and grandma's sister grave with my family. As usual, my mom and dad "talked" to them while rearranging their graves. Later, my little sist told me that she actually did not understand what is the point of "talking" to their graves especially if you believe they are already in heaven with God. I agreed. Honestly, I can not feel anything while I was there. let alone sadness. We came into conclusion we might be very senseless about this thing, yet, we do believe that grave is not actually for the dead, it is for those left behind. They can channel their love and memories about their loved ones so they build a memento. A grave. Personally, I and my little sist, when our time comes, prefer to be cremated than buried. We realized it will be a burden for our family especially the graveyards are outside the city, therefore, quite far. Not to mention it will take some expenses to rent the place and hire people to maintain our grave. We do not mind to be cremated and our ashes either are brought into the house or scattered outside, as long as our pictures are not burnt yet well kept, as well as, our social media account. XD We will not be hanging around in the graveyard after we die. We believe our God already has place for us. And so it is not necessary to come to our grave. It will be easier, if those miss us to open our social media account or picture albums,right? This has been my second post about death. I do not know why I think about this. My grandma's sister and godmother's deaths have changed my way of thinking about life. They made me realize that I can not set aside death from my life. One day I will face it too. You just do not know when and how. Therefore, sometimes I found myself thinking about death. I was also thinking about writing my own will, haven't done it yet though. The other reason is that since I travel a lot due to my career and my status as a foreign student, my chance of having accident are bigger, who knows, you know. I did some precaution acts such as leaving notes to my little sist about my pin number and passwords for my e-mail so if something does happen to me (please not now, God, if I may ask), she knows what to do.

Friday, January 3, 2014

Review: Soekarno

I finally watched Soekarno. of course, I did stand and sing Indonesia Raya before the movie started. thanks to marvelous quality acting of Lukman Sardi and Tanta Ginting, I have respect to Hatta and Sjahrir more than I used to. other standout act was performed bY Maudy Koesnadi as Inggit,second wife of Soekarno. I, however, am a bit disappointed with Ferry Salim and Ario Bayu`s acting. Salim `s act seemed to be `too synthetic` esp on his way potraying Japanese soldier compared to those japan origin supporting actors. Bayu`s act seemed not that believable as Soekarno,even if it is, his acting shrank between Sardi and G8nting`s. I am not impressed at all. My fave scene was when the indonesian delegates were informed by the Japanese that they will have their independence. they hugged each other while Hatta,who always looked calm and composed,suddenly came out silently. Soekarno followed him and said to Hatta that he was f8nally smiling and congratulated him because that day was also his birthday. what a bro romance scene! The other scene was when sjahrir received news that proclamation was about to be held by Soekarno and Hatta. the way he silently smiled knowing that his comrades didn't let him down was so cool! Ginting`s act can deliver a story although not uusing too many dialogues. Last but not least, when Inggit will leave Soekarno, she did her last duty as his official wive, putting "peci" on his ex husband's head. Maudy's acting made goosebumps out of me. There was also a similar scene with Fatmawati, yet it did not give the same effect like on Inggit's scene. Overall, I think it is quite good movie. hopefully, it will be a trigger to more historical based movies in Indonesia. Despite the conflict shadowed the movie release (Fatmawati's children seemed not happy with the image of Soekarno in this movie, either his acting quality or how his character is portrayed in a script), the movie can deliver some good messages. It showed that Soekarno is not different with any other human being. He was imperfect. Yet, he can do something extraordinary due to the support of his wive(s) and friends. It also reminded us how our country became united within one foundation, thus, it is not necessary to fuss about the differences we have. I do not own this image