Three Break Up Movies Which Encourage You To Keep On Living

After a full week of wallowing and self-pity phase, now I’m ready to move on to the next stage of break up, ready to letting it all go. I kinda rewatched all those break up movies which will give me some positive energy to move on with my life. Since he said that “we’re not going to work out” or “you deserve someone better”. Oh come on, you know, we haven’t tried it yet, how come you tell me such things? Well, maybe he’s not brave enough to do all those things with me. Well, I’m kinda still in the denial phase, but today I’m so ready to move with my life and I want to share the movies that kinda motivate me and giving me positive vibes to keep on living.

      Annie Hall

I remember telling him that I didn’t like Annie Hall because it’s too personal. Well, I was wrong. I kinda like this movie. It kinda represents my experience about not-so-working relationship and how to letting it all goes. Woody Allen, made such a good personal film about him, and it made me feel I’m not alone. I’m not the only who have experienced this pain. There are a lot of people before me. About, how we were falling in love in the first part, and then one of us felt that it wasn’t right anymore. How we couldn’t be apart with each other after we broke up, but it’s not right to be together all the time like we used to. In the end, Alvy was having a hard time dealing with his break up, but he managed to fix it all and be friends with Annie instead. I want to be Alvy, I want to move on like Alvy and still be friends with Annie. But I think I need process and the best quotes in this movie that gave me a positive vibe and making me ready to face the reality is this:

“Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships; you know, they're totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd. But, I guess we keep goin' through it because, uh, most of us... need the eggs”

      500 Days of Summer

Tom had been madly in love with Summer for 500 days, after a series of phases to get him back to his own feet, in the end, he was ready to face the reality after a bad break up with Summer. I’m Tom! I was madly in love with this guy, well I can’t say I was in love, but it was pretty much almost there. We had our moments, it was sweet for a while and then he told me reality hit us hard and we have to break up.

This movie taught me to keep on living, because somehow in the end, you’ll get your sweet closure and you’d be ready to move on. Eventhough to reach the closure is super freaking hard. But through the process of bad break up, I know you’re going to be someone better and probably smarter. My favorite Tom’s line is this:

“You know what sucks? Realizing that everything you believe in is complete and utter bullshit”

Tom represents me so much, while Summer’s line, which my favorite too, that makes me see through His eyes is this.

“What happened? Why didn’t they work out” “what always happens. Life”

And the narrator’s line:

“Some people are meant to fall in love with each other, but not meant to be together"

      

      Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

This one is a movie by Michel Gondry is always be my favorite breakup movie. I was dreaming I could go to the clinic and just erase all my bad memories with anyone who I’ve broken up with. But, this time, no, I don’t. I don’t want to erase my memories with him, I will always cherish it because I once knew a guy that was so sweet and positive and I want those memories keep on living in my head. The same like Joel didn’t want to erase his memories with Clementine in the middle of the process of memories-erasing. Well I guess it’s good to keep those sweet memories with anybody that once you were falling in love with. To realize, he was once that person. I mean, breaking up doesn’t mean you have to forget what you’ve been through with him, it’s just one of you doesn’t feel like it’s right anymore to date.

I remember Joel said…

“I’m just… happy. I’m exactly where I wanna be”

I was happy. And I was exactly where I wanna be.

I recalled that I still have so many plans with him, like we’re going to watch these movies (most of my favorite one) together. Or that plan about how we’re going to meet, and we’re going to visit Iceland someday. It’s still there; I don’t want to erase it. Because it made me feel how good and happy it was when you’re falling in love. And it doesn’t mean we can’t do our plans together. Maybe someday, if we ever meet, we would do it. But if we won’t ever meet, I’ll just cherish it as sweet memories that I’ve experienced.

That was the three breakup movies, that could totally help you going through your process of breakup. You probably should check that out. And if you ever experienced one, don’t ever feel that you’re alone and maybe don’t think to kill yourself. I know it’s devastating, but somehow, people are experienced it long before us, and they managed to succeed and keep on living with their own lives J

Postcards From The Zoo

I’ve wanted to watch Postcards From The Zoo (Kebun Binatang) for a really long time ago. I’m automatically falling in love with Edwin since I watched his praktika’s film, Kara Anak Sebatang Kara. And two weeks ago Kineforum held a movie screening, mostly they screened the movies from Babi Buta Film Production and Postcards From The Zoo was there! I was like yay! J

So, the story is very simple, about a girl who wanted to touch a Giraffe’s stomach so badly since she was a kid. But Edwin took us to that main goal in the movie very interestingly. I mean, he took us everywhere but you wouldn’t complain about it, because you’d just enjoy it so much. The uniqueness of this movie became its power. Ladya Chery delievered such a class act, she really blended in with Lana, the character she portrayed. As a zookeeper, Lana had to be close with the animals, and Ladya Cheryl gave it to us, she was in a cage with a tiger and feeding a mother and baby hippos. How awesome it was! I always loved her performace since Fiksi. Edwin sucessfully making the viewers enjoy this unique film so much, eventhough you’d think some of the things were weird, but you’d just love it.

I gave 3.5 out of 5 for Postcards From The Zoo. It was a really good movie, and I think Indonesian directors should make this kinda movie instead those crappy horror movies. Seriously? We live in 2014, ghosts are not the only thing that exicte the viewers.

The Beach

So, I watched The Beach a really long time ago, and just now I wanted to finish my writing draft about The Beach. This movie by Danny Boyle seriously didn’t impress me at all. I mean, the first 30 minutes was really intriguing and interesting. You would really curious where Danny Boyle would take you. But seriously, the film should end in the first 30 minutes. The next minutes was just boring and suck. Ugh, I just can’t wait for it to end. I even pause for like many times to kill the boredom. The conflict wasn’t clear, what the fuck they wanted to do? Because I don’t need to watch a 2 hours movie just to finding out what the hell hippies wanted to do with their own lives. To be fair, I watched it because I like Leo DiCaprio and how he always delivers such a class act. But here? Yeah you really wish he was. Although it was him who kept me to watch this movie. So, my verdict is 1,5 out of 5. Like seriously, the scenery was beautiful but the hippies? Really? I don’t understand what they tried to do with their lives.

Even Leo seems like he doesn't know what he supposed to do.

Well, It's Not The Hunger Games

I actually watched Divergent like two weeks ago. I didn't want to watch it at first, because I wasn't interested in that movie. I thought it was just a movie which follow the nowadays hype. when people love The Hunger Games, they made Divergent. I actually like Shailene Woodley, I think that girl is cool. I admire so much her performance in The Spectacular Now. So, I guess it worth my time, at least I could see Shailene and Kate Winslet's performances if the movie were really dull.

But, no. Not really. Divergent isn't like The Hunger Games at all. Maybe people said so, because in Divergent they also divided people into 5 factions, like the districts in The Hunger Games. But, the story is quite different and not really bad. it's intriguing and interesting to follow. The protagonist was lovable too, I mean, Tris, portrayed by Ms. Woodley came from this unnoticed faction and now she becomes a strong person. You'll be rooting for her big time, eventhough she's not Katniss Everdeen, but you'll love her.

The only thing that makes me bored was the overlong duration. I don't know, Neil Burger probably wants us to see the details of the book when he made it into a movie, but I think he can shorten it. I mean, this book isn't Lord of The Rings: Return of The King when people are okay with its long duration, but Divergent? seriously, he could end it faster and I think it's going to be better if he ended it faster than that. 

So, my verdict is Divergent deserves 3 out of 5 points :) it's entertaining and fun. It even makes your heart races. If you like The Hunger Games, Divergent is worth to try.

Last Forever

I’ve been a fan of How I Met Your Mother for like 2 years. Yeah, I was late to catch up with the show, because at first, I thought the show was mediocre and not funny at all. Until one day, I ran out of TV Show and started to watch the whole season 1. I immidiately fell in love with all the characters. I mean, every character has their own unique characteristic and they have something that represents them. Like Lily, she has Aldrin Justice. Marshall is the fudge, Ted is “nothing good ever happens after 2 AM”, Barney is Legend… wait for it… dary, and Robin is Robin Sparkles. These things make the viewers and the characters became so close. How I Met Your Mother has a very powerful effect to its viewers. We adapt things that had been said and done in the show in real life.

It’s a little bit devastating when Carter Bays and Craig Thomas announced that season 9 is the last season of the show. I meant, for those who watch this from the very first season, How I Met Your Mother is not only about how Ted met his future wife, it’s more about the gang’s friendships, career path, adventure and silly things that they’ve done. Me, as a loyal fan, never bother who the mother is, because I saw this show more than just the story of how Ted met his wife.

The finale, Bays & Thomas wrapped two episodes for the whole 40 minutes something for the finale. Althought the pace of the finale was too fast, because they are trying to answer so many questions that they’ve given us for 9 seasons, but still, it was a beautiful finale. I’m impressed and it’s worth waiting for 9 seasons. I’m really satisified with the closing of everyone’s problems that had happened for these 9 seasons. The ending of the Last Forever Part 2 was the most beautiful ending ever. Without any dialogue, the fans already knew what will happen next; Bays & Thomas used this symbolic Blue French Horn to wrap it up. And yes, no description needed. In this Last Forever part 2, we finally knew what was the purpose of Ted telling his stories and the gang for 9 seasons. I don’t know, what I should say other than beautiful ending, really. I really really really love it. I’m glad that I’m a How I Met Your Mother fan. This finale will be Last Forever in its fans' hearts :)

Oh yeah, but seriously, what happened to the pineapple???

Another Street-Racing Flick

I hate that I haven’t watched anything worth to write movie lately. Two days ago, my sister asked me to accompany her watching Need For Speed. I actually hate all street-racing flicks, because I think they are all stupid. They just wanted to show some cool sport cars but the story was crappy with a lot of girls wearing bikinis in the middle of the night, like really?

Need For Speed was mediocre. Well, it was okay when the characters were inside the cars. It was pretty cool, though watching those sport cars raced in a high speed. But, when they finally get out of the car, I was like having my “uh-oh” moment. I hate the characters; Aaron Paul tried to portray the protagonist by being super unnecessary cool. No, Aaron, you’re better than this. Imogen Poots was dull as hell. She tried to portray a sexy intellegent woman and left no good impression to me at all. Even, his British accent felt stupid and phony, and she’s a British in real life. The story was drab, forced and has no point at all. I mean, it was about revenge? Please. It’s like the screenwriter run out of ideas.

Well, it’s better if the characters stayed in the cars, just drive and never get out. Once they got out, I want to get out of the theatre too. I wished this movie end sooner, because it was boring and they tried to make suspenses with surprising sound effect that would make your heart fail. Ugh, I hate that, it’s getting old and it’s not even a horror movie. My verdict is, okay, I’m being nice because I love Aaron Paul in Breaking Bad, 1 out of 5. If you’re not a street-racing flick lover, don’t even try to watch this movie. You’re gonna have the longest 1 and a half hour in your life.

Grave of the Fireflies

If my friend didn’t tell me that Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru No Haka) is one of the best movies Studio Ghibli ever made, I wouldn’t have the heart to watch it until the end. I mean, how come any person could sit through the animation movie about a little girl left by her mother during World War II. Seriously, I didn’t have the heart to watch it, but I was just sitting through it and fight my uncomfortable feeling. And yeah, my friend is right… big time.

I was having a real sobfest the whole movie. It was both ironic and tragic, but somehow really sweet and beautiful. The little girl, Setsuko bonded with her brother, Seita since her mother died. Their relationship was priceless. I wish I had an elder sibling like Seita. This Seita figure officialy makes me failed in being an elder sibling to my younger sibling.

For the animation technique, well, you never doubt Studio Ghibli. They have great resumes and every year it gets even better. What makes this movie interesting is the story. At the first minutes, you’d love this Setsuko’s character because she was so cute and you’d do anything for her. Then, when the conflict arose, she became a little bit annoying but her brother always tried to cheer her up. That what makes their relationship is priceless. Both of the protagonists were lovable, and you wish you could see them together forever. You could feel Seita’s affection to Setsuko like he realized that he had to protect his little sister no matter what. Also, the scoring supported the story very much. Placed in the right scene and the right time. I’m not gonna lie to you, but I had those sobfest pretty much because of the scoring. And well, mostly because of Setsuko’s dialogue and her innocence, but the scoring was one of the big aspect that affected to the mood of the viewers, though.

After watching this movie, I probably should check other Isao Takahata’s movies. I always thought that Miyazaki was the brightest of Studio Ghibli and never check any movie directed by other director in Studio Ghibili. But, once again, I’m so freaking-deadly wrong. Yeah, since The Secret World of Arrietty, I probably should watch another movie that wasn’t directed by Miyazaki. And for the last, I give this movie 5 out of 5!!! Seriously, you have to watch this movie if you want to test whether you’re sensitive enough… or not.