Heaven (2002)

USA/Germany
Director: Tom Tykwer (The Princess and the Warrior)
Screenwriter: Krzysztof Kieslowski / Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi

這真的不能怪我。因為 Kiewslowski 的名字掛在上面，我不停的從 Tykwer 的電影中尋找 Kiewslowski 的影子，結果終究是徒勞無功。Tykwer 只想拍屬於兩個人的世界，屬於兩個人的愛情故事，即使故事的開端Philippa 為了自己伸張正義而誤傷了無辜的人，似乎有道德辯證的意味，但不久後這只是為了開啟兩人浪漫逃亡旅程的藉口罷了。即使是要把它當成愛情影片拍，Filippo 這個角色的塑造也遠不及 A Short Film About Love 裡面的男孩。

只剩偶而流出的悲傷音樂，還有像 Blind Chance 一樣呼應開頭的結局讓我想起Kieslowski。除非說我看到原劇本 Kiewsloski 要講的真的只有這樣，不然我永遠不會滿意的。

Too Much Flesh (2000)

France
Director / Producer / Screenwriter: Jean-Marc Barr
Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Rosanna Arquette, Élodie Bouchez

26th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival

11/25 ~ 12/5, 2004
The Flower of Evil (惡之華),
Claude Chabrol, France, 2003
Roads to Koktebel (消失在地圖上的名字),
Boris Khlebnikov/Aleksei Popogerbsky, Russian, 2003
Five Obstructions (五道電影難題),
Jorgen Leth/Lars von Trier, Denmark, 2003
Tropical Malady (熱帶幻夢),
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, 2004
Whisky (微笑威士忌),
Juan Pablo Rebella/Pablo Stoll, Uruguay, 2003
9 Songs (性愛搖滾樂),
Michael Winterbottom, England, 2004
Not on the Lips (嚴禁嘴對嘴),
Alain Resnais, France, 2004
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Episode3: Antwerp,
Peter Greenaway, England, 2003
The Tulse Luper Suitcases Ⅱ, 2004
April (兩個四月),
Nanni Moretti, Italy, 1998
The Motorcycle Diaries (摩托車日記),
Walter Salles, Brazail, 2004
Ma Mere (母親，愛情的限度),
Christophe Honore, France, 2003

13 Going On 30 (2004)

USA
Director: Gary Winick
Cast: Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo
Not that bad as I imagined. The story itself is nothig to suprise, but Jennifer's smile is amazing.

Collateral

2004, USA
Director/Producer: Michael Mann
Screen writer: Stuart Beattie
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jamie Fox

The photography just amazing. It's the LA I haven't seem before. The night view is glamorous but has a chill, lonely atmosphere exudes in the whole film.
But Tom Cruise fell the story, or the story fell itself in the killer part. It want to depict the hit man as a cold blood murderer and a human being as the same time.

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

UK
Director/Screenwriter: Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg
Casts: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield
Cute, very very cute, with Coldplay inside the movie.

Ondskan (Evil, 2003)

Denmark/Sweden
Director: Mikael Hafstrom
Casts: Andreas Wilson
I think originally the film has the intension to tell a story that a man do something bad to others, and that bad thing comes right back to him some day. But the film fell to develop this part very well.
The protagonist, Erik Ponti, become (or try to become)a different person after he goes to the boarding school. He used to bully others, now he is bullied by the seniors. The principal in the former school he attained called him "evil." The following story shows us that Erik is abused by his step father, and it might be the reason he develop such a twisted behavior. But at the time it tells us Erik's "evil" comes from some reasons, not that he is born with it, the film have two seniors bully him just because they want to show their supremacy. Now Erik is a victim, a sympathized character who looses his only friend and his secret lover just because he won't give in. Suddenly he is a total innocent man, and all his "evil" transfers to others: the seniors, his step father, and the mother and school teachers who pretend to see nothing also included.
Pure evil should exist only in fantasy stories, like Sauron in the Lord of the Rings. I just can't bare that a story shows me someone behaves like a prick without explaining why.
And please don't use the cliche that a boy made a girl pregnant in their first intercourse again!

Ocean's Twelve

Two words: Brad Pitt