Movies
Jan. 28 | At the end of the movie ‘Ah Boys To Men (Part 1)’, there was this reflection by Recruit Ken thought aloud for the audience to hear – ‘People always say that there is no war in Singapore. But after this incident, I’ve realised…...
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Sep. 27 | Marking the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, the 2009 film ‘Creation’ tells of how he came to publish his instant bestseller ‘On the Origin of the Species’, that later influenced almost every branch of science....
Sep. 20 | ‘Tatsumi’ is, most appropriately, a manga-like film that depicts the life of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, the founder of Gekiga (‘Dramatic Pictures’) comics in 1957, which was a major departure from manga for kids. Telling gritty realistic...
Aug. 31 | If even no two snowflakes are exactly the same due to countless combinations of different environmental conditions, can there ever be perfect clones of anyone? Not likely at all. Even if you can physically clone someone, with the person’s genetic...
Aug. 24 | What if, one day, you discover, to your horror, that all the deliberations and accidents in your life are predetermined, with even your choices somehow puppeted by a mysterious and secretive bunch of men? Or rather, to ask the question more realistically,...
Aug. 11 | ‘Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’ is a terrific wake-up call, and a timely one too, for highlighting the impending dangers of cross-tampering with human and animal genes. What happens when human intelligence evolves faster than wisdom? This...
Aug. 2 | ‘Wu Xia’ is an entertaining and nuanced study of the tension between the need for forgiving one who has resolved to turn over a new leaf, versus the danger of forgiving one who turns out to be thoroughly unrepentant. Since we cannot read...
Jul. 26 | 20 lessons learnt from ‘The Cove’, which is an intriguing must-see, be one a dolphin lover or not…
1. Dolphins are not all happy just because they appear to be ‘smiling’.
2. Dolphins are easily stressed by sounds as they...
Jul. 19 | In the movie ‘Four’, the first story ‘A Noob’s Human Holocaust’ tells of a gang of guys discussing about global warming, about how the passion for reversing it has cooled down worldwide, much to their dismay. (This is arguably...
Jul. 12 | NLMG speaks of a world that creates clones for the rich, who conveniently never see their clones. The clones are carefully brought up in a strict boarding school, which concocts horrible stories of the world out there, so as to keep the students contented...
Jul. 6 | In ‘Norwegian Wood’, the male protagonist remarks that he doesn’t go all the way out to make friends as they only lead to disappointment. Hmmm… seems pretty pessimistic. Even if this is a high tendency for him, surely, it cannot...
Jun. 27 | The Green Lantern (GL) mythos speaks of the universe being invisibly yet carefully divided into thousands of intergalactic sectors, each guarded by an appointed member of the GL Corps. Reminds me of the concept of Buddhalands being compassionately watched...
Jun. 8 | In ‘X-Men: First Class’, Professor X urged Magneto to find a point between rage and serenity to harness and focus his power, instead of banking on sheer anger and pain. As I sat in the cinema, I wondered what is that between rage and serenity....
May. 5 | ‘Qixia Temple 1937’ is based on the moving true story of how the 1,500-year-old Buddhist monastery in Nanjing during the Japanese occupation became a refugee camp to thousands of Chinese, who would otherwise be without food, shelter and medicine....
