Accuarancy of Death aka sweet rain
Story:
Chiba (Takeshi Kaneshiro) appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days, and then decide either to 'execute' or 'suspend'. Getting his work quickly out of the way, he goes to the listening booth of a CD shop and indulges in his favorite pastimes, listen to 'humanity's greatest invention' : music. He is... a Grim Reaper. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki (Manami Konishi), 27. She works for a manufacturing company, in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It's time for the Reaper to go to work.
This movie was so highly rated that it was full house when me and my colleague went to watch it over at PS. We had to sit at the forth row that gave me a stiff neck and shoulders after 2 hours... However, it has a nice plot... showing how the Grim Reaper decides on the fate of 3 persons at different genre. It is onli till the end of the movie then u will realised how the 3 stories were linked. A pretty slow paced movie( nearly fell asleep half way through the movie), not advisable to watch it at the end of a tiring day of work. However, it is a movie that trigger one to think about life and death.
As a shinigami, he made his life-and-death decision based on a very important factor: Has this person fulfil his/her purpose in life? I strongly agree with the way he made his decisions. Having a purpose to live in this world is the most essential. Like an OL needs to live on to realise her dream to be a wonderful singer... a teenage boy needs to live on to reunite with his mother.... a old lady to live on to meet her grandson... During the movie, it made me ponder whether the decisions other people made for you really determine how your life will turned out to be. For the shinigami allowing the OL to live on has changed her life so much... Maybe during the journey of our life, the people we meet could turn out to be the shinigami.......
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Made of Honour
Story:
For Tom (Patrick Dempsey), life is good: he's sexy, successful, has great luck with the ladies, and knows he can always rely on Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), his delightful best friend and the one constant in his life. It's the perfect setup until Hannah goes overseas to Scotland on a six-week business trip… and Tom is stunned to realize how empty his life is without her. He resolves that when she gets back, he'll ask Hannah to marry him – but is floored when he learns that she has become engaged to a handsome and wealthy Scotsman and plans to move overseas. When Hannah asks Tom to be her "maid" of honor, he reluctantly agrees to fill the role… but only so he can attempt to woo Hannah and stop the wedding before it's too late.
A sweet romantic movie.... sometime that make u go "oooohhhhh..." and giggle at the things that a guy will do to woo his bestfriend back. The story seems to be pretty applicable to life. Most guys dont seem to appreciate their female bestfriends as much as they should... They took these girls for granted that they will always be there for him forever... It is only when they are about to lose them then they realise how important has this lady is to him and how much of a place she took in his heart... hmmmm.....
Patrick dempsey is really cute and looks fantastic on this movie.... really charming.... hahhaa... A must-watch movie for patrick dempsey fans and also for girls who have a crash on their guy bestfriend... cos after the movie.... I guaranteed a smile will be on your face that u cant wipe off... and the sweet sweet feeling in our heart that last the whole day and maybe the next too....
YueN signing off.... sunny morning...
