The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I (2014)

4/5

This is one of the movie that I really looked forward this year. Following the amazing Catching Fire, I had high hope for this movie and it did not fail my expectation.

Unlike the previous two movies, this one focus more on emotions. It did a great job in showing how damaged Katniss was and how the whole war thing started. As a big fan of the book, I always hope that book adaptation are true to the original story and like Catching Fire, the script of Mockingjay is very well written and did not disappoint the book fans.

When watching this movie, it took me a while to get used to the slow pace of this movie. Catching Fire was a very fast pace movie, everything happened so quickly and right to the point in that movie. However in this one, they show you a lot more details of events. It makes me feel like we are changing from a fast dance song to a slow ballad. The good thing about a slower pace in this movie is that it allows the emotions of characters to be shown more delicately and make me feel more about the characters.

There is one thing that I never really noticed or thought of when I read the book but it was very obvious in the movie. Nowadays, war is not only about force and army, but also publication. It is easy to see how the capital and 13 both used television to gain supporter and how a song can be an important in rallying supporters. Internet has become such a power tool, the most random things can become viral within minutes. There might be one day that war might happene online instead.

Gone Girl (2014)

4.5/5

Before I watch the movie, I already heard a lot of great regarding this movie, but since I already read the book, I doubted it would be good. However, this movie is a genuinely surprise. It was one of the best movie adaption from book I had ever watched.

Maybe because the movie was screen played by Gillian Flynn, the writer of the book, the movie perfectly capture the intensity in the book. It is a story so genius that it left you questioning and wanting to know more. The deeper the story gets, the off guard you get when event reveals. This is definitely one of those long movie, with 149 minutes, but time flies when you watch it because of the enchanting plot.

Every time when I think about the story line, it just stung me more, The story demonstrate the power of the media. The social media played an important role in the journey of Amy and Nick. They can easily manipulate public's point of view. Media is a huge part of our life, we get all our information through the internet and TV. We can easily be fed some false information without knowing.

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Start of this blog

I started a tumblr blog a while ago posting thoughts on movies. Now I decided to start an actual blog so that I can better manage it and hopefully this will motivate me more. 

I named this blog 'A Little Movie Blog', but I will not only blog about movie I watched, but also TV shows. This is because I watch TV shows almost everything during meals and sometimes, I just want to find someone to share.

I am not a professional movie critics, I am just a regular person like you. The things I write here is just my thought, you might not share the same option. I just want to make use of this platform to talk about the things I like. Hope you enjoy reading this blog. :)