:: A Bridge Too Far :: [WWII - European Zone]

First of all, I have to confess that some kinds of world war movies are not my type at all, but anyway I’ll try my best. The movie began with an introduction that told the story plot after the D-Day war, which made it much easier to watch this movie. Later on, the movie told about the main task of the entire Allies’ troops that is to seize and hold the 3 main bridges in Holland that linked to the boundary of German. Then the battle scene begun, the scene that I like at the early art of the movie is the scene that a thousand of soldiers jumped off the plane and fall down the ground by parachutes, that’s really amazing scene, this made me really wondered of how they ever made this scene because it looks really realistic, especially the scene from the self-camera which attached to soldier when they jumped off the plane, it looked really scary when you see the ground far away down under your feet….
At the middle of the movie, the war still keep going on, with my curious about how the German really underestimate the Allies, even though they could keep the top secret file about seizing the bridges, but the German General believed it’s fake document, how come???!!, it’s really obvious… The interesting thing later on is the scene that the Dutch celebrated for the coming of the Allies’ troop, this scene’s tell us about how European people thought about the war during that period, they gave a warm good welcome to all Allies’ armies, they even gave the Allies a place to hide. A really long time had passed but nothing happened in the movie excepted war and war, scenes that rarely attracted me are the scene that one soldier ran into the battle to keep the capsule which was dropped by the plane but unfortunately he’s shot down before running back to the base…T-T such a sad scene and another scene that seemed really nonsense (but anyway I like it because it’s quite funny) was the scene that the old woman who already lost her mind because of the war, suddenly she ran out of the house in order to pick up the taxi, so she got shot and died in front of her house, it’s suppose to be a sad scene but I think it’s so funny especially the way she fall down with her ballet gesture ha ha…..

After 3 hours long with full of blood, bullets and my wishes hoping that the movie should had finished real soon because I already got bored, bored, bored, a real great bored. The movie just brought me to the end with the sad song sung by Allies’ armies who had been left behind the war, and also about 10000 soldiers died in the war, with the easy excuse by the General said that “Well, as you know, I’ve always thought we tried to go a bridge too far” …such an irresponsible words, wasn’t it??

/// Blogs Assignment : Jack Dempsey ///

Jack Dempsey’s story can show us the clear picture of people's life that truly happened in the time of the American great depression,a lots of people lost job, then they had to do everything he could do to survive or to get money. Not except for Dempsey, he faced with many great difficulties before he could find out his talent in boxing that could save his life, that made Jack Dempsey become the legend of the American boxer. He was the champion of the world heavyweight title between 1919 and 1926, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, champions of all time. And also because of his exciting fights and his attractive personality that made him very popular among fans. Jack Dempsey grew up in a poor family, his father had difficulty in finding work that forced his family to move very often. Dempsey decided to leave home in his teenage, seeking for a better life for himself. Dempsey was a strong and powerful young man, who quickly discovered that he had a talent for fighting, later he began training to be a professional. At the first stage of his boxing career, looking for a chance to get money, Dempsey would occasionally go into saloons and challenge for fights. If anyone accepted his challenge, bets would be wagered. This seems like he's quite a gangster but the fact that when people got nothing to lose anymore, risking for something might be not that much bad choice, I think. What really made him very popular was because of his ten wins in a row that included the fight which he beat Sudenberg, who regarded as one of the world powerful boxer. I think that his success also came from his strong effort and patience that's why he still be mentioned even today.
Jack Dempsey was the real hero for all American not only because of his talent in boxing, and also because of his attempting to survive in the real tough time that might be a good example for the later generation in term of finding their own talent and try to make use of it for their own life.

:: Bobby Jones - Stroke of Genius :: [Roar20]

After finished watching this movie, I began thinking about learning to play golf, because there’re many scenes in this movie that shows how playing golf might be the real interesting and exiting sports, personally I really like the way that the movie shows how the ball is hit and fly over the sky, it’s sound really attract to try hitting the ball to fly away as far as in the movie. This movie also cause me a question that why there’s gonna be 18 holes in one golf course or is it true as the character in movie said that it because there’re about 18 shots for one whisky, so they decided that there should be 18 hoes for golf as well. And did they already drink cola-cola since about 70 years ago? , wow, it means that cola soft drink has been produced about 100 years already, that’s so amazing.

The movie also shows the picture of the American culture around the year of 1935 to 1940, when many new invented equipments and technologies had been used in the society such as engine car (that looks really classic), electronic trail way, the telephone (that also looks really weird because of it’s shape that really looks like a pepper mill and I can’t see how to make a phone call because I don’t know where’s the number button to push). One scene that I really like is the romantic scene that Jones kiss his girlfriend under the same umbrella during the rain, this is really romantic and really classic scene too. This real-life based movie illustrates and be a good example of one man story who never give up to raise his dream and finally he could reach his goal, and even if you fail, it’s okay just stand up and fight again, that’s never too hard to make your dream come true like one character in the movie said something about “Golf is like the life, it’s the game of recovery”…….

:: Meet John Doe :: [Great Depression]

Again, I found difficulty watching movie without subtitle, and more trouble with black and white scene, anyway i'll try my best. But, after watching this movie, all i can say is it's really boring and boring.....because even though at the first part of the movie, it may seem interesting about how they try to cheat on people by creating the faked character to be the real one and the guy who play as John Doe, really looks like the one who play "James Bond007", but at the middle f the movie, it become the real boring experience watching this movie, nothing's interesting and the movie just goes with no direction, and then at the end of the movie, everything seems to be better with the scene that made me really exited and really want to know whether John will fump off the building or not, and like i guess he did'nt and then the movie ended suddenly without any cue... that really made me soooo confused about how they wrote the script like this.

What i can see in this movie is that in the age of great depression of America, people seems to do everything to get their money like character in the movie "Ann", when she's fired, she could do everything to get her job back, even though she have to cheat on people by creating the faked character......but i think i understand her feeling because she had no choice left and at that time, people could get fired anytime, so if it's necessary, we can do anyway to survive. Next thing i want to mention is when John went to the show that at first i think i's T.V. show, but i think exactly it's radio station because i cannot see any video camera and people can can enjoy the show by radio, so i think maybe in that time, there's still no video camera or T.V. broadcasting there...but one thing that really made me so surprised is airplane, i meant the real transportable plane not a military plane, wow, seems like technology had been improved very very quickly within 19th centaury.....

:: Meet Me in St. Louis :: [Industrial Age]

Watching this movie is the real fun, because of the easy-to-understand content and many beautiful scenes in this movie make this movie very enjoyable to watch. Since the opening of the movie, I can see a lots of American life in the movie, people in that time used the classic car that looked very classic and unigue, also in that time, people still made everything by their own even the ketchup, that seems very complicated than just buying in the supermarket like in this period.

The next thing that i can see is that, in that period, it's the time for new developed transportation that is trolley, rather than the classic car and horses, it's mass transportation that made the city lives become more comfortable. Next thing i found really interesting is the way they use telephone, do they have to shout out loud while they talking on the telephone? ha ha If it's true, then it's really funny because everyone in the house would hear what you said or even your your neighbor... Another thing that made me really curious is why people in that time had to wear full uniform while they having dinner in their own house, it looks very uncomfortable.

One thing i want to mention, in this movie, i can see the old tradition of Halloween and Chritmas, Halloween seem to be the day for the kids to treat people and i just knew that children would throw powder into people face ha ha, it really remind me about Songkarn day in Thailand, and Christmas is the real family day from the past until now, watching all family members building a snowman made me really want to try building one... The movie ends with the scene of the annual fair in St. Louis that many characters have been mentioned many times, what the movie want to show is that in that period, civilization was expanded all over the continent, not just the big city like New York, it's the real age of industrialization, that many people found thier new oppotunities...

:: Christmas With The Kranks ::

This Christmas movie made me understand the importance of Christmas to American people, it’s not just a holiday, but it’s something more than that, it’s the family day, it’s the day that everyone shares loves, wishes and goodwill to each others. Christmas means love in the family, if there’s no love in the family, the real Christmas cannot occur, like in the movie because the Krank’s daughter has to go to South Africa, so her parents don’t feel like it’s Christmas anymore when one of the family is missing.

Then, Mr. and Mrs. Krank decided to skip the Christmas party and plan to go to Caribbean Cruise Trip instead. It’s really funny how they tried to escape from their neighbors who disagree with them about skipping Christmas and try every way to persuade them to join Christmas party. This movie composes of many funny scenes that make this movie a very enjoyable movie to watch in Christmas time like now.

My favorite scenes are the scene in the supermarket where Mrs. Krank compete with another old woman to chase for the last ham piece but unfortunately fall into the cartridge (LOL) and another scene is the scene that the Krank knew that their dauther is coming back home for Christmas party, so Mrs. Krank try to make up on her husband to disguise his tan skin but his face is too white with too much base powder and Mr. Krank say that “I looks like my mother who has died about 15 years ago ” (LOL), it’s funny to watch this movie and in the same time, it let me know that like my favorite Christmas movie “Love Actually” says “Actually love is all around us in family, friends, or even neighbor ”.

:: Sergeant Rutledge ::

This movie make me a little bit bored with the overwhelming length of the movie and the way the story goes by being told by each one in the court, this make the movie hard to understand and imagine. The only one who really attract me is the court head’s wife, the old woman who always holding fan and umbrella, she is really funny and made me laugh out loud when she refuse to swear to the bible except it was written by her respected writer.

At the end of the movie, after making me so confused that who is the real murderer and then suddenly all the truth just come out with no cue before, it’s just too easy. But one thing that I really sympathize with the African-American sergeant is that whenever people become biased or prejudiced with someone, they just jump to the conclusion and judge people by their own belief.

Anyway, I think that this movie is quite a good movie in the aspect of showing us that how cruel people can do with those who’re different from them. So, the movie end up with showing us that the real murderer is noone but the white man itself. Again, what I want to say is human ethical shouldn’t be weighted by their race or nationality.

:: Chato's land ::

I found a great difficulty watching this movie without English subtitle and also with a lot of terrific scenes in the movie made me really scared. This movie composed of many action scenes that might match with action movie’s lover but not for me. Watching this movie remind me to the old bloody action movie that everyone in the movie would end up dying in the unpleasant way. The only one scene that really attract my attraction is when Chato throw the angry snake to his rival in order to let the snake bite the man to death. This made me wondering that is it gonna be realistic in the real life, is the snake that much terrific and would it really bite whomever it’s thrown to? If it was true, maybe this will be a great way to get rid of someone who we really hate, don’t you think so…

:: Indian Fighter ::

I think, this is a good Indian movie to see because it shows us that not all Indian are bad and at the same time, not all white people are good, a proof that shows us that ethical cannot be measured by race or nationality. At first I saw this movie’s title, I began wondering, is this movie about the white man hunting for Indian, but once I saw the movie, I think that the movie’s title should be changed into the “Indian Ambassador” instead, because the character called the Indian fighter in the movie do nothing but trying to build good relationship between white and red people by making love to the Indian tribe leader’s daughter.

One of the scene that really impress me is the scene that when Johnny (the Indian fighter) had to leave his Indian girlfriend to help his people, the Indian girl said,” You go away and forget, I must stay and remember” and when Johnny explain to her and ask her to smile and say goodbye to him, the girl just say “Good bye” with her really big voice, this made me a little bit funny and romance at the same time.

Another scene that I feel impressed are any scene that the boy take the photograph foe the Indian and all the Indian just freak out and jump off every time the photograph is shot, that made me really curios that at that time, did the photographing make that much noise?? If it’s true, that’s really a big noise…ha ha

:: Sacagawea ::

The story of this Indian girl makes me feel so amazing. This is a easy-to-watched movie that made me understand her thought from the beginning until the end of the movie. The movie composes of many beautiful scenes, I never known that they are in United States. This story lets me imagine that what if I was born in that time and had a chance to join in that team to explore the America new territory from eastward up to westward along the Pacific Ocean, this might be the great great adventure for me. At the end of the movie, knowing that there’re many monuments and places’ names devoted to Sacagawea made me realized that American people really believe in human equality which is not distinguished by race or gender.