"EVERY BREATH YOU FAKE" a Short Film by JUN KIN
Scheduling in Year 2016
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
SPREAD the MILK of KINDNESS. It’s easier SAID than DONE.
Here’s A PENNY for your THOUGHTS.
DON’T YOU BELIEVE IN SPREADING THE MILK OF KINDNESS?
Kindness can be milked in any of us.
Just give this notion a nod.
Many a time, we are sure to come across a myriad of inspiring pick-me-ups.
In books, online media, whatever,
by budding writers or bored celebrities attempting to fill up pages of their impressive blogs.
They admonish you to be this gentler person, to love, to care …..
by not forgetting to do a good deed, to pass the baton of kindness.
The list can go on.
Yeah, I wish I can be such a jolly person, wondrous and rare.
Yeah, I want to be kind.
Yeah, I wish I can be an angel.
Yet I have witnessed before, religious persons doing despicable deeds such as a pastor absconding with the church’s funds many years back.
Why did he do that?
I thought he was great on the pulpit ….. preaching the Sunday sermons.
I lost faith.
I had watched a husband-and-wife team teaching the gospel and thence, when your back is turned, they would say the most hurtful things.
That’s PAST tense now.
They are no longer my friends,
after so many horrible incidents.
To err is human, ahh?
Maybe I was the complete idiot, always at the wrong place, at the wrong time.
But events like these sapped my confidence and made me the skeptic I am now.
This is truly, a world of oxymorons where you wear two faces
because you never know what to expect – much less, who you can trust sometimes.
Look after yourself well, lest when you fall hard and flat, you are lucky if you get offered any helping hand.
In this busy world where money maketh more money,
everyone is too busy taking care of oneself.
And which idiot says money is not everything?
Maybe so, if your wallet is forever flowing with wads of dollar notes.
Have you been to third world countries and witness mass starvation and deprivation?
There you’ll learn that every morsel of food counts and that wastage is a banned word.
Money is not everything, it can’t buy true love, but it is a means to get to that far end.
In the corporate world, money talks or else, what is smart business all about?
The good guys?
Sure, but you can find them – few and far between.
Family is the only one thing we should cherish and embrace, because blood is often thicker than water.
True friends anyone can count with one’s fingertips.
TODAY, I have come across another wise preaching:
Those who choose to live in peace must help their neighbors to live in peace.
Those who choose to live well must help others to live well, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches.
And those who choose to be happy must help others to find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.
You must love yourself before you love another.
By accepting yourself and fully being what you are,
your simple presence can make others happy.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To hope is to risk pain.
To try is to risk failure,
but risk must be taken because
the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Often we feel life has done an injustice to us.
We feel that we are deprived of good luck, fortune and happiness.
We crave for what we don’t have and forget to pay any heed to the blessings we have carelessly dumped in our pockets…
So you are swarmed with goodness to gracious.
And you are ready to spread the milk of kindness, chum?
Monday, July 4, 2011
“MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS” Movie Review. Of PENGUINS, LAUGHTER and FAMILY BONDING.
MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS” PRESS PREVIEW
It’s here!
And in waddle this “MR.POPPER’S PENGUINS” movie with a resounding bang.
Stay braced for a spell of summer magic with this fun, smashing, “feel good” family entertainment that will sweep you off your feet and blow you all the way to the moon.
It’s a welcome respite after a long season of feasting on a diet of 3D animation and robotic films, checking senseless violence, mindless slapsticks and what-have-you.
Less is more …..
and simplicity is originality.
Rightfully so.
This gem of a movie stars JIM CARREY in a gregarious, heart-warming role designed to tickle your ribs and is in part, an instant de-stress therapy.
JIM is in his own element as part actor, part comedian and is not just about to be upstaged by a small flock of flightless birds.
Six, to be exact.
Lo and behold, these are not ordinary birds.
They are living cute penguins enhanced with computer-enhanced abilities.
They honk, defecate, twaddle and waddle around Manhattan arrogantly in complete defiance of their existence.
JIM CARREY plays Popper, an exasperated professional who’s on tenterhooks, trying to keep up with the troublesome penguins’ noisy antics that are testing his patience and sanity.
Uproarious mayhem are expected, but in finality the penguins demonstrate to us an honest lesson on love, laughter and family ties.
In life, we tend to take things for granted.
Right.
JIM CARREY has been noticeably absent from the big screen for some time, so let’s welcome him back happily.
But now, let’s deal with the synopsis.
Tommy Popper (Jim Carrey) is a notable real estate developer in Manhattan who thrives on challenges.
He is amicably divorced from Amanda (Carla Gugino) with two children (Madeline Carroll, Maxwell Perry Cotton) whom he sees on alternate weekends.
Then out of the blue, a belated gift from Popper’s late father, a world traveler arrives from Antarctica in a crate containing a live penguin.
He intends to reject it but fails ….
and another five mischievous penguins are promptly deposited at his doorstep.
Time goes on and feelings grow and stoned faced Popper gets emotionally attached to the naughty penguins.
His swank New York apartment becomes a winter wonderland, the business deal he’s long been working on fell flat, and everything just go wrong.
Through the chaos, he espies life in a different perspective and realizes how important a family unit can be.
Not just cute to look at, the penguins create escapades that prompt Popper to delve into his heart and treasure the importance of familiness.
Aren’t dads responsible to express their feelings for their children, something young Popper missed out on, during his formative years.
The real stars of the show are indesputably, the six adorable penguins who are virtually stealing the thunder from JIM CARREY and giving the actor a run for his money.
A cool animated comedy that is smart and hilarious?
YOU BET.
Friday, July 1, 2011
“FOREVER” 我愛你愛你愛你 SINGAPORE Movie Review. When “I DO, I DO” is just another FOUR-WORD-PHRASE.
“FOREVER” 我愛你愛你愛你 PRESS PREVIEW
“FOREVER” the SINGAPORE movie is laced with rich doses of sugar coatings.
This is good.
But you have to dig in, scrape, to uncover the finer pieces.
First, the name.
“FOREVER” will always be a long term commitment word. Is it not?
我愛你愛你愛你 (ai ni, ai ni, ai ni) has that steady melodic rhythm: I love you, love you, I love you …..
Surely, the combined results will be one of true love.
It is a bonus and this theme strides you down the path of “I do”.
This is when you start to hear the wedding bells chime.
Think of the 60s song THE WEDDING” sung by JULIE ROGERS.
“You by my side that’s how I see us,
I close my eyes and I can see us,
We’re on the way to say “I do”.
My sweetest dreams have all come true.”
WEE LI LIN, the Singapore movie director said in a recent interview in Kuala Lumpur that she did the casting one year ahead of the shooting.
So she had plenty of time on her hands to digest and digress her actors.
She auditioned and sieved through the myriad of hopefuls and singled out the then relatively unknown JOANNA DONG to be the female lead.
Bravado to a smart choice for not assailing us with another of those regular TV drama actresses.
Along the line the film director discovered that JOANNA DONG has a melodious voice, hence she gets to sing the title song.
JOANNA is a soulful singer.
With a voice like hers and her vivid performance in the feature, she will surely astound in future projects.
But good things come with flaws too.
In seeking the male lead the film director met up with the Agent of Taiwanese actor MO TZU YI in Singapore
and as the timing and remuneration package were perfect, hey presto, we have this male doll on our lap.
I mean, who have really heard of MO TZU YI?
He’s an up-and-coming screen and stage actor in TAIWAN and the closest thing he could have succeeded in building a brand name was in that TAIWANESE independent film “A PLACE OF ONE’S OWN.”
MO was superb there in the role of a down-on-his-luck singer who succumbed to suicide in that movie. But that was that.
Now, let’s touch on the “pairings”.
MO may be a mesmerizing actor to boot if he selects his roles well, but he is very much a pretty boy kiddo in appearance.
Now, you pair a matured looking lady against a bubbly faced child of the loom and what would you get?
An unusual bonding, a chemistry that does little to spice up the sparks of JOANNA DONG and MO TZU YI.
MO looks like he can pass as a sweet boy from a boy band whilst JOANNA for odd reasons, is unintentionally (?) styled like a youngish auntie/older sister in FOREVER.
Beautiful boys are fine toppings. They don’t justify the roles, mostly.
So when JOANNA and MO hug and look cooey, you simply cannot feel the faintest of chemistry nor the simulated “feel” of love.
Rather you cringe uncomfortably with this unintended humor that is brought about by the odd pairing.
JOANNA DONG the unwitting lovelorn lass now becomes the sleazy stalker of this cherubic “kid”.
How funny can you get?
We could have liked JOANNA DONG better if she had been bonded with a screen hunk, someone who has the adult look.
Here’s the given synopsis:
Joey (Joanna Dong) plays a consultant at the Wedding Education Department (W.E.D).
This organization matches singles in Singapore through classes, tea dances and screenings of staged wedding videos.
After Joey stars in a video with music teacher Gin (Mo Tzu Yi)—“Groomie” to her “Bridey”—she starts to lose her grip on reality, believing that she is Gin’s fiancée.
She pursues Gin, hilariously at first, and psychotically later, ignoring the fact the he’s engaged to Cecilia (Sarah Ng Li-Wen).
A merry-go-round ensues.
Bordering along the outline of art house and commercial buff, “FOREVER” might work better with discarding the surreal part to embrace the emotive.
The main protagonists are just too “cold” in demeanor, in the way the dialogue is crafted and the scenes are depicted.
Whilst we are aware that the characters are dramatizing, we do not feel for them, nor root for them.
A RENOWNED SINGAPORE FILM MAKER made an indirect remark pertaining this movie. He made his point lucid and clear.
“What is disturbing are recent titles like ‘Forever’, ‘Perfect Rivals’ and ‘The Ultimate Winner’. These are by relative new filmmakers who should have worked with and listened to the more experienced producers. These titles set us back, give local movies a strange name, and they are products which will generate a no-confidence vote to investors, industry watchers, movie critics and most importantly, movie audiences.”
Something makes sound sense here, but to each his own.
Box office returns definitely and ultimately speak volumes, in terms of audience participation and appreciation.
Is film making an act of self-indulgence or a commercial exercise?
WEE LI LIN is a young, gifted film maker with lots of room to excel.
She has the creative guts and will definitely get better, film upon film.
Let us support her move and cheer her on.
Her past works were heartwarming and wonderfully inspiring to say the least.
But in this case, hand me her debut feature GONE SHOPPING anytime.
I did enjoy that one a lot more.
I am now dribbling the ball over to your court.
Catch!
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