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8/10
Can love be bought? Perhaps if you're a billionaire looking like Redford
14 April 2008
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I've read a comment about how this movie is so unrealistic and everything, but I think the situation is entirely probable. Perhaps not in the exact events, but the idea of someone richer offering something a current partner cannot offer; when love is tested by the lure of greater comfort in luxury.

What I love about this movie, is that it explores the naiveness of the love between Diane and David, but also the strength of true love. On top of that, the moral relationship between love and money, and how the doubts and demons we have inside, can push a perfectly established relationship away.

Yes Diane may have ended up with Mr Billionaire for a while, looking quite happy, but the happiness that Diane and David and shared, which can be seen in the movie, it cannot be recreated with someone else, though who is to say that you cannot be happy with someone else, given life's comforts and a relatively good looking man to boot. (John was also suavely persistent.) John commented at the near end of the movie, "she never would have looked at me the way she looked at him.". This shows that you can buy happiness but not love.

Though through it all, Diane returns to David, with nothing, no more millions but their love is so much more enriched. This is the general idea of how marriage/relationships in real life is like, that is not all smooth and a bed of roses. There are always thorns and to get past them, is summarized in what David said to Diane before signing their divorce papers, "when people stay together, it's not that they forget, is that they forgive." If you're lovers, this movie definitely shows you that as much as you love one another, you must never jeopardize the longevity of your relationship, thinking your love is invincible.

If you're working your way to be like John, the billionaire, you better snag a single woman fast before you end up lonely and single end of the day.
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Super Size Me (2004)
9/10
It should be aired in schools
14 January 2007
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This fast-food mentality is applying to every aspect of our lives. Pay your bills fast, no more queues, pick up a language in just a month, eat this noodle in just 2 minutes, everything is fast, fast and faster.

That's what's happening to our food. It's no longer food, it's a chunk of chemically processed non-fatal meat passed off as food in our fast food. So many kids DO NOT know this. People think that as long as you don't eat it everyday, that's fine. They're missing the point.

As long as there is a demand, there will be supply. You have no idea what the food does to our body so I suggest getting the DVD, which was what I did, and watch the extras packed in the DVD so that you can see more of what was done and more experiments and interview with the author of "Fast Food Nation".

I hope that more people will take this movie seriously and not dismiss it as an extreme case of eating a man eating macdonalds dangerously. I bought the DVD for my younger siblings and they have started expressing disgust in fast food and started adopted a healthier diet.

If only educators started airing this to their students.
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Time (2006)
8/10
A movie for the women of today
14 January 2007
Although I have not watched any of the director's previous movies, "TIME" was a movie that was definitely provocative and representative of women's ideals of today. At least most of the women I know. Do not watch this movie at face value because for me, I felt that the director did a fantastic job portraying the emotions and insanity faced by the women and men who were in that situation. When in the cinema, there were men sitting next to me complaining about how crazy the protagonist was. I was quite sure he didn't enjoy it. So my advice is take it artistically. It's quite disturbing to the mind when you see what plastic surgery looks so prepare yourself for such graphics.

Plastic surgery has become today's solution to esteem problems and the result is, even more problems.
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