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A couple of weeks ago I saw another “hard†movie. The title is “Little Children.†With Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson playing the female and male main characters, this movie to me shows its potential as a must-watch movie. Kate’s played superbly well in Titanic. And I do believe she won’t ruin her own reputation with playing in B-rate movies. So, I decided to watch as soon as I know the main female character and its category as “drama, romance, tragedy.â€

When I watched the movie, I found that it was a “hard†movie in which the director takes us to think to solve what actually happen in the movie or what is there between the lines of the movie. Later, from a movie review in imdb I found that the movie is made from a novel. Well, no wonder if it feels nicely hard. I myself don’t mind watching movies from novels—well, I like reading, and even writing, literary works.

To me, the most unique part of this movie is the use of a narrator that intrudes the scenes and dialogs. It’s just cool to watch a novel like movie. It can balance the hard tone that the movie has from its scenes which sometimes lack dialog. A reviewer in the above-linked site said that this use of narrator gives a tone of children story to the movie. Well, it’s okay to interpret it as so. The unique thing is that I can’t easily forget this movie. I still can play vividly it’s parts in my mind.

All in all, I recommend this movie to you, only if you are above 18.

My wife and I have been a great fan of Hugh since couple of years ago. My wife liked Hugh Grant for the first time when he starred Notting Hill (hey, we just re-watched this movie on TV this evening!). And me, I don’t remember when I liked Hugh Grant for the first time, but up to this very date, Hugh’s movie I love the most is Love Actually, the greatest drama-comedy-romance movie ever!

What I like from Hugh Grant is the perfectness with which he plays as loosers. In About A Boy, he shows a marvelous loosery (hey… can I say so? hehehe) as a son to a popular child religious song who inherits its royalty and live happily without having to bother himself finding a job. He makes friend with an also-looser boy and together they do a great thing, making the boy’s mother happy. Another looser character that Hugh plays is the one in Bridget Jones’ Diary (1st and 2nd). However, his character here is not very vital.

AND, the best looser role of Hugh Grant is in his latest movie Music and Lyrics with the marvelous Drew Barrymore (wow, a friend of mine is, I think, the greatest fan of Hugh Grant! hey you Sonny, you’re still Drew’s fan, right?. In this movie, Hugh plays a former pop boy band member who has lost his fame due to the birth of better young singers. In this movie, Hugh only sings in high school reunions attended by “almost-menopause women who used to be his fans as high school girls”, and he also sings in zoos and theme parks to entertain kids and families who mostly know nothing about him and who he used to be. However, with the help of Drew, Hugh wins his re-fame.

W ell, last but not least, I will just say that Hugh Grant, with his casual style and still-British accent, is a perfect entertainer for those who cherish happy-ending stories. And his looser characters, wow, they’re just great to make us think of who we, sometimes, are and how to do great things if we are looser.

One thing about No Country for Old Men that singles this movie out of other action/drama movie is its unpredictability. In other action movies, we can easily find who will find and who will lose and who will potentially die and who will stay alive although badly wounded. Yes. I bet you agree with me about this point.

But here, in No Country, you’ll be amazed to know that it turns out to be the movie that breaks our heart because it does not make our hero the last man standing and laughing. No. Don’t expect to be made relieved with the final conclusion of the story. No.

Again, IF YOU DON’T EXPECT ANY SPOILER, PLEASE STOP READING RIGHT AT THIS POINT! Continue reading »

Yeah, the next character to talk about is Anton Chigur (Javier Bardem). I believe people will say that this is the coolest character in the movie. You’ll find this guy as a top, cold blooded, no-fear-no-pain murder. He would kill only because he wants to. He never needs any reason to kill. When he promises to kill you, well, you can expect that he comes to you and ask you to choose between head and tail, and the coin will decide whether or not you deserve the killing.

Another cool character of his is his being ultra tidy. He’s a clean man in spite of his occasional blood shed during efforts to murder. The amazing thing is that he knows well how to kill, Continue reading »

One thing I do like from this movie is its capability of creating round characters. Compared to other movies in which we can guess who will win from the first 15 minutes of the movie, No Country of Old Men is way much stronger. It just has the so-called round character as my Prose Fiction professor used to say.

By round character I mean the character that we can’t hardly decide whether he/she is good or bad. In the case of No Country for the Old Men, I can see clearly the character roundness from the semi-protagonistic character called Llewelyn (Josh Brolin). At first, we hate Llewelyn because he does not help a dying man who covets water. I firstly said to myself, ‘Oh, this must be the bad guy.’ Continue reading »