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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
Not So Much A Masterpiece
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is less than my expectation. The 48 fps cinematography is awesome but not for my (traditional) taste. Its beautiful scenes are just too 'beautiful', losing its realistic magnet.
The film is sitting on a fence: its story-telling is clearly dedicated for children but the violence and its way-too-long duration are for adults. Compromising both sides doesn't seem to work well in this case.
Director Peter Jackson's approaches seem a bit dull, nothing refreshing compared to his masterpieces, The Lord of The Rings trilogy. During its making period, I was hoping to watch a fresh creation of directing, a kind of what Sam Mendes has successfully injected into James Bond's Skyfall.
Life of Pi (2012)
A perfect 10!
The film is an celebration of visionary cinematography, top-notch 3D development and poetic story telling. Not mentioning its awesome screenplay.
It's a true masterpiece that only Ang Lee's genius can manifest from Yann Martel's fabulous writing.
It is a kind of stories that send its hanging-in-the-air message through a unique fantasy, which incredibly feels real. Pi's relationship with tiger named Richard Parker in life and death situations describe human's relationship with its creator: God always understands human perfectly and human can never understand God's perfection.
The Act of Killing (2012)
A powerful documentary with a brilliant approach
Act of Killing (Jagal) is awesome: a documentary film showing real algojos (assassins) who killed many PKI (communist party members/supporters), in their own words.
It's unique story telling has successfully made important people, including current parliament members, admitting brutality, killing and on-going premanism (thuggery) that's clearly supported by the government, also in their own words, to the camera.
Director Joshua Oppenheimer approached the ex-algojo, Anwar Congo and his buddies, to play in a silly movie, even in woman's dress, without knowing that the real movie is actually the everyday conversation where he was proudly telling n showing what he has done in 65. The government assigned military and preman to support the coup-de-tat, raping and killing many innocents in the name of anti-PKI.
The movie's honest, satire and unprovocative documentation has ironically made us laugh and cry at the same time. Reality does bite: people do what they think is right, and make it right for them, no matter how wrong it is. Why? Because history is written by the winners.
All Indonesian production team remain anonymous and the movie is not publicly distributed in Indonesia.