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I just watched the trailer for Shutter Island… man it looks awesome creepy!!! I’m so not watching this one alone!!!
In 1924, Hachikō was brought to Tokyo by his owner, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo. During his owner’s life Hachikō saw him out from the front door and greeted him at the end of the day at the nearby Shibuya Station. The pair continued their daily routine until May 1925, when Professor Ueno did not return on the usual train one evening. The professor had suffered a stroke at the university that day. He died and never returned to the train station where his friend was waiting.
Hachikō was given away after his master’s death, but he routinely escaped, showing up again and again at his old home. Eventually, Hachikō apparently realized that Professor Ueno no longer lived at the house. So he went to look for his master at the train station where he had accompanied him so many times before. Each day, Hachikō waited for Professor Ueno to return. And each day he did not see his friend among the commuters at the station.
The permanent fixture at the train station that was Hachikō attracted the attention of other commuters. Many of the people who frequented the Shibuya train station had seen Hachikō and Professor Ueno together each day. They brought Hachikō treats and food to nourish him during his wait.
This continued for 10 years, with Hachikō appearing only in the evening time, precisely when the train was due at the station.
Movie imagery (The saddest movie I think I have ever seen)
Photographs of the real Hachiko, waiting.
The title of Best Movie Award at the Oscars left me completely baffled. A quick internet search has revealed the following facts on the meaning of this phrase:
- If someone inflicts pain on someone else, they are said to be putting them in the ‘hurt locker’.
- It is military slang that is thought to have been used in Vietnam for the first time.
- In Iraq the military slang has survived and it is typically said that explosions could send you to the ‘hurt locker’.
- The term does not only refer to physical injury, but also to mental or emotional suffering.
- The common denominator is that the pain, of whatever kind, is caused deliberately by someone else.
- “Hurt locker’ was used as the title of a poem by Brian Turner in 2004 on his return from Iraq.
- The award-winning film’s writer was an embedded journalist with an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit in Baghdad in 2004, which is where he picked up the phrase.
- In the world of the bomb disposal squads the full phrase that is usually used is “any mistake could put you in the hurt locker’.
- In the time in between the two wars mentioned above, the term was often used as sporting terminology for inflicting loss on your opponents.
- The word ‘hurt’ speaks for itself, but ‘locker’ is not only where soldiers or sportsmen keep their kit, it is also a place that could be difficult to get out of, such as a prison.
(Sources: cue-network.org; yahoo.com, visualthesaurus.com; cnn.com, bbc.com)
(Susan Erasmus, Health24.com)
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
– William Ernest Henley
Having just watched this movie, let me tell you that it draws a small tear on any South African’s heart who lived through that game. I was not old enough at the time to fully appreciate the game for its important role in our countries regrowth but I have come to understand this now.
All I remember is that after we had won, my parents dragged my brother and I into the car and we went celebrating, pretty much how people do here on the gulf road. It was a time when black and white South Africans danced side by side as one country, for the first time, in peace.
Living outside the country I now really appreciate the little things that make it home. Yes it is a struggling country and a big part of me wishes that the majority of the country could watch this movie and remember what it is that makes it so special. It’s the people, it’s forgiveness and it’s moving forward as one country, one nation, one team. I fear that most South African’s have forgotten the work that the great man Mr Mandela has done for us. Us as a country and us as a nation. He still keeps the peace even though he is not in action any longer.
A great man and a great legend. The poem above is what got Nelson Mandela through 30 years in prison, it is the name sake of the movie and a powerful start to 2010.
So many movie so little time. I absolutely can’t wait for this movie to come out. If you’re into musicals like Chicago then this one is for you. With a star-studded cast including Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren, Judi Dench, Marion Cotillard, Kate Hudson, Daniel Day-Lewis, I have no doubt this movie is going to be a big hit. It’s the kinda thing you could watch over and over again, well I certainly could anyway.
Juicy sideline fact – poor Fergie had to put on 20 pounds to play the chubby prostitute.
Invictus is the new movie by Clint Eastwood, starring Mat Damon and Morgan Freeman. It is a story about the turn of South Africa. About when Nelson Mandela became president and the country was on the verge of a civil war. He along with the South African rugby team pulled together to bring a nation together and lead South Africa to victory. It is a movie that will pull at the heart-strings of most people and open a small window to the world of what it is like to be South African.
I can’t wait for this movie to come out. I hear the Morgan Freeman really struggled to pull off Mandela’s accent. I don’t blame him. Apparently the scene where he gives his big speech took over 100 takes to get it right. And then there’s Matt Damon pulling off the Afrikaans, English accent. From what I hear in the trailer I think he comes pretty close to nailing it.
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul” … gives me goose bumps.
Last night we went to watch New Moon from the Twilight Series. In Kuwait. I don’t make a habit out of watching movies in this country for the main reason of censorship. Kuwait edits their movies to leave out Kissing scenes. But yet for some reason showing blood, guts and gore is perfectly acceptable but please, oh please don’t show someone kissing someone else… that’s scandal in this region.
Anyway, so despite my reservations we went to watch this movie. Now I’m not going to talk about the movie plot in detail I am going to talk about the entertainment of watching the movie with a bunch of Kuwaiti teenage girls behind me. And a group of teenage boys in front of me. Every time the oh so good-looking heroes in the movie took off their shirts the girls behind would screen and whistle and carry on as if they were receiving private dances from these characters. And then of course when the inevitable “kissing scene” approaches the guys in front carry on the same way.
Forgive me here for a second but if these scenes were not censored to begin with, would they not then simply become a natural part of movies and people could be free to enjoy them for what they are and what they express without having childish reactions from the generations of tomorrow. It reminded me of when I was a 5-year-old little girl and the little boy down the road wanted to give me a kiss and all my girl friends giggled in the corner.
Oh and throughout the whole movie came the debate from behind of who is hotter, Edward or Jacob. I had no idea we had to choose.
Ok So I know the movie is not new but it’s still worth talking about. We were on honeymoon when we decided to go watch this movie. As a South African watching a South African movie I must admit the beginning was pretty funny and it took me a couple of minutes to take the movie seriously. But once I got into to it, I went with it.
I walked out of the cinema feeling rather proud of a movie I had absolutely nothing to do with, but felt like I had simply because of my SA link. I think the special effects were fantastic. I like the way that they took the story line, which had the potential to be very cliché, into a whole other direction. And the little details which they twisted and mixed in with the plot were great. Spoiler Alert: Like how the aliens are completely addicted to cat food… I mean who thought of that and what were they on at the time?
Looking forward to the sequels… oooooo… “Prawns fight back!”
Watch the trailer:
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