Movies watched recently

Have been pretty free recently, and so watched a number of movies.


Letters from Iwo Jima - This is a movie about the war fought on the island of Iwo Jima during WWII depicted from the point of view of the Japanese. It's a very good movie I must say, and Ken Watanabe acted very well in the show. Although there were a couple of bloody scenes which you would usually expect from a war movie. But some of the grotesque ones like the Japanese commiting hara kiri with a grenade were not shown. The remains of their bodies were however shown in Flags of our Fathers.


Flags of our Fathers - This was the same war on Iwo Jima but told from the point of the Americans. However in this movie, the focus was not so much on the war as it was on the flag, that's why the title. It narrated much more on the famous scene where the Americans raise their flag on the soil of Iwo Jima, who these "heroes" were, and what happened to them. This was more of a political show. Maybe not as good as Letters, but deserve a review definitely.


Road to Guantanamo Bay - This movie is a docu-drama of an account of 4 British-Pakistanis who went to Afghanistan (apparently to travel and eat the enormous naan they have there) and became trapped in the country during the US bombing of Afghanistan. 3 of them were subsequently captured and treated as fighters of the Taliban forces, and sent to the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and tortured and interrogated as terror suspects. The last guy is still missing. It's a real eye-opener this movie, although some question whether it was real. But you feel very deeply for these people after watching it. I would say it's quite good.


Premonition - Sandra Bullock in this movie is the wife and she wakes up and learns that her husband is dead. The next day her husband is alive. The next day her husband is dead again. Then alive again. Sighz... In explanation, she wakes up (on alternate days) after her husband is dead, and before her husband is dead. so she learns how her husband dies, and also her husband is cheating on her. And in the ending, she wakes up on the day her husband is going to die, and rushes off to save him. Not really a good movie is an understatement.


Zodiac - This movie takes it's story from a real police case that dates back to the 1960s about a killer called Zodiac and how this young cartoonist working for the newspaper is obsessed with breaking this case and looking for the killer. The ending was rather draggy as the case dragged on for a number of decades. This show is worth the watch though as it is an interesting detective story and is taken from an actual bestseller written by the cartoonist himself.


Paris Je T'aime - A number of interesting stories strung together, some touching, some filled with love, some funny and some totally incomprehensible. I've always liked short stories type of movies so it appealed to me. Makes me want to visit Paris too!