Listening log-4 Inception

Inception


mystery; 158 min 

  In a world where technology is able to enter the human mind through dream invasion, there are really clever thief group. They plan to change some person’s mind or indoctrinate some trick at target’s brain. Entering the subconscious minds of their targets by using two-level "dream within a dream" is very useful to extract valuable information for rival or enemy of target. 

  So it is illegal but Cobb and Arthur use their clever brain to do this crime. Mr. Saito who is very rich and rival of Cobol engineering company want to make Cobol’s new owner to decide to separate his all company. Because Cobb and Arthur need help, they decide to do that work. They plan 3-step of dream. It’s really dangerous so they gather friends. Ariadne is a student who studies architecture at the Sorbonne. She is really great architect so she build suitable dream for Cobb’s team. They have many problems but as a result, inception is succeed. However, we don’t know that Cobb can go back his home or not.

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listening log 3- illusionist

Illusionist

romance-106min
  

At the end of 20thcentury, Eisenheim was born the son of a cabinetmaker in Vienna. One day, Eisenheim meets a mysterious magician and learns how perform several tricks for him. He also falls in love with Sophie, the Duchess von Teschen, a noble woman. Although the lovers try to forbid their love, people know their love and make them separate. They meet secretly for a time until they are forcefully separated.

  Eisenheim then leaves home and travels the world. He returns to Vienna years later as a master illusionist. He meets Sophie again at one of his performances, when she is volunteered by Crown Prince Leopold as a participant in an illusion. He soon knows that Sophie is expected to marry the Crown Prince, who has a history of abuse towards women. After finishing another performance with Sophie, they realize that they are still in love. They plan to flee the Empire together, but first, something must be done to stop Leopold, who is given Crown of Austria from his aging father, the Emperor. Sophie knows that the Crown Prince will think her as disposable if she leaves him for another man and that he will have both her and Eisenheim and killed.

  Leopold finds out that Sophie has met with Eisenheim. While drunk, Leopold blames Sophie and accuses her unfaithful and misbehave woman. She tells him that she will not marry with him and support his plan. When she attempts to leave, it looks like that he kills her, with a sword cut across her neck. Unfortunately, Leopold's royal status makes no accusations. Eisenheim blames Uhl and others. He said that the murderer is crown prince and attempts to prove it by his performance. Eisenheim prepares a new kind of magic show, using mysterious equipment. During his show, Eisenheim leads many people to believe that he possesses supernatural powers. During this show, Eisenheim summons the spirit of Sophie, who says someone in the theater murdered her. And at that time crown prince is in there! And he panicked. Finally, Leopold orders Eisenheim's arrest. However, Eisenheim's body fades away like his summoned spirits.

  Uhl soon reveals to Leopold that he has found evidence that links the Crown Prince to Sophie's murder such as a jewel from the prince's sword and a locket that Eisenheim had given Sophie when they were children. After ordering, Leopold discovers that Uhl has already informed the Emperor and the General Staff of Leopold's conspiracy. As the Army arrives at his Palace to arrest him, Leopold shoots himself. 


  After that, Uhl goes train station to follow small thief who steal Sophie’s locket necklace. As the train leaves, Uhl puts the pieces together in his mind and discovered how Eisenheim faked Sophie's death and framed Leopold for the murder. When Uhl recognizes that, Eisenheim is walking up to a house in the country where Sophie is waiting for him

  I really liked this movie. When I was in high school student, my family and I used to go to see a movie at the midnight. i saw this movie at that time. It gave me so many effects and motivated me to study European cultures. 

listening log 2-500 days of summer

Romance;95 min

    This film is about Tom Hansen and Summer Finn’s 500 days of love story. They met at the company and became couple but broke up. Tom recollected his memory because he thought that he and Summer did not have a reason of break.

    On January 8, Tom meets Summer, the new assistant for his boss. Tom works as a writer at a greeting card company in Los Angeles but the most he want to do is architect. During the next few months, Summer and Tom grow closer. Even though Summer tells Tom that she does not believe in true love, and does not want a boyfriend, they become lovely couple. When they have a date, Tom shows Summer his favorite spot in the city, which overlooks a number of buildings he likes, although the view is spoiled by parking lots. After several months of dating, on day 290, Summer and Tom end their relationship after they see The Graduate, a film which Tom has been thinking that shoes true love. Tom does not believe the breakup well and panicked, so Tom's friends call his younger sister, Rachel, to calm him down.


    After they finished, a months later, Summer and Tom attend the wedding of a co-worker and Summer invites Tom to a party at her apartment. He attends the party, but leaves when he sees that Summer is wearing an engagement ring. Tom enters a deep depression, only leaving his apartment for alcohol and junk food. After a few days, he decides to find himself again by working as architect and starts to attend interviews. On day 488, Summer sees Tom at his favorite place and they talk. Tom says that he still can’t understand her actions. Summer explains that she discovered someone else who make her to feel something that she had never been felt about with Tom. She says she is glad to see Tom is okay. As she leaves Tom tells her that he really hopes she will be happy.


    At the last, twelve days later, he attends a job interview and meets a girl who is also applying for the same job. They talk, and Tom learns she shares his favorite spot. Before entering the interview, he makes a date to have coffee with her. He asks her name, and she replies "Autumn"

listening log 1-atonement

          Atonement 

   122 min; romance

This movie has awesome story line. And, I like the actor 'James McAvoy. He is very attractive actor. I have liked him since I saw him at the British drama "state of play." 

    This movie is about tangled love and how historical events effect individuals. There is story about 'atonement'. 

     In 1935, Briony Tallis, a 13-year-old girl from a rich family in England, had just finished writing a play. She wanted to practice this with her cousins but they just decided to go swimming. At that time, Briony showed a moment of sexual tension between her older sister, Cecilia and Robbie Turner, a servant's son. Unfortunately, Robbie was a man Briony felled in love with childish mind. Robbie wrote love letter for Cecilia and also wrote some erotic poem for just fun. He needed to prepare to go Tallis’s party so Robbie asked Briony to deliver his letter. However, he had a mistake that gave erotic poem to Briony.  She secretly read the letter and shocked about that.

    At that evening, Cecilia and Robbie met in the library and recognized their love of each other’s and made love. During the act, Briony watched that act through the opened door and mistakenly believed that Robbie was raping Cecilia. At dinner, the twin cousins have run away. Briony went out alone into the garden and was looking for them. However, she found that a man running away from her teenaged cousin Lola who was looked like raped. Lola said that she does not know her attacker, but Briony was sure that it was Robbie, and told her guess to everyone. Including the police, she claimed that she saw Robbie committed the act. Everyone believed her story – except for Cecilia. Robbie was arrested and sent to prison. 

    After Four years, Robbie was released from prison because of war and he joined the army. Before he leaved, he was reunited with Cecilia and promised to return. Briony became 18 years old; she had joined Nursing Corporation in London because she wanted to be useful role to the society. Later, Robbie, wounded and very ill, finally arrived at the beaches of Dunkirk. And then, Briony fully understood the impact of her lie so she visited Cecilia to apologize to her directly. Cecilia replied that she would never forgive her and Robbie confronted Briony. He demanded that she immediately told every truth to her family and reanalyzed the truth but Briony already knew who that person is. He was actually family friend Paul Marshall and he would not be implicated in a court of law because he had married Lola.

    However, decades later, Briony has an interview about her new novel, Atonement, which she has been working on for most of her adult life. Briony reveals that the book's ending is all fictional. In reality, Robbie actually died at Dunkirk while awaiting evacuation, and that Cecilia died a few months later as one of the flood victims in the tube station of the London Underground. So, Briony hopes that, by reuniting them and their life in her fiction, she can give them the happy conclusion to their lives that they always wanted to have. 

I think that this poster show well the main topic of this movie. 

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