New York, I love you

'New York, I love you' is a film that includes 11 short dramas, with genre of Romantic Comedy-drama. Every short drama is directed by different directors namely, Jiang Wen, Mira Nair, Shinji Iwai, Yvan Ittal, Brett Ratner, Allen Hughes, Shekhar Kapur, Natalie Portman, Fatih Akin, Joshua Marston and Randy Balsmeyer. All the love stories in this film is situated in New York.

I, personally do not enjoy the whole film although there are a lot of stars in the film, such as Natalie Portman, Blake Lively, Bradley Cooper and many more. Maybe it is one of the show that includes a lot of short dramas. I felt like there is no proper flow of the story in each drama. Everything ends too quickly. When it starts to excite me, it is the time it is going to end.

I think if it's gonna be a show with no climax, maybe just showing on how a relationship works, just like one of the show in 'New York, I love you' that portrayed the old couple, namely Abe and Mitzie, which played by Eli Wallach and Cloris Leachman. I love the way they portray this drama. They have a small quarrel. This makes the whole drama to be able to settle it easily, without needing to delay the show. However, they focus more on how their relationship works no matter how old they are. They portrayed the value of, 'Age is just a number'. How lovely it is, nothing change since the day they start dating each other!

The other drama in 'New York, I love you' that I kind of admire is about this nerdy that want to date a girl in a prom. There's this guy who introduced his daughter to him to date during the prom. Unfortunately, it came out to be that lady is unable to walk, therefore with a wheelchair. That guy was kind of disappointed at first, but he gave himself a try. Afterall, they worked things out that night, and the lady surprised him the next morning as she was faking that she could not walk. I felt this drama is kind of complete. It does not make me feel like hanging with the show. 

Rating of this film? I don't think I could rate this film. I would be too bias for me to rate as I personally don't like films that involved a lot of dramas in it. It makes me confused. At some point, I thought the drama is not ending yet, but it actually ended and continued with other drama. 

Ah Joe ON for Thai Film! (Hom Rong)

For the very first time, I am going for Thai film! It is a Thai film namely Hom Rong also known as The Overture in English. The Overture is a film based on the traditional musical involving a main character named, Sorm Silapabanleng who is talented in music. The movie is directed by Ittisoontorn Vichailak. Sorm is a Thai, who picked up the ra-nad ek, also known as the Thai Xylophone since he was a child and he played it throughout his whole life. At the begining, his father did not allow him to play ra-nad ek because he was thinking there is no future playing ra-nad ek.






One night, he stole his father's ra-nad ed while his father was sleeping. Somehow, his dad also noticed it. His dad did approach to his friend, who is a monk, instead of Sorm. This is because he wanted to know the opinion from his friend about his son playing music. The monk told him not to hide his talent. In the end, Sorm's father agreed to allow him to play ra-nad ed as he could see Sorm's talent. As he grew older, he started being more arrogant. One fine day, he met his master, Tian.  He was asked to play in a palace to compete with his main competitor, Khun In.

The picture above is called ra-nad ek.

 It has 22 wooden bars suspended by chords over a boat-shaped through resonator and is played with 2 mallets.

To me, I think this is very much of a motivational video. It shows how much Sorm has gone through no matter how much his dad did not allow him to play, no matter how much he failed to his competitor from the beginning. He practiced to play like his competitor, then he challenged himself to create new style of playing. He impressed everyone in the palace, not only everyone in the palace, but his competitor. His competitor was so challenged to play even harder until he fainted.

However, I find this script of this film is a little so typical Asian show. I personally think that most of the Asian show are very traditional. Unlike Hollywood's are very futuristic or very current generation kind of show. It is interesting how they put in an interesting way to motivate people by challenging people who are more senior than him, going through his dad who was highly disagreeing with him playing ra-nad ek.

Props and lighting are very decent. Not bad, not too good also. I would say above average. I would rate this movie as 7/10 as compared to all the Asian's film. As I mentioned before, we cannot compare local/Asian's film to Hollywood's.