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Neath's Love Story 2 (2024)
My honest reaction to Neang Neath with ah kibanh Vong scene.
First of all, I'll talk about the comedy here because it's the main flavor of this film. The jokes are a lot more than before, and some are actually funny for us, every joke is connected. The genre should be comedy/action or adventure, I think, because it has no more romance in this part and they did an absolutely job in the action sequence.
Speaking of choreography, man, this is what I wanted in the previous part. I don't know how to break down the fighting sequence, but like 90% of the choreography is good, especially the protagonist's fighting scene, I don't care about the background character action sequence, they're not fighting well, but it's fine, the important thing is the protagonist and antagonist. This time they give us long enough to see their choreography in the climax scene before they end the story.
I see a lot of wide shots here, more than usual, every shot has good composition, camera moment, and blocking, just like the last part. They also did a good job of faking the moon at Neath's house. The beautiful shots at dawn just give me Ninja vibes, and the texture shots of their journey to the west combined with the diegetic song tell us the story of their commitment to face the unknown part.
Well, the diegetic song is great. Thank you for making it happen. I feel like I just listened to Den Dey Sovan Phum. One more part, the part where Dav thinking about Neath and his friend start singing, it works well, but when another one stands up and sings the difference song, it ruins the precious moments.
It's similar to the dialogue, but "My Dialogue" here's not about the simple conversation or tone between characters, I think it's simple to do that, but I focus on the dialogue script. I love when the character says something and another character replies with similar sounds, like Chun P'tun & Rondom. For example, there's a part where the seller said like "Kmean Dav na somlab bandit ban te" and then the reply is, "Dav na min dg tae Dav nis somlab ban" and "Tver songkream kmean Yut sas" And there are a lot of deep meaning words in this story that the writer is trying to tell, it's reflected to us and our society as well. If you focus on every word that comes from their mouth, you'll notice that even the funny script also has hidden meaning.
By mention of the reflection of our society, there's a part where the villagers are going to bully Neang Neath without knowing anything. Well, they just know their sons are dead, and they just go attack her without any evidence. After that, Neang Neath tells them, and they agree because they haven't seen the bodies yet, so they go back, but then they attack her again after seeing the bodies without seeing the sign or critical thinking. This part just reflects about the society, people are so fking dumb, they got brain but never use.
Almost forgot about the development, the most important thing. The story is meaningless if there's no character development. We don't see so much character development here, but I'll just talk about main character development. Neang Neath, after marriage we see that she's just an ordinary human, no hate, no enemies, just a girl who minding her own business, but with her development while her husband isn't here, she's been going through the unforgivable thing that people did to her, and now we can see the reason why she became a scary ahh ghost, which is haunting everyone in the villagers due to their actions that let her fall apart. On another side, Dav's development. He's just a useless person, just like his father said in the flashback, and he couldn't protect his village, can't even keep his words. But now he becomes just like his father after going through those sufferings, he knows great strategies on the battlefield, knows how to assassinate, knows how to hide, knows how to trap, and the most impressive thing is that he knows how to manipulate the enemies.
The special effects are way better than visual effects, they burn down the entire place. The scene where the protagonist stands watching the house on fire is +1000aura, but it's a little goofy ahh. Lol
I'll just talk about the story after this because the visual is similar to the previous one. But before we get into it, I just let you know that, this talk is about my perspective. I don't know if it is absolutely right to the writer or not, so let me know if I say it wrong.
The opening scene is starting from the scenes where everyone is crying for their lost and our protagonist is flashing back about his father's monologue, and then we see the recap of the story of Part 1. I don't mind about it, but there's no need to recaps because I'd prefer to watch the entire story of Part 1 again than the recaps in Part 2. If we put the recap on the screen, the less screentime, the better. I think Dav's flashback is enough to remind the audience of the last part, but that's okay.
The script is well written, I gotta say that. We know the story is just a straight line due to the spoiler in the trailer, which's Dav avenges his father and villagers, but they also twist us a little bit confused, the part where they said Dav is dead. We all know that Dav is 100% alive, but we just want to know how? And who sent the message? And then they give us a good solution to explain what they're planning to do. It's a good way to trick the bandit and the audience but also the dumbest way to message his wife that he's still alive.
The complications of the story are make sense, what's the problem while they're traveling, how a character makes a mistake that lets down the entire crew, and how the bandit awakes. There's only one person to blame about it, they created only one troublemaker to make all of those problem and then they solved the problem easily and that troublemaker is no more.
One story that nobody noticed, but I did. I love the side story of White Scarf how they managed its story. So, we see Neang Neath gives it to Dav, and it stays with Dav for a few days, then Dav splits it into 2 pieces and gives 1 to Neang Neath delivered by the dead bodies, and another one he keeps for himself. Then, when he fights with the bandit, he ties the scarf around the wound while Neang Neath is struggling to pull the scarf at the same time. When they both connected to the scarf, Neang Neath was successful in giving birth, and Dav was successful in defeating the bandit. It'll be fire if they make a short film in this scarf's perspective. I imagine the peak already
At the end of the scenes, we see that Neang Neath is now insane. The Bompe Kon is so good . It's the best definition of "Old but Gold" I hope they make a good horror film with this, because it really gives me high expectations after seeing her as a ghost already
The Negative Part.
It's about the comedy again. Like I mentioned before, too much joke will ruin itself. It's a comedy film, not a comedy stage, so please don't be overjoke. Some jokes are funny, but they add another joke into it that makes it ruin the moment or awkward. Example: like the singing part, we were enjoying the fun, and then another character stood up and added more jokes, it just makes me cringe. A few of the jokes don't make sense (the audience can understand the joke, but the joke isn't supposed to be there, such as "buy one, get one" or "cute commander"...)
The worst part is the color grade, the color grade ruined the entire film look. You know? The shots are perfect, like the wide shots, and the other cinematography scene is supposed to be beautiful, but the color grade makes it look awful, it's too dark and lost a lot of details in the shots, and I see that one scene is Bek color mg hah, I bet you see it too, please don't think it's okay, a little thing combined together can destroy your film easily.
The dialogue is so awkward, I do understand about Pheasa Kon ng Pheasa Krean but please at least make it feel less awkward. For example "Puk yg tang os knea or Puk Neak tang os knea" change to "Tang os knea".
Last time I didn't notice about the sound effects, but this time my reaction is WTF. The Hawk sound is too random, it doesn't match each other, I feel like they just downloaded mp3 and imported it into Capcut. One more thing, the background character, it's so weird, the part where the mother wishes her son, the sound is stuck at the same place, like normally, you hear it from the left, right, front, and behind, but this one is stuck at the back, I didn't hear it clearly, and it's so annoying. See? This is the small things you made now it becomes a big problem, some people take it as negative, some just ignore it but the problem is still the problem.
The visual effects are low level, the choreography is good but the blood ruined it, VFX or SFX here I don't care, but it doesn't look real at all, especially the part that Dav kab kbal hz dul ho cheam if it looks more real, you got another benefit from it but now it's just a waste of potential.
Here again with the problem at the ending scene. I don't hate this ending, but I'm wondering WHAT HAPPENING? I don't know clearly if the author wrote it for us to make a theory or if they just had skill issues and a lack of storytelling. If it made for a theory, I'd love to talk about it, like I said, I love films with theories. But whatever, just tell us what happened. Is it a power of true love or what? Why he can break the Sbek Kung? What special about it?
Thing I hate the most in the story is the r*pe scene, I know it's for development but I really don't like it, plus it should be a scene where I see that mfk die dreadfully, but if they show us in this part it isn't a good idea at all. There's no worthy sacrifice in this film.
Btw, I wanna see more of b Sorn Piseth's work in LD😭🙏 Please don't waste this great actor.
Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot (2024)
Absolutely 4:3 ratio masterpiece
Absolutely masterpiece. I've been waiting for the entire week to have a chance to watch this, and now I've experience this work of art.
Watch this 4:3 ratio film with the static shots is really a new experience for me, not to mention that people in the cinema are really focus on the film, nobody makes a noise.
This is a beautiful film it's kinda a documentary/history film I think, but whatever, it's a piece of art. The shots composition from the opening scene until the end really impressed me, the balance shots are so beautiful I didn't see how we can make a simple balance shots to turn out it's beautiful like that, the pattern shots also.
It thrilled me all the time when the character take a risk to do something, some scene is just an invitation but I'm already think that they're gonna kill them.
This is the one that's different from the other Khmer Rouge films, it's a film from another person perspective which is the foreign. I used to see the tragic scenes of Khmer Rouge but here's a new one, they just have fun and playing around, but it doesn't last long though.
They were lucky to meet a good comrade and they were a friend of Pol Pot, otherwise they would have died on the first day. Really grateful for what they did to explore the truth about the Khmer Rouge, even though it was the most dangerous thing to take risks.
They did it good, but the ending wasn't good enough. If they focused more on the ending it'd probably the best film I can say. And one more thing is about the storytelling, they use little human to tell the story it's a creative way to do but they use it's a lot and some parts it doesn't tell the audience enough.
The concept art that they use to represent the character (I don't know what's called), using camera moment instead of character movement, tells the story with the soundtrack is on another level.
The fact is that they use real films from the Khmer Rouge to combine with the films they are making and the results are really good, that's so impressive. And Sophana mentioned again
I love the shots when they shoot Alain with Pol Pot, he's faceless, the scene is shot from his shadow to Alain's position and everything is shade by his shadow but except for Alain's face, and it completely tells us about the feeling that Alain experienced from his old friend. The entire movie doesn't have a single scene where they show Pol Pot's face to us, no matter which angle they shots, we only see his face in the photo.
I'm studying the documentary film right now, so this film really gives me the best advice to my studies, and yeah after I studied the documentary film I felt that the documentary film weren't bad at all and it helps me to understand the film better.
9.5/10
Btw, it's an awesome movie, don't let it pass!
Neath's Love Story (2024)
Probably a great Khmer cinema film in this period of time?
Probably a great Khmer cinema film in this period of time? Im not glazing, even though it's not so good but compared to other cinemas today, this one is actually good.
The opening scene was dope, no need any information else we know that this is a Khmer film by seeing the first scene. This is a comedy/romance film so don't be crazy about why they put the joke since the beginning. I don't know if any of ya noticed, but LD's film is always beautiful just like the "Photocopy" it got the best shots but the problems are so strong that it takes down the whole film with it.
Let's get into our topic, this movie is also well shot, it has good composition/camera movement. Just take a look at the beginning scene where's the people training shots, The Tilt shots and The Trucking shots where's Neang Neath sleeping on her Weaving machine (it was shot from the first two characters and tracks it to Neang Neath position by shooting it from the middle of the tree), these are what I noticed about the shot and I was enjoying the movie so I didn't notice if there are the other shots but I also see that the director never throw away the Rule Of Thirds shot.
One of the most impressive is The Setup, this film setup the entire village to look like the past. It has a specific location and combines it with the colour grading, it looks exactly in the past, plus the setup for shots where the objects, light or characters are placed into a frame is in the good position and looks so beautiful. Not to mention that the cinematography is fire.
It's century old, so don't forget about the Costume Design, the clothes here are fit with the movie, not just the movie but it fits all the characters as well. But I'm wondering about the shoes...
Does anyone feel what I feel? This is about acting. The acting isn't so good, but except for the main character, the part where he can't hold back the tears, this is the perfect part to makes the Villain Origin bro, I feel the protagonist's feeling, he didn't say anything, he just got into his character, on his knees and let us see through what his feels right now. The Monologue runs deep straight into the audience brain, The dialogue is so good that I can feel the pain in him, that was my favorite part of the film.
I almost forgot about The Genre itself, this is a comedy movie but there are so much jokes. I always see that any movie that has too much jokes it'll ruin itself, no matter if the genre is comedy and the joke in the movie good but if it's too much comedy, people didn't get the joke (I do understand that our people love the overjoke so much). And about the romance part, this is so bad I don't know man I don't like romance film so I'm immune with bad romance.
Now close your eyes for 3s and clear your mind, because from now on we got into the negative side which I think they should improve.
The first negative thing I saw was The Cuts, from one scene to another I felt like it's no connection, like we just cut a piece of paper and pasted another piece of paper on it without using the glue. That's not good for the film if we show daytime 2min and nighttime 5min and then back to daytime again, we should manage the time and tell the story so the audience can be better connected with the film and not forgettable.
Like I mentioned before, the colour grading is good for this film but the entire movie has only Warm Colour? We should use different colours to express the feeling, mood & tone, use it to tell the story, not just using one for the entire movie, I was expecting that I would see the "film looks" like the Photocopy, but turns out it's only warm colours and it hurts my eyes sometimes.
Now, the biggest mistake that ruined the whole film is The Story, this storyline is just bad, the storytelling didn't tell the audience properly, people just confused with the story why is it 3 months so fast? How long did he practice the martial arts? And when did she run away? And the story is boring, if there's no comedy part I would be sleeping in the cinema. It's a romance film but there's no romantic scenes, the audience needs the scenes where they can't stop smiling. It's the love story but it feels like "this is how I meet your mother" story because there's no love expression in it (it has but it's toooo little almost can't count as love)
Well this has plot twist this twist isn't bad but it's weak. The good thing is i didn't expect the twist but the bad thing is that the twist doesn't make sense, if they didn't flashback everyone will wonder why she became his daughter?. Another one is make sense, but I don't know clearly why he chose this village? I think the explanation will be in part 2.
Do we need to talk about Choreography? Why are they fighting like that? I mean, they fight like they're afraid of hurting the others, they don't even touch their opponents and their opponents are just knocked down by the wind or something? Yeah I see some scenes they did it good but mostly it's bad, I was watching Tena fighting video and it's better than this. The one thing that can carry the choreography is the soundeffects, and it should be have a climax scene, the scene where the thieves start to attack, that's the part to put the mind blowing scene to see the choreography and how character got his scar, not just playing around and then got stab. Btw it's not an action movie so it's fine with this but I think it would be better if we have a good choreography.
Emotional damage! There's a scene that everyone should be can't stop themselves from tearing, but instead it's just a waste. While fighting with thieves, why not shoot the part where the character got k*ll and the main character sees it with his own eyes and make it in slow motion+ with the soundtrack so that the audience can cry their a$$ off? When I watch it, I feel like I'm a heartless person because it doesn't feel sad at all, even if the character is screaming or crying it still couldn't make the audience feel bad about that.
Now we're talking about the story again but this time is how they ended the story, doesn't matter if the movie is good from the start or from the mid film or at the end of film, if they don't know how to end the story, it'll takes down the whole film with it, the ending should be shoot with the furious of main character or he's locking in and make the audience can accept this ending... Let's take a look at Godzilla minus one, how do they end the story? The main character should be die at the end, but he's alive and that's fine but after that scene we get into the credit scene, the Godzilla is regenerate again, so it makes the audience think that "ohh if we make the main character die and the Godzilla regenerates, then the main character will die for nothing, and the audience won't like it, and if the main character's still alive then it's fine for Godzilla to regenerates, but if the Godzilla can't regenerate then it'll be okay for the main character to die, this is why they make the main character alive and Godzilla regenerates, and that makes sense" See, One step on the wrong ending, Godzilla minus one would never be the best film.
Another film that's similar arc to this one, but in a good way is "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes" The film is ending but the story isn't end yet, there are still more part of the story but they ended the film by making the character arc and add the soundtrack, it can told us that the film is ending but the story is still continue and they show us the potential of main character that make the audience curious and feel the excited to see the next part. That's how we end up the movie that has a lot more stories to tell.
This film is good but the ending makes it fall down, btw is this one of the trilogy, so I hope they'll suprise us in the next 2 part and I also noticed that the author included the real thing in our society into the film too.
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Beautiful movements, beautiful places, nice monologues and its theme make me like this movie very much.
I was so excited to see Toulouse Lautrec in this movie. Beautiful movements, beautiful places, nice monologues and its theme make me like this movie very much.
It would be the luckiest person in the world to have a chance to go back time and meet the other artists, it started from a man who overlooked by his fiancé, I don't know why when I start to love a film, I put all my emotions into it real quick. Imagine walking around with your partner and your partner's friends and you're ignored and no one's care or paying attention to your ideas, I feel that, no need to imagine. I don't like a man who has two women at the same time, but can't blame him (he's almost get caught yk but the power of don't care🤷), she's the reason he lost in Paris and every time the clock hits midnight, a car show up, the first time he meet Scott Fitzgerald, and then his life changes 360 °. Gil is an innocent person but more likes NPC, but I'm grateful he dared to leave his fiancé and Adriana and make his own way, stopping to go back in time (1920), I really do understand Gil's character and it's best thing ever that he decided to do this. (I can say that Gil is literally me moment.)
All men fear death. It's a natural fear that consumes us all. We fear death because we feel that we haven't loved well enough or loved at all, which ultimately are one and the same. However, when you make love with a truly great woman, one that deserves the utmost respect in this world and one that makes you feel truly powerful, that fear of death completely disappears. Because when you are sharing your body and heart with a great woman the world fades away. You two are the only ones in the entire universe. You conquer what most lesser men have never conquered before, you have conquered a great woman's heart, the most vulnerable thing she can offer to another. Death no longer lingers in the mind. Fear no longer clouds your heart. Only passion for living, and for loving, become your sole reality. This is no easy task for it takes insurmountable courage. But remember this, for that moment when you are making love with a woman of true greatness you will feel immortal.
I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving or not loving well, which is the same thing. And when the man who is brave and true looks death squarely in the face like some rhino hunters I know or Belmonte, who is truly brave, it is because they love with sufficient passion to push death out of their minds. Until it returns, as it does to all men. And then you must make really good love again. Think about it.
It was a beautiful movie, let's put it into my favourite I have learnt a lot from this movie and I had to come back and watch it again as Gil came back to see Adriana, it made me see that life isn't that bad at all, I had to live like Gil in the finale.
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
Finally the best Pinocchio movie!
This is a place everyone should watch with a new taste of Pinocchio. At first I thought it seemed like I re-watch Pinocchio, but it wasn't. A kid is just like a white paper, and our advice is like a color, they know nothing unless we teach them or show them by our actions. The film has two sides, one is the father and another is the son, but it shows us the relationships between fathers and sons. Every fathers love their son, but sometimes fathers feel despair like everyone else and they say things they only think they mean in the moment, and they may even call you ugly things like a burden or a coward, but inside... they love you. Sometimes a son is just want to make his parents proud, but regretfully he just can't, it's more than he can do or his time hasn't come yet.
I just wanna say that we need more of this kind of film for adults and children, unlike some movies today, they just bring bad things to adults and kids' minds, which makes it worse than reality. Only show the bad side and different perspective to the audiences...
Big Fish (2003)
A man's story
I learned a lot from this film with the relationship between father and son, storytelling about Edward Bloom's journey and the love of his life. Imagine that you went through the problems and people understand how hard your life is, I would be appreciated and die peacefully if I was like Edward BloomI, some don't know how much we struggle with problems and discouragement, but for me no one gives fk because I never show my sadness to anyone and I never showed up when Im at my lowest. People really say that my smile is awkward, but they don't know that I don't usually smile when Im alone and I have a lot of mental illness since I was a young who committed suicide a few times, that's why I wish I would die peacefully if anyone is really grateful to hear my story like Edward Bloom.
Just another imagine how we know we die, is it bad or good? Well, it tells us already like Don and Edward, Edward uses it to make his life better because he already knows his destiny and not afraid to do anything unlike Don. By the way, it's just a story that Edward tells his son and combines with fantasy to make it look more interesting, but it also tells us to believe in ourselves too, every time I want to give up, I always hit myself up and saying it's so easy why don't I try a little harder, my parents doesn't raise me to be weak (I have family issues btw hahaha) but it is just a motto to remind myself not to give up, because we write our own destiny.
Another line I noticed was "This is why you shouldn't show a work in progress" It's indeed! We shouldn't show work that has not yet been done because they don't see that we want to do and what in our mind yet, based on my experience (damn im talking about my life now?) I always show them my work in progress such as drawing, editing, video and more... they can't imagine the images in our minds and they just refuse my work and to not continue and that time no matter I explain to them it makes no sense. Not until I finish it myself and show them the results (they want it back, but I rather throw it away because that guy didn't give me a chance and ruined my life since we both were in high school, he was the reason that I have family issues)
Let's talk about Edward's love, is it true that "when you meet the love of your life, time stops"? I don't really know that, but when I first meet the love of ny life, the world was shaking just like my heart was beating for her and time was running so fast that took away all the pain that i had and give me back the joy that i never felt.
Every time Edward tell a story about his past, we see that the scene is bright and looks like a happy life, unlike his presence, it can also tell about emotions. How can a man who has a good relationship with everyone but can not give his son a good relationship? All in this review felt like I was talking about myself for the rest of my life (don't worry Im gonna end this review soon even if I still have a lot more ideas of this film, i bet nobody read it), I wish I could tell someone about the way I went through and I overcame those issues and they remember my pride. I never got overlooky or forgotten again, I like to helping people even if they don't give me anything, sometimes I cancel my own happiness just for them and they don't care about that, I hope they see my kind, I mean I don't want anything from them, but I want feel the feeling of being encouraged by anyone, just like I encouraging/cheers them and remembering me. This is why I really like this movie.
A man tells stories so many times that he became a stories. They live after him. And in that way, he becomes immortal.
Blue Beetle (2023)
Blue Beetle
Just finished watching this, Nothing in this movie is bad they just didn't make it good enough, Let me make it clear. This is an induction movie of a new superhero, it's the same like others film, doesn't have too much good sense just letting us know that a new hero is coming to kick those asses. The Cinematographer did good, very beautiful even though we already seen that place in others movie already. The Action, Storyline & Characters are also good, Carapx is not actually a bad guy, we knew that though his eyes even we didn't know his flashback yet, the fighting scenes are interesting, fighting styles with effects make it become one of the best fight scenes, the storyline is not bad tho, but like I said, they just didn't make it good enough for the audience, there are so many superhero movies that come out with how they got superpower and how they learn to control it like it become nothing new because the audience already what's going on with the same taste of introduce superhero movies. Let's talk about the VFX, This time the CGI is way better than before, we can see that the effects combo with the fight make us enjoy it so good, but there's so much funny scenes that makes some of it didn't make so well, like it become cringe or smt. Overall this is a best introduction movie for dc and me, i love it so much hope y'all enjoy it too.
7.8/10.