四十：Time is literally Precious. Movie Review and Summary of In Time

Imagine a world where time is very precious that besides having to spend time queuing for your coffee, you also need to pay for it using your time, literally.

The movie stars Justine Timberlake as Willa Salas, a guy who lives in poverty therefore has literally little time left on him and Amanda Seyfried (Sylvia Weis) who came from a rich family of time lenders.

In their world, time is everything. You pay for everything using your time like your shelter, food, transportation etc. People are paid for their work with time. Time is transferred to or from a person through a box like device where they point their wrists at and it either sucks the time when payment is charged from the person or it transfers time to the person like when earning wages.

You either get paid or pay using this gadget. 

The amount of time a person has is shown on their wrists through a neon like colored light. When two persons would like to share or give one or the other time, they just hold hands making sure their wrists are in contact with each other.

The timer starts once a person reaches 25 years of age. Once you hit 25, your body will retain its physical appearance until you die. In Time's world does not allow dying due to old age, once your time on your arm runs out, your life ends there.

The grandmother, mother and daughter.

Since time is the currency in their world, robbers steal time and in our world where you kill the person to steal his belongings, killing in their world will mean losing that person's time. The robber would either scare or force you to give them you time or maybe tie your hands down so they can steal it from you until you run out of time and die.

In the movie, since Will Salas is a poor guy, he would usually run to save time when going to work. At the start of the movie, I got confused why Will's mother looked so young and it was because she stopped ageing at the age of 25 as I have explained earlier. 

Will meets a wealthy guy, with a century in his arm, being robbed at a bar and being a good guy that he is, saved the rich man from the robbers. The rich guy explained to him that he would have given his time to the robbers because he have lived too long and wanted to die already. As they sleep, the rich guy gave all his time to Will leaving just 5 minutes for himself to go to the bridge and die there. Will was too late to save the man and his presence was caught by a CCTV camera starting a chase with the police.

Will goes to a different sector and meets Sylvia, the daughter of the owner of the Time Weis, a time lending company. Will plays poker with the owner and wins 1000 years after betting all his time except for 30 seconds. Will was then invited by the daughter Sylvia to their party and he meets Sylvia's grandmother and mother who like them look really young since they too have stopped ageing at 25 years of age.

Will gets caught by the Time Keepers who are like the police but keeps track of the people's time. Only 2 hours was left for him since the Time Keepers took all his time. Fortunately for him he was able to escape and kidnaps Sylvia to take her as a hostage. They escape and gets into a car chase.

The story continues with Sylvia's time getting stolen by the Minute Men gang, the same gang who wanted to rob the rich guy from the bar. Will tries to get ransom from Sylvia's father but they were unlucky. The two get to know each other and Sylvia realizes how hard it was to live with a limited amount of time. The couple soon acted like Robin Hood stealing time from Sylvia's father's time banks. All of the time that they steal from each bank they give to the people thinking that it would solve their problem with time but the prices of the commodity only increases as the Time Keepers found out what they were doing.

The story ends when the two were about to cross the border onto the next time zone or sector and the lead Time Keeper, Raymond Leon (Cillian Murphy) caught them unfortunately for him, he forgot to replenish his time and died on the spot as he was about to arrest them. Having too little time left, Will decides to give all of his time to Sylvia which is enough to let her cross the time zone which will give her more time to live. Sylvia of course did not want Will to die for her. As they were arguing on who will get the time, Will remembered that Time Keepers will always bring extra time with them and so Will ran to the dead Time Keeper's car and replenished his time along with Sylvia's. The last scene shows the couple preparing to rob yet another bank.

Review:

Time itself is already precious and the movie shows how it can be even more important to a human. In the movie the rich have so much time that they enjoy going to parties enjoying without thinking about going to work while the poor rush in the morning so they won't be late for their work and have no time to enjoy life because they do not have enough time for themselves. In our real world, the same thing happens.

Time and money are very well connected since we earn money by spending time taking care of ourselves to make sure we have time to go to work and do our job. Having not enough time to go to work and earn money means no time for leisure as well.

In the movie they have the privilege to become immortal and to stay young as long as they have time but no chance of dying the natural way except for getting killed or by running out of time which will stop your heart from beating. In our real world, we grow old and can die a natural death. Both world has its pros and cons but both cannot turn back time and change whatever happens in the past.

With our planet slowly dying, it's not too soon that time will become more precious than ever because time will become shorter for everyone. There would be so little time to do all the things that you would want to do in your lifetime.

Whether we live in the movie's fictional dystopian world or in our real world, time will always be and will be even more precious for living beings such as us humans.

三十七：Funny Asian Amnesia Movies

In the continuation of my funny movies marathon, I watched a Korean film that is about faking amnesia. The title of he movie is Sweet Lies. It's about a girl who fell in love with a guy from her high school years but she never expressed her feelings to him until they accidentally met after 10 years. By accidental I mean it literally.

Sweet Lies

Having fired from work due to her TV show's low rating, Ji-Ho's jinx did not stop there and on her way home,  her bag with no money left in it but IDs got snatched. Trying to run after the thief, she was accidentally hit by a car and passed out. She woke up at the hospital with two children asking for her name because the hospital cannot find any IDs to identify her. Ji-Ho did not answer right away until the guy who hit her came to check her. She soon found out that the guy was actually her high school crush Minwoo. When Minwoo asked her name, the children told him that she does not remember her name and Ji-Ho pretended to have amnesia so that she can try and get close to him. The doctor, Minwoo's uncle, believed that Ji-Ho might have a slight amnesia asked Minwoo to take her with him for the mean time since she cannot remember who she is and where she lives.

Ji-Ho is overwhelmed that she is at her long time crush's house.

Ji-Ho continued to pretend she has amnesia until she was seen by her childhood friend Dong-Sik at the supermarket. The story progresses into a love triangle. While Ji-Ho tries to get Minwoo's attention, Dong-Sik  tries to convince Ji-Ho that they had a relationship before she got into the accident. 

It's funny how Ji-Ho tries her best to lie and not get caught with her lies and same goes with her brother and her friend Dong-Sik trying to bring her memories back and winning her love.

The movie reminded me of the Filipino movie, My Amnesia Girl. Same with sweet lies, My Amnesia Girl has its lead actress pretending she has amnesia but not to win her man and instead, to shoo him away.

My Amnesia Girl

Having been left alone at the church isle on their wedding day by her groom, Apollo who had cold feet and ran away, Irene was able to move on and continued with her passion which is photography. After a few years, Apollo met Irene again by chance at her photography studio. Never wanting to see him again, Irene pretended she has amnesia and does not recognize Apollo at all. Apollo sees it as an opportunity to get close to Irene again believing that she is his true love.

As the two tries to get to know each other again, Irene cannot help but to eventually forgive Apollo seeing how he strives really hard from her challenges to win her back. Unfortunately for them, the challenges does not stop there.

The story is quite simple but got famous because of the chemistry between the two lead actors and the use of funny pick up lines.

二十九：Movie Review of Moon

A sci-fi movie about a man with a job on the moon. He is all alone on the moon and he is hoping to go back to his home planet the earth soon after some years of working there to be reunited with his wife and family. He can't receive live messages from earth but taped ones from his wife. Along the story he discovers some shocking truths about himself and his job on the moon on why he is there etc.

It is very mind boggling. The effects aren't flashy but the setting as a near future event is not impossible such as the robot Gerty his assistant and his pod. No floating robots and transparent LCD touch screens etc. There aren't any special graphic effects and only one actor, Sam Rockwell. It is very dramatic and shows us what may happen in the future. As a viewer you should not stick to whether it has great special effects or if it is a high budget film but you should appreciate the story itself. If you don't want to have your brains working a lot as you watch a movie then this movie isn't for you.

二十六：Movie Review of Paco and the Magical Book.

 

I watched this during Christmas Day because I wanted to watch something magical.

 

Plot Summary:

 

The story is about Paco, the little girl who owns the "magical book" and an old man named Onuki. Onuki and Paco are both patients in a very weird hospital with unusual patients, doctors and nurses.

 

The cast of the movie.

While Paco is a sweet little girl, Onuki is a mean old man who is the owner of a large company. Onuki lived a hard life and he struggled to make his company successful making him greedy, unfriendly and disrespectful to others. He thinks that people only know him because they want his money and he hates it when people know him or recognizes him.

 

Due to old age, Onuki's nephew takes care of him at his quirky hospital and there he meets very interesting characters. As Onuki is very mean, Paco on the other hand is innocent, naive and sweet. Paco always bring a book with her and she reads it everyday.

 

During their first meeting, Onuki gets mad at Paco for getting too close to him and annoying him with her book reading. Onuki introduces himself to Paco rudely but offers to read the book to her when he finds out that the book is about a selfish toad prince.

 

The Selfish Toad Prince.

 

The next day, Onuki notices he lost his gold lighter which he bought when his company earned its first profit. While searching, Onuki sees Paco while she was again reading her book about the toad prince. Onuki asks Paco if she remembers him  but she doesn't recognize him at all. Onuki searches for a lighter to smoke and she shows him a gold lighter. Onuki thought Paco stole his lighter and punches the little girl on the cheek.

 

The patients and doctors hurriedly helped Paco and explained to Onuki the girl's situation. Paco is actually an orphan who lost both her parents at an accident where she was the only survivor. It was Paco's 7th birthday the time of the accident and after she gains consciousness they have observed that the girl never remembers anything that happened the day before after she sleeps. Her memory lasts only for a day explaining why she doesn't recognize Onuki at all.

 

The next day, Onuki sees the girl and she is again reading her book. He asks her why she always read the same book and tells her that he will buy her more books and expensive ones. She then explains to him that it was her birthday yesterday and her mom gave her the book as a present. She shows to him the first page of the book where her mom wrote, "Happy Birthday, Please read it everyday." Onuki then understands the girl's situation. He touched the girls cheek where he punched her the day before and the girl remembers his touch but never his name. Since then, Onuki would always touch her cheek and tell her his name and he always offer her to read the book.

 

Onuki's heart continued to soften and he aimed to be remembered by the little girl through her favorite book also with the help of the other characters in the hospital.

 

Review:

 

I liked how the setting was just in a quirky little hospital but the props, costumes, makeup, cinematography, special effects and great acting of the characters made the movie really enjoyable.  It reminded me of Mr. Scrooge with a mix of Alice in Wonderland.

 

Magical Set.

 

The movie has lots of funny scenes and also lots of dramatic ones which made me teary eyed and might make some people cry buckets of tears. The story has lots of twists and is very unpredictable. The characters are also lovable whom at first you would really hate. I would like to emphasize their child actress for Paco who looked like a living doll for me.  

 

She is like a living doll.

This is really a magical film. It's one of the best movies that I've seen so far. Everything was done great in this movie. I recommend it to everyone. The whole crew and cast of this movie really made a great effort in creating it.

 

 

 

二十三：Drama Review of Moon Embracing the Sun

 

The series is set in Ancient Korea. The main characters are King Lee Hwon (Sun), Prince Yang Myun (2nd Sun), Heo Yeon Woo (Moon), Queen Yoon Bo-Kyung (2nd Moon).

 

The young Prince Hwon met the young Yeon Woo by accident when she accompanies her mother and brother at the royal palace. The two fell in love and Yeon Woo was chosen to be the Crown Princess. One of the queens who want to gain more power ordered the state shaman to kill the crown princess and replacing her with Bo-kyung.

 

Yeon Woo miraculously escapes death but loses her memory and continued to live as a shaman and was taken care of by the same shaman who was hired to kill her. The story continues after eight years and Lee Hwon has been crowned King already but both him and his half brother Prince Yang Myun has never forgotten Yeon Woo whom they both fell in love with until they met the new shaman, Wol, who looks exactly like the crown princess Yeon Woo.

 

It's a romantic drama of kings, princes and princesses of ancient Korea with a little fantasy but it's more than just a love triangle, it's more like a love spiderweb. At first I was thinking of why they entitled it Moon Embracing the Sun but then I think it's because they compare the King and Prince to the Sun and the Princess or the Queen to the Moon therefore when the crown princess fell in love with the king, she embraces that love for him.

 

It's a very sweet and sad drama series. My favorite character is Prince Yang Myun and I feel sad for him because he loves Yeon Woo so much that he was always there beside her protecting her but he can never have his love for the girl is in love only with the King. You'll find that there are lots more characters int he series who go through the same dilemma and you'll really feel sorry for them.

The romantic scenes are accompanied with the beautiful sceneries and palace of ancient Korea. The characters are also dressed with beautifully embroidered Korean costumes.

二十二：Movie Review of Easy A

Easy A is a comedy movie starring Emma Stone (Super Bad, House Bunny, Zombieland and Spiderman). The movie is about the life of high school students particularly the ones who aren't popular and how they struggle with it. Emma Stone portrays Olive Penderghast, a nice, smart girl and though pretty, she is a very unpopular and is almost invisible in her school until one day she lied about losing her virginity to her best friend and it spread like wild fire. Things got even worse when she gave her gay friend a favor and lied even more. The rumor spread and desperate virgins who know about her secret started asking for her help as well. Olive became famous for her promiscuity and at first she did not like it until she realized it made her popular and even enjoyed it but of course it took its toll on her. Olive relates her experience to the book The Scarlet Letter which is about adultery though she kind of took it the other way around.

I personally like Emma Stone even with her previous movies such as Super Bad and House Bunny. This is her first starring role and I really think she did great. The movie is really funny in my opinion and you can learn quite a lot of lessons from it.

二十一：Movie Review of Ace Attorney (逆転裁判 Gyakuten Saiban)

 

It was a coincidence that I watched this movie in time for Christmas. Why you ask? Because the story of this movie happened also during Christmas.

 

Phoenix Wright: Objection!!!

The movie is based on a game released for the Nintendo DS by Capcom titled Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. I've played the game years ago but I cannot remember all the details of its story so my comparison of the game and this movie is more on the looks of the characters and how they were going to show the gameplay in the movie.

 

Phoenix: Hold it!!!

The story revolves around Phoenix Wright, a new attorney. He is to defend the accused and in this movie he defends Maya, who was accused of killing her older sister Mia who is Wright's mentor. He also meets Miles Edgeworth, a famous prosecutor, whom he later defends due to murder accusations as well.

 

Main Characters in the game L-R: Phoenix Wright, Mia Fey, Maya Fey, Miles Edgeworth



As a fan of the game, I was delighted to know that a movie was made from one of my favorite games. It's actually a simple game. You play as an attorney and your goal is to prove that the accused is not guilty by collecting, presenting and examining evidences, searching and investigating witnesses and stuff like that. The graphics and animation are not that fancy. It's more like reading manga for me. It's the story and simple gameplay that I think made it enjoyable. There is also humor in the story so it's like a comedy, drama and suspense game in one.

 

Face Off

When I watched the movie, it looked like a cosplay turned into a movie because of their hairdos. They really tried copying the weird hairstyles of the characters in the game and I think it was a good thing because their funky hairdos and costumes made it easy for me to recognize the characters that were in the game and you can also tell which scenes were changed based on the characters used. I also liked how the actors comically acted their roles especially Larry Butz, detective Gumshoe, Miles Edgeworth and of course, Phoenix Wright making it look like you really are watching a scene from the game itself.

 

Live Action counterparts L-R: Von Karma, Miles Edgeworth, Phoenix Wright, Maya Fey, Mia Fey

In the movie they also used a giant holographic machine to present their evidences maybe because in the game you can also just point at an evidence and you can rotate it or zoom in and out to investigate it.

Watch out for that flying hologram!

I really can't compare the movie's story with the game that much since I forgot the whole story but watching the movie was almost as enjoyable as playing the game and it made me want to play the game again.

 

 

十八：Movie Summary and Review of Koizora

Warning: My summary is very long because the movie has so many twists. If you don't want to read it, go directly to my review at the bottom.

The sweet, innocent, Mika.

So the lead character, Mika, meets this delinquent guy in their school named Hiro by losing her cellphone. After finding her cellphone in the library, Hiro calls her without revealing whom he was. He calls her so often that Mika developed an interest in meeting him in person. I will simply call what Hiro did here as stalking.

Hiro agrees to meet with Mika at the school's swimming pool before their commencement excercise during their freshman year. Mika arrives at the pool and sees what she calls a silver haired demon. Hiro then proves to Mika that he's the guy that she was talking to on the phone by showing her a picture of the sky with a plane trail which they both took one morning after their chat. Mika was of course shocked but eventually likes Hiro's carefree personality.

Hiro the silver gray haired demon.

So they fall in love and Hiro takes Mika's virginity but makes a huge mistake of saying his ex's name, Saki, while he was asleep with Mika. As the innocent and very forgiving girl that she is, Mika did not let it bother her though she was deeply hurt.

One day while waiting for Hiro fir their date, Mika was raped by a group of boys whom Hiro found out later were hired by his ex girlfriend Saki. Hiro brings Saki to Mika and tells her that he is willing to kill his ex if she asks him to. Mika forgives Saki but Hiro's elder sister, Minako cuts Saki's hair real short as her punishment for the girl. Mika's family found out about the incident and had her checked and forunately she was okay and was not pregnant.

The lovers move on but Saki did not stop in hurting Mika by sending her text messages telling her to break up with Hiro and spreading rumors that Mika is a promiscuous girl. Hiro promises to Mika that he will protect her no matter what.

The lovers move on and soon enough Hiro impregnates Mika.  Hiro dyed his hair brown and presents himself to Mika's parents. He promises to them that he will work to support Mika and their baby. Hiro presented Mika as well to his family and gives them his promise.

One day, Saki went to Mika's school and confronted her. As Mika tries to leave after talking to Saki, Saki pushed her making her fall to the ground and hurting her but Mika did not fight back.

As they were celebrating a festival, Mika suddenly felt severe pain and after bringing her to the hospital, she was told that she no longer has the baby in her tummy anymore. She reveals the bad news to Hiro who just came back from the temple to pray for the baby's safety after hearing that the baby was in danger. They both cry and soon places a snowman at an empty lawn with the pair of mittens that Hiro bought for the baby.

A few days have passed and Hiro suddenly does not go to school anymore. Mika was worried and tries to contact him until one day, Hiro invites some friends over to his house without Mika knowing. Aya, Mika's friend asked her to come. Hiro was having a party because his family was away. During the night, as all guests were drunk, Nozomu, Aya's boyfriend tried to kiss Mika. Mika hurriedly ran to the bathroom and washed her face and when she came back, saw Hiro kissing another girl. Mika runs away and Hiro is shown watching at Mika from the his house.

Mika again asks Hiro to make up and waits for him at his favorite place which is the river. Mika actually compares Hiro to the river because for her, Hiro's flow or waves can actually wash away her loneliness and he is as carefree as the river bu Hiro believes he is the sky because he wants to be able to see wherever Mika is to protect her. Hiro shows up but he tells her that he does not love her anymore and he throws his ring, which they bought as a couple, towards Mika. One of the couple rings was actually still with Hiro because Mika threw it at him when he asked her to break up with him earlier.

Mika soon moves on and meets a new guy through Aya. This time the guy, Yuu, is the very opposite of Hiro. He was gentle, mature, has a decent job, studies at a university and is respectful at Mika's every decision.

Yuu learned about Mika's baby and Hiro but accepts it maturely as he loves Mika very much. Every Christmas Eve, Yuu would drive Mika at the place where her baby lays. She never fails to provide a new pair of mittens with the size as if the baby was actually living and growing. Hiro never showed up and Mika thinks Hiro never cared until one day he did show up wearing a bonnet. He tells her it's his new style and runs away from Mika.

Mika continues her relationship with Yuu. Yuu proposes to be engaged with Mika which she accepts until Nozomu reveals to her during her visit at her baby's grave that Hiro is already dying from cancer. Mika was devastated and breaks up with Yuu. Yuu, as mature as ever, lets Mika go believing that he should not let his loved one suffer from being away with what she truly loves.

Mika finds Hiro at the hospital and started to take care of him. She would always prepare his food and made him a bonnet to cover his head because he lost his hair due to the treatment. Hiro on the other hand takes pictures of Mika without her knowing.

One day they go to the Hiro's favorite place, the river and they make this pretend wedding vow. Hiro tells Mika that he is scared to die.

At the hospital, Mika meets Saki who is now pregnant. Saki asks her if she was sick but Mika tells her that she is visiting another patient. Saki then tells Mika to hit her so she can have her vengeance but Mika nicely refused but requested if she can touch her belly. Saki lets Mika touch her belly and Mika talks asking the baby to be a healthy one once born. Mika returns to Hiro's room. Hiro tells Mika that she would like to become the sky so he can always see her. Mika tells him that if Hiro is the sky then the morning sky is the happy Hiro, the rainy sky is the crying Hiro, the sunset is the blushing Hiro and the night is Hiro hugging Mika as she sleeps. Hiro then tells Mika that he would give her the stars if he was the sky and takes a picture of it using his digital camera. Hiro hands the camera to Mika and asks her to have the pictures printed.

As Mika is about to go back to the hospital, Minako calls her and tells her that Hiro is in code blue. Mika runs and at the same time tries to wake Hiro through a video call. Mika trips and the photographs are revealed to be almost all pictures of her. She tries to call Hiro again and Hiro opens his eyes. Mika tells her not to be selfish by taking of her pictures only but hey should be taking their pictures together. Hiro tries his best to talk and asks Mika to smile. As she cries and run at the same time, Mika tried her best to smile for Hiro and she tells him to wait for her and the call ends.

Hiro died leaving his diary to Mika. Mika was so sad she tried to commit suicide by jumping off the bridge of Hiro's favorite river. As she was about to jump holding Hiro's diary, two doves fly surprising her and making her let go of the diary revealing Hiro's messages for her. It writes stuff about how he wants Mika to stay strong and happy and how he loves her so much. Mika looks at the sky and cries.

At the last part, Mika is shown in a train holding two pairs of mittens which viewers can easily tell as Hiro's and their baby's mittens. She alights from the train and meets with her family waiting for her at the station.


Review:

Based on my research, this Japanese movie was based on a cellphone novel. It was so popular that it was turned into a movie, manga and drama series. The meaning of the title is literally Sky of Love.

It's a romantic movie where good innocent girl falls in love with a bad boy. Through the course of their relationship they encounter a lot of challenges and I mean a lot! Even the word challenge for me is an understatement of what they went through.

I find the challenges too hard for teenagers to be easily accepted especially for the lead character Mika. Mika is represented as very kind, innocent, sweet and I don't think such girl can bear all those suffering. I actually have a girl friend who was also very very sweet, kind, you know the fragile type, and she fell in love with this bad boy who kept on hurting her feelings until she cannot bear it anymore, she became so depressed and had to seek the help of a psychiatrist. Until now, my friend has never been able to move on. Her very cute and innocent face... abused and wasted.

At the first part of the movie I was like, "who would actually fall in love with such delinquent boy?" but then I realized, actually a lot of nice girls would fall for that.. poor girls (I actually think I was once a victim too. O_o) . If you think about it, a very aggressive boy, somewhat good looking, very sexually active and a girls who's sweet, naive, weak... opposites do attract... sigh...

Anyway, so most of the movie's story can actually happen in real life, if it was true and it happened to me, I think I might have commited suicide as well or I would not actually let myself get hurt that much that my story will only reach half of the movie and the rest will be different.

It would be realistic I think if the girl was shown as a stronger one emotionally speaking though maybe the author thought that the weaker she is, the more sympathy she will get from the viewers. If you try to put yourself in Mika's shoes then you'll probably cry a lot as you watch the movie.

It's one of those movies that most people will  be able to relate to because of its highschool setting and will remind you of your first love or crushes in high school. I think it also wants to say that your first love will always have a space in your heart no matter how much you were hurt.

八： Movie Review of Precious. (based on a novel entitled "Push")

It's about a teen African American girl molested and abused by her family. She isn't treated like a daughter by her mother where she is always screamed at and thrown objects at even while doing household chores. She is also molested by her mother's boy friend and the mom doesn't care at all. Because of the sexual abuse, she got pregnant twice. She's doing bad at school and has no friends at all.

You can really understand how a young girl can lose herself with this kind of situation. But in this movie you can see how the girl struggles to survive in such an environment. She daydreams about her dream world where her mother loves her and the people around her notices her and she's so happy.
She met people who helped her in the story such as the teacher, male nurse, and a social welfare employee (Mariah Carey).

Overall it teaches you how to fight for your rights. Not to let anyone step on you, not even your family. All of us can think. We know what is right from wrong. We should not tolerate abuse nor harassment especially to us women.

P.S. The movie won Oscars for best supporting actress for Mo' Nique as the mother of Precious and best adapted Screen Play.

五： Movie Review and Summary of Dorian Gray

Summary:

Dorian Gray is based on Oscar Wilde's book The Painting of Dorian Gray. It's about a beautiful young man who didn't grow old. He had a painting by a painter named Basil who got fond of his beauty. Another friend, Lord Henry Wotton also a friend of Basil taught him that only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfillment of the senses. Dorian was naturally kind and good and very naive. Learning this, Dorian tried to live that kind of life. He got scared of getting old and he doesn't want his beauty to fade and so he sold his soul to be forever young and the painting Basil painted would rather be the one to age and rot.

He enjoyed everything and while doing so, he was already committing sins especially lust. As Dorian was enjoying his beautiful life, every sin he committed  causes his painting to look old and rot indeed. In life not everything that you are enjoying or you think is good is right. He tries to get pleasure from almost anyone, everyone.

Dorian then met this singer and actress Sybil who fell in love with him but doing so she loses her abilities. Dorian who is obsessed with just the beauty in life rejects Sybil after she lost her talents which resulted to her suicide.

Before leaving to Paris, Dorian talked to the painter Basil and blamed him for his fate and killed him. Dorian hid his painting and indeed he stayed forever young and continued doing the same immoral things.

18 years has passed and everyone he knew got old. Rumors spread about him that he never grew old. He returned to London from Paris in a party and met Lord Henry's daughter, Emily. He fell in love with her and thought of giving up his immorality but when he saw his painting, it was even worse.

Lord Henry who knew about Dorian's relationship with his daughter went to his house and searched for the painting. Dorian was able to catch Lord Henry and they had a fight. The painting's cover was then removed and a fire started from a burner and they both saw a very old, rotting man. Dorian was stunned looking at his painting. Lord Henry ran out and locked Dorian inside the room just when his daughter  arrived to check what was happening. Dorian then tried to destroy the painting by piercing it but it was piercing him back. The real Dorian was then revealed. A very very old and rotting man like that in the painting and then the room exploded caused by the fire and gas leaks.

Dorian's body was found burnt but the painting was saved and miraculously went back to it's original form.

Review:

The movie was great and I highly recommend it. The actor Ben Barnes was really perfect for the part of Dorian Gray. I have liked him since Narnia: Prince Caspian movie haha! A very handsome man.

There are some differences from the book and the movie though like Dorian's hair color which should be blonde and not dark, how James, Sybil's brother died, how Dorian died and some characters in the story like Emily which was supposed to be Hetty.

You can learn a lot from it's story because it's about immorality, narcissism, and how it can ruin your life. Some say the movie is kinda out of pace that it quickly jumps from one event to another without some explanation etc. I think it is understandable though. I haven't really read the book but I was able to understand the story. I think everyone can relate to it's story because each of us has a part where we only think of the things that can make us happy even if it isn't the right thing to do. As for myself, I liked it because of how he didn't grow old. People tell me I look young for my real age and as a lady, it is a big deal to us to look young. And so the Dorian Gray syndrome is explained here. People are scared to grow old and will try to keep that youthful look. I'm not a hypocrite and I'd say I am happy I look young but I think I won't result to surgery to maintain it lol. It's a gift and I am grateful for it. As for the sins Dorian committed, I know I think about some worldly things but I am trying to change that. Watching the movie made me realize that it can also happen to me lol. Losing yourself because of all those worldly temptations. I don't want that. :P

Overall it was a very good movie. Great one. Consider it a dark, gothic, fantasy drama. Don't forget Ben Barnes is the lead actor. <3