2013년 3월 27일 수요일

the best film ever!

 





   I want to review a great movie 'Sophie's Choice.' It was released in 1982, and Meryl Streep was the main role in this film. I had really wanted to watch this film for a long time, so I took a file a month ago and watched it. It was much better than I thought. Meryl Streep is one of my favorite actresses, because she is so good at acting. She is made for the roles which are given to her. At first, I chose this movie all because of Meryl Streep; however, I fell in love with this film because of a story. Sophie's Choice could be classified as a Holocaust film; it deals with the lives after the World War. This film shows us how deep are the wounds which came from the World War and how these wounds destroy people; especially Sophie and Nathan. More specifically, it reveals that the Jews Massacre hurt people so deeply.

  Author Stingo (Peter MacNicol) has arrived in Brooklyn to jump-start his writing career. He rents a ground-floor flat; his upstairs neighbors are a weird couple: Sophie Zawistowski (Meryl Streep) and Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline). Sophie is a Catholic Polish concentration camp survivor. Nathan is a Jew who saved Sophie after her liberation from Auschwitz and is now obsessed with the Holocaust. Sophie's father was one of the anti-semitic voices in Poland's academia and her tragic interaction with the Nazis forced her to choose which of her two children would be executed. Nathan is an addict of alcohol and sometimes violent to Sophie. Stingo falls in love with Sophie, because he gets to know the tragic truth of her. He offers her to leave Nathan and get married together, but Sophie gets back to Nathan.
 
  I was so sad during the entire movie, because Sophie and Nathan’s emotion seems so real. They are suffered and haunted for the rest of their lives. This film makes me think about Nazi’s murder and tragedies of the rest. I wasn’t there, but could reckon their great pain a little. It is the best movie ever in my life. You’ve got to try this movie!
    

2013년 3월 20일 수요일

Bon Appetit!

  I want to share this movie, 'Julie and Julia.' This movie is about cooking. The reason why I chose this film is that I really love cooking. I have enjoyed watching the cooking channels for a long time because I really love to watch chefs cooking. I enjoyed just watching them at first ; however, I've had a great time to cook the dishes by myself now. It is so exciting! I think cooking is one of the most valuable things in the world because eating great dishes makes people feel so happy. The other reason why I chose this is that I really love Meryl Streep. She is so adorable in this movie. I am sure that anyone who watchs this film is going to love her.

  This is Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book.
In 1949, Julia Child and her loving husband Paul Child is in Paris. Julia is so into eating French food and gets interested in cooking them. Under her husband's great support, she takes cooking lessons at Cordon Bleu. There she discovers her passion:writing a book teaching American housewives how to cook French cuisines. In 2002, there's Julie Powell who gets bored with her common life, so she starts writing a cooking blog named 'The Julie/Julia Project.' She commits herself to cook the 534 recipes written by Julia Child in her book "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" in 365 days.

   I strongly recommend this film; also, I want you to make dishes that is in Julia's recipes. I really want to make Julia's boeuf bourguignon, but so many unaffordable ingredients are needed. French food is not easy for me to make because of its exotic and expensive ingredients; nevertheless, I'll try to make dishes which are in Julia's cookbook. I want all the people to enjoy cooking, eating, and watching this movie. Bon Appetit!