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Eight Below (2006)
A Moving Story About Eight Brave Dogs
Spoiler Alert: Reviews below contains some of the character and plot info of this movie.
First about this story. Story is quite simple in this movie. Eight good dogs, saved human lifes, but later has been abandoned by the same people and be left in a snowstorm in antarctica. They learnt to work together, help each others and most of them had managed to survive the winter and waited until their owner back again to found them. There is not a lot to discuss about the plot, and in this movie plot just served the portrayal of the dogs, which dipicted in this movie, as brave, intellegent and humane.
Then about the character in this movie. The doctor who took part in the expedition and found the rocks. He didn't listen to the guide to back to field base when the storm coming, didn't listen the guide words to stay in saft area etc, which caused a lot of trouble in their following trips. But was he a "bad" guys? No I think. Just look into this guys again but in a different angle. He indeed ignored the warn by the guide, but that because he want to find the rock, he was chasing his own dream, he was willing to risk his own life to chase his dream, and he finally helped the guys back to the base to look for the dogs, showed that there's still compassion in his heart, he can't not, and would not forget the dogs that saved his life.
Lots of things that this movie wants to teach us ang give us some insperation.
First we need to learn how to let go. There are countless of failure, sad, regret and grief in our whole life, we must learn how to deal with this kinds of things. Sometimes we don't need to just suffer it alone and carried them all the way. We need to learn how to let go. And that doesn't means we need to forget, we can remember those, but we can not let them stuck in our heart and stop us going back to our way of life.
Another one, you will not lose unless you want. If you have something that you really want to do, you have some goal you must achieve, then just go for it. No matter how difficult it is, what kind of plight you stuck in, just work hard, and beieve yourself that you can find a way in the end even if it may not a smooth one.
Di er shi tiao (2024)
An Average Movie
As the title says, in my opinion this kinds of movie is on the average line.
About the plot. Plot is quite straight. Here straight means you can mostly guess what will happen next, and the ongoing plot will not go far away from your expectation. It's just a story of chasing justice under the law. And as you guys know, this film appeared on the screen in Mainland China, means it must be a happy ending. (Otherwise you will never be able to watch this film lol). Anyway, average plot.
And the performance also just in avg level. Too much dialog, I mean, nearly about 70% of the time is the dialog: at home, in car, in school, in court etc. Of course you could think this could be the intentional tactic by the movie director, but anyway I don't consider this as a good idea in a 2-hour long movie. It also have some good effects for example add to the realism of this movie.
It's this movie moving? Yes, I think, but it's a little bit melodramatic. It a deliberate and unnatural feels to it.