Almost Buddhist - 戲‧論

  ★★★★☆ What makes 'Promising Young Woman' special and engrossing are its restraint from delivering what you think it's supposed to at certain points, which keeps you wondering instead what's happened before and what will happen next, and also its magic of making you feel intense and jumpy while you're supposed to feel easy or the other way round. It's got a very intriguing opening, and a rather shocking ending that might be considered anti-climax, but to me, it's absolutely an out of the blue, off the wall scenario, which is kind of cruel but pretty romantic. And it manages to hold your attention all the way. That's rare and difficult as y'know we're all running out of patience nowadays! The film is Emerald Fennell's directorial debut. You may feel familiar with the style she adopts here if you've watched the award-winning TV series she's involved in, 'Killing Eve', which appears to be bloody slick when it comes to violence...

  ★★★☆☆ Pixar has given me a lot of good memories, warmth and encouragement ever since ' Toy Story ' series, though its mother company Disney has been such a hypocrite apparently praising morality and humanity over interests and benefits in films they make on one hand, while on the other, just doing the opposite! Pixar's ' Inside Out ' and 'Finding Nemo' are the most incredible to me. 'Soul', their latest effort, is not really about music or Jazz so you don't have to worry that it may turn you off if you're not into stuff like that. It's in fact about the things you crave for, your dreams, goals, targets, ambitions, resolutions and so on and so forth, and how you should look at them. Yet I don't think it's going to turn you on so much either, because the journey itself doesn't seem that exhilarating and imaginative after all, compared with what they've already done before. Still it's a decent treat to kick off 2021 b...