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Inception (2010) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : Descent into the labyrinth of dreams

Posted on July 24, 2010 by kaist455

Surprisingly to me, “Inception” is a small movie when viewed objectively from the outside. The story is not ground-breaking; it’s in a very familiar area where “Matrix” and other movies about the mind-bending world belong. The movie stays inside its settings and rules, and sticks to them even at the finale. Continue reading →

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Moss (2010) ☆☆(2/4) : A rural mystery – more than 2.5hr

Posted on July 17, 2010 by kaist455

After so much hoopla before its release, “Moss”, a much-anticipated Korean thriller of 2010, turns out to be very, very disappointing in almost every way you can imagine due to the fatally misguided direction. It is lazy, incompetent, and, above all, not compelling at all. Despite some good basic elements of a thriller in the screenplay, it is more close to the ennui of the bright summer days in a country town, and, boy, the running time is more than 2.5 hours even if you exclude the end credit. Continue reading →

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When I get out of the campus cafeteria

Posted on July 15, 2010 by kaist455

 When I get tired of the campus cafeteria, I just go to somewhere and eat something else.  I shot some of them during the last two months when I got the chance to do it.

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They cannot be aged, but they’re not boring.

Posted on July 15, 2010 by kaist455

 Grand Poobah’s recent post inspired me to assemble these photos from my personal documents. Yes, some of them are timeless and tiresome, but they looked fabulous in one spring afternoon and I liked them a lot.

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Cloudy or Sunny, It’s hot anyway

Posted on July 15, 2010 by kaist455

 Whether it rains or not, it’s always humid and hot. And people and animals look for some cool places.

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The Gym in Campus

Posted on July 15, 2010 by kaist455
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Presumed Innocent (1990) ☆☆☆ (3/4) : A Prosecuted Prosecutor

Posted on July 11, 2010 by kaist455

“An innocent man has nothing to fear, remember that.”, said the cop in Hitchcock’s” The Wrong Man” to Henry Fonda’s arrested character, but we all know his saying is not true at all. Guilty or not, our fate will eventually be decided at the courtroom where the lawyers make arguments on your culpability in front of the judges and the jury. And in that inexorable system pursuing the justice, we tremble in fear for the sheer possibility of punishment sentenced upon us.
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2009 June (An-Dong, East Sea coast, Yang-Yang, and Mt. Seorak)

Posted on July 3, 2010 by kaist455
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My cousin’s Cat

Posted on June 29, 2010 by kaist455
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The Accidental Tourist (1988) ☆☆☆ (3/4) : A Healing Process

Posted on June 29, 2010 by kaist455

When I observed the lifestyle of Ryan Bingham in Jason Reitman’s wonderful movie “Up in the Air” early in this year, Lawrence Kasdan’s 1988 movie “The Accidental Tourist” came to my mind. Like him, Macon Leary(William Hurt) knows a lot about traveling around by plane. He can tell you how to pack your bag as small as possible(“In travel, as much as in your life, less is invariably more”). He can tell you how important it is to carry several travel-size packets of detergents. He can tell you why a gray suit is a full proof choice in any situations. He also can tell you where to have a real American meal in London.
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