Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Brave Brave Brave by Pixar

The ‘Brave” is the latest animated film by Pixar.   


In this movie, they tried to talk to audience about how important one’s freedom and family. Basically, this story was setting in the olden days of Scotland. There are huge forests, clear water, sky and a lot of animals in the movie. Also, their costumes and language they used were like Scottish.


 Merida always desired freedom. She prefers to go into forest with bow and arrow freely rather than what she needed to do as a princess. However, her mother, Elinor, she wanted her to control her dignity as a princess and always point out every single thing that Merida did. Merida did not like her mother. The conflict between Elinor and Merida became worse when all the allies came to decide who is going to get marry with Merida.  That was not what she wanted and she was not ready for that. She could not accept what she needed to do as princess and had to follow what mother asked her to do.


However, in my opinion, Merida was born a princess. She cannot deny it. Her mother, Queen Elinor, was grooming Merida fir a role as future queen. After long series of wars King Furgus has united four groups of clan. Merida’s duty is to keep the groups altogether through judicious marriage.

 Eventually, she cut the carpet that mother made her own and they started to hurt each other.


Merida met elf fire and it leads her to one cabin in the forest with expectation of changing fate. She met a mysterious witch and they made a deal which brought terrible outcome. Mother became a bear after she ate pie that Merida took from witch. Basically, story started from here. 


                                                 This is the time when Merida saw elf-fire
After Merida and her mother absorb what has happened, they began to work together and grow closer than ever, even though they could not talk each other. At the end, they found way to solve this terrible happen! 


                                                       They became closer and closer
They were trying to find a way to make mother back to human. They had a fight with father and black bear!!! Who is going to win? Can she manage to her mother back to human?


Characteristic of princess
They described princess in the other way. Mostly, princesses are weak and rely on men but Merida was fighting herself against to wrong fate.  Especially, when she aimed arrow to the black bear to saved her mother. It gives me new type of princess I ever seen. 
                                              This is the picture when she got her first bow

Sound track
It was brilliant. They used back pipe and flute because their background was Scotland. It makes me feel that I am in Scotland.
                                                They also used pipe and flute in the movie

Favourite characters

Merida was first Scottish princess and 11th Disney official princess! In the movie, she was lovely and has her own personality that was enough to catch audiences’ attention. She looked like a bit selfish and rude in the beginning but she became nicer. 

The others were three boys. They were so cute and could not take my eyes off them. Especially, when they became a bear and helped princess to escape Queen Elinor. They scared people who were working in the castle and lure the father’s crew to the other way. The way they did and sounds they made was very funny!
                                                                Before they eat pie!
                                                  After they ate pie! how cute they are! 

Anyway, I liked this movie even though I do not really watch animations. I recommend this movie to people who are having communication problem with their family members. Once again, nice movie! 

Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa

Actually, it was my first time to watch Malaysian's movie. I could not understand almost half of this movie because they spoke in Bahasa Malaysia without English subtitle. However, this movie caught my attention because of the sets, props, and costumes. Also, the storyline was simple enough to understand and it is suitable for all ages. 

 In some part of this movie, the director put humours to get audiences' attention but it did not really help. The director should make it more serious rather than putting humours. It does not mean that all the humours failed in the movie. I liked the part when prince asked ladies who is the princess and a maid said "I'm a princess" with poker face. I'm sure that most people were laughing at that part. My second funny moment was when a maid described how prince looked like inside a tent. To putting a character such as YingYing was brilliant idea to add humours not to lose audiences' attentions. YingYing and Embok had less scenes than main characters but, for me, I would like to give claps to YingYing and Embok because they attracted me to finish watching it. What they mentioned and played inside of movie was more than enough to get an attention (most teenagers getting bored to watching historical movie :)) because this movie was about Merong Mahawangsa's adventure of finding his destiny and discovering his back ground and Merong made an promise to accompany a Rome prince to Langkasuka, to marry Chinese princess but his soldiers got into a huge danger. 


this was the moment when YingYing described how prince looked like!
Two thumbs up!

I should say one negative thing that I had experienced in this movie was they spoke in Bahasa Malaysian without English subtitle but I give 7 out 10 for this movie! I feel like to try other Malaysian movie again!