backwards

Goya’s Ghost – The setting

during the Spanish Inquisition.

Natalie Portman plays

Inez/Alicia in the movie. It

shows how the Roman Catholic

church then can be so cruel,

executing and torturing anyone

suspected or found guilty of

being a heretic. The movie is

satisfactory. It can be quite

dragging… It showed the

Spanish painter Francisco Goya

as someone who is "balimbing."

He would ally with anyone who is

in power and commissions him to

do portraits or artworks. He

failed in trying to help Inez,

who was wrongly accused of

heresy and was therefore

imprisoned, tortured, and rape.

Lost in Translation — The movie

shows the different states of

being lost. Lost because of a

communication gap, a language

barrier… or lost in thoughts

and in nowhere land, not really knowing what and where you want to be. There

are funny moments, triggered by

language barrier. A good watch. I am interested in the movie’s soundtrack. Na-LSS ako sa karaoke song ni Scarlett Johansson — Carly Simon’s Nobody Does It Better — and the Jazz Singer’s song — Midnight at the Oasis. Air is also included in the OST.

Marie Antoinette — No wonder it

didn’t get praises, compared with

Sofia Coppola’s other movie,

Lost in Translation. It was

quite dragging… boring. I

don’t know but I would have

liked it if it was not

modernized and did not really

focus on how worldly or young

Marie Antoinette was when she

married the French dauphin and

crowned as queen of France. And

I don’t know I just don’t see

Kirsten Dunst as Marie

Antoinette. Even my

three-year-old nephew thought we

were watching Spiderman.

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