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Menolippu Mombasaan (2002)
Movie deals with life, death and love in a warm and touching way.
Menolippu Mombasaan (I guess the title could be translated "One Way Ticket To Mombasa") tells a story about two young boys who have cancer and they really want to live their last moments and they run away from hospital. Other boy dreams about Mombasa and it's golden sands and the other dreams about a girl who is in Lapland. And boys decide to take a trip to Mombasa via Lapland.
Movie deals with hard feelings about short life, love and living without it. Characters are well built and played. Story is partly little predictable and has some too easy solutions but still has enough life and humor that it goes very nicely on. Movie touched me personally, because I've thought same things that boys in the movie had to deal with. I truly believe that people should have a right to end their lives way they want and should have enough courage to make their dreams come true and everyone should at least once feel to be loved by someone.
This is a Finnish movie and you can hear it from the soundtrack (it contains some old and well known Finnish songs) and see from the scenery (forests, Lapland, midnight sun) but I believe that also other people get lot from this movie.
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Something surprisingly different!
I have watched Being John Malkovich and it was a very confusing experience. For the first time I saw a movie and couldn't figure out at any point what would happen next. Many times I tried to think - like a writer - how would I solve this next problem but the writers of BJM had came up with very surprising ideas.
Movie concluded several puppet show scenes which described dreams of the characters in the film and I guess also our deepest ones too. There was something very scary when the puppetmaster made his puppet to watch submissively upwards to it's master... Is this how we live too? Are we also just puppets? Okay... I have to say that if you are not so interested in philosophical thinking you can still watch the movie because it really is funny!
I was also very surprised that I found Cameron Diaz from the cast because I really didn't notice her appearance and her character actually was one of the main characters. I guess it was quite hard to recognize her in thick sweater and dark wig - she looks very much nothing like she is used to be seen. And she really is a good actor. John Cusack was also great and I just had to admire John Malkovich - he played so well himself.
Roadrunner a Go-Go (1965)
Imaginative attempts to catch the Roadrunner
These Roadrunner cartoons were my favorites when I was a kid mostly because they were the most absurd and imaginative of all WB cartoon. The basic idea is that Coyote desperately tries to catch the Roadrunner and invents a huge amount of new interesting ways to do it... and even more ways to fail. In this episode Coyote tries to learn of his mistakes and makes a retry. Some of the ideas are quite predictable but some are surprising.
This is one of the few episodes where Coyote actually talks - in most episodes there's no dialog at all or it's written in signs. It's interesting that WB named these cartoons after the Roadrunner even though the Coyote actually has the leading role and the Roadrunner just... well just runs and makes that beeb-beeb thing.