3 entries in a day. I must be barking mad.

Anyway, I just wanted to recommend a show I caught on Friday night/Saturday morning. After school on Friday, the BF and I had our dinner at Suntec and decided to head home to retrieve his car so we can catch:



Great, great movie. It reminded me of Motorcycle Diaries, and its the autobiography of Nicholas Garrigan as Motorcycle Diaries of Che Guevera. But I must say this show spark my interest more than Motorcycle Diaries. There was qualities you associate with a blockbuster: violence, sex, excitement, morals etc. But what struck me was how real the characters are portrayed. Obviously they are real people but I'm just impressed that the director managed to capture Nicholas as he is and not hyping up the glamour. He was somewhat selfish, not evil, but just proud of his own achievements and doesn't think beyond the detriments of his actions. He was in essence, you and me. A flawed and common human being but under circumstances, gone through extraordinary experience.

Both actors, James McAvoy and Forest Whitaker were stunning. Whitaker was exceptionally hilarious as Idi Amin. I particular enjoyed his variability in his moods, his crude sense of humor, his adopted accent, and his sometimes competence and other times incompetence at being a dictator. I love McAvoy's version of a selfish, slightly arrogant (biting off more than he can chew) but still righteous in a very humanly way, human.

Compared to Blood Diamond (which I also liked very very much), this show is more real, with more convincing characters. Although the show started off a little slow and strange for me, but the intensity build-up is remarkable. A definite must-watch.

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