Ben Hur
Ever watched the 1959 version. An elementary student at that time, watched it by television night movie show. The ship scene, Ben Hur's mother and sister got home with leprosy scene, and when Ben Hur's biru benhur cloak waving at the end of the movie are scenes that stay in my memory.
Believes that the older version does better since I cry more in that time. And the costume! the newer version gave less ancient atmosphere to me. Ah, I also like the 1959 version more because Jesus's face doesn't showed up.
This movie is about a Jewish prince named Ben Hur who's betrayed by his adopted brother who's a Roman. He becomes a slave but then gains his glory again. The movie is something because it takes the same time set as Jesus alive on earth, then Ben Hur meets Him several times in his life.
Snowden
Came late to the theater at that time.
Like the movie though. Logic. The romance scene not sucks. The player just suits the role. The end.
Oh okay, that's too short.
My personal favorite of this movie because Snowden, Edward Snowden, has his own idealism on his work. It's about (illegal) surveillance techniques. He decides to leave his well-paid job in NSA, shout out what he believes to public though it makes him a fugitive and has to leave his wife and everybody else.
Inferno
The ending of this film is sucks. The thing that I like much about Dan Brown is his neutral position. He characterizes characters in his story as a human that do both good and bad things. That A who has A standing position believes that A thing is right but B who disagree with A also right because he sees things from the B side. Even though they do that because of the same reason. Humanity in this case (as always).
But I still enjoyed the movie. I mean, see what you have read be visualized clearly is something. Really something since it takes famous places and things as its set properties. And saw Hagia Sophia in such a big screen did impress me.
Hagia Sophia is a building. Fancy name, isn't it? The largest cathedral for almost 1000 years. It once a church, later a mosque for 500 years, and now a museum since 1935. Ancient and great architecture which had many histories in itself.
The love story in the movie doesn't appear in the book, by the way.
Doctor Strange
Mr. Holmes is trying to take Watson's job this time. Kidding!
It's Benedict Cumberbatch who plays as Doctor Stephen Strange, a neurosurgeon. He got an accident. Cannot be healed by medical surgery.Went to Nepal, looking for mystical healing. It turned out that the healer rules such an organization which keeps the world working well. Then bad men come and the war begins. That's it. Just like almost every superhero movie.
The best part of this movie is it is starring Benedict Cumberbatch, someone who looked like needs no effort to become a smart-arrogant-cynic-yet charming person. If it's not him, I may not like the movie. How subjective I am! Ah, Intelegensi Embun Pagi by Dewi Dee Lestari came into my mind when I watch the movie. What the characters in the novels do just similar to what the healer organization does.
