movie of the day!!!
The official site
(the website about the show but it is in Japanese.)
The Liar Game
(if people would like to watch this drama can just click the top)


Based on a manga series of the same name. It talks about an hones college student, Kanzaki Nao who unknowingly receives a hundred million yen one day, along with an invitation card to take part in the " Liar Game". The aim of the game was to be the last one standing. There was different rounds. Each round, a player is voted out and would be in debt to the game producers. As Kanzaki Nao was gullible, she was easily tricked but with the help of a mastermind swindler, Akiyama Shinichi, there was a twist at the end of each game. Akiyama Shinichi was just released from jail when she desperatly ask for his help. The first part of the show was based on a competition within two people. It slowly generated to a competition between a group of people. Look how money was able to change a person to led to betrayal. A group of people who thought they could work together lost at the end. The
game was a mind controlling game where the players acted innocent and honest infront of each other. However, each player had their hidden secret that led to the lost of each group at the end.

My say of the movie.
It shows how a group requires honesty and trust. A broken trust can lead to defeat for the players. Group synergy is important. Group synergy is when everyone provide the best inputs to help the group in their project. Like what i was taught at communications lesson a week back. How by working in a group you can create success. The different people that are in these world could help in your success or your defeat. Like in the movie, it was through group work that some people were able to stay. However, due to betrayal within the team, there were people who lost at the end of the day. It showed how fights happened. It showed how working as a group is very important that everyone is agreeable to it. If someone changes their mind, it could lead to some sort of group pressure as they might be outnumbered or there might be no time to turn back time to take back what was once done.


A question of the week!
Imagine you were sent to a game like these. Would you trust everyone that was in the game? Or how would you pick who to work with?

movie of the day!!!
The Break-up
( the link of the movie can be found by clicking on the title. )

An anti-romantic comedy that follows a couple's often comical, sometimes painful, but always entertaining journey into the unraveling and deconstruction of a once solid and loving relationship. Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston star in 'The Break-Up" which starts where most romantic comedies end: after boy and girl have met, fallen in love, moved in to start their happily-ever-after... and right when they wind up driving each other crazy. Pushed to the breaking-up point after their latest "why can't you do this one little thing for me?" argument, art dealer Brooke (Aniston) calls it quits with her husband, Gary (Vaughn), who hosts bus tours of Chicago. What follows is a series of remedies, war tactics, overtures and underminings suggested by the former couple's friends, confidantes and the occasional total stranger. When neither is willing to move out of the condo they used to share, the only solution is to continue living as hostile roommates until somebody caves. But somewhere between protesting the pool table in the living room, the dirty clothes stacked in the kitchen cupboards and the sports played at sleep-killing volume in the middle of night, Brooke begins to realize that what she may be really fighting for isn't so much the place but the person.

My say of the movie.

The movie was a good movie. It portrayed how a couple had their sweet moments before everything ended. It shows how a two year relationship of marriage can easily end due to the differences between two people. Even though love still exists, but then the differences overcame the love that led to a break up. The movie was filled with romance, comedy and dramas. Even though they both loved each other, but they refuse to give in to each other leading to fights. They hid their love, pain and suffering for each other. They had a hidden wish to go back with each other but none wish to say and both did not understand each other hidden meaning. At the end, what was left was a break up. A good movie though, it teaches how by hiding things within yourself would not help in a situation. Everything in life can be worked out in a way. It is not impossible to solve any problem you just need to give in. That is how someone can learn to maintain love. Share your thoughts with one another and nothing would go wrong. Hide everything and there would be trouble.

Stage 6: Differentiating
This is the stage filled with communication and interaction marked by over conflict. The intense differentiation may reflect that the relationship has developed too fast. An example would be when Brooke said " Why can't you do this one thing for me? " to Gary. Whenever they talked about a topic like that, they would get into a heated argument.

Stage 7: Circumstanscribing
This stage talks how communication became so restricted. It leads to how couples would help their conversation by saying " I don't want to talk about it". An example would be when after the fight they both had, they both shouted that they do not want to talk any more. Brooke would go to the room and Gary would leave the house. They both would not want to talk about it any more.

Stage 8: Stagnating
This stage is about a relationship that has the absence of joy and excitement. Everything that is done within life is all just a routine. The relationship is still held on as they would want to avoid the pain of termination. Brooke would enter her room when she reaches home and Gary would stay in the living room as that was his room at that point. They would do things separately but the thoughts of selling the house both would feel a sense of sadness.How they tried to get each other attention.

Stage 9: Avoiding
This stage would be when both would avoid each other. Their channels of communication are sealed as they would not want to communicate with each other. When Brooke left a note for Gary instead of telling him that the house is sold already. Gary only saw the note when he woke up. When he was home, she was always going out.

Stage 5: Terminating
The relationship comes to an end. Both parties would move on.
Gary and Brooke moved out of the house and signed the contract.


A question to think about.
How often have you kept something of sadness from another person that have led to fights? Is it true that a relationship both parties need to open up, share and give in?

Do comment to tell me your answers.

What has become of kids these days??
the newspaper article :
Boys confess to killing two-year-old
( LINK TO THE NEWSPAPER CAN BE FOUND UNDER THE LINK)

summary of the article

The murder case happened in Argentina. A toddler at the age of two being killed by two boys, aged 7 and 9. She was found a few hundred metres away from her home dead. The toddler had been found hanging from a wall with wire around her neck. The victim was given brutal beating before she was apparently strangled. The two boys confessed to the crime in a few days later knowing that they were in a wrong. The neighbour of the young killers said that the kids had been beaten and abused by their parents since young. The two killers have been placed in the custody of a juvenile court judge who has ordered psychological examinations and an investigation into their living conditions.

My say of the article

This was a shocking article. It left me speechless. Thinking of how two kids as young as 7 and 9 years old killed a 2 year old is unbelievable. How they managed to kidnap the child, how they taught of ways that led to the murder? They are just young kids but yet they act just like adults. The young killers seemed as professional like killers that are seen on the media shows. It portrayed how the action packed movies might be the link to the way the kids killed the young girl. It was said that the two young killers were beaten and abused by their parents since young. Could this have led to their murder of the girl or could it through the media that they were showed to? Media have many influences in kids life. It have it positive and negative impact. A simple action packed movie can cause chaos as the kids are influenced by the media. The teachings that are taught within the movies have caused kids to learn and follow. Crime rates have risen through the these time.

Therefore, it is hard to say if parents or the media should be blame for what have happened.

What do you think?
parents or media?
Leave your comment.

movie of the day!!!
CLICK
( the link of the movie can be found by clicking on the title. )

Michael Newman ( Adam Sandler ) is a workaholic architect working hard to keep his wife and kids happy. One night, Michael is on the road in search of an open store that may sell him a universal remote control to make his life easier. At the Bed, Bath, & Beyond store, Michael meets Morty, the inventor of a very advanced piece of technology, a remote control that not only controls his TV, but controls his whole life!!! Now that he's using the remote on a regular basis, his work-life and family-life are finally in balance, he's trying harder than he ever imagined to spend more time with his family. Now, frustrated that his stuck up boss hasn't made him partner at his construction firm yet, he uses the remote to fast-forward through his life until his promotion. What he doesn't realize is that he has skipped through a whole year. The remote is now powered by its memory, and starts to fast-forward through crucial moments in his life, including arguments, foreplay, traffic, and, worst of all, promotions at his job. One year turns into ten years and than another six years.Will he be able to get his life back before its entirely gone?

My say of the movie.

After watching the movie, i feel that the movie was really touching and a nice movie to watch. Even though this is a very old movie, but it's romance within the movie touched me and left an impact in my life. Especially the quote, 'will you still love me in the morning? Forever and ever babe'. This sentence appeared before Michael was about to die. He had to face the consequences as he played with the remote. It was something he had to face. However, he regretted his decision but it was somehow too late. It was a lesson he learnt. He learned to treasure his family and learnt that not everything just simply involves around his job promotion . The movie had its scene of romance, humor and drama.

Last week during lesson, I learned nonverbal cues. It is communication that occurs when a stimulus other than words creates meaning in the mind of communicator. There are many different types of nonverbal communication. Here are a few that i spotted in the movie.

emblems: When the kids, Ben and Samantha placed their finger on their mouth to show silence and not to say another word at the beginning of the movie.

Regulators: When Micheal was trying to tell the kids that the dog is not doing what they think it is by rising his hands.
How the swimming coach was showing Ben one point after the other by moving his hand.

Illustrators: When the customer was allowing Micheal to promote the statue, he moved his hands in a wavy action.

Paralinguistics: When the customer was not happy with Micheal presentation, he raised his pitch of his voice to sound discontent.
When Micheal was not happy when the people playing with the fireworks keep scaring him that he scolded and shouted at them loudly.

Objectics: The special remote control that was being used through the whole movie.

Oculesics: When Micheal was able to die, he looked at Donna in the eye as he wanted to read her the message that he wrote. There was eye contact within that scene.

Haptics: When Micheal gave Samantha a hug before her wedding, to show fatherly love.

Promxemics: When the mother was giving birth to Micheal in the past, it showed that his father was next to the mother within intimate distance as they are lovers.

Affect displays: When Donna and Micheal kissed to apologize to each other for the fights they had. There is love being showed within the scene.


After watching the whole show, and learning the positive and negative points of this remote control, I suddenly thought of this. That is, if i were given the remote control what will i do with it? Keep it or throw it away.

So will you all keep the remote or throw it away? If it will help you to have a fast paced life and you will be able to find your happiness in it. You have total control of your life.
Comment me to what you feel and why.

movie of the day!!!
ACCURACY OF DEATH.
( the link of the movie can be found by clicking on the title. )


Adapted from the best selling novel by Kotaro Isaka " The Accuracy of Death".Chiba (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is a Grim Reaper. He would appear seven days before a person dies of an unexpected death. He is to observe the person for seven days, before he makes his decision. He is to decide either to 'execute=death' or 'suspend=life' the person life. When he gets to work, the first thing is that he would go to to the listening booth of a CD shop and indulges in his favourite pastimes, listening to 'humanity's greatest invention' - music. It is three interconnected stories which protagonists are targets of the Grim Reaper. There is a meek girl whose job is to reveive complaint calls, a crime committing mafia leader who has a faithful follower and an old hairdresser who lives alone in the countryside. Today, as usual it is raining. It is always raining when he is at his job and he is hoping for a day it stops raining. His subject today is Kazue Fujiki (Manami Konishi), 27. She works for a manufacturing company, in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It is time again for the reaper to make his decision.


My say of the movie.

After watching the movie, I must comment that the movie was interesting. There was a twist at the ending. It showed how the Grim Reaper decision from the start affected the ending of the movie. How the movie was brought out left an impact in me. With the help of the intriguing images, it helped bring out the well articulated themes about life to the people. There was humor, romance, drama and philosophical teachings within the movie. It taught us the definition of happiness and what it takes to make one's life complete. It is all valuable teachings that i will never forget.

I felt that there was interpersonal communication being used within the whole movie. Interpersonal communication is said to be two-person, face to face interaction. As the Grim Reaper had to make a decision at the end of the day, he was to communicate with the victim. He had to understand the difficulties or happiness that the person once faced. It was through such communication that the Grim Reaper can successfully understand and make a decision. It is shown that communications is important within the daily life. Without it, we can never understand each other. There might be troubles in people life that nobody might know of unless you talk.

Within the movie, not only did the Grim Reaper managed to understand the lady's life, he also managed to brighten her life. She once lead a lonely and sad life thinking that everything that happened in her life is all her fault. That she was a jinx. However, he managed to brightened her life up and she finally understood the meaning of life. It showed that she had to cuts on her hand as if she had once committed suicide. However, after that experience with the Grim Reaper, she somehow found meaning in her life. She even took out a coin to play a tossing game. She had thought that the Grim Reaper was her new happiness. It showed how simple things in life can bring happiness within our life. Just communication with a stranger can bring out her smile. It teaches us that we should not expect much in happiness. The simple things that people do in our life is to make you smile. We should not think that happiness is a complicated matter and always think negatively about the issue. We should always treasure life now and be happy. Even though in life we may face with many falls, we mustn't give up but stay positive. Everything in life happens for a reason.

Be happy!
What do you people think of happiness? Is it something complicated?

We should always hold a cheerful life. There is a quote in life that writes 'A cheerful heart is a good medicine. ' It tells us that being happy not only makes us feels good, it also helps us to feel better when we are ill.

Therefore, i feel that this movie is a good movie. It taught valuable lessons to everyone.
i would rate this movie

4 STARS
People do go and watch this movie.

movie of the day
MADE OF HONOR
( the link of the movie can be found by clicking on the title. )

Quote of the movie:
It takes a real man to become a maid of honor

In this movie,
Tom ( Patrick Dempsey), had a good life. He was handsome, successful and definitely lots of luck with the ladies. However, he had never treated anyone of them sincerely expect for Hannah ( Michelle Monaghan) who he replied very much on. She was his best friends and constant of his life. When Hannah was sent overseas to Scotland for a six -week business trip. It was then Tom realised that she was important in his life. He tried to find substitutes within any of the girls that he dated but to no success. When Hannah returned, Tom wanted to propose to her but only shocked to realised that she was going to marry a guy she met in Scotland who was also a duke within the country. Hannah was even going to move to Scotland for good. Hannah asks Tom to be her maid of honor, he reluctantly agrees as he wanted to get this chance to confess his love and stop the wedding before he misses his chance.


My say of the movie.

After watching the movie, i felt that the movie was good. There was humor, romance, drama and motivation. The music and theme used within the movie was very used. It brought out the whole movie creating an impact.There were many points whereby people were able to learn from it.

The quote of the movie is "It takes a real man to become a maid of honor".
The movie really showed it. It portrayed that no matter what criticism that a guy faced in the movie did not make him regret on his decision on being the maid of honor. There were scenes in the movie whereby he was labeled as a gay as it was rarely seen for a guy to be a maid of honor. That did not make him back out but instead he just wanted Hannah to be happy. He even borrowed tapes and even gave up on his movie night with his friends just to get the wedding party up for Hannah. He ignored the complains of his friends and he tried to be the best maid of honor. Therefore, the quote was well shown within the movie as a real man would not turn away no matter what circumstances that he had to faced.It teaches everyone that no matter what ever happens in life, as long as you think you did your best you should follow it.

The movie also taught people of how they should learn to treasure those that is around us. One day, unknown to us the person that we treasure might leave us. There was a sentence that Hannah said within the movie.
She said" why do you choose now to tell me that you love me? You are just afraid to lose me." It was a good statement used.
The movie shows the attribution that was caused by human behavior. It is common for a human to realise his mistake only at the very end of the day. They might not choose to treasure someone till the time when they are about to lose the person. This usually happens as people believe that whoever who is there with them would stay with them forever. This is when a person is being taken for granted. Within the movie it shows how much Tom regrets when he knew that he was about to lose Hannah. He was friends with Hannah for 10 years but only when she was about to leave him that he realised she was the one. He wanted to treasure her but it was too late. He tried all ways to win her back but it was a challenge. If he had done it earlier, there would not have been so much obstacles that Tom have to go through.

My rating for this movie is 3.5 / 5
People should go and watch this movie.

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