The greatest movie ever made..!

Load of rubbish!!

Brilliant and touching

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

How anyone could sum up this greatly misunderstood movie in just two words is beyond me, the two words being: love and jealousy. First of all, the visual aid. Yes, I think that everyone can agree when I say that it's brilliant, gripping, vivid and continuously surprising. Secondly the characters, which grow throughout the movie. Yes, I suppose it is true that the originality of their personalities cannot measure up to the plot itself, but it's satisfying nevertheless.But believe me when I say that nothing about this movie focuses on the two words above as it does on environmental destruction, pollution and class struggle. The love factor is merely a catalyst for the comprehension of the message contained in this movie, which clearly cannot be analyzed by the values which are treasured in our western culture. It's the interior of the fruit that we are interested in, not the exterior.The movie gets a 10 out of 10 from me, deserving or not. I strongly recommend it.

Fantasporto 2010.Those who are regular readers of my comments know that i have a special appreciation for the theme of cinematic uses of space. Usually, most of the times, i mean physical built spaces, architecture. I plan on developing the theme, and in a near future hopeful get sponsoring to deepen my research and eventually get somewhere. In the meanwhile, i collect examples of films which clearly address the theme.The thing i've been noticing is that unlike other qualities you may find in a film, this space/image adequation is something that simply won't happen unless the filmmakers are conscious of it. In other words, in order for buildings to become either characters or spacial entities, there has to be a lot of thinking and awareness involved. Being an architecture might help, it certainly did help Meirelles in Blindness.Here we have a fairly interesting example of the theme. The story is absolutely uninteresting, dull and discardable except for what allows the architecture connection to show: everything revolves around one building, the ECOBAN, where the bad guys have their fortress from where they control the surrounding world of the film. the sequence during the credits is powerful in how it synthesizes this concept: the hero rides his motorcycle through the road, and enters this building. It's interesting to understand this building: it has a central plant, we actually even see a virtual model of it, inserted in the film!, when the bad guys discuss the security of ECOBAN. from that central round core (with an interior that uses Wright's New York museum) we have several huge accesses, several long corridors that connect the core to the world. Those corridors great structures that mix Gothic bows with more bionic freely designed structures, one inside the other. It's one of this corridors that we see the hero ride through, in the initial sequence. So that first essential scene has him reaching the inside of the building. That's the most spatial sequence of the whole film, and it makes the experience worthy, even though the rest of the shots are usually uneven (with a few exceptions). It's useless to say the the final solution to release the world from tyranny is found at the centre of the building.So, we have a story folded into a building, making the building a character itself. that building works in its conception as the metaphor (symbol) of what it represents in the story. So it's Storytelling mapped into architecture. That's really interesting. Everything else in this film fades compared to this concept. More than that the story is strangely inefficient. I don't know how we can have the cleverness of making architecture a character to support such an unclear narrative. It's like there were different people working on different aspects of the project.The production, and visual aspect is quite good, as in fact pretty much anything that comes out of South Korea.My opinion: 3/5http://www.7eyes.wordpress.com

I find it interesting to note that the previous reviewer mentions a supposed "lack" of a better story for Wonderful Days -- and yet still rates the film as an "8" (based on "artistic merit"), and then, oddly, states that the film "improves with repeat viewings".From my perspective, no amount of eye candy alone rates an "8" with me, and the ONLY films I watch more than once are films that have a good story.I would submit rather that the previous reviewer's remarks may have been clouded by personal notions regarding any of several plot points, or perhaps a predisposition to identifying (or not) with one or more of the key characters, problems which I did not encounter at all with this film.This is an important distinction for a reviewer to make. Personally, I found the story in Wonderful Days to be worthy of merit, well executed and illustrated, and that with a fine sense of style and wonderful dramatic touches."Poetic in certain passages" might even be a better descriptive. Please, by all means, view this film and enjoy.

... than it could've matched the animation. But as it is, unfortunately it only looks good! But then again, that's more than other movies achieve I guess.That's not to say, that the idea of the story was bad! Quite the contrary, I thought it was quite nice and maybe if they had worked a little bit more on it, it could've been great. But as it goes, this will leave you with the feeling that you watched something beautiful, but will net get you into thinking about it. Or make you want to watch the movie again! Animes tend to be too complex (packing to much story in as little time as possible), this one is also too light on the story side ...