My Week with Marilyn

A beautifully slow-paced story with Michelle Williams’s outstanding performance, supported by a group of amazing actors.

After seeing some of Marilyn Monroe’s clips, I truly believe that Michelle Williams successfully captured her elegance and desirability, which is a higher level than physical similarity.

As the other lead, Eddie Redmayne is not impressive even though his character doesn’t require much sophistication. There’s a fine line between being innocent and being dull.

Life Partner is a two-way street. The marriage will never work if you drive your life-partner crazy all the time regardless how much you shine on the stage. On the other hand, quite often, when a man wants something too desirable, thinking about the future is not on his list. Marilyn Monroe is a one of a kind beauty with a tragically absolute destiny.

7/10

Kung Fu Music Video

This is a music video I cut 3 years ago, just for fun. With clips from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero and music Crawling by Linkin Park.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith – Personal Trailer

This is an entertaining trailer I cut 3 years ago, just for fun.

The Skates

This is my Graduation Project at University in 2009. Took me 3 months independently.

ZBrush for modeling partially, XSI for modeling partially and animating, Photoshop for texture editing, Eyeon Fusion for compositing, Premiere Pro for editing.

Snack Bar Commercial

This is a commercial that my friends shot and I edited in 2010, for a Snack Bar in Toronto Underground Cinema. We were the winner of that competition.

Used Avid Media Composer.

Departures Fan Video

Departures is a Canadian travel show. This is a video about Why People Like Departures that I’ve edited last year.

The Descendants

A sweetly handled sad story with an amazing cast. George Clooney deserves a big one by playing a father who struggles with his love, kids and business at the same time.

Life is surprising and those surprises are usually signs for you. A wise man seeks out what’s more valuable in his life after the graving process and he takes action.

Don’t ever forget your root. It’s interesting that history tells us everything but most of the time, it doesn’t change what we do, not even a little bit.

So want to go to Hawaii sometime.

8/10

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Extremely detailed cinematography, unnoticeably fitting music and smooth editing, this is another masterpiece with profound story. Not to mention the stunning makeup and splendid performance by Rooney Mara who is incredibly young.

Some religion believes that human are born with sins. Some culture believes that human are naturally kind, on the other hand. Opposite opinions based on the same world. I guess truth is always in perspectives.

There’s an old Chinese saying, a fearless hero can’t pass a beauty. At least in David Fincher’s version, it works with the other gender as well.

9/10

The Artist

You don’t realize how much unnecessary dialogue that modern films have until you start watching a silent one.

Dramatic story with dramatic but fitting acting incredibly led by Jean Dujardin(and the dog ), plus modern smooth editing. Silent movie doesn’t mean no play with the sound. In fact, this one successfully used the sound on perfect times which is amazingly engaging for nowadays audience.

The ending could be more memorable though since I was tearing up right before.

9/10

The Wave

Centralism can always unify strengths really well that makes it much stronger than others in a period, Soviet Union as the perfect example. Just like any living thing, however, it has a lifespan, which is why even the strongest dynasty in Chinese history was still less than 4 centuries, including those chaos years.

In order to make a society more sustainable, socialism came along. However, according to what’s currently happening in Europe, seems like it has a lifespan too and probably no longer than Centralism’s.

There’s a saying, you either go fabulous for a few years and pay back later, or even things out in your life. Similar choices here, do you rather living in a country that’s average but durable, or the one that’s in a peak but will go down in a few decades? I guess people who have a good family would have a different choice than the ones who don’t.

Fascism can happen in anytime regardless what kind of country you’re in. Because no matter it’s capitalism, socialism or even communism, there are still people who are not happy about their lives. Just like the poor kid in the end.

Profound concept but with a slightly shallow touch, considering it’s based on a true story.

7/10