Temptation. Everyone has a time where they have to choose the choice of their life atleast once in their life. Following their choices, there always are the basis of temptations. When I saw this short film, something about this film made me so guilty. It made me feel like this film knows something about me that makes me so evil and fake. Not only me, but people around me also have a tendency to sacrifice others inorder to gaine their own needs. However, what we are really missing out when we only see the close future ahead of us is that, after all, things are always working out the way that it is planned out to be and what ever we choose to do, the consequences come back to us no matter what. Things happen for a reason.

It is ofcourse hard to resist the temptation. We think. One shot. One shot or one choice, that is all it takes to get us out of this hard, tedious life. However, is that really the truth ? We always need to think; if that single tempation is really woth it of putting down or values. I believe the answer is no.

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When I write something about a movie, I try not to focus on what that movie is about but try to put importance on the impression I get from the movie. The reason why I do this is because what really matters in discussing about a movie is not the plot or topic of it but it is how each individual felt about it.

The second movie I want to bring up about is “The Hottest State.” Well, this movie is nothing close to a film that lingers around you after you watch it, in sense of message or meanings. To be honest, it doesn’t really give you something to learn and doesn’t really shift your perspectives. Despite that fact, one thing for sure is that this movie makes you feel happy and relaxed while you watch it.

Since I was a great fan of Ethan Hawke, when I realized that he produced “The Hottest State,” my expectations towards this movie and what he tried to say through the scenes were pretty high. Sometimes I found his cute, humorous sense from some of the lines, and other times I found deep and original thoughts that he wanted to to portray. By  watching how two young couples carry on their relationship; repetition of fight and reunion, I was connected to the essence of love and importance of finding someone who really connects.

What was more impacting about this movie was the music. The soundtracks in this movie came to me so friendly and warmly, so the music still lingers on me more than the scenes or lines of the movie. One of the lines that really came into my mind  from the song called “Never See You” was the phrase “When you smile and took my hand and when you said there was no question when you kindly thanked me, I knew then. But I would never see you again.” It just gave me the impression of cute love and little feelings of anxiousness when you encounter someone you think is the one for you. After all, music reminds me of the scenes, and scenes reminds me of the lines. An attempt to live another life by acting, William contrasts with Sarah, who wants to be herself and represent her in front of others through singing. The attraction of people who are opposite from each other adds on to the theme of this movie.

Sing, Act, and Love. You will learn connection between those three things by this movie, “The Hottest State.”

Mika -Over My Shoulder * REMEMBER TO CLICK “PLAY” BUTTON !

Before Sunrise. This movie is probably the one of my favorite movies that shifted my point of view and values the most. Not that I am not aware of other classics that has a great message in the film it self, but I got a huge impact by every single details of this movie. The way two characters talk, what they talk about, how they act, and the beautiful background of Europe, I can not forget a single detail about this movie. To begin with a brief story line, this movie draws a plot based on the day followed by two young strangers’ encounter during their trip. A handsome American tourist, Jesse, sees French student Celine on the train from Budapest to Vienna. Feeling a specialty between each other at first sight, Celine and Jesse decides to get off from the train and get to know each other. Scheduled flight back to America the next day, Jesse spends his once in a life time with Celine, traveling on the bricks of the road, and they come to see the connection between each other, the essence of their lives, hopes, passion, and love.

Daydream Delusion

Daydream delusion
Limousine Eyelash
Oh, baby with your pretty face
Drop a tear in my wineglass
Look at those big eyes
See what you mean to me
Sweet cakes and milkshakes
I am a delusion angel
I am a fantasy parade
I want you to know what I think
Don’t want you to guess anymore
You have no idea where I came from
We have no idea where we’re going
Launched in life
Like branches in the river
Flowing downstream
Caught in the current
I’ll carry you. You’ll carry me
That’s how it could be
Don’t you know me (poet hands poem back)
Don’t you know me by now

The scene that had the most impact on me was where Jesse and Celine was walking by the river and a street poet came up to them offering to write them a poem. He wrote a poem “daydream delusion,” and every line of the poem came in to my heart with great excitement and impact. I can’t forget their faces with beatiful background of river, and the mysterious but friendly image of the street poet. This movie made me want to tour Europe later in my life time. It made me want to want a person who I can share my everything, my thoughts, my dreams, hopes, passion and love. The look that Jesse had when he looked at Celine, and the look that Celine had when she looked at him; it felt like they had the world. Conversation of Jesse’s grandmother, about death, about thier life… everything was so new and meaningful to me. I was especially attracted by the fact that everything they did in the movie was so unplanned and was an offhand jest. Because I always dreamt of having trip with a special and unique person who I can really feel my emotinos and soul connect, this movie remains unforgettable in my heart.