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Sybil Dorsett (Sally Field), A Multiple Personality Disorder Patient          Hello everybody, welcome to another week where I review an exciting movie. This is the second last movie of the semester and I really hope that you have enjoyed reading my blogs so far. Today, we have another great film filled with enlightening and heart warming film, Sybil (1976), (just kidding). This film really makes you a little traumatized about watching it.           I am not going to lie, but when Dr. Goh said that this movie was three hour long and was featured over 30 years ago, I was skeptical to say the least when I saw this film. However, the duration of the film was actually justified by the fact that it gave sufficient character development to Sybil and the multiple personalities such as Vanessa, Vicky, and Peggy. Subsequently, the movie also build up the severity of the trauma from tripping her and slapping her to something at the end that traumatized the audience instead. The movie intr

In the Picture: Daigo Kobayashi, The Encoffiner            Death is a Taboo. In the Chinese culture that I live in, Death is widely celebrated with paying respects to ancestors multiple times a year and rituals that has been passed down. However, society simply does not look up to jobs like this. This pose a Question, "Would you be an Encoffiner?". Even Google, with its red underlining doesn't acknowledge "Encoffiner" as a real job. That is just how it goes in Social norms. While Jobs like Engineers, Lecturers and Doctors are high praised, who would willingly want to be a mortician, insurance seller or lorry drivers even though they come with extravagant salaries like the former? Would You?                      Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen, once again we have another movie that really surprised me and I rank this as my favorite movie as all time. Either I haven't watch too many great movies or I am a sucker for melodramas, let's get into th

           Hello Ladies and Gentlemen and Once Again, we have a thriller for you today. And by thriller, I mean a really intense, stress-inducing and heart pumping movie that will leave you leaving the Cinema 10 years older. If your idea of a great film is relaxing and inspiring, this film might not be for you. Without "dragging" any further, Let's get started!            Firstly, I am sure all of us have experienced a similar figure in our lives like Terence Fletcher. Someone who is ruthless and never afraid to tell what is on his mind. For me, it was my Chemistry teacher back in Foundation and I was probably resonated with the piece of good for nothing rubbish that is the back-up drummer for Neiman. We all have a set of dignity in ourselves that we would love nothing more than to uphold it. Now, if Mr. Fletcher were to come and embarrassed and downright shame you in front of everyone, this will straight up damage your self-esteem. Like most people that would been

          Hello everybody and once again, let's dig in and review another movie. This week we have a social-awareness and melodramatic- ish kind of film. The film is none other than 'Still Alice' which was produced 4 years ago, starring Julianne  Moore. Let's get started.            First, let's explore why I said that it was social-awareness video. When we see a poster of a elderly person exhibiting Alzheimer's Disease, it is less impact-ful than a featured film internalizing the emotions and the circumstances that a family going through. It gets you to wonder about the amount of loss that is experienced inside a patient of Alzheimer's such as Alice and have everything you work hard for stripped away from you. Alice was a top-notch linguistics professor and she is now resorted to being encapsulated in her own home and being doubted with every single action that she takes. Not only that, but the family go through a huge loss too. Imagine the person that wa

Hello everybody and once again, I will be reviewing a movie and this time we have a movie from the late 1990s and produced by the famous M.Night Shyamalan. Make no mistake about it, the movie was a oldie but a goodie. Let's get started.          I want you to look at your circle of friends. Everybody has them, the freak, the weirdo, the mad hatter. They are the freaks of the society that parents send to the psychologist. The antagonist, Cole was someone that could see and talk to the deceased, but no one believed him. He even said "Nobody will be upset with rainbows", indicated that he needed to conceal this part of him to not make the people around him worried or scared. However, as it seems, it is not easy to believe someone when they tell you their "secret". You begin to think that they are a schizo patient or pranking you. However, Cole utilized elements of persuasion in this successful attempt at convincing his own mother. Firstly, he used evidence based

    From the left: Ellen (Debra Winger), Mickey Gordon (Billy Crystal)      I am sure many of us has been in a puppy love, honeymoon phase or mere infatuation to a certain someone in our lives. Now, take that and add Love Steroids and the most romantic scenery you can imagine, you get this movie. Hello Everybody, my name is John Ng and today we will be reviewing the film, Forget Paris. Let's get Started.      Overall the theme of the movie revolves around the theme of love or the lack there of. As portrayed by most movies, they portray the romantic courting stage of love but not what happens after. The weight-gaining, stress inducing, hair-pulling marriage is often left out after the "Happily Ever Afters". Ellen and Mickey spent one of their most electrifying week in Paris but that didn't stay that way for long. One of the factors that influenced the decrease in attraction between Ellen and Mickey was their distance apart from one another due to initially Elle