49일

Been watching this drama "49 days" or "49일" these few days. Chanced upon this drama thanks to one of its OST songs that I heard on radio. Such a heart-wrenching song.

Synopsis or maybe just spoilers (since I'm like telling most of the story)::: 

Shin Ji Hyun is a princessy only child who is about to get married to her beloved boyfriend-cum-fiancé Kang Min Ho when she got into an unfortunate accident. This accident was somehow caused by a stranger Song Yi Kyung who has been living her life like a zombie for the past 5 years and tried to commit suicide but failed to do so and inadvertently caused a pile-up along the same road that Shin Ji Hyun had her accident later on. As it was not yet her time to die, the soul reaper or Scheduler as called in the drama gave her an option to try to stay alive (her body was comatose) by collecting 3 drops of PURE tears that prove a person's true love for her within 49 days. Some conditions were laid out though. She could not approach any people related by blood to her and she was to use Song Yi Kyung's body as a host (during her sleeping hours) to do what she needed to. As she had to earn what she wants to spend, Shin Ji Hyun (in Song Yi Kyung's body) took up a part-time job at her childhood friend Han Kang's cafe. Han Kang happens to have a huge crush on Shin Ji Hyun but have kept it under wraps and distanced himself from her as he is too late. Plus her fiancé Kang Min Ho is a hyung he met while studying abroad.

Initially, Shin Ji Hyun thought that it was going to be easy as she could find her fiancé as well as her two best friends, Shin In Jung and Park Seo Woo, for those 3 tears. But as the story unfolds, it turns out that it is not that easy after all as Shin In Jung has been going out with Kang Min Ho for a long time and was in cahoots with him in planning the downfall of Shin Ji Hyun's dad's company. Marrying her was part of the plan. It all gets more confusing as over time, both Kang Min Ho and Han Kang starts to fall in love with Shin Ji Hyun in Song Yi Kyung's body. Thing is, Shin Ji Hyun is trusting and dimwitted at best and so she is just basically very blur about all these although up to the point I have watched, it seems that she has come to realise that Kang Min Ho is falling in love with her/Song Yi Kyung.

L to R: Shin In Jung, Scheduler, Song Yi Kyung, Han Kang, Shin Ji Hyun, Kang Min Ho

HAHA this drama is super awesome. It isn't tear-jerking or anything (the characters do a lot of crying though, n its sorta making me numb). Each episode is around 1 hour or so and it isn't too draggy or too rushed, the timing is very nice and enough is covered each episode. AND I'VE ONLY WATCHED LIKE 8 EPISODES?! Compare this to Secret Garden hmpf, duno why I wasted my time watching SG man...it was so draggy and the first part was boring. And yet people were raving about it =-= I think it's due to the cast members. SG has Hyun Bin and Ha Ji Won, enough eye candy. 49 days has Nam Gyuri who is like a doll, and rightfully so, cause her plastic surgery is far too extensive =-= the female lead (Song Yi Kyung's body which has Shin Ji Hyun's soul in it) Lee Yo Won is not exactly very pretty. She's tall but I don't think she has a very attractive vibe and her shoulders are not very wide, not that it's not good but I think she will look nicer with wider shoulders...there is Jung Il Woo as the Scheduler but eh his nose looks plastic too. Jo Hyun Jae (as Han Kang) is not bad too but he feels old for me and I still think something somewhere must be fake haha, this nagging feeling that only Lee Yo Won is natural enough. And maybe the actor that played Shin Ji Hyun's dad, Shin Il Shik.

I think one of the reasons for this awesomeness is that the characters and their histories are rich and very interesting so the audience have a lot to look forward to each episode. Plus they have their little secrets here and there, their intertwining lives and the whole soul and body belonging to different people thing going on. Damn good scriptwriters. Perhaps this kinda drama works for me - where the first episode seems to start from a certain point in the characters' lives and there are stuff to catch up on, instead of dramas where the audience experience things together with the characters at the same time and there is no secrets or flashbacks to indulge in. Sometimes when there are too many flashbacks it starts to get irritating but not for this drama, because as predictable as some of the flashbacks do get, they fit in nicely with the flow of the drama and thus, no complaints. I need to say it again, DAMN GOOD SCRIPTWRITERS.

I just realised that Secret Garden, 49 days and City Hunter were screened in this chronological order, no overlap. And yet all I heard people raving about was Secret Garden and City Hunter =-= WHY 왜왜왜? I haven't watched City Hunter yet, but I think that 49 days is quite tough to beat with regards to its plot. For the acting, Lee Yo Won is doing a decent job acting as Song Yi Kyung in her zombie-like state as well as the bubbly but dimwitted-at-times crybaby Shin Ji Hyun (albeit still in Song Yi Kyung's body). These two characters have such different personalities haha but Shin Ji Hyun in both her own body and Song Yi Kyung's never fails to make me irritated. Cuz I don't find her antics cute and I hate her crying for almost anything. But I don't hate her haha just irritated, that's all. Up to this point, I do not hate any of the characters though I do dislike some of them for the bad stuff they have done (Kang Min Ho and Shin In Jung) but the scriptwriters are doing a good job making them have reasons for their "evilness" and thus the audience would most probably empathise with them instead of hating any character to the core.

Moral-of-the-story wise, 49 days is showing us the reality of life. Your so-called true friends may not be what they seem and it would take another besides you (or maybe just a different body) to figure that out because some people are just so god damn good in acting. It is a bit sad to think that if there are less than 3 people who truly loves you, your life isn't worth living. I love it when a drama or movie depicts life the sucky way it is and not sugarcoat it and just put in standard bickering and soap drama plots.

If only it was possible to tell if someone really loves you.

I choose to spend 100 days with Mr. Arrogant in 2012

Three movies!

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100 Days With Mr. Arrogant

Disgustingly funny movie. Like it is funny due to some disgusting scenes as well as some not so very innocent scenes, which I doubt I would have understood the humor behind it if I had watched it like in secondary school. See how my mind has become polluted over the years? =-= I am afraid that next time kids will have no problem watching NC16, M18 comedies and end up understanding them perfectly fine. I think the way they determine movie ratings need to be constantly updated.

SPOILERS

Anyway, both the leads are eye-candy, so even when the acting becomes overboard act-cute for Ha Ji Won’s part, you overlook it. You can also overlook the not so good CGI at the bungee jumping scene thanks to the pretty enough faces of the characters.

I don’t like the build-up of their love story. It is similar to BOF’s Jan Di and Jun Pyo in a way, Like I do not get to witness the growth of their love, how it was nurtured. There weren’t enough scenes to show the changing attitude of the two towards each other, in my opinion. Although it was shown that the male lead started to be nicer to the girl but I don’t know leh, there is a lack of feel? The only sweet scene besides the happy ending scene was the part where they were saying good night to each other through sms and the guy was gonna type a reply in a similar sweet tone as the girl’s but ended up deciding against showing his true feelings. That part to me is more significant and is more useful to the plot than the rest of the story which doesn’t flow too well. It made me go “Ah-ha! Caught you! You have fallen in love with her.” There was supposedly this other scene (the bungee jump one) that is supposed to have a similar effect but it fell flat because of the pathetic CGI and cuz the lack of interaction between the two while the girl lay in hospital downplayed the whole significance of that scene. They spent like a few seconds filming in that room with the guy sitting there and then getting up, then the girl finally open her eyes. They could have planned for the guy to like hold her hands at least, but no. Or better yet say some mushy stuff that reveal his feelings but then the girl was still knocked out so didn’t hear. I thought that is the standard formula of most romantic shows? Maybe the director is trying to break out of the norm but ahem, the whole story is still sorta predictable, so...haiz.

I did like the flow of things after their 100-day anniversary though. A try at a plot twist there, and the twist made sense. And those lights near the river was so cool!!! I do wonder though, why the girl never start hitting the guy (jokingly, of course) after learning the truth of him ganging up with her mum, her current tutor and even her college to trick her. Thought that is a good formula to follow – girl hits guy although she is obviously relieved and happy and then the guy grabs her hands and they kiss. Feels very standard kinda thing to me. And since romantic shows are usually very predictable to start off, might as well go on and follow the standard formula and have fans go aww and cry at all the specific moments in the film. I guess can just watch this very predictable movie for eye candy and to while away time when you feel like doing nothing at all.

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Choose

This was supposed to be some thriller film. Not a horror or scary kinda film but also not very thrilling.

SPOILERS

The twist wasn’t a very OMG-WHAT-THE-HELL twist, but an ok twist. I do get the motivation behind the psycho’s actions, trying to take revenge (as it mostly is).  The whole movie feels like a failed SAW-impersonating movie, where victims are forcibly asked to choose between two impossible choices, both which brings pain and suffering. It is also shown that the victims were all chosen for a reason, but I think that the torturing parts were not enough (3, 4 if you count the sheriff) and the connection was made late and wasn’t strong enough an impact. And the ending confused me a lot. I understood that the creepy guy Fiona saw in the hotel was the lover of her mother but I am confused as to if he had a part in egging her half-brother, the torturer, to take revenge or if he was part of the action all along., cuz the movie ended after his identity was revealed. The actors did a decent and believable job though.

Overall, I thought it was a waste of my time as not only was the plot weak but even the scares and torture wasn’t deliciously evil or disgusting.

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2012

The effects were good, and all the close-calls when it came to running away from the disaster made it nerve-wracking as the audience is made to sit on the edges of their seats hoping the characters could get out of the place in time and then heaving a sigh of relief along with everyone when they do succeed.

SPOILERS

There was some like “humans should fight for each other” message but then like the vigilant citizen website (http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/the-hidden-symbolic-meaning-of-the-movie-2012/) said, it was more of “the rich will survive and the rest of you shall die”. The movie makes sense in that indeed, a lot of capital is needed in order to build all these humungous ships. The website is correct in pointing out that although Dr. Helmsley made a speech about how humans should fight for each other, he didn’t volunteer to like give up his seat whatsoever to those other poorer, less-privileged people who have all been left behind to die. He only “realizes” his wrongdoing perhaps, near the end and takes action. But so many are already dead, a bit late huh? But I guess this is where “it’s never too late for anything” comes in. After all, his speech saved the rich, who were the one who funded this whole thing. I think it is dumb that they wasted so many precious seconds debating and voting on the ships whether or not to open the doors for the rich who were almost left behind because there was no time. And I want to know what happens afterwards. Do the rich simply forget about how they were almost abandoned and make peace to continue life on Earth or will they bear a grudge and only start the quarrelling etc after they reach Africa safely and cannot be threatened by the ship’s controllers to be thrown overboard?

The vigilant citizen complains that disaster movies always depict the layman as a bunch of irrational, rowdy people that required shepherding, but I think that this is not entirely untrue. People do panic and forget how to think rationally in times of despair and this isn’t something to be ruled out.

I think just watch the movie without reading too much into anything is good haha hopefully you won’t be subconsciously trained to think a certain way about certain stuff after watching movies with supposed “hidden meanings”.

The Dark Knight Rises

Thanks to omy.sg and Domino's Pizza, I not only got to catch The Dark Knight Rises for free but also got posters, collectible The Dark Knight Rises glass cups and free Domino pizzas (in the form of vouchers)!!! =D

I remember seeing Domino's in Korea and it was then endorsed by Kim Soo Hyun.

Apparently, now it's not =( but anyway, I didn't get to try Domino's in Korea either as we were only eating the pizza selling within campus and any other pizza that school events ordered (which wasn't Domino's for some reason). Now I'll get to try it in Singapore...soon haha then I'll have to right to comment about its taste. Although there is no direct comparison, if Domino's in Korea is close to the national standard of pizzas over there, Domino's Singapore has quite a lot of expectations to live up to. The healthy pizzas there are seriously HEALTHY. No joke. Like your fingers won't even get oily after eating and I would describe the crust as more chewy than dry. This in comparison to the "healthy" choices we have here, ha, no competition at all. And they have fillings like sweet potato that surprising goes pretty well with the toppings and I don't really feel sick of it even after eating several slices.



Wakao look at that dough falling...drools...but since Domino's didn't even start from Korea, let's put this aside haha. From perusing through the webbie of Domino's here, I think they set high expectations for themselves too, service wise at least, with 30 minute delivery and 15 minute takeaway guarantees. I remember always hearing on the other side of the phone that at least 45 minutes or sometimes an hour (peak hour) is needed for delivery when I placed orders, but I've not ordered pizza since I left for Korea so eh, not sure if the situation has turned for the better, but still kudos to Domino's for this kinda guarantee. Damn, I am getting hungry @.@

Ok done with food for now!!! Until I taste it for myself.

Collection of tix and goodie bags at GV Vivocity

Pictures of what was in the goodie bag

stickers, why no joseph gordon-levitt?! =(

the limited edition glass that Domino's Pizza was giving away with purchase of certain items

3 posters in total for one goodie bag. still no joseph gordon-levitt =(

On to the movie! =D so awesome~ was supposed to go watch with friends after I caught The Dark Knight on channel 5 and the new one came out in cinemas but then due to some schedule issues, the plan fell through. So great that I managed to get this chance to watch, although it only officially started screening around 9.20pm+ and ended at around 12 midnight, causing the audience to all rush out to catch the last buses of the day. The timing was a bit awkward...heng we got onto the last bus, if not would have to have taken a taxi and cost a bomb to get to my house O.o I found it weird that we were asked to register from 7.30pm onwards but we could only enter the theatre at around 9pm (although it was stated on the event invite that we could at 8.30pm). Oh wells, I think there must be some admin stuff going on. And I expected a mini pizza reception instead of receiving vouchers so it was O.o when they started distributing the food vouchers to us while waiting in the cinema.

There was a short speech by the marketing manager of Domino's where she mentioned that this is most successful movie collaboration (with The Dark Knight Rises) out of those that Domino's has done so far. They were giving away special limited edition glasses (which we were given for this movie event) with purchase of The Dark Knight Rises meal or The Rising Add-on Bonus, but the promotion just ended today (5 August). Hopefully they will do collabs for Catching Fire and Mockingjay *fangirls*

Then the movie finally started! YAYS *some spoilers*

I remember a while back hearing some random guy talk about the movie on the mrt. He commented that The Dark Knight was better and that the latest installment doesn't make sense. I agree with the first part, I disagree with the second. I liked how the second movie in this trilogy revolved around the theme of having a good and evil side to everyone and about trying to suppress that evil/bad side of yours. I especially liked the part where two boats of civilians and criminals were set up against each other by The Joker. It goes to show the darker side in humans where even though we have not erred before, we might not think twice to do something if it's to save our own asses. Selfish - that's what we truly are. It's just a matter of having more self-control to keep your nature in check, or the world is doomed. I totally loved how the movie managed to point this out very beautifully - making me start to support the Joker and want the good people to blow up the other ship first just to prove the point XD yes i nearly went as psycho as the Joker himself. For this movie, the true cowardly and selfish nature of humans are again shown. The rest of the nation leaves Gotham city to their own devices when threatened by a nuclear bomb going off should there be outside intervention.

I pity Tom Hardy who acts as Bane. It's gonna be hard for people to judge him for his acting skills as most of the time he has this oxygen mask covering his nose and mouth, and he has to rely on his eyes only to portray any emotion (erm not much emotion to be shown with this character either). Basically, it isn't a role that's gonna allow him to shine + he's wearing that uncomfortable mask and very uncomfortable long coat + he has Heath Ledger's Joker as his villain predecessor who was scary yet beautiful in his acting.

The major twist in this movie is quite awesome. I guessed that Miranda was nothing good but as the movie went on and she didn't do anything evil, I gave her benefit of the doubt. Totally didn't recognise the first sign of her being a villain - the truck marked by Gordon and his team as the one transporting the nuclear core was actually a decoy; Miranda helped measure the radioactivity or something for that particular truck and identified it as high readings of radioactivity and thus the correct truck. I just thought that Bane found out what they were doing and changed trucks =-=
While Bruce was stuck in the well-like prison that Ra's al Ghul, then later his wife and child, used to be held, it was constantly mentioned by the characters inside that the child of Ra's al Ghul was the only one who has managed to escape from there before. After a sighting of Ra's al Ghul's apparition, Bruce in his physically and mentally broken state deduced that Bane is that child and started bucking up and recovering so that he could go back to save his city. Flashbacks also showed a child that we are assumed was male with his/her very short hair that's close to bald. Turns out that child is a female and Miranda Tate at that.

The ending of the movie does a nice summing up - showing that carrying away the nuclear core and having it explode above water didn't kill Batman/Bruce (he managed to run a patch installing auto-pilot on The Bat), how Bruce is now living a new life (with Selina Kyle/Catwoman) as Alfred once mentioned he hoped he would have and John Blake revealing his registered legal name to be Robin and then making his way to the Batcave (though I'm still unsure how he got the coordinates, I think I blinked somewhere for too long or sth haha).

The action and CGI was good, storyline was okok. I liked the score!!! Builds up the tension very well. I liked Anne Hathaway's acting! I think it's also because her character is in a dilemma and thus have more emotions to perform. Robin/John Blake was a bit boring and I still don't like Commissioner Gordon's continuous lies/coverups. I vote for Gotham to know who Batman was, for this movie, I don't get the point in not revealing since he is thought to be dead anyway and most prob not coming back. The "anyone can be Batman" hope and crap thing that Bruce stood by doesn't make sense to me =-= Do the kids that saw The Bat blowing up together with the nuclear core believe Batman survived it?

I want a new trilogy or something!! With Robin officially inside too, as a sidekick or as a lead I don't care. I want Joseph Gordon-Levitt to reprise his role, that's it.

Mr. Nobody (2009 movie)

My mind is totally jumbled!!! gyahhhhhhh

I think I just spent almost 4 hours watching a 2 hour movie, and this is exclusive of the little breaks in between and dinner. "Mr. Nobody" is sick, and I am not sure myself whether it is in a good way or bad T.T I'm just really confused and quite speechless right now. I had to rewind and rewatch a lot of scenes along the way, so if I caught this in the cinema I would have died of frustration and confusion once I came out. Or maybe I'll just bang my head against the cinema floor after the movie.

Anyway, another reason why I took double the time needed was because while rewinding, I was also attempting to make notes and figure out how many different possibilities/dimensions the movie was portraying. I remember I wiki-ed this movie previously when I found it on youtube and read that it was confusing but I totally forgot until I watched it =-= and I think wiki did mention the different scenarios and all that too but I shall type out what I managed to sieve out before reading wiki again haha, to prevent overwriting of opinions.

My (hopefully correct) analysis/deduction is that there were these scenarios playing out in the little kid(Nemo)'s mind:

• Went with mum, rejected Anna's offer to swim with her and her friends, ends up meeting Anna and her kids many years down the road and regrets
• Went with mum, swims with Anna and ends up "brother" and "sister" as Nemo's mum and Anna's dad gets together, but they stay as lovers who are eventually separated as Anna and her dad moves away after the parents' separation, meet several years later and vows to meet again by the lighthouse but rain smudged the number Anna asked Nemo to contact her at
• Went with mum, swims with Anna and ends up with her eventually in adulthood, Nemo becomes some "host" for some science/philosophy program but ends up drowning while trapped in the car after swerving into the river on the way back home from work
• Went with dad, Nemo falls in love with Elise but gives her up when seeing her with Stefano, the man she loves, and goes out venting in a motorcycle and gets into an accident, falls into a coma
• Went with dad, Nemo doesn't give Elise up but after their wedding they get into an accident and Elise dies, Nemo keeps his initial promise of spreading her ashes on Mars, there he meets the other scenario Anna who is studying time and a collision between meteorites and their space shuttle kills both of them
• Went with dad, Nemo doesn't give Elise up but after bearing 3 kids together, Elise is falling into depression and neglecting her duties as a mother and wife, being unable to forget about Stefano her first love and eventually leaves Nemo when she can no longer take it
• Went with dad, Nemo doesn't give Elise up and instead decides to marry the first girl that dances with him at some ball, Elise ignores him and dances with Stefano and to spite her, Nemo dances with Jeanne and bringing her home on his motorcycle, making a list of things to accomplish - marrying Jeanne, having two kids, owning a house and convertible etc, but ends up bored with his life after accomplishing all and do some coin-flipping again to decide what actions to take and eventually assumes the identity of a man named Daniel Jones, causing him to eventually be shot in the head after coming out of the water in the bathtub

Confusing much, eh. By the way, apparently it is revealed near the end that most of the 2 hours of movie you have been watching were just going on in the mind of 8/9 year old Nemo. Just a figment of his imagination of the consequences of choices he made. And the opening of the movie simply showed the ways he died after making different choices.

Ok done with reading wiki (again, since I forgot its contents from the first time), YAY my scenarios are quite accurate haha but seriously, if its gonna take rewinding to piece the puzzle pieces together, then I think it isn't such a good idea to watch it in cinemas, renting a DVD is better. And I totally didn't take note of the colour schemes - red for passion/love (Anna), blue for depression (Elise), yellow for materialistic stuff (Jeanne). But now that I read it on wiki, yea I think I remember Jeanne being associated with yellow and Anna with red but not so much of blue for Elise. I guess the colour schemes were considered pretty subtle, not in-your-face kinda thing so we really need to be more attentive to catch it.

The little girls who said Hi to the child Nemo, in their colour schemes

I liked how the movie incorporated butterfly effect, pigeon superstition and all that into the movie. The examples of how a low quality shoelace eventually caused the boy Nemo to lose his shoe while running, hindering him from getting to his mother, and also of how the adult Nemo choosing a cheaper pair of jeans caused a factory to relocate from Brazil to elsewhere and caused the unemployment of a man who boiled an egg few months down the road causing a micro climate that resulted in rain, which caused the ink noting Anna's contact number to run, and thus Nemo lost contact with Anna after managing to find her with much luck after many years. My god, this movie review is making me type uber long sentences that are hard to read and digest, like the movie itself =-=

One problem with me is that I like to do mental calculations, of the addition and subtraction form mostly. Its almost like OCD. So when it was stated in the movie near the beginning that the character was born in 1975 and the year now is 2092 and a newspaper said that the guy is 118 years old, the wheels in my head started turning and I concluded that there is some calculation error, he should be 117 unless we take the guy's Korean age XD but anw, few minutes more into the movie, there was a mention that he is 117. =-= ok this was random.

Anyway, the 117 year old Nemo said to the journalist talking to him for half of the movie "What do you see when you look at me?......etc" and I was like O.o cuz i remember reading it on some shared link on facebook. I googled it and apparently it was just phrased quite similarly to this poem written by this old man and spread by nurses. And since this poem was already posted in that thread in 2007 and Mr. Nobody is a 2009 movie, even if plagiarism is the case, its the scriptwriter's fault (but the content isn't exactly the same, just the contents of how the old man remembers himself as a young boy then young man).

Other little stuff that they focused on, maybe not of the very confusing but undeniably smart and artistic way of portraying life and choices, but directing (and erm issit called screenplay) wise, when the adolescent Anna and Nemo were getting intimate they filmed his/her (no idea) hair standing, like really starting to stand. Like omg. And also how when he sorta wake up from each scenario to jump to another, he will call out the name of the woman in another scenario. Ok bad explanation =-= simply put: when he woke up in an Anna dimension/situation, he called out for Jeanne when awoken; called Anna when in an Elise situation; called Elise when he woke up to Jeanne.

I am still confused yet awed at the same time so this cannot even really be considered a review, more like spoiler or rather guide to understanding this movie if I should decide to watching it a second time much later to see if I get further insights (highly doubt so). And the hibernation thingy for trip to Mars reminds me of that in Prometheus, which I haven't reviewed although it was eons ago when I watched it =-=

Ok abruptly end here cuz i need to ZZZ

UPDATE (2/8)!

I am fully awake now haha
I love Jared Leto's eyes!!! Really O.O very piercing and blue. I could drown in them. They managed to find a kid and an adolescent with similar eyes too but theirs not as scary and creepy. In the opening scenes, we can see the various situations in which Mr. Nobody will lose his life depending on his choices in life and one of them is the one where he gets shot in the head and we see him like knocked out dead and eyes still WIDE OPEN. Very freaky =-= and I realised that he does have a resemblance at certain angles and with a certain hairstyle (he had quite a few different hairstyles in the movie but I didn't take note if they had any symbolism/hint about the storyline).

see!!! its really O.O and looks like zac efron here

His eyes I guess are the more shocked look kind haha compared to the intense kind of piercing eyes like Ian somerhalder's.

maybe it's really just due to the size of the eyes

Gyahh I wish I could have light eye colour, so nice!!! T.T

Ok ahem, to comment about the acting, honestly, I didn't really take note, cuz the storyline alone was tough enough for me to take in. But I know for sure that Jared Leto didn't disappoint. He was also the one who acted as the 117 year old Nemo, albeit using plenty of makeup. Wakao, the way he manage to mimic the way elderly speak and facial expressions and all was 대박. Really. I was pleasantly surprised the other time when I found out he was from 30 seconds to mars. As in, I really thought he is some full time actor...i found a new idol man...
As for the rest of the actors, they were alright. None of them were cringeworthy actors. I specially want to mention the actress who acted as the adult Elise though. She was mostly crying inside the movie or acting super emo and she really pull it off. I have no idea if she is using makeup or method acting or what but her eyes were really puffy, like from crying for ages. And the way she cries and acts, is scary. As in, she really comes off as an extremely depressed mum probably also diagnosed with some mental disorder. But I don't know her name haha and I didn't really bother finding out now either haha

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The T-ara thing hasn't cooled down yet. If only it wasn't negative stuff, I think this is pretty good publicity haha allkpop for one is already posting an article for each little action taken by the parties involved =-=

Was wondering why the entertainment companies refuse to reveal details about the exact reasons for dismissal like in the Jay Park situation, there were many rumors and accusations floating around about why he left and some are not nice, like he committed something really bad. And if the company keeps mum saying its for the artiste's own good, I don't know leh, it's quite 进退两难 too I guess, but really, it keeps the rest of the population wondering and jumping to conclusions about things. It could be that it was really something bad that he committed or the company was covering up and finding a way to dismiss him only - saying this kinda thing is quite an easy way out. But in this case, I think either the management doesn't know what's going on within T-ara and just doing their own jobs trying to keep the group afloat, or the management is in it together with the members that supposedly bullied Hwayoung. Cuz if the translations were correct, Jiyeon did say something like "good actor" which doesn't seem to be targeting any staff member or wad since the CEO insists that their "Determination" twitter stuff were talking about how when a big group of members and staff move together they need to work together crap. Like this doesn't really cover up their twitter posts? Plus Hwayoung's own reply targeted at their posts, saying determination alone is not enough at times. Like erm is she the only one defending a supposed staff member or someone who brought down the whole grp? =-= duno lah, just v arghs at the whole issue, cuz feels lik jaypark all over again. That contributed to me losing faith in kpop, plus the fact that there were too many groups debuting with no very obvious talent and catchy songs to boot.