holy shit, i cried!

with so many countless movies ive seen, i can honestly say that theres only two of them made me weep like an 7 y/o girl. that is CINEMA PARADISO & TEAGUKGI

first off, CINEMA PARADISO (1989), an italian film made by guiseppe tornatore, it tells about the story of "toto" a young boy who grew up not knowing about his father in a small sicilian village around 40's-50's fast forwarding to the future he is (toto) a successful film director, he returns home for the funeral of "alredo", his old friend who was a projectionist at the local cinema throughout "toto's" childhood and adloscent days, soon memories of his past came flashing back at him as he reminisce his life and reconnects with the community he left 30 years earlier from his first love affair with beautiful elena and all the highs and lows that shaped his life. i can practically see myself as "toto" a i myself is a filmbuff. throughout his childhood life the cinema became his huge playground, his fondness of cinema had became literally part of his life. the movie also divided in 3 stages that revolves around "toto's" life. from childhood where he always sneak in to the projection booth to see how the films works and to his adolescent days where he finds his first love and lastly his adult stage where he is now a successful director but still he find himself half empty. i consider this movie as the #1 pick of the best movie ive seen until the "godfather" comes along which by the way is now my top pick. but having said that, everything about this film is brilliant! from gorgeous cinematography upto the beautiful film score it just give me chills!

Tearjerker moment: on the last part where alredo gave toto all the negatives that contained all the nudity and kisses (back then nudity is not allowed to show so they have to cut it) and he started to watch it, well its just a bunch of cut out scene from different movies showing clips of nudity and kisses and then beautiful theme starts to play, argh! tears just begin to flow in my eyes without me realizing it! i was really sobbing! and upto its final credit UMIIYAK PARIN AKO! i think it took about 10mins after i came to my senses.

the next one is TAEGUKGI a.k.a "the brotherhood of war" (2004), a korean war film base on the relationship of two brothers who were forcely joined the army to fight with their rival nation N.Korea. the film begins with an old man (jin seok) being called up for an investigation if he knew something about the old remains of the skeleton seen. then he started to tell the story of what really happen between him and his brother during the war. the date was set during 1950 where the war was just about to start. jin tae (older brother) is a shoeshine boy and the bread winner of the family who works very hard just to make their ends meet and so that he could send his younger brother (jin seok) to college. when everything starting to go smoothly, the south korean government ordered they needed the help of the people, so every boy aged 18-30 must join the army. both jin tae and jin seok (jin seok just turned 18 at that time) have no choice but to join and leave their mute mother alone together with jin tae's fiance. since jin tae loved his brother so much and wanted his younger brother to be out of the war he requested to the chief that he would do everything. and he did, evertime that there will be an attack jin tae volunteer himself to fight even if he is not needed just he could send his younger brother home. but jin seok misunderstood his older brother's sacrifice and thinks that his older brother just simply doing it so that he could be promoted and be the nation's hero. all through out during the war jin seok hold a grudge against his older brother and thinks that the war eats his older brother up and became greedy of honors. when jin tae finds out that jin seok together with his fiance were killed by south koreans for suspecting as north koreans, jin tae is so furious thats why he diceded to join the enemies ally and sworn that he will kill every south koreans there is. but little did jin tae knows, his younger brother is still alive. jin seok seek his brother to help him surrender to south korean government but jin tae didnt recognize his own brother and tries to kill him and said that his brother is already dead.

tearjerker moment: when jin seok seek his older brother right in the center of the battle field he keeps saying that "bro! im jin seok, your brother!" but jin tae keeps beating him and screaming "my brother is dead!" then jin seok push his brother to the ground hugged him and look straight to his face and said (crying)"do you ever think about mom? you cant die, you have to see me go to college, you still have to make the shoes that you promised" then jin tae realizes that that was indeed his younger brother. jin tae ordered jin seok that he have to go far and he will surrender to the south government after jin seok left, jin tae was shot several times. then fast forward to the future. the old jin seok is standing in front of his older brother's skeleton's remain sobbing and said "i shouldnt left you there alone, ive been waiting for you for 50 years, brother say something! say something! (crying)" and when jin seok came back home he found the hidden shoe where his older brother is making for him. man! this movie made me cried my eyes out!