Jeux d'Enfants
Love Me If You Dare.
Awesome, awesome movie. Best comedy/romance movie ever. One of the best movies in my list.
Sure, maybe there were some American style in terms of technical blah that some people complain about, despite it being a French movie but who cares about technical whatevers and a bunch of seeming gobbledygook when the story is that good? (And the 8 yr old Julien-one of the two main characters, is extremely cute. I mean, really.)
Beautiful cinematography, visuals, screenplay, acting and every other thing I wasn't able to write. It's that good.
The movie basically involves a merry go round candy can and two friends, Julien and Sophie. They started daring each other when they were 8. Everytime you have the can, you can give the other a dare. He does the dare to show you how much he wants that can. When he completes the dare, you give the can back. And it's his time to dare.
Until the dares touch on love for each other. The lines between them get muddled and it came to a point wherein the girl put on a dare, due to some stuff the guy did: not see each other for one year. And then, after 4 years of not seeing each other Julien reappears and did something really cruel to Sophie. He gave her rings and told her to keep them until the wedding day. But it's not THEIR wedding, but Julien's and another woman's.
During the wedding, Sophie reminds Julien of a dare she gave him and he accepted when they were 8: Say 'no' during your wedding. Blablabla. Fast forward. Julien dares Sophie to stand in the middle of a train track blind-folded. A train approaches. Julien doesn't yell 'No' to end the dare so Sophie can escape the train just in time. So Sophie just takes off the blind fold and poof: let's not see each other in 10 years, dare.
And then Julien marries and gets 2 kids and becomes a successful architect(?) in that span of time. So does Sophie, she marries her soccer playing boyfriend who turned into the nation's soccer star from being some loser, pennyless soccer dude. And for the span of that 10 years Julien's just waiting for the dare to end. Then the day the dare ends finally comes. They're both 35 years old.
And let's just say it involved Sophie sending Julien a package. Julien coming to her house. The police. A car chase. A car accident. Truck collision. And a big explosion.
But it doesn't end there, of course :p That's way far from the real ending. Watch it. You have to watch it. The ending involves the ultimate dare which requires them to do it together, and lets them win it together.
The ending is a bit tragic from a materialist (the rooted to the world and living and scientific proofs kind of materialist), in-love-with-the-world point of view as mine. But at the same time, it's a beautiful ending. The ultimate dare in the movie... It's like the best moment of your life "frozen" and "stretched" to "infinity." It's that one dare I don't know if I'm ever going to have the guts to do. It requires intense selflessness, which I don't think I have in that intensity as shown in the movie. I am human and it's natural to put yourself first before all else. And I guess what Julien and Sophie did puts them at an either, inhuman (in a good way) or hyperhuman (too much love? heh) level.
The movie's hilarious, lovely, beautiful, heart breaking, heart stuffing, and great. Just great. It may not seem much in text, I certainly didn't do justice to summarizing it, but I assure you. It's one of the best movies. If you loved Amelie, you'll love this more. If you didn't like Amelie, well perhaps you'd like this because it's easier to relate to it and probably a lot of funnier scenes wherein you don't have to identify with the characters to find it funny or whatever. (But Amelie's a great movie too, don't get me wrong... I loved that one too.)
Come on, watch it if you dare. :p
"And the ending of the movie... did they or didn't they? Which scene was real? Perhaps the whole game was on the audience? We were "it"? Buried in the magic of the excitement... the addiction to romance and what we expect from it from our point of view... You see the box was in box endings.. meanwhile real life goes on... :)"
-a quote from the IMDB message board, annnmouse
Awesome, awesome movie. Best comedy/romance movie ever. One of the best movies in my list.
Sure, maybe there were some American style in terms of technical blah that some people complain about, despite it being a French movie but who cares about technical whatevers and a bunch of seeming gobbledygook when the story is that good? (And the 8 yr old Julien-one of the two main characters, is extremely cute. I mean, really.)
Beautiful cinematography, visuals, screenplay, acting and every other thing I wasn't able to write. It's that good.
The movie basically involves a merry go round candy can and two friends, Julien and Sophie. They started daring each other when they were 8. Everytime you have the can, you can give the other a dare. He does the dare to show you how much he wants that can. When he completes the dare, you give the can back. And it's his time to dare.
Until the dares touch on love for each other. The lines between them get muddled and it came to a point wherein the girl put on a dare, due to some stuff the guy did: not see each other for one year. And then, after 4 years of not seeing each other Julien reappears and did something really cruel to Sophie. He gave her rings and told her to keep them until the wedding day. But it's not THEIR wedding, but Julien's and another woman's.
During the wedding, Sophie reminds Julien of a dare she gave him and he accepted when they were 8: Say 'no' during your wedding. Blablabla. Fast forward. Julien dares Sophie to stand in the middle of a train track blind-folded. A train approaches. Julien doesn't yell 'No' to end the dare so Sophie can escape the train just in time. So Sophie just takes off the blind fold and poof: let's not see each other in 10 years, dare.
And then Julien marries and gets 2 kids and becomes a successful architect(?) in that span of time. So does Sophie, she marries her soccer playing boyfriend who turned into the nation's soccer star from being some loser, pennyless soccer dude. And for the span of that 10 years Julien's just waiting for the dare to end. Then the day the dare ends finally comes. They're both 35 years old.
And let's just say it involved Sophie sending Julien a package. Julien coming to her house. The police. A car chase. A car accident. Truck collision. And a big explosion.
But it doesn't end there, of course :p That's way far from the real ending. Watch it. You have to watch it. The ending involves the ultimate dare which requires them to do it together, and lets them win it together.
The ending is a bit tragic from a materialist (the rooted to the world and living and scientific proofs kind of materialist), in-love-with-the-world point of view as mine. But at the same time, it's a beautiful ending. The ultimate dare in the movie... It's like the best moment of your life "frozen" and "stretched" to "infinity." It's that one dare I don't know if I'm ever going to have the guts to do. It requires intense selflessness, which I don't think I have in that intensity as shown in the movie. I am human and it's natural to put yourself first before all else. And I guess what Julien and Sophie did puts them at an either, inhuman (in a good way) or hyperhuman (too much love? heh) level.
The movie's hilarious, lovely, beautiful, heart breaking, heart stuffing, and great. Just great. It may not seem much in text, I certainly didn't do justice to summarizing it, but I assure you. It's one of the best movies. If you loved Amelie, you'll love this more. If you didn't like Amelie, well perhaps you'd like this because it's easier to relate to it and probably a lot of funnier scenes wherein you don't have to identify with the characters to find it funny or whatever. (But Amelie's a great movie too, don't get me wrong... I loved that one too.)
Come on, watch it if you dare. :p
"And the ending of the movie... did they or didn't they? Which scene was real? Perhaps the whole game was on the audience? We were "it"? Buried in the magic of the excitement... the addiction to romance and what we expect from it from our point of view... You see the box was in box endings.. meanwhile real life goes on... :)"
-a quote from the IMDB message board, annnmouse
posted by Byeong | 11:06:00 AM
11 Comments:
opinion ko lang to ah. i think the last dare was metaphorical... so in the end, you see them using the box as just a real box.
yeah, i think the ultimate dare is to live a real life, stop playing games, grow up and truly love someone. because face it, dares are fun :D
-faye
*i mean, ordinary box. you know, with candy inside haha
-faye
*i mean can!
hm.. at least you didn't spoil it for me. damn, i want to get hold of original foreign film videos someday hehe..
er.. is it too much if i ask you to watch my sassy girl? (alright i didn't type capital letters so it won't be so flashy). :)
I wonder why foreign rom coms (well there are exceptions) have very unique stories. hehe.
FAYE: Some think it's metaphorical too but I think they really did it. And the montage, especially the one wherein they were old just goes to show their love lived, or whatever. Oh well, both are possible. But why the hell was the can on top of the cement block in the end???
JM: Yeah, especially French ones. ANd they're really eccentric. Ang dami ng nagpapapanood sakin ng MSG (actually si Dizon lang tsaka isa kong non-pisay friend).
malay ko sanyo...
nag-float yung can? nge hahaha ang galing no. i mean metaphorical or real, it still means the same essentially. that they dared to love. -faye
Take out the dare. THey just loved. heh
We have a dvd of that..ngayon ko lang nalaman hahhaa
ano??? borrow borrow hahaha! :D -faye
AYISSE, ano? meron kayo? Nyahaha borrow diiiin :D Panuroin mooooo.
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