Movie Review: The Invention of Lying

A comedy movie directed by the co-creator of BBC's The Office, portrays a world where everyone can only tell the truth. Can you imagine how the world would be if everyone is so honest in their opinion? Does it make our world become a better?

In my opinion, the perspective in creating this movie is brilliant. It makes us think about things that never happen in this world and what if that does happen. When you picture yourself in the movie, it seems that Truth is just hurting everyone. People says horrible things about each other. Some people are taking it pretty well or at least it seems so, and some people are deeply hurt. Since the Truth makes most people hurt, Lying is permissible to get what people want.

Overall, the story is entertaining. However, we still need to remember the real substance in life. Everything that happens have positive sides, the Truth that should be told. Of course, telling the bad side of others can still be beneficial. It lets people realize what really happens and what they should do instead of dragging other people to take the wrong path. That makes Truth become a good thing. So does how the movie end (a little bit of  spoiler won't hurt ^.^")

My rating: 7

Website Review: Beautiful People

The Jakarta Globe today posts an article about the sexiest website in the world according to CNN. It is called Beautiful People (www.beautifulpeople.com). The website states that the purpose of becoming member is that it makes you easier to find georgeous men and women without the hassle of filtering photos. Plus, you can get party invitations exclusively for members.

Based on the info stated in Jakarta Globe, only 20% of applicants got accepted. Does it even make you more curious about how hard it is and what it takes to become a member, and also what kind of traits that are more favorable than others. It is difficult to sign up as guest due to heavy traffic. The solutions are either you are willing to wait or to sign up as member.  After signing up, you will get confirmation letter telling you that you have 48 hours to be rated by the members of the opposite sex.

First impression, the layout seems nice but somehow after digging further, clicking here and there, many problems are found. Sometimes, it signs out by itself, the default language switches to others, tabs don't work, etc. That is just the nutshell.

Then, check the top 50 women members. The finding is that most of them are showing their skin more than others. They are using their sexuality to attract the opposite sex to give them high rate. This applies to men members as well. The second factor to get rated high is by using high quality photos or touched up photos.

Final conclusion, beauty truly lies in the limited eye of the beholder. The rating is purely based on the outer look. However, if outer look is what you are looking for, this website serves your purpose. Since there are thousands of applicants daily, it makes new applicants harder to be known by the member, who will rate the new applicants.

Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds

I am not a fan of Quentin Tarantino's movie, especially the bloody ones. I have to admit that Inglourious Basterds is his masterpiece. It is a genius suspense-comedy movie. How Quentin mixed the intellectual minded character with the stupidity. When the audiences sense that the plot implies something terrible happens, the characters, the dialog, the act are able to make the audiences crack in laughter.

The characters are very strong especially Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz), the Jew Hunter. Well, you can say Hans Landa is a charming, friendly, and likeable man with with a hint of evil plot in his mind and his words. In this movie, Christoph Waltz amazingly delivers those attributes to make this movie alive. And he speaks English, French, German, and Italian too! All other characters are incredibly funny, especially when the Basterds tried to speak Italian.

It is a must-see movie of the year.

My rating: 8/10