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Movie Review - The Shawshank Redemption

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The Shawshank Redemption is an American movie premiered in 1994 and directed by Frank Darabont - this movie indicates an intelligent man who was sentenced to life  in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murders of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence. During his time in prison, he met Ellis "Red" Radding the famous smuggler in the prison and they became friends ever since. Andy (the killer) worked at the prison laundry and he usually been sexually harassed by few men called "Sisters". The acceptance of living in a prison makes his life worst due to that he tried to escape by crawling into a tunnel and escaped - after 40 years of imprisonment Red met his long lost friend and reunited back again after all the things have happened in their lives.  The director of this film, Frank Darabont was born on January 28, 1959, and he is Hungarian-American. He is a film director, screenwriter, and producer and got his education at Hollywood Highschoo

Movie Review - Late Spring

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Source: Google  Late Spring is a Japanese drama film premiered in 1949 based on a novel called "Father and Daughter" and it is also a type of Japanese film called "shomingeki" which deals with the middle and the working class in modern times in Japanese era. This major prototype film by the famous director Yosujiro Ozu is a film director and a screenwriter known for the technical style and innovation of his film for the narrative content. Rapid growth in his reputation in the film industry can be distinguished as he was recognized as World's Most Influential Director back in the days - the invention of camera technique "tatami shot" by his where the camera placed on the low height eye level of a person kneeling on a tatami mat to get a perfect shot. His career marked as an impact in the film industry where his field of the film more on marriage, family, relationship - Late Spring, Tokyo Story, Floating Weeds are the movies directed by Yasuji

Movie Review - Antara 2 Darjat

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This time for movie review is quite different from other movie reviews - the setting and place were taken a bit different for this movie it's called "Antara 2 Darjat" a legendary film by Seniman Malaysia P.Ramlee and Seniwati Malaysia Saadiah. This film was shot back in the 1960s. It represents the level of people during that time or-so-called "kasta" between commoners and royalties. Ghazali a character was played by P. Ramlee and Tengku Zaleha played by Saadiah they were secret lovers back when they first met during an incident of Tengku Zaleha's car - after that, she wanted to learn about piano and Ghazali was invited to teach Tengku Zaleha about the piano. The issue started when the royalty family has this stereotype of "respect the bloodline, royalties cannot marry commoners because they have to uphold the integrity and dignity as royalties". Unlike commoners, Ghazali who is so into Tengku Zaleha and wanted to marry her. Not too long after tha