Zodiac It was a very very good film and I have found myself very interested in what's going on in it. The actors were all good with Jake Gylenhall (sp?) the best among them. David Fincher is a very good director and I like almost all of his films (except Panic Room).
Fiddlers yes I remembered the book and yes I don't like what they did to make it more recent but in the end Ed McBain is a great writer and this is indeed a good finale for the 87th Precint.
Yedinci Gün (lit.trans. Seventh Day) İhsan Oktay Anar is one of my favorite Turkish novelists and this book is very good indeed. But I have just finished a chapter describing war and it is my least fave genre in anything. It was so real a description that I felt myself shrinking within myself feeling ashamed for being human. I know this is extreme and dramatic but this is how I felt. God I hate war.
Glass Slippers Last night I decided on the makjang and am not dissapointed at all. It was a river of tears in the first episode and the makjang hit like tsunami. Tae Hee and Yoon Hee are sisters and their mother passed away while giving birth to Yoon Hee. Now we have a time jump and Yoon Hee is 9 and Tae Hee is 13. They live with their father who is a great guy. They are poor but happy with Tae Hee acting like a mother to Yoon Hee. But the father is diagnosed with leukemia and he can't afford treatment. Their grandpa -who they have never met and saw only a b&w picture of - disowned the father when he wanted to marry to the woman he loves. We also meet the male characters who are Jae Hyuk a boy burning with vengeance and Tae Hee's grandpa is his target (he told Tae Hee that his grandpa has died when their company went bankrupt and his father has committed suicide). Then their father passes away in a car accident and the girls are to be sent to an orphanage (they need to separate them since there are not any vacancies). So the sisters ran away with the intention of finding their grandpa (their father had told Tae Hee to go to grandpa if something happens to him) but they got separated in the bus terminal. Yoon Hee is hit by a truck and lost her memory. She has their mother's wedding ring (Tae Hee has their father's) and the people who hit them are a family of dubious morals. Mom owns a small eatery and they have a daughter of their own. They actually leave Yoon Hee in the market place but Yoon Hee is a smart kid and when the police found her she told them which house she came from the market place (when they hit Yoon Hee, she fainted and there was blood over her head so the dubious dad and mom have taken her to their home waiting for her either to die or to wake up) And the dad didn't even have a driver's licence. Seriously. Anyway when the police brought her they had to take her in and at the end of episode three she shows her smarts by offering to do homework of the rather unintelligent elder girl of the house in exchange for her not treating Yoon Hee badly and calling her names. Meanwhile she named herself Lee Sun Woo since this is the name on the ring.
Tae Hee on the other hand runs away from both the police (she thinks they are going to put her into an orphanage - she doesn't know Grandpa showed up immediately after he found out and engaged police to find the girls and bring them to him) and the street thugs. The only one who helped her is Jae Hyuk (and at first he did it because she helped him when the street thugs were beating him for money). But even though Jae Hyuk looks like a good guy he actually asks the leader of street thugs to scare Tae Hee and hence force her to seek help from Jae Hyuk (she didn't over stay her hospitality the first time he helped her and immediately after giving her a place to hide he has found out that she is the granddaughter of the man he wants to take revenge on). So the street thug beats Tae Hee (and he feels crappy afterward) and she is forced to run back to Jae Hyuk (who is an evil genius) meanwhile she had been trying to find Yoon Hee all this time. Yoon Hee actually saw her in the market place (where the dubious dad tried to leave her) but she has lost her memory and didn't call out for her.
At the end of episode 3 Tae Hee is taken to Grandpa's company by Jae Hyuk who made the introduction before the guards throw them both out (oh also Grandpa has a divorced daughter who is not a very responsible person and that woman has a young son, grandpa asked them to live with him now that he plans to live with his granddaughters - when he is able to find them).
So far this is delicious makjang and I'm eating it up - I don't think I even yawned at any point.
Fiddlers yes I remembered the book and yes I don't like what they did to make it more recent but in the end Ed McBain is a great writer and this is indeed a good finale for the 87th Precint.
Yedinci Gün (lit.trans. Seventh Day) İhsan Oktay Anar is one of my favorite Turkish novelists and this book is very good indeed. But I have just finished a chapter describing war and it is my least fave genre in anything. It was so real a description that I felt myself shrinking within myself feeling ashamed for being human. I know this is extreme and dramatic but this is how I felt. God I hate war.
Glass Slippers Last night I decided on the makjang and am not dissapointed at all. It was a river of tears in the first episode and the makjang hit like tsunami. Tae Hee and Yoon Hee are sisters and their mother passed away while giving birth to Yoon Hee. Now we have a time jump and Yoon Hee is 9 and Tae Hee is 13. They live with their father who is a great guy. They are poor but happy with Tae Hee acting like a mother to Yoon Hee. But the father is diagnosed with leukemia and he can't afford treatment. Their grandpa -who they have never met and saw only a b&w picture of - disowned the father when he wanted to marry to the woman he loves. We also meet the male characters who are Jae Hyuk a boy burning with vengeance and Tae Hee's grandpa is his target (he told Tae Hee that his grandpa has died when their company went bankrupt and his father has committed suicide). Then their father passes away in a car accident and the girls are to be sent to an orphanage (they need to separate them since there are not any vacancies). So the sisters ran away with the intention of finding their grandpa (their father had told Tae Hee to go to grandpa if something happens to him) but they got separated in the bus terminal. Yoon Hee is hit by a truck and lost her memory. She has their mother's wedding ring (Tae Hee has their father's) and the people who hit them are a family of dubious morals. Mom owns a small eatery and they have a daughter of their own. They actually leave Yoon Hee in the market place but Yoon Hee is a smart kid and when the police found her she told them which house she came from the market place (when they hit Yoon Hee, she fainted and there was blood over her head so the dubious dad and mom have taken her to their home waiting for her either to die or to wake up) And the dad didn't even have a driver's licence. Seriously. Anyway when the police brought her they had to take her in and at the end of episode three she shows her smarts by offering to do homework of the rather unintelligent elder girl of the house in exchange for her not treating Yoon Hee badly and calling her names. Meanwhile she named herself Lee Sun Woo since this is the name on the ring.
Tae Hee on the other hand runs away from both the police (she thinks they are going to put her into an orphanage - she doesn't know Grandpa showed up immediately after he found out and engaged police to find the girls and bring them to him) and the street thugs. The only one who helped her is Jae Hyuk (and at first he did it because she helped him when the street thugs were beating him for money). But even though Jae Hyuk looks like a good guy he actually asks the leader of street thugs to scare Tae Hee and hence force her to seek help from Jae Hyuk (she didn't over stay her hospitality the first time he helped her and immediately after giving her a place to hide he has found out that she is the granddaughter of the man he wants to take revenge on). So the street thug beats Tae Hee (and he feels crappy afterward) and she is forced to run back to Jae Hyuk (who is an evil genius) meanwhile she had been trying to find Yoon Hee all this time. Yoon Hee actually saw her in the market place (where the dubious dad tried to leave her) but she has lost her memory and didn't call out for her.
At the end of episode 3 Tae Hee is taken to Grandpa's company by Jae Hyuk who made the introduction before the guards throw them both out (oh also Grandpa has a divorced daughter who is not a very responsible person and that woman has a young son, grandpa asked them to live with him now that he plans to live with his granddaughters - when he is able to find them).
So far this is delicious makjang and I'm eating it up - I don't think I even yawned at any point.
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