Pride and Prejudice

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Actually, I didn’t watch this film very clearly before. It’s because the class of “Introduction of Novels” then I find the movie and watch it again. The feeling is quite different from that before maybe it’s because I didn’t understand very well about the whole story. Maybe it’s in my senior high school that I first had interest in the classical novels of foreign countries. So at that time, I watched the movie of it. However, I didn’t really understand what happened to the characters and I even feel bored when watching it. I just thought why the movie was so long and boring and why this boring novel could be one of the most famous novels in the world. It’s the scene when Mr. Darcy proposed to Elizabeth at the first time that impressed me most. I did not know why Mr. Darcy wanted to marry her and at the same time said in a very sarcastic and annoying tone. I just he was so weird and stupid. If one wants to marry someone, he should say something flattering to make the woman happy.

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Then after I took the novel class and read the novel through myself. I finally understood more about the relationships between the characters and also know everyone’s characteristic. It’s not until then that I understood why Mr. Darcy proposes to Elizabeth in that way. Also, I think the novel is much better than the movie because the movie has to ignore a lot of details because of the limit of time. However, the movie does help because it makes the abstract characters become real people and display the story in front of me. It helps me to understand the background of the story for I can see the customs of ancient time and the scenery in England. It makes the story become alive and vivid. In addition, watching movie is a more relaxing and a faster way to understand the outline of the story.




I remembered when I finished reading the novel, I was so in love with Mr. Darcy. It’s quoted from the teacher of novel class that Mr. Darcy was like a price charming from a fairy tale. And “Pride and Prejudice” was a different style of fairy tales. However, it’s still a fairy tale though you might not think so at first. However, after reading you would find out that the novel was actually a fairy tale.


After I finished the novel, I felt so admired and liked Jane Austen so much. She was so good at describing one personality. The personality of Elizabeth was so impressive and attractive. Although I just could not understand why Mr. Darcy would fall in love with her, I thought no other characters in the novel fit him. Mr. Darcy was so elegant and so thoughtful. He is kind and like a gentleman. He is rich and handsome. Every characteristic he had made him a perfect man. So in this novel, he was totally a prince charming. I thought this novel and its movie was important to me, because it was the first novel I read in the class. I felt so touched about this novel and it made me think more and deeper about a literary work, so I believed this novel would be one of the novels which influenced me a lot.

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Death Note

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Recently, I watched the movie “Death Note” from TV. It already has been released and appeared on the movie channels for a while. I have seen that movie in the theater because at that this movie was so popular. After quite a time, I already forgot the plot of the movie, so I watched it again. Still, it’s as attractive as before and also made me think of some issues.

Actually, this movie is adapted from comic books and they share the same name “Death Note”. At first, I was attracted by the story of the comic. It’s said that every Death has a death note that Death can use to kill people. One day, one Death drops its death notebook to the world purposely and just for fun. One senior high school student finds it and decides to use the notebook to make a new world. It’s said that once a man’s name is put on the notebook and then he will die.

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Additionally, the writer can decide how and when the man dies, including the situation when he is dying. The student who gets the notebook is very smart and he wants to help the poor and rule the world with justice. Then he hacks into the website of National Police Agency and find out a lot of prisoners who are already sentenced death penalties are still alive. So he decides to write these people’s names on the notebook and kill them. He also people according to the reports from the news, and mostly those bad guys that the police haven’t arrest yet. By doing so, the criminal rates becomes lower and lower. People call the secret guy “killer” and some people even think “killer” is god. However, he is not a real god so he doesn’t have the rights to decide whether a man should die or not. Since that, some secret organizations send smart people to help find out who the killer is. So, the competition between killer and “L”, who is the chairman of the secret organization starts.





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The story of this movie actually is related to some popular issue today, such as “Should we abolish the death penalty or not?” Also, the main character in the movie makes me consider something. To be honest, I was supportive to the main character’s thoughts because I thought he was smart and had his own dream toward the world. I thought maybe the world could really become better by following what he wanted to do. However, after I watched the latter part of the movie, I started to think and wonder if this man is crazy or not. It’s said that “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” I thought the words are so fit the man. Once he had the power to control and decide people’s lives, hethought himself was the best and the most important one that no one else could deny him. However, it’s not right. So until the end of the movie, I thought he was totally crazy about the power of controlling and already missed himself. It’s so pathetic.



I like this movie so much because of its brand new story and just to see these two smart guys compete with each other makes me feel so excited. Also, it’s a movie that can make you think a lot after watching it. So, I love this one so much!

Alice in Wonderland

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Last semester, I took the optional class “Introduction to Novels” and I read the “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass”. This year, when I went to see one movie, I saw the trailer of a new movie “Alice in Wonderland”. As soon as I saw that trailer, I decided right away I must see that movie as long as it is on. And since it is available in the theater now, I go with my friend to see this fantastic film!



After the teacher of “Introduction to Novels” discussed with us about the “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, I felt so fascinated and so interested in Alice. I found the novel was so good and while I was reading it, I just could not help but laugh out loud for several times. For me, to read this novel was like to go back to my childhood and be a child again. It’s a very good novel that could make you don’t want to stop until finishing it. When I read this novel, I just had my childhood memories flashback and it felt so great. The smile caused by the novel was as pure and innocent as that of a child. I didn’t know how to express this kind of feeling. This novel just gave me refreshment and made me felt as if I had been a child. So I expected this movie so much and I hoped that I could have the same fun as I found in the book.



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The director made some changes to the novel, he changed the age of Alice and made her be an elder girl than in the novel. Yeah, I admitted I felt a little disappointed because I wanted to see the little cute Alice originally. However, after she followed the rabbit and jumped into the hole. I found so many similarities between the movie and the novel, so I became into the movie. Almost every move Alice did made me tickle because I just thought of the descriptions and illusions in the novel. Disney did make amazing animations that made the characters in the wonderland so interesting and so charming. Disney made the world so colorful and it’s just like a world in a fairy tale. I also wanted to visit there myself, too! The dressing and makeup of the characters caught every one’s eye. The movie also had some funny scenes that made people smiled. I most liked the style of the red queen thought everybody thought she looked funny, I thought everything around were so fascinating!


The most amazing part was the director made “Jabberwocky” real. It was originally a monster in the novel and its story was from a nonsense poem. I felt so amazed to see that monster appear in the novel. And the modeling of Jabberwocky was almost the same as the picture in the novel. Also, the hatter seemed to quote some nonsense poem when he mentioned about Jabberwocky. It just made me feel pleased because I thought of the class of “Introduction to Novels”. I was so happy because I thought I had a new way to see this movie because I had some classes about that novel beforehand. It truly cheered me up because I understood that the knowledge I learned was not only limited in class, but could be used in the regular life. It’s so great that I read the novel before so I could always make comparisons and contrasts between the movie and the novel while seeing the film. It was so much fun than just sitting there seeing without any backgrounds.

500 Days of Summer

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The reason why I saw this movie was because people around me kept telling me how good this movie was, I decided to see it.

At first, I thought it was a relaxing love comedy which was just like those of general Hollywood love stories. However, when I saw through it, I found things were not what I was imagined before. In the movie, the chief man, Tom fell in love with the heroine, Summer almost at first sight. And one thing leads to another. It was just like the traditional Hollywood love comedies. The boy and the girl meet and fall in love and then they live happily ever after. All the above was what I judged about this movie. However, the truth was when they passed the period of infatuation, they have some fights and the heroine decided to break up with the guy. It totally broke the man’s heart but he didn’t know why the girl wanted to do that to him. So he started to rethink the time they had gone through and tried to find out what was the main reason to cause their breakup. And after that he made some improvements and tried to win her back. However, when they met again, he found that on his ex-girlfriend’s hand is a shining engagement ring. She was going to be someone’s bride! This information broke him down and made him depressed for a long time. After he lost his job because he was too sad about his breakup with the girl, he decided to give himself a brand new start. He decided to fulfill his childhood dream, his dreaming job. And at the end of the movie, he met a new girl. It was also like new start of his relationship.

To my surprise, the boy and the girl did not get back together at the end of the movie, and the girl even married to someone else! It’s totally not like traditional love comedies. I kept expecting that the girl would go back, tell him that she was still loved him, and be together with him forever. However, I never saw it happened. They just broke up, once and for all. She just left the boy’s life and never came back. I felt so sad for the boy. Because almost every love comedy I saw, the boy and the girl would be together in the end whatever, it’s weird for me to see such a movie of which they didn’t get together.

After I read some critics about the movie, I started to realize that the movie wanted to express the real life to the audience because in the real world, there was no way you could find your Mr. or Mrs. Right that easily like a movie. So the story of this movie was only a period or a phase of a boy’s way to find his Mrs. Right. The movie tried to express that not every relationship would end well, so we should accept that it’s general to lose someone you love.

I think this movie is interesting and innovative for it is so different from other movies of same type. And by this movie, I know that how much these Hollywood love comedies have influence on me!