Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Watched Lady In The Water 2day at Jurong East Entertainment with Hanim. We watched "Lady In The water". I thot it is a horror movie but I was wrong. It was kinda of a mystery kind of movie. Well, a movie-goer ranted at his/her blog (an overseas blog, and I cant deprive da gender of da blogger) abt da movie LADY IN THE WATER. Wat he/she thinks of da movie.
Lady In The Water >> da sort of movie tat is reasonably enjoyable to watch only until da end, when u realize u've been gypped -- there IS no twist. After an animated, narrated and truly pointless explanation of man's history with certainly mythological beings, the film gets right to its story, in which Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti), the stuttering superintendent at an apartment complex, finds a sea nymph, or "narf," in the swimming pool. Her name is Story (Bryce Dallas Howard). She is not allowed to tell Cleveland anything about her world or what she's doing here in ours, so he has to get clues from a tenant named Young-Soon (Cindy Cheung), whose mother used to tell her a bedtime story about narfs (narves?). This story proves to be remarkably accurate vis-à-vis Story's actual circumstances. Story's deal is that she is in our world to meet someone special, except she doesn't know who, only that he's written something. And once she's met him or her, she has to return to her own world without being attacked by the scrunt, a vicious dog-like creature that's been prowling the grass surrounding the pool whence Story came. She can do this with the aid of additional people who fill additional roles, and no, she doesn't know who they are, and no, she still can't talk about it. So it's kind of slow-going, developing-a-plan-of-action-wise.
