The silence before the thunderstorm. Not much about the planning. Not much about the reason(s). The massacre just happened. The more peaceful it has been, the more shocking it becomes.
This movie should be watched with Bowling for Columbine.
I have not understood the connection between this movie and its title. The title is supposed to mean this: The US has become such a large empire whose power and influence has exceeded all previous empires in history like Roman Empire. All wars before the 9.11 incident happened outside the boundaries of the US. So the 9.11 incident can be seen as the first attack against the Empire by the “barbarians”.
Whatever the title it has, this is a very touching movie about life and death, father and son. Remy is a professor of history who has terminal disease. His life was all about women, which of course led to his divorce. His son Sabestian is now a very successful businessman in the finance sector, who flew from London to Canada with his fiancee to see Remy. Remy was admitted in a hospital of inferior facilities due to the inefficient medicare system. Sabestian uses all his means, legal or illegal, to make Remy’s last days very comfortable. At last, Remy passed away with all his friends and family around him.
According to the introduction materials, the characters in this movie are actually taken from The Decline of the American Empire, a movie of the same director Denys Arcand.
看完本片只記得鏡頭跟隨主角跑來跑去，看到我頭暈，完全感覺不到奈良市的恬靜幽美。唯一有意思的祭典後的一段演說，令我明白參與祭典的意義。
英文片名 A Day on the Planet 說出了本片大綱：一群年青人在一天內發生的事。導演以插敘的方式，將不同的事串連一起。看完後令我不禁想：青春究竟是充滿夢想，還是無無聊聊的過日子？
男女主角妻夫木聰和田中麗奈外型討好 ( 田中麗奈有出席電影節，她真人真的很漂亮 ) 。片中不少情節和對白也令人會心微笑。我不是田中麗奈的 fans ，但一如她以往主演的電影 ( 《擊浪青春》、《初戀》 ) ，本片也令我看得很舒服。
我買了導演行定勳的那齣 《Go 大暴走》放在那兒？是時候找出來看看。
張艾嘉擅長用大家身邊再普通不過的事情來感動觀眾。今次故事由三位主角提供，由張艾嘉、芝 See 菇 Bi (絕對相信，任賢齊一段係阿芝寫)、關皓月編劇。
三段中以劉若英一節最窩心。墳場中微風吹過的一剎 …
李心潔的表現較像 10 多歲，反而與她做對手的楊湘令人眼前一亮。黃秋生的演出沒有驚喜。不過這樣的評語對他不公平，因為他的「沒有驚喜」也較大多數人好。
張艾嘉的一段也是一般，與梁嘉輝的關係無疾而終很可惜。我倒是不知為何最後剃刀一場有那麼多觀眾在笑：真的有那麼好笑嗎？
另外，不可不提的就是黃韻玲的配樂，還有陳昇的《把悲傷留給自己》。