Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Treated myself to a nice nice dinner today - i made Dumplings dipped in vinegar and sesame seed oil sause, pan-fried fish and warmed up mum's 滷味. Yum yum.
Usually I like to watch something on my computer when i eat dinner alone. Its a treat to myself, you know? Makes the food yummier.
Anyways, I watched all of my scrubs (23 episodes of season 5), Grey's anatomy (28 episodes of season 2, and yes, i'm way ahead of the TV right now...) and Lucy's Naruto DVD she burnt for me...well, lets just say its NOT WORKING!!! ><"
Oh and this other 4 anime DVD's that i have - well my DVD-rom refuses to read them, however they seem to work fine on other ppl's DVD-roms....argh.
So digging around my drawer i found Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children. That Lucy kindly (again) burnt onto CD for me agges ago. I had of cus refused to watch this until i played FF7. Which is...like never - cos i can't stand the square block graphics, and i know that Aeries dies and i don't want to get to that point of the story - too sad!!!
But anyways, temptation got the better of me (and i can already hear mike C's voice in my head going: watch it jeff,watch it, u won't regret it....) so i shoved to cd in and...
I LOVED IT!
I probably didn't understand everything that movie was about - since i don't know the FF7 storyline (I only played like 10% of it).
My thoughts:
Its interesting how this theme of life and death is again, central to the story - just like in FF10 - the whole spirit coming back (its like that in FFX-II as well - spirits pretending to be someone else...) and the whole cycle of life and death thing.
Spira is a spiral of life becoming death...
The FF7 world - Reno stated that the life energy flows between life and death - and therefore it is expected for history to repeat itself, and history should repeat itself - just like the energy of life flows back and forth...
The whole Loneliness theme - i thought that was taken right out of Naruto!! These square soft pple must have been inspired by naruto or something - i mean, yes cloud, you are not alone now - look at the friends around you that love you!
See the similarities btwn Cloud and Sasuke? Except Cloud is so much more likeable...he's not choosing to throw his life into revenging the death of Aeris and his best friend (watshisname)
And how Cloud is shot right at the end, nearly dies and is sent back...that's soo soo very familiar...
What i admire is these japanese imagination. I mean - the fights. Wow. How the hell cloud figures to stick his blades into the building while falling, stands on it, and then pulls out another blade from the original blade, and then jump off from those 2 blades...its these amazing animation that's a combination of pple's imagination and hardwork making it alive in front of our eyes!
This is where pple say amination is for children...is soo wrong!
The graphics too - man... where has the line btwn real-life and animation gone?! someone wiped it off!
Altho i do think the bad guys in this movie had too much victory tho - it was getting frustrating seeing the good guys get wasted from beginning to near-end...hehehe.
Loneliness...
It really is a killer,isn't it?
I wonder - is it a disease of the developing world? The city syndrome?
The inverse proportion - the bigger the cities are becoming, the more pple in the city, the more loneliness?
Is it something that we all have to work through?
Loneliness eh................
Usually I like to watch something on my computer when i eat dinner alone. Its a treat to myself, you know? Makes the food yummier.
Anyways, I watched all of my scrubs (23 episodes of season 5), Grey's anatomy (28 episodes of season 2, and yes, i'm way ahead of the TV right now...) and Lucy's Naruto DVD she burnt for me...well, lets just say its NOT WORKING!!! ><"
Oh and this other 4 anime DVD's that i have - well my DVD-rom refuses to read them, however they seem to work fine on other ppl's DVD-roms....argh.
So digging around my drawer i found Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children. That Lucy kindly (again) burnt onto CD for me agges ago. I had of cus refused to watch this until i played FF7. Which is...like never - cos i can't stand the square block graphics, and i know that Aeries dies and i don't want to get to that point of the story - too sad!!!
But anyways, temptation got the better of me (and i can already hear mike C's voice in my head going: watch it jeff,watch it, u won't regret it....) so i shoved to cd in and...
I LOVED IT!
I probably didn't understand everything that movie was about - since i don't know the FF7 storyline (I only played like 10% of it).
My thoughts:
Its interesting how this theme of life and death is again, central to the story - just like in FF10 - the whole spirit coming back (its like that in FFX-II as well - spirits pretending to be someone else...) and the whole cycle of life and death thing.
Spira is a spiral of life becoming death...
The FF7 world - Reno stated that the life energy flows between life and death - and therefore it is expected for history to repeat itself, and history should repeat itself - just like the energy of life flows back and forth...
The whole Loneliness theme - i thought that was taken right out of Naruto!! These square soft pple must have been inspired by naruto or something - i mean, yes cloud, you are not alone now - look at the friends around you that love you!
See the similarities btwn Cloud and Sasuke? Except Cloud is so much more likeable...he's not choosing to throw his life into revenging the death of Aeris and his best friend (watshisname)
And how Cloud is shot right at the end, nearly dies and is sent back...that's soo soo very familiar...
What i admire is these japanese imagination. I mean - the fights. Wow. How the hell cloud figures to stick his blades into the building while falling, stands on it, and then pulls out another blade from the original blade, and then jump off from those 2 blades...its these amazing animation that's a combination of pple's imagination and hardwork making it alive in front of our eyes!
This is where pple say amination is for children...is soo wrong!
The graphics too - man... where has the line btwn real-life and animation gone?! someone wiped it off!
Altho i do think the bad guys in this movie had too much victory tho - it was getting frustrating seeing the good guys get wasted from beginning to near-end...hehehe.
Loneliness...
It really is a killer,isn't it?
I wonder - is it a disease of the developing world? The city syndrome?
The inverse proportion - the bigger the cities are becoming, the more pple in the city, the more loneliness?
Is it something that we all have to work through?
Loneliness eh................
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