Milka. 30. Finland.
Film and media studies grad. Doctoral student (marketing). Fangirl.
Not a review, but a personal reflection.
I have barely watched five films this year. Considering that I studied film for 6 years that is a bit change.
After graduating, I slowly moved towards career choices that distanced me from film. As I started doing something different, a voice in my head kept telling me I had somehow betrayed myself by not sticking with the film world, for "wasting" six years studying and then giving up by moving to something…
Okay, let me explain this rating....
Once upon a time in 2002, there was an 11-year-old girl who went to a birthday party/sleepover. The entertainment of the night was a movie picked by the birthday-girl herself, a VHS of a film that we probably all were a bit too young to watch at that age. That film was Coyote Ugly. As we reached the end of the film, we were all in love with Kevin and passionately arguing about "who's…
Maybe this was the right film and the right time for me or something, but I just REALLY loved this one. If I were to describe "my kind of film", it would be something exactly like this - a lot of dialogue, very little action. I have never had any sort of desire to travel to Hong Kong, but after seeing this one, Hong Kong just got a place on my places-to-visit list. The cast is great, the chemistry between…