August Rush Movie Review

August Rush

An attractive band singer and guitarist Lewis meets a cellist Lila at a party. They hit if off immediately. They both have a promising future as a singer and a cellist. They have a drink and talk about nearly everything. They end up spending the night together.

They want to be together. However, Lila’s father doesn’t approve of their relationship.
In the meantime, Lila gets pregnant with Lewis’ baby. However, Lewis loses contact with Lila because of her father. Lila gives a birth to a boy, but his father lies to her that she miscarried the baby.

Lila’s father sends the boy to an orphanage. This boy, August Rush, inherits his parents musical talent and grows up as a music genius. August runs away from the orphanage to find his parents. Upon Lila’s father’s death, she finds out that her son was adopted and he is still alive.

Lewis, on the other hand, became a business man and tries to find Lila. In the end, August goes to Julliard and performs in front of a large audience. Among them, there are his parents.

While I was watching this movie, I kept thinking about August’s talent. His pure passion for music enables him to go for his dream and finally meet his parents. I think I also have a hidden talent just like August Rush. I haven’t figured out what it is. When I find it, I will develop it with pure heart like August and go for my dream.

Marine Boy movie review

Marine Boy

The former national swimming team swimmer Kim falls into gambling and now has 1 million dollar in debt. He has no way to pay it back. He owes it to a notorious loan shark.
He tries to run away from him but he gets caught and tortured.

One day, an international drug dealer Kang suggests Kim an offer that he can’t refuse. Kang asks Kim to deliver drug in his body from Japan to Korea. Once Kim has done it, Kang said, he would write off Kim’s debt. This delivery man is called a marine boy.

There’s also this mysterious woman Yuri who appears to be Kang’s girl friend but not.
She falls in love with Kang. There is another character who tries to get money from Kang. He is a former police officer.

These people run after each other for drug and money. In the end, Kang and the former police officer killed each other. Yuri and Kim take the money and go to Palau where nobody could find them. They decide to spend the rest of their life together.

At first, I thought this movie was about Taewhan Park who is a famous Korean swimmer.
I was wrong. The story was about drug dealers and their dirty tricks. One thing I learned from this movie is that I’ll never ever do drug under any circumstances.
Doing drugs could ruin people’s lives. Period. There’s no excuse for this.

Fever Pitch Movie Review

Fever Pitch

Ben is a friendly and nice 9th grade math teacher. One day, he falls in love with a successful business woman Lindsey. Lindsey thinks Ben is a perfect guy. But, his friends wonder why he is still single. They think if you are perfect, before the age of 30, should be married or divorced.

To solve the mystery, Lindsay asks Ben if there’s anything that Ben hasn’t told her which might ruin their relationship. Here comes the moment, Ben confesses that he is a huge fan of Boston Redsox. Is that all? Lindsay thinks. She gladly accepts the fact that her boyfriend is the most pathetic creature on the earth, which is a Redsox fan.

Up until the baseball season begins, their relationship goes really smooth.
Once the season has started, Ben’s focus shifts to the baseball games. Ben’s uncle left him Redsox season tickets and he is always popular among his friends. Lindsey tries going to the Pen way Ball Park. Unfortunately, she gets hit by a foul ball and hurt badly.

Lindsey decides to break up with Ben. Ben realizes that baseball is just a game. He decides to sell his season tickets. When Lindsey hears this, she realizes that Ben really loves him. They get back together. The important thing is that this all happened in 2004.
That’s the year when Redsox broke the curse of Bambino and won the World Series.
They haven’t won the Series in the past 86 years.

Since I am a great fan of Major League Baseball, I enjoyed the movie very much.
I realized that in every relationship, I need to understand other people’s needs and likes.
This is the only way to keep a long-term relationship. I should apply this valuable lesson immediately.

The Negotiator Movie Review

The Negotiator

Chicago Police Department officer Danny Roman is an expert negotiator in hostage situations. For the last 12 years, he has been able to keep zero casualties. Now, he is newly wed and it looks like everything is going well for him. One day, his partner tells Roman about some police officers’ fraud from the police funds.

That night, Roman’s partner gets killed. Roman is very sad. However, the following morning, he learns that he has been pointed the prime suspect of his partner’s murder.
Roman gets angry and goes to see the internal affairs inspector Terence Niebaum.
In the office, there are Niebaum, his secretary and Rudy who is being questioned for fraud.

In order to prove that he didn’t kill his partner, Roman decides to take them hostages. He wants a police negotiator from a different area because he can’t trust the people who have been working with him. Some of Roman’s friends have framed him. Roman’s job is to find out who is or are the real criminals.

In the end, it turns out that the police chief and three officers have stolen money from the police pension fund. The chief tries to commit suicide, but other police officers stop him by shooting him on the shoulder. Finally, Roman clears his name and his colleagues begin to apologize him for suspecting him of murdering his partner.

While I was watching this movie, I kept thinking about what I would do in his situation.
In Roman’s situation, his couldn’t trust those around him. His wife was the only one he had. No matter how nice I am to those around me, there will be some rats like the ones who stole money from their friends’ pension fund. Therefore, I conclude that before I make friends with someone, I need to be careful about his or her character.

Letter To John Bohmer

Letter To John Bohmer, who invented a solar cooker called Kyoto Box which can save millions of poor people.



Dear Mr. John Bohmer,

I would first like to say that I was very impressed of your little invention called the “Kyoto Box.” I never thought that an invention that is only worth 5 dollars can save the whole world. I think you are a not that kind of a person, who only thinks about himself and thinks about the money they will get for winning the contest. I believe you made this invention because you care about the poor. Anyway, the reason I am writing this letter to you is because I have some questions for you that I am really curious about. Well the following are my questions.

First, what is the specific reason why you planned to make this little invention? I mean, were you sure that you were going to win this contest? Did you make this Kyoto Box for fun? Because to be honest, nobody would’ve thought that this 5 dollar invention would win the contest and I would never make it even though somebody tells me to. Second, what is more important to you? Your invention or your money and the fame you get from it. Could you even be willing to donate the money you got to the poor? Third, I would like to know when the “Kyoto Box” would be on sale in Korea. I think it will be really good for cooking and the fact that it is only worth 5 dollars just persuades me to purchase it.

Lastly, I would like to know if you are going to make another invention that could save our environment. I believe that a person like you can make many more cool and cheap inventions. Incase you don’t have any idea for another invention; I would like to tell you some of the ideas I thought of. First, I think you should make a mini solar car that is a size of a cart that is used for shopping. This would be good because poor people who have no money to buy a normal car would be able to purchase this car. Not only that, it is solar which no gas will be used and will help the world from global warming.

The second invention I thought of is a sticker or a pad that would kill all the bad bugs that smell or go near it. This could be used in forests and trees that are located in poor African countries. This will reduce the death of children who die every year because of harmful insects. Last, I would like you to make a solar air-conditioner. This would be really cool because this thing could sense the hot sun and the hot weather and turn on by itself. Which then in night, it would turn off by itself as well. This invention can help people to not waist their energy by using electronic air conditioners.

I hope that this letter didn’t exhaust you and that my questions and opinions are persuasive enough for you to answer them or think about them. I would really want to see you someday and talk more about things that you and I could do to save the environment.

Sincerely,


Jason Moon

The Host Movie Review

The Host

Rating: ★★★★☆

A 42-year-old Korean guy Kangdu works at his father’s convenience store located near Han River in Seoul. He has a 7th grade daughter. One day, his daughter gets upset because her uncle, Kangdu’s younger brother, turns up at a PTA meeting but he was completely drunk. She was also ashamed of her old cell phone. Kangdu promises his daughter to buy a brand new cell phone and the family begins to watch Kangdu’s younger sister’s archery game on TV.

She is on the national competition. It is a beautiful Saturday afternoon and people are just sitting on the grass resting. As Kangdu is doing a few deliveries, there is a monster hanging on the Han River Bridge. People begin to take pictures of it. All of a sudden, the monster comes down from the bridge and kicks people and bite them. People are screaming and running away from it.

As Kangdu is running with her daughter, the monster snatches her from Kangdu and disappears in the river. Due to the sudden appearance of the monster, the whole city gets panicked and the river gets closed. However, Kangdu and his family have nobody to help them find his daughter.

Kangdu and his family fights against the monster and Kangdu’s younger sister shoots an arrow at the monster. Eventually, they find the monster’s house hidden in the sewage.
Kangdu’s daughter is alive and rescued by her family.

As I was watching this movie, I kept thinking that the monster symbolized something unpredicted that could happen to a family. It could be a disease, accident, or difficulty that a family might face. Whatever it is, the movie shows that a family can get through it when they work together.

GP506

GP 506 Movie Review


Rating: ★★★★☆

Around the border lines between South Korea and North Korean, there are a lot of GPs (guard posts). In fact, the GPs are within DMZ(Demilitarized Zones). Usually, several platoons rotate to guard GPs. One day, a group of 21 soldiers staying at GP 506 died except for one. A Military Police officer was called in to investigate this horrible incident. The Defense Department sent a group of 21 soldiers to check the matter out.

Upon inspecting the scene, 19 soldiers were shot to death and a soldier who seemed to have shot the 19 soldiers was carrying an axe in his hands. He began to attack the soldiers who were there to check things out. They had no choice but to shoot him.

The thing is that there is still one missing soldier. While the inspection team was searching for the missing soldier, they found him hiding in a storage room downstairs.
The Military Police officer interviewed him in order to solve the mystery. What he told the officer was very shocking.

One day, a few soldiers went out to do a regular search mission. When they got back, they looked very tired and got rashes all over their body. They got infected with a deadly virus and the virus spread in the unit.
However, the platoon leader chose not to report the matter to his superior. He was afraid that it might be bad for his military career. He hoped that everything would be fine. As time went by, the soldiers went mad and shot at each other.
In the end, the Military Police officer and the 21 soldiers who were there to check the scene out got infected as well. Sadly, they had to kill themselves to stop the virus.

While I was watching this movie, I got scared of serving in the Army. On the other hand, I began to appreciate the Korean men and women doing a great job of protecting our country. I also think when there is a even small matter, the leading officer should immediately report it to his superior to solve it.