Movie Time | Recommended movies in November
Movies may affect many of us emotionally because the combined impacts of images, music, dialogue, lighting, sound and special effects can elicit deep feelings and help us reflect on our lives. They can help us better understand our own lives, the lives of those around us and even how the society and culture operate. Recently, four movies with enlightening features will hit local cinemas and here comes the special list made for SEUers.
Children of the Sea
Directed by: Ayumu Watanabe
Release Date: November 20, 2020
Plot:
After a falling out with both her mother and other members of her school club, the female lead and junior high school student Ruka finds herself no place to spend her days during the summer vacation, and so she ends up hanging out at the aquarium where her father is working. She meets a mysterious pair of brothers there, named Umi and Sora who were "raised by dugongs" and are now under observation for their aquatic abilities, as shared by her father.
The three teens share some sort of connection to a series of supernatural phenomena that may affect the world’s marine life, such as a comet falling into the sea and aquatic life from around the world gathering in Japan.
The Croods
Directed by: Kirk DeMicco, Chris Sanders
Release Date: November 27, 2020
Plot:
The film is set in a fictional prehistoric Pliocene era known as "The Croodaceous", a prehistoric period which contains fictional prehistoric creatures. At that time, when a prehistoric caveman's position as a "Leader of the Hunt" is threatened by the arrival of a prehistoric genius who comes up with revolutionary new prehistoric inventions as they trek through a dangerous but exotic, prehistoric land in search of a new prehistoric home.
One Second
Directed by: Zhang Yimou
Release Date: November 27, 2020
Plot:
The film tells a story of the strong bond among three characters acted by Zhang Yi, Liu Haocun and Fan Wei because of a movie. A new trailer depicts a gritty rural town during the Cultural Revolution period where residents gathered to watch a projected film, only to find that the print has been unwound, dragged through the dirt and nearly destroyed. They work together to repair it even as a young street urchin fights to steal it.
Balloon
Directed by: Pema Tseden
Release Date: November 20, 2020
Plot:
The film tells a story about the complicated relationship between faith and reality. The protagonist Da Jie’s sons, two young urchins, mistake condoms for balloons, leading to their mother's unexpected pregnancy. In the meantime, the master predicates that Da Jie's father will reincarnate into the unborn. The family is thus trapped in the conflict between the urge to defend their faith and the pressure to make a living.
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Written by Chen Xuerong
Proofread by Eric Song, Melody Zhang
Edited by Luo Xinyi
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