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Greetz peepz. I originally wanted to write a nice big blog... but after catching up on some other reading, I've run out of energy! It's 12:30am, and I have work tomorrow, so I can't waste too much valuable sleep time typing to a wall. :P

Just came back from watching The Last Samurai. A lot of people seem to think it was great, but there were a few areas in the movie I really didn't like. >_< Some movie "spoilers" follow, so go away if you're psycho about them.

What's up with the main character killing a guy and then kissing his wife afterwards?? Like I can understand if it was some central part of Japanese culture, but I don't think it is. I think it's more to do with giving what the mainstream wanted: "hot chicks need to be chased, and since the main character is cool, he should get her".

And when Katsumoto (something like that) kills himself for his honour, Tom Cruise should of done it, too! Why is he excused from it? I only got some vague line "you have your honour back" before the other person killed himself. It seems like this main character selectively chooses to take what he likes from the Japanese, and avoids the rest. There's all this talk about honour, but the movie doesn't really know what it is. I think honour is a double-edged blade... if you want to be all that, then you need to be prepared to throw your own interests away, too. The movie just skims over the latter part... which kind of pisses me off. Maybe it was short-sighted ideals like this that made men rush off to the World Wars. But perhaps it's this ignorance which gives everyone the morale to do things. After all, ignorance is bliss, right?

Anyway, I'll stop dissing it now - it's prolly doing more harm that good. :P It was an enjoyable movie, but my ethical side just doesn't like it when movies are bent to appeal to entertainment, as opposed to something meaningful. People need to make money, I guess. I'll only get angry if anyone says something like: "that movie taught me a lot about how life should be". Because it doesn't - it's just one big, unbelievable fiction. It oozes ego-centric motives: see how great I am, since I am fighting a pointless war.

I'll leave it at that. I am sure lots of people have different ideas to me. :)

Next post, I promise will be less cynical. :D

Chill, yo~
Steven