15 minutes blog of a better movie

If you have read my previous post, then you know I didn't think so kindly of the Bubble Fiction movie. Here is another blog that concur with my feeling. By the way, ever notice how I never wrote about the movie's plot, but just my opinion?

On with the post. I was watching a Thai movie called The Possible (เก๋า...เก๋า -- old...old). As I saw Focus Jeerakul (right picture, with her hand in the snack bag), her face reminds me of a young Japanese celebrity, Kusumi Koharu (left picture).













Anyway, that thought aside, I want to talk about some differences between Bubble Fiction and The Possible. First, the copied summary:

Bubble Fiction:
When a brilliant female researcher accidentally turns an ordinary washing machine into a time machine, the Japanese government convinces her to travel back to 1990 and prevent the announcement of landmark fiscal policy that triggered the nation's economic demise. But the mission hits a snag when the researcher disappears, forcing the government to send her estranged daughter, Mayumi - a debt-ridden bar hostess and the only other person the time machine will accept - back in time to find out what happened. Mayumi arrives at the peak of Japan's "bubble" economy and finds a society obsessed with material wealth and profligate spending. With her warnings of impending doom falling on deaf ears, Mayumi's frustrated efforts to find her mother suggest some kind of conspiracy at work at the highest levels of government. Her own future and that of Japan itself begins to hinge on her ability to recruit the help of one man: the same finance bureaucrat who sent her through time. The problem is, he's 17 years younger and completely unreliable. From Pony Canyon.

The Possible:
In 1970, a rock band called "The Possible" has reached the top of the Thai music charts, and has created a sensation among the younger generation. One day, the band receives a microphone as the present from a mysterious fan. Miraculously, the microphone is a time-machine that accidentally transports them to the year 2006, where modern music rules and they're just an out-of-date item. The only way to bring them back to their glorious time is performing a concert that will fix the broken time-machine/microphone. But, before the concert could be set, there're still some problems in the new world that they have to deal with. From imdb.

Two time-traveling movies in one weekend is a pretty strange, but I somehow done it. While watching The Possible, I came to realized that the movie flows a whole lot better. The characters are more dramatic and realistic. There is no breakdown of nonsensical low-IQ teen or tween gone wild like Bubble Fiction. You see characters with deeper conflict and emotion, and that just made it all worth while. But at last, few people will ever get a chance to watch The Possible, since there is no English subtitle for it, or the fact that it is in PAL DVD-9 region.

DVD: ethaicd