I'm not Perfect, and I do not Live to be (20 Random Stuffs About Me!)

1. My name is Joanna Marie Honorio Tan.

2. I totally HATE lizards! I'd rather hold a tarantula than that one! :))

3. Sadly, I'm allergic from dust mites. :|

4. I am addicted to movies! When I was in high school, I had a  list of movies that I have watched!

5. I am a Mass Communication student at Notre Dame of Dadiangas University and a member of the Kinetic Media Council.

6. I am a bookworm. I love reading novels. My favorite writer is Nicholas Sparks. Im proud to say, I have read lots of books that he have written.

7. Like the usual ladies, i'm NOT really into chocolates or sweet stuffs because i have this sort of a tonsillitis thingy. (laughs, i don't know exactly how to call it!) Even if I just eat a square-inch of chocolate, my throat would really hurt! :(


8. Usually people's first impression of me is maldita. They say that I have quite the attitude of raising eyebrows at people. But seriously guys, blame that to my eyebrows! hahaha. I don't do that to people even if they deserve to.

9. I don't have any particular favorite color. Seriously. :)) Whatever pleases my eyes, that's my favorite!

10. I am a huge fan of Justin Bieber! Hahaha! I would literally get pissed off every time someone says he's gay coz he's totally not. I just like him not just because of his looks, his good looking looks, but also because of his hit songs. Haha one funny fact, when I watched his Never Say Never 3D movie at the cinema, I shouted for like 10x and cried (laughs!).

11. I like men who smell good, there's just something about it that makes them better. For the record, my boyfriend smells so good! (hahaha!)

 (this was the sandals that Sarah Jessica Parker wore at the movie, Sex and the City)

12. I love shoes, or sandals if you wanna call it, it's a girl's guilty pleasure, but.. I have a lengthy feet, (just about 9 inches, but here in our city, that's not usual. the usuals are just 7-8) so there are a lot of moments in my life wherein I'd really get disappointed for the reason that most of the shoe's I like doesn't have a size that fits me!


13. One of my dreams in life, is that someday, I'll LOVE to eat vegetables! (laughs) I don't know why, but I really just don't like eating them. And I feel bad for that. I have a fear of losing my life in an early age.

14. Even if you perceive me as a petite type of person, the truth is, I don't go on diets, even if I wanted to! I just can't stop eating. hahaha!

15. If you're gonna ask me "what do you wanna eat?", you would definitely just hear three stuffs: pizza, lasagna and ice cream! Uuuggh! I would die for them! Those are really my guilty pleasures! :))

16. I have this thing for babies and kids. I am a kid at heart. :) I just love being with them! 

 

17. (For the record, I only have one ex-boyfriend) Right now, I thank God for a wonderful boyfriend that loves me so much and whom I want to spend the rest of my life with. :) <3

18. I dream to go around the world. (Who doesn't? haha) I may not literally do that coz If I do, probably I have to work for years for just a single country that I'd want to visit. But someday, I'll visit lots of places. :) mark that y'all! :)

19. I hate seeing blood. Unless it's my blood, haha! Seriously, I won't scream if I see one, but most probably I'd faint if I did.

20. I'm not a socialite type of girl like a lot of people think. I'm just a simple girl who leaves house wearing shirt and jeans. Sometimes I dress up, of course, I need to. I don't like wearing make up, seriously, but there are really times that I have to wear one. I always hear my mom saying that I should put even just lipstick and blush on because of the title that I'm holding. But, at the end of the day, I'm just an average girl, with a not-so-average life! I'm happy with it. I'M NOT PERFECT, AND I DO NOT LIVE TO BE.

Mon Mari D'être (My husband to be..)

My husband would be the one I know who’s right for me,
Someone whom I know would love me deeply,
Who would wake up each morning waiting as I open my
eyes, and tell me how much he loves me..

My husband would never fell out of love for me..
He’d never lose patience and never stop doing
things that I love..
He’d still write me love letters like he used to..
And he will see his whole life with just me and our children..

My husband knows that marriage is between two persons,
Life doesn’t end here, but it’s going to be a new beginning
wherein we, both of us,
will bold a new life of what we dreamt of, together..

But despite of all these sweet things, in real life,
Our marriage would still have our own ups and downs..
My husband, my loving husband,
would be the man whom I knew from the start..
He would know every word his wife, I, am not saying,
For he knows what my heart,
The heart that already belongs to him,
desires most... 

(i found this one on my past homeworks, haha kaso d ako maxado satisfied.. pero tinatamad na rin akong mag edit at mag isip pa ng mga kachakahang idadagdag dito.. so, ito nah.. :) <3 )

Lino Brocka's Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang, film review

Lino Brocka’s

TINIMBANG KA NGUNIT KULANG

(WEIGHED BUT FOUND WANTING)

Film Review by

Joanna Marie Tan

Casts:

Lolita Rodriguez as Kuala

Christopher de Leon as Junior

Mario O’Hara as Bertong Ketong

Eddie Garcia as Mr. Cesar Blanco

Lilia Dizon as Mrs. Carolina Blanco

           

Lino Brocka’s films are proven to be award-winning. This film of his, Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang, is not just an ordinary or typical type of movie that we see on screen rather this portrays the world that we have around particularly us having a country where Catholicism rules. In this movie, we will see that people confer rules such as one should not judge one’s neighbor but often they themselves do not follow this word as well.

            Brocka used an ideological model wherein he portrayed the movie in connection with the situation in our society. People are so judgmental that sometimes they do not realize they are the ones who does wrong things. They become so proud of themselves and their status that they turn out to be greedy and boastful. Three major characters in this film were Kuala, a mentally challenged woman who lost her child due to abortion, Bertong Ketong who is a town leper marginalized by the townspeople and Junior, the witness of the major twists and secrets of the film.

            Morality is a big issue this film; and whether the word “morality” is rightly being judged or not. This film is packed of emotional scenes that would make people realize what the real situation in our world today is. People often ignore such situations and this teaches us to act against immoral acts.

Alfred Hitchcock's PYSCHO, film review

Alfred Hitchcock’s

PSYCHO

Film Review by

Joanna Marie Tan

Casts:

Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates

Vera Miles as Lila Crane

John Gavin as Sam Loomis

Janet Leigh as Marion Crane

           

Titled as the “mother” of all modern horror suspense, truly, Psycho gave me goose bumps; it felt like someone was also running after me. Although it was Hitchcock’s first real horror film, it seems like he already is a master at making one. It was story of a woman, Marion Crane, who stole $40,000 from her employer’s office and run away to start a new life. On her way to another state, tired and exhausted, she decided to stop by to a motel run by a man named Norman Bates, a silent and mysterious type of person who seems so preoccupied by his ill mom. Suddenly, Marion was killed and now reveals the truth that Norman’s the killer and his mom had already died a long time ago. The woman’s silhouette seen in his window was just a mummy of his mother’s body.

            The nightmarish, confusing identities, vulnerable situations, and deadly effects of money, victimizations and mummy-terrifying doll were realistically revealed. Its theme, suspense, was revealed through repeated uses of birds, eyes, hands and mirrors. Hitchcock’s use of Psychoanalytic model theory, particularly Voyeuristic Pleasures shows how he manipulates viewer’s attraction and pleasures that could be obtained and connecting it to guiding the viewers into identifying the main character, their real identities and twists behind the true story of the film. Scenes from the killing at the shower, suspense scenes at the office, bedroom and even the first scene of the film showing Marion having a lunchtime affair in her white, sexy undergarments were voyeuristic.

            Psycho is very complex and stuffed with mysterious events which made it more exciting. It’s not just a typical type of film that would just occupy your mind only from the beginning till the end; it would boggle you until you sleep. It’s one of the most frightening films ever made and it is filled with suspense and full murder mystery panorama.

Buried, film review

BURIED

Film Review by

Joanna Marie Tan

Casts:

Ryan Reynolds as Paul Conroy               

Robert Paterson as Dan Brenner (voice)

José Luis García Pérez as Jabir (voice)

           

I cannot fathom how one puts at risk a life of an ordinary man for the reason that his family is starving and blaming it all to the Americans. Buried, starred by Ryan Reynolds as Paul Conroy, is based on a true-to-life story of a truck driver who was ambushed together with his co-workers by unknown Iraqis. Waking up inside a coffin, buried 6 feet down under, Paul only has a lighter, pen, a flash light and a cell phone with only 24 hours left before he runs out of air, and sand entering into his coffin. I remember when I first saw this film; I kept on crying especially on the middle part up to the end because I really wanted to save him. If only I could!

            The story of the movie, no doubt, is great! It shows a lot of lessons and it opens up our mind and awareness as to what is really going on in the Middle East. Lots of innocent people are suffering the consequences and I really feel pity for them. The story is perfect, but the way they did the movie, is not. There were a lot of flaws and those flaws are way too obvious. How could someone stay alive and still breathe for hours when in fact he should’ve choked to death or run out of air because he was always using fire? There were a lot of scenes in the movie wherein his cell phone was focused, and the status of his battery life was inconsistent. One thing I cannot really imagine, is on how can a snake enter and leave a coffin if that coffin is buried six feet under? Come to think about it, there’s also a great mind behind the makers of the film. In a lot of movies that I have watched, especially the thriller or suspense ones, a lot are getting problems with their phone’s signals, but in this movie, signal is definitely not a problem! (laughs)

            Even though there were a lot of flaws in the film, still, this is a good movie for all. It gives a lot of life related lessons and gives us awareness to the present situations happening. The movie is a roller coaster ride. It will bring you different emotions. For those who are claustrophobic, beware! Buried will give you a scare.

Silence of the Lambs, movie review

Jonathan Demme’s

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

Film Review by

Joanna Marie Tan

Casts:

Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling

Scott Glenn as Jack Crawford

Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter

Ted Levine as Jame “Buffalo Bill” Gumb

           

Cannibalism already took place in this world for a long period of time. In the modern era, this is unaccepted for this is against human rights, but we cannot really expunge this doing because of cultural relativism. We cannot blame other people, especially primitive people if they do this act because what’s bad to us may be good for others and what’s good to us may be bad for them. Other causes for cannibalism are people suffering from famine or let’s take into consideration the victims of accidents who were still unsaved and do not have any choice but to eat the flesh of other victims who dies. There are a lot of cases wherein cannibalism could take place and cannibalism was widespread in the past among humans all over the world like South Pacific, Fiji, Congo, New Zealand, and many more. 

            Silence of the Lambs is an award winning movie directed by Jonathan Demme starred by best actress, Jodie Foster and best actor, Anthony Hopkins, and I must say, they deserved all the awards! Silence of the Lambs is one of the tautest, thrilling and surreal movies I have ever watched. The story of disturbing characterizations of mass murderers that kill or rather slaughter their victims put me into distress particularly the character of Lecter who was a psychiatrist turned psychopath cannibal. The movie is packed with mind boggling, mysterious events with twists on its end that would surely put you viewers stuck in your seats. Still, despite mystifying events, this movie is one of the best movies I have watched.

            This film definitely proves that filmmakers don’t need too much blood on their sets just to give viewers the thrill while watching. Anthony Hopkins gave an outstanding performance as well as Jodie Foster and no doubt they deserve to be in line on one of the most respected actors and actresses in Hollywood. This film should be and deserves to be in the history’s greatest suspense films in the history of cinema.

Lake House, film review

Alejandro Agresti’s

LAKE HOUSE

Film Review by

Joanna Marie Tan

Casts:

Sandra Bullock as Kate Forster

Keanu Reeves as Alex Wyler

Christopher Plummer as Simon Wyler

Dr. Kate Forster (Bullock), is a lovely and lonely single woman who left a message for the next tenant of the lake house she’d just vacated asking him to forward her mail. When architect Alex Wyler (Reeves) moves in and reads the note, he believes the woman is a fool because of the fact that he was the first one to live in the house near the lake. They began to write each other mails through the realization that they were two years apart and the only thing that connects them to the real world is a little mail box located outside of the lake house. Here starts the story of two people who found love at a different time and finds hope if love can ever find a way for them to meet.

The team up of Reeves and Bullock in the story also gives a whole lot of excitement because of the fact that they’ve been on a movie together (Speed), twelve years before they came up with the movie Lake House. It excites me to watch them again together on the big screen. The last movie I’ve watched that they were together on a film, and compared to their new one, all I can say is, they still got it!

            This is an interesting movie for all ages. It’s a movie full of exciting scenes which will take you to a higher level of eagerness on what will happen to the characters in the story. It’s like a roller coaster ride full of emotions to feel while watching the whole movie. It never shows any malicious acts or discriminations on all people said in the story. For sure people will love it the same way I did while watching the movie. Two thumbs up. It will sure give the audience even a single drop of tear to carry on.