The Movie Review about "The New Life"

For the final project, we were put into three groups, with each group creating a single movie based on last project, which was to write a fiction story. As a result of this, we totally made three movies, which are “The truth of misconception”, “The new life” and “God will save me”. Of the three, the most interesting movie was “The new life” to me. That’s not only because I wrote this story, but also because it was described and filmed better than I imagined when I made it.

The following is a brief summary of this movie. It’s the story about a girl who feels bored with her life and is interested in nothing at all. One day, on her way to school, she had a car accident. When she wakes up, she realizes she was dead! She cannot believe this, so she heads to her home. There, she realized how boring her life was and how terribly she lived. She thinks that if she had one more opportunity to live, she would live differently from the past. Thinking about this, she falls asleep, and after few hours later, she wakes up and is told about her accident. All of a sudden, she feels her eyes are filled with tears and realizes the real value of life.

While watching this movie, I could find some good points. First of all, the sound effects of the movie were appropriate in different situations. They include the sound of alarm clock, car accident, and ambulance. Second of all, it has a scene taken from a distant angle and a close-up scene, which maximize effect of the situation. Third of all, some pictures were inserted in place of the scenes that are difficult to film, and it kind of reminds the audience of something like cartoon or animation, which could make this movie funnier and more interesting, I think.

When we go to the theater, it’s not that hard to find a movie which a written story was adapted into. I thought it would be an easy task, because it already had the completed story. However, through this project, I could realize the difference between written story and scenario and the way they express the world. When it comes to making a movie, we have to consider a variety of things, like sound, props, actors and actresses, and background. It means that, unlike a written story, we need to think of three-dimensional aspects to make the movie look more natural and realistic.