Reviews

There was not really much explanation for the odd things going on, of course people are going to be left with questions...

I researched & found that the director got his inspiration from Stephen King's son, Joe Hill's "The Black Phone" but added elements of his own twist & childhood to it.

There was no explanation to how the boy's sister had the ability to see the kidnapped kids in her dreams, see the home of the kidnapper in her dream...

No explanation to how the broken wired phone was able to make calls from the dead...

Did the phone worked for the previous kidnapped children?? I don't think so, why does it work for this kid???

I have not read Joe Hill's short story either but what logic is it to have a broken phone as decor in the prison anyway??

I feel the director is a terrible story teller who doesn't like to go in depth into details. That's just not my style.

I was never really a huge fan of these type of 3D graphic/cartoon type of things...

I saw it when it first came out and I was in high school during the time.

This movie repeatedly reminds you to "KEEP MOVING FORWARD."

To remind you to stop reminiscing so much about the past and doing things for the past and leave it IN THE PAST.

The lesson this movie really moved me as a kid and as an adult, I still think a lot about this movie because it gave such an important lesson that I really take with me everyday.

In MBTI/cognitive function-wise, I related a lot to the main character a lot because me as and INFP and him as an INTP, we both have Si child.

Fi Si loop and Ti Si loop will get us too caught up on what happened in the past.

The track "Little Wonders" by Rob Thomas is such a beautiful song that matches the theme as well. That song really teared me up when I first heard it in high school.

This movie will definitely always be one of my top favorites.

I really love masterpieces that I really relate to and enlightens or inspires me to the point where I can apply the lesson to my own life to relieve my sadness and bring me strength.

I was exposed to this film as a kid.

It was dubbed in my language and I found it very funny during my childhood so I re-watched it a lot.

It is one of those bizarre Chinese comedy films from the 90s.

It is basically about a popular painter who got bored of his wives and fell in lust over some girl he saw while his friends convince him that she was the most beautiful girl ever.

He desperately does the most to make her his.

A Chinese romance fantasy with poor CGI & graphics.

This film & acting comes off like they are in a play. The stiff, dramatic acting.

It gives off those vibes similarly to those Egyptian films that were made in the 1950's.

Even though the graphics were pretty corny and bad, when I was a kid, I thought it was such an aesthetically pleasing film, so I think about this film often.

For the storyline, it is about a prince who immediately "falls in love" with a magical princess and immediately marries.

She was not accepted by his family because they were being brainwashed by some problematic evil wizard. So the prince's family wanted her dead while the prince was away at war. So she magically flies away when they try to burn her alive.

The prince returns very upset realizing what had happened and travels very far for days to get her to come back.

The male and female lead are so beautiful + I love how cheerfully happy they were, portraying such kindness and innocence in their characters.

I first saw this film when I was a kid in 2005.

Growing up, I thought about this film often and it is still one of my favorites to this day because I really enjoyed the bizarre fantasy & CGI.

It was aesthetically pleasing to me and because I am a huge fan of Chinese fantasy/arts.

Beautiful costumes. Interesting concepts. It has art written all over it.

It is aesthetically pleasing but contains a lot of unrealistic, illogical ideas/concepts/situations.

This story is a about a poor little girl with no family, no money who had no knowledge about life, that took a random magical offer from some goddess that came to her while she was crying.

I question to why this goddess came out of no where to choose to grant her some magical offering and disappear from the girl forever.

Like, is this goddess bored or have evil motives to come to a child to make such a deal?

The offer was to be wealthy and beautiful forever, but she will never be able to find love unless some bizarre, impossible, magical circumstances happen.

That poor little girl who knew nothing about how life or consequences work and thought everything will be fine as long as she has wealth and the beauty wanted by many.

As she gets older, she faces the consequences from that offer from that goddess.

The acting comes off as if they are all in a play.