MOVIE REVIEW

Name                       :           Yosi  Oktarina

Reg.number        :           54594

Class                         :           K4 / 2010

Mid test of Listening 1 with Ms Leni Marlina

I watched this movie three weeks ago. It’s title is Penelope. This movie is very excited and inspiring.

The stars in this movie are  :          

1.    Christina Ricci as Penelope Wilhern

2.    James McAvoy as Johny

3.    Richard E. Grant as Franklin Wilhern

4.    Catherine O’Hara as Jessica wilhern

5.    Peter Dinklage as Lemon

6.    Russell Brand as Sam

7.    Ronny Ancona as Wanda

8.    Simon Wood as Edward HumphreyVanderman III

9.    Nigel havers as Edward Vanderman II

PENELOPE

Penelope is a romantic fairy tale about a girl who has face like a pig. This story begins in many generation ago in wilhern’s family. Penelope's great great great grandfather, Ralph, had a fair with Clara. When he told to his family he wanted to marry Clara, his family though it’s a silly one because Clara just was a servant girl and she was not a kind of them. So, Ralph married with someone in his kind. It made Clara sad and she fallen from valley. Clara’s mother, the city witch, wanted to revenge to wilhern’s family for their rejected to her daughter and made a curse that the next daughter in wilhern’s family will be born with face like a pig. The curse will be broken if she finds true love with “one of her kind”.

Penelope ( Christina Ricci) was the next daughter in wilhern’s family because the previous generation always born sons. Penelope wilhern’s born in wealthy socialites who always think about their image. So, her mother hides her from outside. She is afflicted by the spell of wilhern’s family that the curse will be broken when she finds love. So, Penelope’s mother paid Wanda, the love maker, helps her to find suitor who want to marry Penelope. Penelope is asked to meet many of man who always runs away after they see her face.

Lemon, an eager tabloid reporter wants a photograph of mysterious Penelope and hire Maxwell champion to be a suitor to get a shot. Actually, he ask a wrong one, the handsome guy who sit next to him in the poker table, Johnny ( James McAvoy) get a chance to meet Penelope.  Johnny finds himself falling in love with Penelope but not wanted to disappoint her or to expose her to all of people. He decides to disappear.

 Fed up to all of her terms, Penelope breaks free from her family and ventures in the world alone. She finds adventure and her first friend, Annie. She wants to declare her freedom and gives her photos to Lemon who has failed to get her photo. Penelope is a famous one after that but her mother still asks her to marry a man to break the curse. Edward Vanderman wants to marry her to increase his popularity but Penelope don’t want to marry with someone doesn’t love her. She cancel her married and she say “I love myself who I am” and the curse was broken.

Finally, she really gets her freedom and choose her own dream, be a horticulturist. And then, she meets again with Johnny and lived happily.

Moral value

One thing that I noticed from this movie is” love yourself the way you are”. Penelope teaches us that everyone in this world is worth.  We can learn from Penelope who said to her mother that she doesn’t want to change everything in their life, because she likes herself now.  Her mother wants to change her pig nose but, Penelope thinks all of life has been created by God well. So, there is nothing that has to change.

So, if we have love ourselves we will thank to God and we will love our life, because God has made everybody’s life be perfect.