J.S.A.: Joint Security Area

Joint Security Area (공동경비구역 JSA) is a 2000 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook and is based on the novel DMZ by Park Sang-yeon. The film, which was shot on location in South Korea, concerns an investigation into the circumstances surrounding a fatal shooting incident within the DMZ, the heavily fortified border that separates North and South Korea.

The film opens with a shooting along the heavy militarized border between North and South Korea, which leaves a North Korean soldier Pvt. Chǒng U-jin (Shin Ha- Kyun) dead and a South Korean soldier Sgt. Lee Soo-hyeok (Lee Byung-hun) on border duties, attempts to flee back to the South Korean side.

Hoping to reduce the potentially explosive political fallout by solving the crime quickly, both countries agree on a special investigation conducted by Major Sophie E Jang (Lee Yeong-Ae) on behalf of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission.

In a politically-sensitive place where safety is ensured by covering-up the truth, the young lady investigator learns that things are often not what they seem. As she methodically sifts through the evidence, Sophie learns that the testimony of two other soldiers, North Korean Sgt. Oh Kyeong Pil (Song Kang-Ho) and South Korean Sgt. Lee Soo Hyeok (Lee Byung-Hun) are completely contradictory. Another witness Pvt. Nam Sung-shik (Kim Tae-Woo) tries to commit suicide rather than divulge information.

In her ardent desire to uncover the details of the bizaare incident, she risked the eruption of a serious conflict and discovers a tragic story of friendship.

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The Game

The Game is a psychological thriller film directed by David Fincher released on September 12, 1997. It tells the story of a Scrooge-like San Francisco investment banker, Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) who on his forty eight birthday (the age at which his father committed suicide) given a mysterious gift from his brother, Conrad Van Orton (Sean Penn), a ticket to CRS (Consumer Recreation Services) to participate in a game that changes his life.

This is truly an intelligent and mind blending tale and just when you think you got a hold of the plot it changes!

"The Game" is full of surprises and should not be missed!

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. 

To be social is to be forgiving.

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Limitless

Limitless is a 2011 thriller film directed by Neil Burger released on March 18, 2011 which based on the 2001 novel The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn with the screenplay by Leslie Dixon.

Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) is an unemployed copywriter who is suffering from chronic writer's block and believes that all hope is lost when his girlfriend, Lindy (Abbie Cornish) leaves him. However his life start to change when an old friend introduces him to a (fictional) nootropic drug, NZT-48, a revolutionary new pharmaceutical that allows the user to access hundred percent of their brain's capacity instead of the "usual" twenty percent. He finds himself in possession of a drug that has some curious effect on its user. From his first hit, he realizes that the drug boosts the intellect. Soon, Eddie takes Wall Street by storm, parlaying a small stake into millions with his highly focused and confident.

Before long he catches the eye of business mogul Carl Van Loon (Robert De Niro) and at the same time, also bring him to the attention of people who are in close pursuit to acquire the NZT drug. With his life in jeopardy and the drug's brutal side effects grinding him down, Eddie dodges mysterious stalkers, a vicious gangster and an intense police investigation as he attempts to hang on to his dwindling supply long enough to outwit his enemies.

A year later, Eddie has remains wealthy and his book is published. He is running for United States Senate  and meets Carl in his campaign office. Carl hints that he knows how Eddie has done it and has shut down his lab. Carl will guarantee a limitless supply in exchange for some future political favors, however, Eddie aggressively pushes Carl away, showing off his abilities that he is off NZT and doesn't need it anymore.

At an upscale Chinese restaurant Eddie and Lindy are together again and he orders his meal by speaking Mandarin with the waiter.

Limitations live only in our minds. 

But if we use our imaginations and our possibilities become limitless. 
Everything is possible when we open our mind.

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Source Code

Source Code is a 2011 American science fiction techno-thriller film directed by Duncan Jones, written by Ben Ripley which released on April 1, 2011.

The story starts when soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man on a commuter train traveling to Chicago. After eight minutes, a bomb goes off on the train and he awakens to find himself strapped inside a small geodesic dome. Through a screen, Air Force Capt. Colleen Goodwin (Vera Farmiga) explains to him that he is actually Colter Stevens, a decorated army helicopter pilot, now on a mission using Source Code to discover the location of a bomb aboard the train and identify the bomber who detonated it which destroyed a train headed into Chicago.

Stevens has no memory of how he became involved in the Source Code project; his last memory is of flying in a recent mission in Afghanistan while taking on enemy gunfire. In an assignment unlike any of he's ever known, he learns that the train explosion occurred two months after an incident in Afghanistan which reportedly killed him. And his body are in fact on life-support at the Source Code facility while his mind is hooked up to a computer system, the cockpit being a mental projection of his own mind to cope with the experience of a compatible man's life for the last eight minutes within an alternate timeline. Angered to discover this, Stevens requests that his life support be terminated after the mission is completed.

Stevens re-lives the incident over and over again through different people until he manages to foil another attack and in the process unexpectedly falls in love with one of the passengers, Christina Warren (Michelle Monaghan).

Stevens ask Christina what will she do if she knew she had less than one minute to live and she reply "I'd make those seconds count". Stevens and Christina kiss in the last seconds before the eight-minute mark. In that instant, Goodwin disables his life support per his request and the scene reveals his actual, physical body as severely mutilated and comatose. Time freezes, but to Stevens' surprise, find himself finishing the kiss,  still aboard the train with Christina, saving the rest of the passengers and all remains in the alternate timeline (universe).

Make Every Second Count

Life can be long or short, it all depends on how we choose to live it. 

It's like forever, always changing. 

For any of us our forever could end in an hour or a hundred years from now. 

We can never know for sure, so make every second count. 

What we have to decide is how we want our life to be. 

If our forever was ending tomorrow and how would we have want it to spent. 

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