Movie promotion time! ~ Right now the two movies on top of my best list are Ace in the Hole and The Fire Within. They are two completely different movies in term of style and pacing, but they both manage to haunt me after I have seen them for a long time. Ace in the Hole is more about a brutally realistic reflection of a real-life issue that people can see. I won’t go into too much details to avoid spoiler, but it has a lot to do with greed and oppotunism being strengthened by the morbid curiosity and heartlessness of the mass. It doesn’t shy away or sugar coat anything. It just aims for the truth, to the point of making people uncomfortable. And I like it when movies are honest. The Fire Within is a bit more psychological and abstract. It’s more like an existential crisis trip to Wonderland, except that this Wonderland is filled by real-life people. I just don’t know how to describe it, something about it is very surreal even though I can’t find anything surreal about it. And if that alone isn’t haunting enough, the movie talks about an issue that not many people can understand nor talk about: the feeling of being isolated while completely surrounded. This movie is a bit hard to understand because not many people can understand the problem the movie points out. But if you can understand it, it hits you hard, very hard.