Aquamarine

                     
                  Two teenage friends, Claire (Emma Robert) and Hailey (Jojo), regret that they will be separated in five days, since Hailey has to move to Australia because of her mother's job. One night, after a violent storm, Hailey wishes for a miracle that will make her mother change her mind about moving, and so they find a mermaid named Aquamarine (Sara Paxton) in the swimming pool of their beach club. The girls are frightened at first, but then curious. They start to talk with Aquamarine and promise her they will be back in the morning.

              
              The next morning, Claire wakes up and hears a commotion down at the swimming pool where they left Aquamarine. Claire's grandparents were clearing the pool because of the huge storm. Both Claire and Hailey quickly rush down to save Aquamarine but when they reach the pool, everything has been cleared.

              They hear noises by the nearby beach's snack shack and find Aquamarine, naked. The only difference is that she has legs instead of a mermaid's tail. Aquamarine tells them she can assume human form on land during the day if she does not get wet. Claire and Hailey become friends with Aquamarine, who tells them that she came to land to find love, an idea she knows nothing about, but desires desperately.

            She tells them that she made a deal with her father that if she can prove love is not a myth, she will not have to undergo an arranged marriage to a spoiled merman  but she only has three days to do it. She notices a handsome lifeguard named Raymond (Jake McDorman) whom Claire and Hailey have admired for a while - and enlists the help of the two girls to win his heart in return for granting their wish. The girls see their opportunity to keep Hailey from moving and quickly work on prepping Aquamarine on the how to attract a man. These self-educated relationship experts, having gained all their knowledge from reading magazines every day and often quote them, soon realize it's a lot easier said than done.

                  Eventually, it is not Raymond that convinces Aquamarine that humans can love, but Claire and Hailey, who are willing to give up their wish and their lives in the aiding of a friend. Raymond and Aquamarine share a kiss and promise to meet up again in the future, Raymond promises he'll wait for her. Hailey and Claire get their wish from Aquamarine, but decide not to use it until later. Aquamarine gives both Hailey and Claire a starfish earring, which tell Hailey she is beautiful inside and out, and Claire is courageous and has a true heart. Aquamarine says that they can always call her on her shell phone.


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               I really love this movie because since I was a kid, I want to be a beautiful mermaid. To live under the water, to swim always, to talk to the fish, to discover all living creature under the water, to have a mermaid friends and to have a colorful tail. But unluckyly I don't know how to swim but I am interested to know how, I just don't have a time to practice. I learned also that having true bestfriend in your life makes your life easier because in times of ups and downs they will be in your side in order to help and assist you. I also love it because it"s a love story and I believed in fairy tales, in happily ever after.. :)

Taken

             
                   It's a story of a seventeen year-old girl, Kim (Maggie Grace) is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) because she is the only daughter and she is the most treasured thing of her father. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Central Intelligence Agency to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore (Famke Janssen)and her wealthy stepfather Stuart (Xander Berkeley) for the fact that her parents are separated.

                 On her birthday, her father gave her a present and her stepfather gave her a horse and because of it Kim got really surprise and felt happy but her father was sad because her present is not expensive as her stepfather gave into her.One time, she wants go to Paris with her American bestfriend, Amanda (Katie Cassidy). Even though her father doesn't allow her to go in order to avoid anything bad that may happen when they are away, Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her bestfriend Amanda.

               When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda said to him that they are just two of them in Paris. They gave Peter their address and he abducted them when they got in their apartment where they are staying. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers abducted  the girls. While the kidnappers are in their apartment finding them because they hide under their bed, Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend.

              When Bryan got in Paris, he found out that the kidnappers are selling girls to the very rich businessmen. He rescue Kim in a big ship. He killed all of the people inside the ship using his skills and ability as a retired agent. And Kim hugged her father tightly and thanks him for saving her life. And after that incident Kim learned a very big lesson in her entire life that sometimes it is better to listen and follow what our parents want us to do...



Reflection:
            One time, I want to hang-out with my best friends but my dad doesn't want me to go out for his own reasons. I hate him for that because he doesn't want me to be happy and get free that's why I went in my room and get frustrated. After a while, he knocks at my door and told me that he want to watch a movie with me. Even though i still hate him, I still watched the movie.  The movie entitled "Taken", I have no idea about what kind of movie it is. After watching the film, I get the objective of my dad why he want me to saw the film. He just want me to realize that he doesn't want me to go out for the reason that he want me to avoid accident that may happen to me while I am out of our house and for me to be safe inside in our little home. When it come's to me, I can really feel that my dad is so strict because I'm his only daughter and the eldest among the three of us. Because of that film, I can now appreciate and understand the love of a father to his siblings.. :)