Nov 5, 2015

Star Wars

I guess that everyone has heard of "Star Wars", a sci-fi movie. I am a big fan of sci-fi movies and happy to know that a new series of Star Wars, Episode VII The Force Awakens, is coming this December.

My daughter and I enjoyed watching Star Wars Episode I, II, and III last weekend. Unexpectedly, the Episode III that I got was not dubbed into Japanese; only English and Chinese subtitles were available. I wanted to use English subtitles so that I could understand the story more, but my 12-year-old daughter declined it because it might disturb the beautiful computer generated images (CGI). Another likely reason is that she was unable to read English. I had no choice but to watch the movie only with English voices.

This is my first time to watch English movies without subtitles, but I was able to follow the story more than I would expected. It is unclear how well my daughter caught the story, but I am 100% sure that she had a lot of fun with the movie because the CGI effects were exceptional.

While watching these three series of Star Wars, I have realized that the CGIs looked more fantastic in Episode III than in Episode I or II. This is because no subtitle in Episode III enabled me to focus more on the CGIs, I think.

I have to say, "Thank you, my daughter." Her request (i.e., no subtitle) reminded me of a real attractiveness of sci-fi movies.