Mar 25, 2010

PS I love you



There were two movies in the past 5 years that I watched the 2nd time right away after just finishing the movie.
One is Inglorious basterds on the flight from SFO to TPE and the other one was PS I love you couple years ago.

It's a movie of true love that only makes me feel like to treasure our loves around us when we still can.
My favorite part of the movie is when Holly went back to the Karaoke to sing 'Love you till the end' for Jerry after he died from cancer. That's what he wanted her to do in one of his letter.

Here is the link to the video on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c11IAprUW7o&feature=related

'I just want to tell you nothing you don't want to hear.
All I want is for you to say.
Oh Why don't you just take me where I've never been before.
I know you want to hear me, catch my breath.
I love you till the end. I love you till the end. I love you till the end...'

I read the book a year ago. It was not as beautiful as the movie. The movie is well done. The book got a great idea to begin with but it's more like a book about family with less romantic elements, such as the 12 letters were actually given to Holly all together in the book. And the sequence of the letter in the book is not as well arranged as in the movie. Well, I found it that way while I was reading.
But it could be just a impression effect since I watched the movie first and was in love with it right away...
Plus I am not usually a big fan of romantic books but am a loser when it comes to romantic movies... (how does that work..?)

Anyways, as a non-native speaker... I hope I well expressed and shared my feeling and thought to the book and movie.
Most importantly, thanks to the love of my life and who loves me in return, I am a lucky person to have him :)

Mar 24, 2010

Inglourious Basterds















W
atched this movie the 3rd time with my parents tonight. And still LOVE it like crazy.
I found that every time I watched this movie again, I'll get or find new stuff from the movie.

It's a quite a movie, no matter the screenplay, the music or the cinematography...

I especially love the period of Brad Pitt's speech...

My name is Lt. Aldo Raine, and I’m putting together a special team. And I need me eight soldiers. Eight – Jewish – American – Soldiers. Now y’all might have heard rumors about the armada happening soon. Well, we’ll be leavin a little earlier. We’re gonna be dropped into France, dressed as civilians. And once we’re in enemy territory, as a bushwackin’ guerilla army, we’re gonna be doin one thing, and one thing only, Killin Nazi’s. The members of the Nationalist Socialist Party, have conquered Europe through murder, torture, intimidation, and terror. And that’s exactly what we’re gonna do to them. Now I don’t know about y’all. But I sure as hell, didn’t come down from the goddamn smoky mountains, cross five thousand miles of water, fight my way through half Sicily, and then jump out of a fuckin air-o-plane, to teach the Nazi’s lessons in humanity. Nazi ain’t got no humanity. There the foot soldiers of a Jew hatin, mass murderin manic, and they need to be destroyed. That’s why any and every son-of-a-bitch we find wearin a Nazi uniform, there gonna die. We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty, they will know who we are. They will find the evidence of our cruelty, in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us. And the German will not be able to help themselves from im
agining the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heals, and the edge of our knives. And the Germans, will be sickened by us. And the Germans, will talk about us. And the Germans, will fear us. And when the Germans close their eyes at night, and their subconscious tortures them for the evil they’ve done, it will be with thoughts of us, that it tortures them with. But I got a word of warning to all would be warriors. When you join my command, you take on debit. A debit you owe me, personally. Every man under my command, owes me, one hundred Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps. And all y’all will git me, one hundred Nazi scalps, taken from the heads of one hundred Nazi’s or you will die trying. -Lt. Aldo Raine aka Aldo the Apache

It's the best part of the movie, I'd think. Of course, there
are also the great lines in other parts and the outstanding performances of the actor and actresses, especially Christopher Waltz.
He is such a brilliant actor in the film. He acts well in French, German, English and even Italian. It's definitely the best supporting actor of the all time. Brad Pitt is also very great with the accent and humor he brought for the movie. And... Hugo Stiglitz!! Who wouldn't love him and his silence & craziness in that film?! It makes a perfect atmosphere of tense and funniness!

However, the Oscar gave the best original screenplay award to the Hurt Locker instead of Inglourious basterds is out of my expectation. Although the hurt locker is a well-down movie, too. But I personally think the lines in the film and the way they talked, the set up they have in the stories in Inglourious Basterds are all one of the best I've ever seen even comparing with the Hurt Locker.
I can only say the Oscar is not only about movies maybe. It's also about the politics and massages linked to the news nowadays. A bit disappointed of that fact... But anyways, who cares about Oscars... The true stunning movie it still is, my favorite movie in a long time- Inglourious Basterds!
Love it!!

Thanks to all the crew to make this movie happen!! I really enjoyed it... :)



















Mar 16, 2010

The Hurt Locker- a movie to feel



讓Avatar這麼大敗的危機倒數,我今天去看了....
它是一部讓人"感受" 大於思考的電影...

情節的緊湊 讓你感受前線的步調和節奏
值班的倒數 讓你感受到難熬和漫長的艱辛

電影展現一種人對生命的熱愛與戰爭殘酷殺略的強烈對比,
戰場的緊湊和瞬間的寂靜的對比(eg.子彈掉到地上慢動作的墜落 展現一種無奈的美感以及與死殺現場完全不同的節奏...etc.)
導演運用主角角色的特別之處著眼,展現軍人在戰爭中心靈所面臨的矛盾,掙扎與無奈
"所謂表現非凡的軍人"究竟是不是個稱讚 這是他們要的 是他們的目標嗎?
還是男人的自尊心被戰爭所利用了?

天不怕地不怕的男主角若展現了惻隱之心or"感受"多一些...就會不小心上演007或藍波戲碼,害了隊友...
但像那個誇獎男主角的長官 因為殘忍(不救還有15分鐘可以救的伊斯蘭教人)可以升成高官...etc.

唯一可以讓那些軍人慶幸的一點 也許是至少他們不是那些成天生活在戰火中的伊拉克人
看炸彈、屍體、槍枝看慣了的伊拉克人....

祈禱世界和平~ 真的這麼希望...

Mar 15, 2010

今天



今天開始了素描的學習
這個老師的教法 十分適合那些要考美術班的學生...
跟我想學習的方向有點差距 但是我也不介意迅速的成長就是了

但若要賦予生命和觀察的話 可能得回家靠自己鑽研一下

最近很充實 如計畫的 學了很多東西 還好我學習的項目都是往同個方向
學素描可以訓練我對明暗度的掌握和捕捉 這對攝影也是及有幫助的
外加 我發現素描得時間過的很快 但是要化得好還真需要些耐性 也需要心思的細膩

缺點是現場實在沒有提供很好的照光環境 因此我只能說對物體的描繪是用"抄寫"的 並非自己觀察出來的

不管做什麼 都需要多練習 這真的是至理名言

今天一個要考美術系的高中女生 做我旁邊 和我一樣 是上第一堂素描課
一上課 老師放了個立體三角型錐狀物在桌上,要我們自己畫 用任何筆都行
我心想 這下可好.... 看旁邊那個女孩倒是很有自信的畫了起來
其實我真的可以懂為什麼人越老 越是懶得學習
今天泡在一堆高中國中生中間,低頭塗鴉,讓我感受到了"歲數"這件事...

所以,結論是... 一定要保持年輕的外貌! 這樣老了去上課也比較不會不好意思!!! 一定一定~

Mar 3, 2010

Earthquake

驟醒. 看得出來已是白天…

突然房子開始搖晃,伊伊伊呀的聲音,不知是房子還是書櫃抑或是地球的聲音


'框啷!'書櫃上在New York買的車牌掉了下來...

我望著自定位的房裡的一個點,921的記憶燃上心頭…


停止. 看了一眼手機… 08:19

這次又是規模多大的地震


海地7.3

智利8.8


是否災難片的演繹要開始了....?


後記: 這天的地震是6.4 震央高雄離地5km…

Feb 9, 2010

神明廳---一個家庭的興衰


對神明廳的回憶,停留在篤行路76號的5樓...那份記憶伴著燒香的濃郁氣味和木雕大理石坐椅,以及外頭那座小花園、院裡的大鳥籠...

那天大掃除,媽媽交代我吸全家的地板,打掃到了陌生的神明廳的時候,一抹感觸襲上心頭,想到了這個標題...
上次家裡有神明廳,是1991年之前的事了...之後我們搬出了奶奶家,到陌生的大里,爸媽很諒解的讓我讀完小學,再轉到當地的國中就讀,沒照原來的計畫要我轉學...就這樣,漸漸的被升學壓力壓的什麼其他的都沒時間管的我,淡忘了神明廳、也淡忘了大家庭的一切。

再次回到神明廳,是高中的時候。還記得那天爸爸開著雅哥,載著剛放學的我,告訴我Amy阿妗的死訊...乳癌奪走了她僅30多歲的生命,留下叔叔和3歲的堂妹。那次對神明廳的記憶是一張Amy阿妗微笑的照片以及旁邊的一片模糊和阿嬤含著淚慢慢遞過來的紙巾...

對神明廳更新的記憶,是2003年,在太平租來的阿嬤家。那年,剛出社會的我,到爸爸和叔叔公司上班、學些貿易的東西,一邊在補習班教英文,想在繼續我的留學夢前有些社會經驗。阿嬤在篤行路的房子早就因為叔叔的負債被銀行查封、拍賣。之後,失去了根的阿公阿嬤就和叔叔們到處租房子、搬家,每一個租處,阿公阿嬤不管空間多擠,都會保有一個神明廳。阿公每天早上會做在神明聽的椅子上,閉上眼睛,用二手的CD播放機放著"南無阿彌陀佛"的經歌,那首我在Amy阿妗喪禮上也出現過的經歌... 也是在同樣的一個神明廳,三叔叔與爸爸和二叔叔撕破臉,阿嬤邊哭邊勸架,家族的爭吵未在眾人的勸和和眼淚中平息,三叔叔帶著堂妹和他剛娶的二房搬出了太平的家...

隨著這樣的記憶,來到了2010年的春節,爸爸媽媽蓋了大房子,接阿公阿嬤和姨婆過來住,神明廳同篤行路一樣,都在五樓... 孝順的爸爸蓋了電梯,讓早過了80的阿公一樣每天可以做電梯到五樓的神明廳放那首"南無阿彌陀佛"的經頌,做在椅子上,閉著眼睛,跟著經歌一起朗誦...
除夕夜,大家聚在一起,在1F阿嬤餐廳的大圓桌上圍爐...

阿嬤和阿公,終於又有了根、有了個可以告訴別人這是他的家的地方...

Jan 29, 2010

Foreign















The benefit of being foreign is .... learning.
Learning new stuff each day, each moment when you had a touch with the people, the culture, the foreign world.

You may see things that are strange, things are weird.
Cuz the weirdness comes from inability of understanding but sometimes the difference makes the beauty.
Then you find out one day, those things you could complain could also be the materials of adventures. The look of the world depends on how you look at it.

On the bus ride to the fisherman's wharf today. I sit right beside a guy and a friendly little dog. I let her smell my hand and pet her. She started to lick my hand. But the guy said right away 'she is working. Please don't play.' with an annoyed fake smile on his face.
He is neither blind nor disable... There are other jobs that a dog can have in daily life??!!
Honey saw the guy holding a book about food allergies. Maybe the dog's job is to smell the food for him before eaten? A new lesson of the day... People, aren't they attractive?

Walking on the foreign streets of San Francisco. You see man in dark green yellow suit of 80s style. You see a 50-year-old skater and a man with a mystery working dog.

You see characters, the characters of freedom, the freedom of weirdness and differences...