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2009年3月11日 星期三

Texture of Decease

Have you been thinking about what you will look like when you are dead? Exactly! Such a weired question. However, you might start to think about it after you check my recommendation.

Last weekend I watched the movie, 送行者(Departures), which won the best foreign language film of Oscar. It's a story about a man discovering and learning a job as a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for cremation. With the emotional soundtracks, it is easily to be touched by the plots. For the best part of the film, when the man is scrupulously cleaning, dressing and making-up for the dead body, it's as if you could feel how he conducts it on their skin and the process is still deeply sacred and solemn.

Actually, before going to the movie, i am reading a book, 死前活一次(Noch Mal leben vor dem Tod). The author and photographer documented 25 patiences for their last periods in their lives. Because of the terminal cancers, most of them were informed how long they could live at the most. In other words, they were just forced to face the death... with no hope. Moreover, every individual story comes with two pictures in the first two pages. One was taken on the day they informed the deadline and the other was on the day they died. Indeed, they are all sad stories and even telling you the life is still cruel at this hopeless moment, but it reminds me of the importance of health and treasuring my families and friends before the death comes to me.

2009年3月2日 星期一

Big Winner!

This film just won the best picture of the year in Annual Academy Awards. It deserved the reputation. For me there are so many culture shocks in the plots. Especially those children living in the slum and the film ending Bollywood dancing made me impressed.

2008年11月20日 星期四

Golden Horse Weekend

2001:A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick

Video telephone, artificial intelligence(A.I.), spacemen and shuttle before Armstrong landed on the Moon.Yes, they are all showed up in a 40 years old sci-fi movie. It is amazing that the director had so exact imagination of the future. Actually, before i went to this movie, those friends who have seen the movie told me it's one of the best sci-fi movies in the world and it won't be out of time. However, when now it's 2008 i never expect it still can be so modern, especially it was filmed in 1968. Not only the ideas, but the art and filming techniques
are avant-garde, such as its designable red couches and fancy streamlined animation.
Never save your cheers for the outstanding shows. This is
my first time attending the golden horse film festival. I am quite surprised when the audience applauded to the classic sunrise shot at the opening of the movie. Obviously, most people have seen it before and they came to theater to do the review of it. I am so impressed by this behavior. Of course, all the audience gave a big hand at the end of the movie.

8
V.A.

8 Millennium Development Goals + 8 Directors' Viewpoints + 8 Stories
.Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger - "Tiya's Dream"
Ⅱ.
Achieve universal primary education - "The Letter"
Ⅲ.Promote gender equality and empower women - "How Can It Be"
Ⅳ.
Reduce child mortality -
"Mansion on the Hill"
Ⅴ.
Improve maternal health - "The story of Panshin Beka"

Ⅵ.
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases -
"SIDA"
Ⅶ.Ensure environmental sustainability - "The Water Diary"
Ⅷ.Develop a global partnership for development - "Person to Person"

2008年10月12日 星期日

Golden Lines

Yesterday, Saturday, the day after national holiday,
I should have relaxed home, but I spent five hours standing in line... waiting... waiting...
The following are my list... (Feedback will be post after the movie.)
Milky Way
Attractions - Long shot. Experimental scene. Fancy imagination.

8
Attractions - Lines stories. 8 Goals. Represent.

2001:A Space Odyssey
Attractions - Classics SI-FI movie. Classical soundtrack.

The Golden Horse Film Festival