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After I watched the movie “Avatar” in 3D, I found its story about the greed and ignorance of some human beings. In order to get the resources from another planet, humans just destroy their environment. On the other hand, the aliens are living in natural way. They would not kill beings without reason, even though they need to hunt for food, they are grateful to those beings. They also have the ability to connect to plants and animals, understanding and accepting each other. They appreciate each other staying together there.
Another thing, it lets me think about human creativity in science and technology…
Movies are an entertainer for the eyes and ears, especially in 3D. We put on the glasses for the 3D movie, and we experience close to living pictures.
I imagine at movies in the future; we will put on an ‘iHat’. We will experience the same emotions, like joy, anger, sadness, happiness, etc., as the characters in the movie, and also the feelings like kissing, hugging, being beaten, being killed, etc, all from the script of the movie… After the ending, you take off the iHat, and you are back to the real world in the theater. Do you think it is possible to have this kind of creation?
I think nothing is impossible in the future if the earth still exists for several years.
Recently, we watched the DVD ‘Crash’, which won 3 Academy Awards, including Best Picture in 2005. The film content is about the gray area between different races, the characters struggling and subjective problems from races colliding. However, the reality of their wrong behaviors is because they were filled with anger, hatred, worries, fear, loss, etc. Basically, these are not really caused by race issues.
’ll mention one of the points expressed in the film – a white cop’s father is sick and he is seeking approval from insurance for medicine, but the staff, a black lady, denied his request. So, he was angry and spoke roughly to this black lady. He was then filled with anger when he went on duty and stopped a car with a black couple. The black wife said something that angered him, so he purposely checked their whole body. The black husband endured seeing this cop touching his wife’s private parts. After that, his wife was very sad and angry because he didn’t do anything and he even apologized to that cop. The next day, she went to her husband’s office and they had an argument again. She got angrier and drove away. On her way she got into an accident and her car flipped upside down with gas leaking out. As that white cop was on duty and saw the accident, he rushed to help. When she noticed who he was, she didn’t want him to touch her. However, he softly said he really meant to help her out. Finally, he tried his best, even though he knew that he might lose his life, and pulled her out before the explosion. When they looked at each other after they were safe, was she so grateful that it diminished the hate caused by the insult? Was his kindness already putting out the fire of anger?
There are some scenes in this movie about the issues between different races that cause us to think deep…
最近看 ‘Crash’ DVD,這部得到2005年最佳影片獎。其内容是不同膚色人間的冲突,人物都以主觀對外在看來是種族間的抵觸產生的問題,但實際上是人物内在的憤怒、憎恨、担心、害怕等而做出不當的行為,根本並不是種族的問題。
稍提影片表達的其中一點 - 人物中一位白人警察,他父親有病,他找醫药保險,但被保險公司的女黑人職員拒絕他的要求,他因此而大罵女黑人。他内心氣憤的巡車值班,在途中特意截停一對黑人夫婦,黑人的妻子太多話激起他的憎恨,借故审查他們的全身,丈夫啞忍看着這白人警察摸着妻子私处。過后妻子很傷心又生氣丈夫的忍受没為她反抗反而須向警察道歉,隔天早晨又再去丈夫工作處吵了一會,妻子怒氣難消駕車離去,結果車禍,她的汽車四輪朝天,汽油洩出,白人警察剛好巡車看到車禍即跑向前協助,當她看到是這白人警察時,不願讓他碰,但他婉轉表示是要帮她脱困,在最後關頭他冒着汽車爆炸前幾乎會捨命的把她救出,两人脱離危險後的對望,她内心的感激是否已消除了曾被污辱的憎恨?他内在的善念是否已熄滅了憤怒之火?
還有影片中很多不同種族人物間的情節都是讓人省思的…
Everyone has some big or small issues in their life when they need to make a decision. When we have a choice, it is difficult to decide what to choose. Choose A? Or choose B? Maybe choose C? Sometimes we are afraid because we don’t know: what will the result be after making a choice?
A movie called ‘The Family Man’ is the story about a man (Nicholas Cage) who chose to part with his girlfriend twelve years earlier. He chose to go to
When you make a choice, it is like an adventure. You never know where the future path will lead you, and you can’t go back to the original place at that time and situation…
PN 看了我九月期间寫的地球变暖(Global warming)短文后,给 comment 告诉我可觀看<An Inconvenient Truth>。不久,我們就在店里買了这 DVD,但搁置很久都没被开啟,因為我们常会先看其它陸陸续续買回的 DVD。(这好像是人的劣根性,地球变暖?事不关己,先不去管它!)昨天好像是没什么选择,有些我看过的但 Steve 还没看过、我没看过的但 Steve 已看过… 就选这部我们都没看過的…
看了之后,我喜欢这位讲解气候危机的美国前副总统 Al Gore。可惜他之前选举美国总统時,輸给現任的 George Bush,我想如果 Al Gore 當总统,至少他可能不会去和他国引戰吧?
我们的大环境,真的是需要我们去爱护它… 希望该 DVD 的其中一句能提醒大家﹕'后代可能偶爾会问他们自己,“我们的父母在想什么?為什么當他们有机会的时候,他们竟然没有醒覺?” 我们必须听到他们的提问,此刻。'
这是有关纲站。
After PN read my short blog about global warming posted in September, she commented and recommended I watch ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. Later, we bought this DVD in a shop but hadn’t yet opened it, because we chose to watch other DVDs that we continued bringing back home. (Mankind seems to have a lot of bad habits like this. Global warming? This is not my business/issue; don’t worry about it yet!) Yesterday, we didn’t have much choice; some DVDs I had watched but Steve hadn’t and some DVDs I haven’t watched but Steve already had… Then we chose this DVD that both of us haven’t watched yet…
After we watched it, I liked the person who talked about the climate crisis, Al Gore, who is the former Vice President of America. Unfortunately, he lost the presidential election to George Bush. I think if Al Gore had become the president, he probably wouldn’t have gone to war with other countries?
We really need to take care of our big environment… I hope a sentence in this DVD will remind us: “Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, ‘What were our parents thinking? Why they didn’t wake up when they had a chance?’ We have to hear that question from them, now.”
This is the link.
We just watched a DVD of 'A Beautiful Mind' which won 4 Academy Awards in 2001: Best picture, best director (Ron Howard), best producer (Brian Grazer) and best supporting actress (Jennifer Connelly).
We chose a couple of DVDs in the book store; one of them is
The
The film’s tale of
The tale in real life…the actor in the film who played the concubine is Leslie Cheung. He was a popular star with good fame and fortune but he committed suicide on April 1, 2003. Some might say he had love relationship problems… I think…he might have lost the ability to love himself…
11.9.07
我们最近买了几片DVD电影,有些是上纲买的﹔有些可在店內买到。上星期看了Groundhog Day和The Story of the Weeping Camel,这两部是朋友介绍的好电影。
Groundhog Day的其中一幕,让我想起某人写的一首诗。如果我没记錯,这首诗的大义是﹕有一天,我走在一条街上,我没注意到脚下有一个洞,我跌下这个洞,我爬起来,继续走我的路。第二天,我同样走在这条街上,我不小心又跌下这个洞,我无奈的爬起来,继续走我的路。第三天,我同样走在这条街上,我看到这个洞,但我还是跌下这个洞,我只好爬起来,继续走我的路。就这样至到有一天,我又同样走在这条街上,我看到了这个洞,我绕过这个洞走过这条路…
这部电影的其中一句对白,也是让人沉思的﹕如果你每天都相同处在一种情境,那你会怎么办?
The Story of the Weeping Camel是一部关于蒙古養牧一族的纯真写实,不管是人或者动物,都有原本的真性情。难产的駱駝,藉尤音乐调愈創伤的經歷…
这星期看了The Five People You Meet in Heaven,是我要介绍给你的 – 很好的电影。
The Five People You Meet in Heaven让我感动的流了很多的淚。内容是一个男主角朦朦懂懂过了一生,到了天堂見到了他在世时遇过的五位人物。他在世时,他並不晓得这些人,在他的人生中,原来是要给他有所学习的… 他的人生课题﹕命是不平等的、牺牲、宽恕、爱、小职务的意义…
We bought some DVDs recently; a few purchased from internet and a few purchased in stores. We watched Groundhog Day and The Story of the Weeping Camel last week; these two good movies were recommended by friends. One of the scenes in Groundhog Day reminded me a poem by someone.
And one of the conversations from this movie leaves you thinking: What would you do if you were stuck one place and everyday were exactly the same and nothing that you did mattered?
The Story of the Weeping Camel shows the life of a Mongolian family graphically and openly. Either human or animal also has their own emotions; the camel was healed by music after it was hurt by a hard delivery of a calf.
We also watched The Five People You Meet in Heaven this week. This is a very good movie which I want to recommend to you.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven touched me deeply and the tears were flowing. It is about a man who passes through his life without awareness. After dying, he came to heaven and meets five people who have been in his life. When he was alive, he didn’t realize those people were in his life to teach him lessons about life… His life lessons: life is not always fair, sacrifice, forgiveness, love, the meaning of task…
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