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活着

聊电影前,让我先说说由来: 2010年, 喀纳斯之旅 , 认识了一位来自河北的男生(忘了名字)。跟他好聊到啊,东南西北地聊个不停。我们聊到了电影这个话题,在他很惊讶我竟然会知道葛优时,跟我说葛优以前的电影比较有看头时;回国后,找了好几个下得了的葛优旧电影,其中一个就是《活着》。 《活着》,2010年留到现在噢~! 照旧,我都会给自己爆雷一下。在知道这个电影经历中国大陆那几个困苦的年代时,预料这个电影会让我心情沉重,我还是看了,而且不但没沉重,甚至没后悔。 我写的影评会很烂,所以炒来了 这个 : 影片以福贵一家的坎坷命运为主线,讲述福贵和他家人风风雨雨几十年的遭遇,而不同年代的遭遇,透出了一个时代的缩影,从解放战争,大跃进到文化大革命,最后,他们的生活已经变得麻木,失去的太多,面对生活,大概只剩下“活着”。 也是一个改编自同名小说。据说原著小说更悲惨,所以我就不去读了。 四十年代:福贵好赌,逼走妻子家珍,把自己院子都赌输了给龙二,气死爸爸,从此过着穷困的生活。靠皮影表演谋生,途中却被抓去当兵,从兵队里的老兵老全明白了生活的真意,也从那时起,开始了“活着”的说法 -- “活着回去,回去好好活”。回到村子和家人会合,龙二被枪毙 - 福贵被吓倒尿裤子,葛优演得超赞的 - 福贵和家珍决定重建他们的生活,当个贫民老百姓。 五十年代:开始大跃进,全民大炼钢铁。儿子有庆被撞死的悲痛,让福贵家珍没办法原谅罪魁祸首春生,也是福贵最要好的朋友。 六十年代: 进入文化大革命的时代。福贵的皮影被视为‘四旧’,被逼烧了;女儿凤霞嫁人;好友春生被打成走资派遭到批斗;凤霞要生产了,送去被“红卫兵夺权+老大夫都以反动学术权威之罪名被关进牛棚”的医院,结果凤霞大出血难产死了... 以后...:福贵对孙子馒头说:“你是赶上好时候了,将来这日子就越来越好了。”  ***    ***   *** 观后感 : 1)还是以前的演技最棒啊~每每看着福贵家珍俩,根本就不像在做戏,而是两夫妻在过日子一样,演技太赞了~~ 2)福贵的悲伤经历,都是间接性被那时代的‘大事件’连累。 他本身,在国共内战时被强制入伍和家人分开两年; 儿子有庆,在大跃进时,被车撞死; 女儿凤霞,文革时在都是肉脚的医院难产死。 抄...

The Notebook

*** “So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.” *** Although Shien said my movie reviews are kinda boring, I DON'T CARE. Tak bagi damn pun :p It was the election day. Everything settled, everyone was tired, every moment spent at hometown was lazing and spoiled. Then Tino turned on the TV and said 'The Notebook' was on, and I was like "Ooooh Ryan Gosling~ Get to see his acting finally~" and mumbled some random female actress's name that got a scorny squint from Tino. Frankly, I never watch any of his movies. I get to know him only when The BF and I came out from cinema and saw 'Gangster Squad' poster, and... Him:"Hey look baby! It's Ryan Gosling!" Me:"...ermm... Sorry baby, I recognize Sean Penn only..." "Oh OK. I also didn't know ...

周星驰 Steven Chow VS P.Ramlee

Steven Chow has been the all-time favorite comedian for those 80's babies, especially boys/guys. I have met some of them who is so into SC, they would, every now and then, bring in the SC gags into our daily conversation and discussion and stuff. I even have one guy who I befriended end of last year, told me that I simply say one sentence of the SC dialog, and he would tell me what movie was that and when/where/who/how/why the dialog strikes! Yeah right genius~ Why don't you tell me the timestamps too~ CK's explanation is reasonable. Back in those 80-90's days, we didn't have as much 'indoor activities' as the current generation; there were game consoles but not every family could afford it (my house never had one coz cousin brother had it and mom told us to just play theirs); What's more on the national TV besides the retro Chinese movies that had been repeated for like a thousand times... and that time, my friend, was the era of SC etc... I'm ...

Frankenweenie - Pet Owner's Thought

Since someone said that the movie reviews I wrote are 'kind of' keeping them away from reading, so I shall write more about my own perspective lah~ Watched "Frankenweenie" the other day. The movie itself is OK, I would NOT say it is children-friendly as it is toooo Tim-Burton-ish dark (I'm a big fan), be it the story line or some of the characters, especially that Weird Girl with her cat Mr. Whiskers, the eyes.... *shivers* Anyway, even though the ratings in IMDb isn't really high, with all the comments about how sloppy Tim Burton's work is on this, the commentators can't feel anything about the pet-owner part, can they? While watching the movie, it reminds me a lot of the dogs at Grandma's kampung house. My paternal grandparents own one of those high rise wooden kampung house in the middle of the orchard, where we often spent our weekend(s) there throughout my childhood and puberty, until after grandma 'moves out'. In order ...

金陵十三钗

心情好沉重...尤其在这长命雨的下午... 这部电影也是少数让我看到一半就有股很强烈的冲动要写blog的电影。 整个故事下来,除了对残酷的战争,丑陋的人性感到非常激昂愤怒之余 (尤其在参观了柬埔寨赤棉时期的监狱和越南战争博物馆后) ,最让我纳闷不已的是那些青楼女子,要我specific一点的话,就是对豆蔻,香兰和小蚊子的行为不解。 故事走到中间,豆蔻和香兰为了琵琶弦和耳坠冒死溜出教堂。我本以为豆蔻把大衣丢掉引开士兵能逃过一劫,结果竟然把琵琶弦给丢了!!!最后惨死 :( 再来是在那些女学生唱歌时,小蚊子为了一只猫从地窟走出去,竟然还要搞出出现在日本兵前的一幕!!为了这两件事,我简直是在翻白眼捶胸心痛啊~ 这一些,对其他人而言,可能会觉得我太小题大作,又或者是直接把主题搞错了吧?这是因为,不久前,有友人说过我的机智反应很好 ,所以在这,我想说的不是战争的时候我们什么都不要管,而是既然你身处于混乱之中还是有些你舍弃不了的东西 (比如说豆蔻想为埔生弹奏曲子而决定回去翠禧楼拿琵琶弦;香兰拿耳环;小蚊子找猫咪) ,你是不是应该更机灵一点呢? 琵琶弦直接塞进内衣里,猫咪直接塞进衣服里抱着,不就好了吗?你会说,我凭什么说这教;我这是以几年前曾经被parang刀指着打抢我的经验来讲的... 故事到后面,当十三钗决定代替女学生‘出演’后所作的准备功夫,我很感动;可是看到小蚊子在头在尾都在哭喊着不要去的时候,我忍不住大喊:“还不是你自己害自己的!?不然哪来十三!?乔治也用不着这么做!!!” :(

The Matrix: Then and Now

The other day, TV2 was showing 1999's 'The Matrix'. Back then, Keanu Reeves looked so OMiGosh-ly 嫩/tender! LOL... The movie still makes me confused though. I'm not really sure why I was quite into this movie back then, I think might because of all those cool stunts (dodge bullet, stuff like that), but I'm pretty sure my English level was no where near proficient, so I didn't understand a word Morpheus is saying. Even now, when Morpheus was explaining 'The Matrix' to Neo, my jaw dropped, blank stare, with a loud 'HUH'. It got so confused!! LOL ************** Watched 'Skyfall' yesterday. My POV: 1) Never send a rookie to a field job (Or is she a rookie? If she's not then MI6 is so screwed!!) 2) Agents are the legalized/authorized vandals See what both of them did to Turkey just to chase after one bad guy... 3) I thought the movie ended after 007 'skyfalled' from the train, like 10 minutes into the show, because of...

Movie I Watched (Over the Weekend)

1) Dark Shadows Finally!! OK lah the only reason I was so keen of waiting for this movie is because of, none other than Johnny Depp! His appearance in the trailer is Edward Scissorhands + Sweeney Todd blend into one, I mean the make up. For me, 'Dark Shadows' is funny and entertaining enough, but it's hard to please those Imdb people . The whole movie is alright. Good (looking) actors + actresses; some really funny scenes and punchlines; I especially like Carolyn Stoddard, so rebellious and bad girl (I didn't even realize she's the girl in "Hugo", just thought that she's very 面善) Some downside though (my own POV): 1. Angelique's make up is tooooo heavy. The face is too fair, and the lipstick is too red. I know she is a witch, but is it necessary? 2. Angelique + Barnabad love making part. Yeah I know they have their never ending love-hate story and one is witch and one is vampire (explains the 'extraordinary' love making process), but, again...

Thai Movie Addiction

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1. BTS Bangkok Traffic (Love) Story Watched this movie in the cinema. I almost missed it because I was late going out from the house, the bus was slow although the traffic was smooth, and it's 4.57pm by the time I arrived Pavillion while the movie was on 5.00pm! Apparently I 想太多 liao since there's only three person in the cinema hall! Me, 1 lady and 1 guy. Hah~ This movie tells the story of a 30-year-old 'desperate' lady, Mei Ly, who will go for the extra miles to get the guy of her dream. In a good way of course. I would do the same thing too if the guy is Lum, the main actor *scream in excitement!!* too bad, there's no one as good looking as him around me, not even close -__- I kinda dislike some part of Mei Ly's character when she's being undecided, dull and with the ':(' face, especially during the Sokran festival. Some part she made me so geram , I wanted to yell: "Oh come on just go ahead already!" Towards the end of the movie, it mad...

Be Brave, Be Focus, Be Strong

Last night, I watched a movie 'Taken in Broad Daylight' on Hallmark Channel. It is based on a true event about a teenage girl, Anne Sluti, who was kidnapped by a criminal, Tony Zappa, at the mall in Kearney, Nebraska; and how she managed to stay alive throughout the 6 days of hell. I have no much comment about the movie, and the incident itself was quite traumatic. She was brave and smart to leave all the traces and clues to her family, the police etc about how she was doing, where were they etc; so smart that even the FBI agent astonished saying: "She is able to do this even in the situation like this?" That's a round of applause I like to give to Anne. And she obtained Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering dude!! We're in the same world... Anyway, there is one thing, one very serious mistake Anne made in the very beginning right before the abduction took place: She was walking while listening to CD AND looking at the lyrics; instead of looking for her car k...

Drama/Movie I Watched

1. Angle's Temptation 天使的诱惑 Out of so many drama series that I would usually back it up after finish watching them, be it to waste up my HDD memory or to watch second time, this is the one particular drama which I deleted immediately after the end of the final episode. The them of this drama is revenge. There are a huge ass of revenge plots all over the drama and the ending is not a happy one too. People die (not because of natural death!!), couple break apart, etc etc etc. My first passion towards the drama is 裴秀斌, the main actor who plays the role Ahn Jae Song aka the plastic-surgery version of Eun Woo. He is so adorable in 'Brilliant Legacy', but in this drama, they drew his eyeliners too dark, making him look evil and not cute :( Overall, I would call it 害人大全, because the plots of taking revenge are cool and cruel! ********************************** 2. Bread, Love and Dreams 面包王金桌球 I love Kim Tak Gu!! The Mandarin version of his name is a pun (I think) for the word tabl...

Movie/Drama I watched

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1. Wedding Dress 婚纱 好可恶的一部电影!! 还我哭到五颜六色的!!! -____- 这个电影讲述一位身患绝症,即将离开人世的母亲,在生命在倒数中为女儿设计了一件举世无双的婚纱,给女儿留下了很棒的遗产。 故事里并没有详细地交待那位母亲是身患什么病,就只是有几幕母亲无力晕倒,再来医生宣判病情严重等等,很典型的绝症悲情故事。而且,关于那件婚纱嘛,也没得到什么特别的专注力,可是它默默地在某些特别感伤的画面上,显得特别有味道。尤其在晓璐说不要妈妈死,和妈妈一起拥抱时,让我哭到欲罢不能啊~~~ 话说两位主角,我也只是看过她们各自的一个作品。在《On Air》里看到了演技超赞的宋允儿 (说到On Air,我又想起了朴龙河。你为何那么傻呀~~~) ,很喜欢她在那套连续剧里的角色。 金香气小妹妹呢是从《人狗奇缘》里认识的。虽然她在那部电影里并不长命,可是就单单在前面那几十分钟里足够让人印象深刻了。 当然,也少不了配角们的点缀。外刚内柔的哥哥,贤慧善良的嫂子(她是Kim Tak-Gu的妈妈!!),现实的姐姐,毛糙懵懂的跤拳小子,豪迈的老板姐姐... ... 推荐噢~~ This is a movie about a seriously ill mother preparing a wedding dress for her young daughter before her death, and so the story resolves around the life of the mother/daughter and their close relatives. Thanks to the experienced group of casts, they earned gallons and gallons of my tears. In the movie, it doesn't exactly inform what kind of fatal disease is the mother suffering from, and the process of making the wedding dress is just a partial and partial of scenes in the whole movie, but the idea...

Movie/Drama I Watched

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1. Inception One word: WOW. Or maybe because I never watched any movies recently, and I wanted to watch 'Despicable Me' so badly. I only watched two Christopher Nolan's movies completely (meaning from head to toe, minus the credit) : The Dark Knight and Inception. I must say, he did a great job. The directing is great, the acting is great, the idea is brilliant, just great! I've read all the reviews on paper and online, which most of them recommend not to read the review before watching the movie, and now I would say, even if I read the review, it doesn't affect my feeling towards the movie anyway. I never actually had a 2 levels dream before, or not that I remember of. Most of the times, I don't even know I was dreaming, except the part when I want to pee, that's the 'kick' that wakes me up. My sister and I had some discussion over the movie. Was it real or just a dream at the end of the movie? Why did Robert Fischer Jr. go to the Limbo as well? Sai...

Toy Story 3

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I love it!! The final of the sequel, it was such a great movie, great ending. The last part touched me so much, I cried in the cinema 'again'... Andy: Thanks, guys. Woody: So long.... Partner. I personally excited about Totoro's appearance in the movie, I squeezed my sister's arm out of excitement! Haha! Well, as much as I like Toy Story, it literally tells my own story too. Here is my "Toy Story". =) Since young, I always imagine that toys can actually talk, to each other obviously, when the owner is not with them or sleeping, just like Woody and the gang in the movie. Even my those baby pillows can talk! I still do now, just not that hysterical. So, everytime I went to sleep, I tried my best to hug all the plushies toys to sleep together, and those which out of reach and no extra hug space to squeeze in, I'd at least 'touch' them with my toe, ankle, knee, elbow, fingers etc. (I used to own 4-5 small and medium-sized plushies and put all of them o...

Movies I watched

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1. Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang "I am Nanny McPhee, small c, big P." "when you need me, but do not want me, then I must stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go" "the person you need is Nanny McPhee." It is quite an entertaining movie, and a little funny here and there. It's like watching Mary Poppins, but with an ugly nanny, 2 spoiled city kids, 3 active country kids, and one mother. The cutest part for me would be the bed time, when the kids wished they would rather sleep with cow, goat and pig (correct me if I'm wrong) than share their bed with the city kids, and the animals going up stairs. However, the piglet's synchronized swimming was a little too CGI. One thing that was not 交代清楚 in the movie was why did Nanny McPhee need to teach 5 lessons to the kids, and why did the ugly part of her face disappear when one lesson was taught. The almighty Wikipedia came for rescue!! Nanny McPhee's five lessons In additio...

Movie I watched

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1. Hachiko: A Dog's Story Another dog movie that makes me cry. Plus, Richard Gere is hot! (My housemate was weird why would I like an old man. Dude, that is called 'MATURE' ok?) I love 'based on true story' story as I've mentioned for an annoying number of times! , and this in fact is an awesome one. The origin of this movie (and the dog, Hachiko) was from Japan in 1923, you can google about the details. At first, I seriously thought that Akita Inu and Shiba Inu are the same breed yet they use different names, but they are actually different breed. The confusion was because of this movie , where at first I thought Hachiko and Mari are from the same breed. They are not. There is similarity in the appearance of both breed (the phoenix eyes LOL), but Akita Inu is larger than Shiba Inu. Now this explains why Hachi(above) is larger than Mari(below). ^Hachiko vs tall adult aka Richard Gere ^Mari vs young girl aka Aya This movie tells the story of a loyal dog named Hac...

The Extreme Weather!!!

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I've been thinking of few run-away places in Perlis as it is so freaking hot in hostel!!! It is like microwave already and we're like the chicken waiting to be roasted! Yo bloody hot... For the past few days I've been running to library to get some free air-cond, but not online as dozens other students are flooding the place too, which leads to study booth full-house and utter slow wireless. ArGhhhh.... ^High tea moment in one fine (and super hot) evening Should have asked for ice blended green tea lah although that tea on the table is FOC ^Hanging out at hostel's 'front yard' before the sky is dark Weird thing is, there's raining in Kangar but not Kuala Perlis!!!! Why?!?!?! I'm melting lah for your sake!!! Random story time: I watched this movie the other day and I cried! Richard Gere is so darn sexy la~ Will elaborate more about this movie in my 'Movie I watched' post.

1 Liter of Tears & House MD Season 6

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1. 1 Liter of Tears This is one 'based on true story' story that is definitely gonna earn my tears, I mean, it IS earning now. Sigh~ My lecturer talked about this story last semester, when he was explaining some diseases, and his comment about this story was funny, although he never watch it, and he will not gonna watch it. His comment was: "My friend told me that I MUST watch this drama no matter what, because it is so touching, it made me cry!!! Please take note, that friend is male, and that's the point I'm not watching it, and I'm not gonna watch it at all, because that drama made a man cry, and the friend gave me goosebumps" . The meaning is more or less like that lah, and he made me LoL. I watched the movie version years ago. It is sad, but not sad enough to break me down and make me cry, so I told my sister about that when she introduced me the drama version. She said: "The effect is different! You MUST watch the drama version! Even me also cry...

Movies I watched

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1. 4bia or Phobia (2008) Picture courtesy of Wikipedia After the overwhelming Phobia 2 , I watched 4bia the other day, alone in hostel (everyone's in the room) at the evening. It is a 4-stories-in-1 movie, as per its title, and it's about revenge, nemesis, karma, friendship etc. The stories were rather make sense, the plots are good, but I don't really buy the effects. Make the movie too fake. I would say, 4bia is scary, worth to watch, but I prefer Phobia 2 more. 2. The Mentalist pictures courtesy of Entertainment Wallpaper Yup, it is a drama series. So? I love Simon Baker! I never watched 'The Guardian' before, thus I don't know him until this series came along. After being so addicted to him, I watched few episodes of The Guardian and it was good. I always love series about investigation and things like that. This series gives a different point of view about how the case is investigated, different from what CSI is doing. A little psycho, I would say? Hehe....

Movies I watched

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1. Avatar (2009) The hottest topic in town I guess? After Lim Tino gave me the statement that ' Avatar is N-th thumbs up!!!!!!!!! ', I knew I should not miss this out. SO, since we were totally free today (It just lab sessions and haven't started yet), I 'seduced' Adik to go to Jitra for the movie. We actually wanted to watch Alvin and the chipmunks too but Jitra mall is not showing that movie. Too bad. Indeed, the 'ooohhh' and 'Ahhhh' and 'Awwww' of the effects were there. I love Pandora! Especially the luminous plants, trees, the dots on the Na' Vi and everything, it is awesome! Besides that, it shows how ugly, selfish, greedy, ignorant, arrogant, etc etc of a human being can be. In fact, it's not just one, it's a whole bunch of them excluding a teeny-weeny of them with kind-heart. I think none of the Aliens in the other 'planets' would welcome us if '2012' really happen. Something about the Na' Vi. Jake Sull...