2010
05.10
Poster of The Day after Tomorrow
Volcano eruption, climate anomaly, earthquakes are here and there. It seems that 2012 is just around the corner. When Poland people dwelt on their departed President, a rumor emerged which said the President actually didn’t board the plane, but secretly went to the Big Boat instead.
Obviously, most people take the rumor as a joke, but it reveals people’s panic. Our mother earth is in trouble.
Are human beings mighty enough to reverse the track of our planet of earth? I’m not sure. What I am sure is that it is our industrialization drive modernization drive that leads to the deterioration of the environment. No one wants to be a loser, nor does any country. Competition, expansion, exploitation, we are on a treadmill with the purpose of being faster, higher, stronger. Olympic spirit is not exclusively shown on track and field playground, but on also on international stages. As a matter of fact, we are in race with our future.
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Tags: 2012, disaster film, Earth 2100, Environmental Preservation, The Day after Tomorrow Category movie |
2010
04.28
Director: Lasse Hallström
Poster
Cast: Channing Tatum/ Amanda Seyfried/ Richard Jenkins/ Henry Thomas
Dear John is a 2010 film adapted from Nicholas Sparks’ 11th novel. I felt a little confused about the story, especially about the leading actress. Is love selfless or selfish? Two parts of me fight against each other.
Pros: Love is selfless. We all know John loves Savannah, but Tim and Alan love her even more. Actually, they are in desperate need of Savannah’s love. Kind and generous, how cruel it would be for Savannah to see autistic Alan were to be left alone in the world. Her universal love drives her to write the break-up letter and shoulder all the sufferings and pains by herself. Duty overweighs love. Savannah told John:”Just hearing your voice, I would have changed my mind.” Her love is definitely based on sense. Love and marriage are two different things. Marriage is sort of sacrificial love, meaning responsibility and sharing weal and woe, while love is for pure pleasure.
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Tags: Adaption, Amanda Seyfried, Channing Tatum, letter, Nicholas Sparks Category Affectional Film |
2010
04.07
impressive poster
What is happiness? What is love? What is success? What do you live for? Who are you? What should you be like? You can provide various answers to these questions. But the simplest way to deal with them is to figure out what you need and what you want.
“I am an adult. I know what I want.” For an adult, what he wants usually equals what he needs. As a man grows up, he gradually get rid of his naivety, fantasies, but becomes more and more sensible and practical. He is down-to-earth. However, a kid knows little of himself, and less of the world. Sensibility but not sense dominates him. He wanders aimlessly in his world, just like a cloud up in the air.
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Tags: Adaption, George Clooney, life, Oscar nomination, The Hurt Locker, Up in the Air Category Comedy |
2010
04.05
Today is the Tomb Sweeping Day, a traditional Chinese festival celebrated in memory of the departed souls.
The Cider House Rules
This festival functions as a reminder to urge the living to memorize the dead, to memorize the past. Most important of all, the living should shoulder the responsibility and practice their beloved’s wills. It seems the festival is exclusively available in China. But the highlights of this festival are universally acknowledged.
The American film<The Cider House Rules> carries the similar message. It was originally a 1985 novel by John Irving and later adapted into a film of the same name by Peter Parnell. When you are sick of typical Hollywood blockbuster-heroes, fighting, sex etc., this film will pacifies your irritable mood.
Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage under the care of Dr. Wilbur Larch, who secretly was an abortionist. They have established a special relationship, between the relationship of father and son and that of teacher and student. Dr. Larch conferred Homer lot of medical knowledge, but little worldly wisdom. With Homer growing up, his self-awareness urged him to seek the outside world and design his own future. Then he left, far away from the orphanage, from Dr. Larch. Exciting and colorful, the world outside the orphanage is new to him. Especially when he fallen in love with a girl, he realized how dull his life before was.
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Tags: Adaption, Charlize Theron, Oscar nomination, Tobey Maguire Category Feature film |
