Le Harvre

假如對待人生不如意事的態度也可以如電影一樣
輕描淡寫。
多好。

The 5th Dimensions

This weekend

Sigur Ros' documentary "Inni" brought me to what I consider the 5th dimension of the world, an imaginary, dreamy space that allows one be submerged in layers of emotions. In the theatre, I was like reading a poem with no text but images and sound that touch my heart in an unspeakable way. Very Magical!

Bad Lieutenant

選角選對了.
這樣的角色才適合Nicolas Cage去演.

THE COVE

不再貪吃
不再濫吃
這是我跟自己許下的諾言

La vie sur terre, 081207

"Life on Earth is one of the most searching and poetic meditations on Africa at the beginning of a new millennium. On the eve of the year 2000, Sissako returns to his father's village Sokolo - a few houses in teh heart of the Mali Savannah. The passage to the new century comes about without major changes in these places where time seems to have stood still." p.42, BFI Guide (December 2008)

Gomorrah, 081108

Official Website: http://gomorrahmovie.co.uk/


"Based on Roberto Saviono's acclaimed non-fiction book, this sprawling account of the Naples-based Camorra crime syndicate was one of the stand-outs of this year's Cannes. Interweaving four loosely connected strands, involving both the criminals and their victims, this is a resolutely unglamorous portrait of mob culture, rooted in a gritty portrait of some of Naples' most impoverished districts that mixes an unflinching sense of documentary realism with moments of striking visual strangeness. a gripping, harrowing movie." - p.50, BFI Guide (November 2008)

Waltz with Bashir_081123

http://waltzwithbashir.com/

Like many teenagers at his time, he joined the army when he was 17. What he fought for he did not understand. At the battlefields, he and his comrades shot aimlessly as self-defence in fear and confusion. At the moment when he pulled his first trigger, all the heroic fantasies he once had of himself shattered into fragments and reduced to a single wish to survive. With luck, he kept alive among the death of many others, from bloodsheds and countless innocent killings. Day after day, the war came to an end. After such a traumatic experience of his youth, in order to move on in life, he became selectively amnestic. Amnesia - a perfect self-defence mechanism. There was one particular memory that he and his surviving comrades tried to forget, and they did. But they couldn't totally escape from their forgotten memories. A recurring dream kept on reminding them of what had happened few years ago in Lebanon when he was 17. He began to get confused of what was real and what was not real. In the wake of amnesia, he pursued the quest to find out what the dream was all about.

What is war?

A vulnerable fantasy created by the authorities
For "meaningful" killings?
(Meaningful to one side but meaningless to the others)
or just
For an act of collective amnesia?

Sadly, fire has never been ceased.
Let's stop history of war to repeat again, again and again.