恶人谷

Jun

我一直以为是个天才排除万难反复实验为了创作最好的香水忍痛把情人给杀了的故事， Indeed that is the miscalculation of Tom Tykwer. He did not quite understand Suskind's intention in the book and misrepresented the tone and a key element of the theme. The title is "Story of a Murderer," not story of a genius. Such is the problem with adaptin...

Jun

I haven't read the novel, but now am intrigued enough to want to read it. I read an article (perhaps on Slate.com) in which Heller and Marber compared notes (pun intended). I can see Marber didn't get a lot of things and approached it from an obviously male point of view. Heller particularly complai...

Jun

An interesting pair of movies about women. Judi Dench 演一个教中学的老处女巴巴拉，影片一开始就听见她冷漠而厌世的话外音，叙述她对周遭各色蠢人的不屑。但是她灰色的生命里出现一束金色阳光！Cate Blachett演的新来的女教师希巴年轻漂亮，纯洁天真，对野蛮的中学生们束手无策，对巴巴拉的援手感激涕零。她们很快变成忘年交，希巴请巴巴拉去她家作客，认识比她大许多岁的丈夫（Bill Nighy），一个十几岁的女儿，和一个患唐氏综合症的儿子。好景不长，巴巴拉发现了希巴的秘密，也就是题目中的丑闻－－原来女教师正在跟一个十五岁的男生(Andrew Sim...

Jun

250?

Oh xiaoxixi I hate you!

(even though I'm not crazy about crabs)

Jun

我觉得张把严肃题材认为是艺术的，大众喜闻乐见的认为是轻的。这不是一向的主流文艺思想吗？政治是统帅纲领，艺术为政治或理想服务，教育广大人民群众，blah blah blah。连洋人也是这样的，所以喜剧片从来不得最佳影片奖。Little Miss Sunshine永远敌不过Babel这种片子。要我说人民群众也忒惨了，总是被人居高临下地教训。张艺谋思想本来就是老派的，所以在根本上是中国主流的知识和文化界思想。在审查和艺术和大众口味之间艰难地走，说实在的，张艺谋的片子里没啥特别攻击the establishment的内容，要说艰难，多的是地下电影人，直接表现当代现实生活中小人物的悲惨和被制度压...

Jun

Huh. You got me there. I liked To Live as well, and I think I said it only a couple weeks ago that it is the only movie of his that I liked. All right. I don't know what kind of an artist or person he is and what he cares about. I just don't like most of his movies -- just not my cup of tea. Certain...

Jun

He belongs to a category of artists who have little interest or sensitivity (meaning the ability to sense) for individual human beings and psychology. Boring.

Jun

我早受不了张艺谋拿榔头砸人的那套了。跟样板戏拿个大喇叭在你耳边轰隆轰隆地喊有什么两样。聋子才需要喇叭，哇啦哇啦说明对人生和世界感觉迟钝，他那是迟钝和粗糙而不是激情。只不过洋人当他是exotic，以为你们外国人就这么新奇呢。多搞几次，大家见多了，摸透你的套路，就看出毛病了。我倒无所谓丢脸不丢脸，中国人多着呢，林子大了啥鸟没有？这种揪着我的领子把概念和主题往我耳朵里灌的风格正是跟我的口味背道相驰的。人，现象，事件，生存状态，the human condition，不是抽象的一元化的概念，不是非黑即白或三原色，而是深深浅浅的灰。

Jun

Hmm. interesting. Indeed watching sports live is so much better than watching it on TV.

Jun

I haven't seen it but talking about biblical references few can top The Matrix...

Jun

Slate has an interesting series of critics' discussion about this year's movies. For the few movie buffs, here's the link: http://www.slate.com/id/2154756/entry/2156788/ Interesting negative opinions about Babel, which seems poised to win the Academy Awards, which is always about BIG, MEANINGFUL, SI...

Jun

Geez, now I'm seriously considering reading 村上春树's fiction...

Jun

写完了被掐短的影片记录。

Clint Eastwood真是男性感伤主义帮的龙头老大。他总是sentimentalism 加 fatalism 的主题。有时我真觉得男人比女人要浪漫得多（别得意，他们不是为女人而浪漫，而是为自己浪漫），女人其实更加practical。

Jun

I will survive?

I really really like the movie "What's Love Got to Do with It" about Tina Turner. Talk about standing up for yourself. Talk about girl power. Wow. And I especially remember Laurence Fishbourne's performance as the villain. Very impressive.

Jun

Beyonce is ridiculously beautiful, says me who is 1) a heterosexual woman and 2) anti-beauty-ist. Her booty is the object of many a drooling fan. When Jennifer Hudson was booted off American Idol, Elton John cried racism, precisely because she is not pretty enough, not pop enough, not white-sounding...

Jun

Sick and sitting at home all day with nothing to do but browsing the net. Here's a good summary article about American life in 2006: That Blasted Year Dave Barry shoots 2006 full of holes By Dave Barry Sunday, December 31, 2006; W18 IT WAS A MOMENTOUS YEAR, a year of events that will echo in the ann...

Jun

Since we're on the subject of movies, I have to share this blurb from NPR. Had me laughing so hard!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=6664694

Jun

Sounds like the novel is a lot ... shallower?... than the original Madame Bovary. I read about 2/3 of the novel MB and finished it with the BBC TV series. Keep in mind that Emma's husband, compared with Richard in Little Children, is NOT a WSN. He's just ... boring. The oppression of the suburb was ...

Jun

Ray Porter does love her, true, but he is also using her. He gives her money, because the amount is so small as to mean nothing to him, and because, later in the story after she leaves him, he has sort of a fatherly feeling for her. Ray is a miser toward Mirabelle, although he later enters a more .....

Jun

http://www.edinburgh-royalmile.com/inte ... useum.html

Jun

Without access to online pinyin input, I have to write everything in English. Sorry. Alan Rickman, Dustin Hoffman both have supporting roles in the movie. Rickman doesn't have much to do except being an affectionate and concerned single father of a beautiful teenage daughter. Hoffman sports an Itali...

Jun

Damn you. I miss it so much.

The Castle! Words cannot express its imposing presence.

Dr. Doyle went to Edinburgh University's medical school. He had wandered the streets and pubs as a student of surgery.

Did you go to the Walter Scott/RL Stevenson museum?

Jun

That's easy to solve. Just give away two of the purses that are useless. There, you have only 1 left! Time to get a couple of new ones!

Jun

洛洛 wrote:是board吧。每个人都有条筋不对劲，我永远拼错的词是tomorrow，我永远写成tommorrow。

Of course I misspell many words, but one commonly misspelled word always gets on my nerves: It's DISAPPOINTED, not dissapointed.

Jun

Well, I did not read the book first, so the movie kind of swept me off my feet, but curiously lacking an emotional attachment. 疯狂的石头 actually reminds me of a Swedish movie Slim Susie -- the same converging-plot subgenre, also with nutty plot and colorful characters. It is the colorful characters, no...

Jun

Of course. American and European and Japanese people have the right to be robbed of their fortune because they are ignorant and lied to. It's a free world. Indirectly, this (along with other contributing factors) leads to African children got their limbs chopped off, who have nothing directly to do ...

Jun

I like the twist in Inside Man too. I like the scene that some girlfriend/exwife figure came in and demanded her stack of traffic tickets fixed. :mrgreen: Albania? Armenia? Australia? What's the difference? :mrgreen: :mrgreen: I saw Crazy Stone at my parents'. My brother downloaded it from the Inte...

Jun

Instead of spending $3000 on a purse, I would rather spend $2900 on a trip to Italy, then spend $100 on an authentic made-in-Italy genuine leather purse at a backstreet local hole-in-the-wall store.

Jun

I despise the practice of hyping up the price of diamonds by preying on people's ignorance and stupidity. Most diamonds aren't worth half of the price they are bought. You can buy diamonds for $15 in Africa that you have to pay $1000 for in NY. And the ridiculously high price of diamonds indirectly ...

Jun

I have seen neither Snatch nor Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrel, but I do know that Mr. Madonna is a Quentin Tarantino-wannabe.

I didn't know 郭涛 has such a high profile. I just know that he is so my type, like Matt Damon is Dr. Tiff's type.

Jun

挖，我听别人讲村上如何小资，还以为他净写别人看不懂的话呢，原来是这么讲道理的人。这段田纳西威廉斯被人看扁的话说得真好，我猜也或许教这课的人教同一课题十几年，厌烦死了，所以迁怒于Tennessee Williams。再好的黑巧克力，三餐不停地吃也要倒胃口。所以当人学生的最紧要是不能太把老师的话当回事。实际上做人就别太盲信任何人的话，总要自己尝过想过。

Jun

New Yorker is such a pseudo-high-brow society crap.

Jun

我得争辩这是可以用更多的教育解决地！ More education would only give these small-minded "intellectuals" a touch more sense of superiority and self importance. The problem is that education has obliterated the little common sense they had had in the first place. More education would only stuff their pretty, bourgeois ...

Jun

You mean it should be interesting for Tiffany to watch her favorite American actor in whatever movie he's in...

I heard he is quite good in this movie, but the movie is solid but not fantastic.

Jun

[quote]简直让人想起主席的话，知识越多越反动

Jun

1. The Inside Man 小K推荐过这部片子，我本来还有点犹豫，套路挺平常的，能有新意么？结果出乎意料的有趣，主要吸引我的还不是情节的扭来扭去，而是小地方到处都是Spike Lee的手印。例如，一开头就是特耳熟的宝来坞歌曲，我几乎可以肯定在哪儿听过，眼前出现了Shahru Khan扭啊扭的形象。后来一查果然是去年看过的Dil Se里面的歌。TMD，特地去找来这首歌塞这里面，不知道是什么意图，毕竟让人疑心，Dil Se的情节跟纽约人颇有间接的渊源哪。整部片子给人的感觉是This is New York。虽然俺不是NYC土著，可也是看了Law and Order多年的荣誉NYC迷，对Sp...

Jun

Words cannot express...

You already know what I would suggest.

Give yourself time.

Jun

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_R ... yland.html

I guess the pizza is lousy, but the samosa rocks!

Jun

最近在一个同事那里吃到很棒的samosa，便追问在哪里买。她便介绍我去一家＂又好又便宜＂的印度店，专卖samosa。某日摸了去，在个偏僻旮旯的后街，有个孤零零的小房子，外面刷成让人骇笑的粉紫色，霓虹灯招牌大书：IL FORNO Pizzaria。搞得我以为走错了，定睛一看，旁边还有一行字：Samosa Factory。里面正是我喜欢的，墙上一个洞类型的小店，有点暗，有点乱，墙角一堆印度小报。我凑上去问店员：你们有啥类型的samosa？店员瞪着我嗫嚅半天，用破碎的英文说：素的，鸡的。我想吃羊肉馅的，便问：还有呢？牛肉羊肉？他又瞪我半天，答道：70 pence。我忍不住笑起来，说：来两个素的两个鸡...

Jun

那个Litvnenko的暗杀实在是很愚蠢的行动，欲盖弥张。Polonium那东西只能是从俄国弄出来的，而且过去有过KGB，ESB拿这玩意儿毒人的历史类似案子。我认识的俩俄国同事都说应该不是Putin自己直接下令干的，而是Kremlin内部派系斗争的结果，甚至听说动机是要闹出国际事件，逼Putin选择接班人呢。俄国现在乱七八糟的，中国还不趁这时机拼命发展贸易超过他们占领国际市场，石油终究有限，不是长远发展之计（我就光惦记着捞钱了）。

Jun

其实现代信息产业这东西就是做出没有信息如何不便的假象，从而在本来不存需求的地方制造出需求来。

可不是，所有的现代消费都是这回事，卖给你根本没需要也用不上的东西。

几乎六个月都没怎么看电视，电视新闻也不看，除了错过Jon Stewart和Stephen Colbert有点遗憾以外，根本什么影响都无，反而耳根清静，专心崇拜我的Deadwood去。

Jun

I heard the multiple murder case (5 prostitutes) is concluded. A suspect has been arrested.

Jun

Jun

One man's reasonable expectations are the next man's bigotry.

Jun

I see. I have too many friends online and not enough in real life. :D

Jun

And the director is a heterosexual man...

Jun

I understand why xiaoK feel this way. I'm not trying to badger you into liking it as much as I do, I swear. XiaoK is a New York City girl. Mirabelle is, fundamentally, a Vermont country girl. She is neither smart nor sophisticated, and she does not become particularly smart or sophisticated by the e...

Jun

After hearing this interview on NPR with Bill Condon, I'm now interested in seeing Dreamgirl: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6658336 He wrote the script for Chicago and wrote and directed Kinsey and Gods and Monster. I'm not a huge musical fan, and I'm grossly ignorant of MOTOW...

Jun

活着 is the only movie of his that I actually liked. 我老觉得，爱过一个人，不过后来他怎样了，还是总要记得他从前的好。 Xiao E is so nice and kind. :-) The problem is that the 排山倒海的批判 are from people who don't care much about 老谋子, never liked him or his movies. The whole phenomenon is ... perverse. The massive promotion that creates a...

Jun

Darn it. More interesting books to read.

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