"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" — The sixth movie in J.K. Rowling's fantasy series about the young wizard is the franchise's best so far, blending rich drama and easy camaraderie among the actors with the visual spectacle that until now has been the real star.
The hocus-pocus of it all nearly takes a back seat to the story and characters this time, and the film is the better for that, brimming with authentic people and honest interaction — hormonal teens bonding with great humor, heartache that will resonate with anyone who remembers the pangs of first love. The movie escalates the peril for Harry (Daniel Radcliffe and his best pals, Hermione Granger (Emma Watson and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint, while giving the threesome that first collaborated as prepubescent kids their best platform yet to show their maturing acting chops.
Director David Yates, who made the fifth film and is doing the final two, stays true to the Rowling recipe yet infuses it with a freshness and energy that make it seem like a new start, not the stale old chapter six it could have been. Harry's main challenge this time involves an assignment from headmaster Dumbledore (Michael Gambon to retrieve a critical memory that a new teacher (Jim Broadbent possesses about the evil Lord Voldemort.
Along with the splendid visuals, the movie offers stirring support from Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane and other co-stars. PG for scary images, some violence, language and mild sensuality. 153 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four.
When it comes to spy thrillers, Tony Gilroy knows the game. The formula for a crackling entry into this genre is simple enough: keep the action moving and the twists coming, then engage in one late innings sleight of hand that pulls the rug out from under everything. Gilroy, with an adroitness Hitchcock might admire, works admirably in this arena, turning in a screenplay that's more diabolical and pulpy than his convoluted directorial debut, Michael Clayton, but no less fun. He maximizes his assets, and considering the wattage of his stars, they are considerable. Although one could not consider the plot for Duplicity to be air-tight, the holes are small enough for things to remain afloat until after the proceedings have ended. A post-movie dissection on the way home in the car will reveal some obvious plotting problems.
Gua Sha is a movie about the differences between American and Chinese culture. Xu datong is a video games designer in St. Louis. When his father visits from China, he performs Gua Sha (a Chinese traditional treatment on his grandson, which leaves bright red marks on the skin and causes a lawsuit of child abuse. In the court, Datong loses his mind so that finally he loses custody of his son.
I think this scene is shocking and thought-provoking to most of the Chinese audiences. But the most impressing scene to me is the ending. Datong wants to see his son in Christmas eve, he has to climb a pipe to the ninth floor which his son lives. I think the pipe is not only a pipe, but also a gap, a deep gap between American and 5000-year Chinese culture. He wants to climb over the gap and he will never succeed, perhaps no Chinese people really could succeed.
刮痧是一部反映中美文化差异的电影。徐大同(孩子的爸爸)是圣路易斯的一位电子游戏师。他父亲从中国到美国看望孙子,并对孙子进行了刮痧(一种中国传统治疗的方法),哪些留在孙子皮肤上的刮痕被认为是虐待儿童的证据,并将大同告上了法庭。在法院上,由于大同没有证据(或无所是从),以至于他最后丢失对儿子的监护权。我觉得这一幕是令人震惊的,令中国观众发人深省的',但结局给人的印象最深。大同希望在圣诞节前
夕看到他的儿子,他不得不爬钢管到九楼去看他的儿子。我想那钢管,不仅是钢管,而是美国与5000年中华文化的鸿沟。他想爬过这个鸿沟,他是做不到,也许没有中国人民真正能做得到。
Everyone knows that Meryl Streep is the high priestess of drama, but she never gets enough credit for her comedy skills. That should change with The Devil Wears Prada, a sinfully funny, deliciously glossy take on the 2003 best seller by Lauren Weisberger, who denies writing it as a poison-pen letter to her former boss, Vogue editor Anna Wintour. The names have been changed, of course, to ward off lawsuits. Stepping up to the plate as imperious fashion editor Miranda Priestly, Streep knocks every laugh out of the park. More remarkably, she humanizes a character who was little more than a bitch in Manolos on the page.
Streep teams up hilariously with Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs, the "smart fat girl" (she's a mere size 6 who applies for the job as Miranda's junior assistant at Runway magazine. Andy, a journalism major at Northwestern, had her eye on The New Yorker, but is told that if she can run the gantlet of Miranda for a year, there is no publishing Everest she can't climb. Before you can say "makeover,"Andy is transformed from a gawky giraffe into a swan who can trade up in lovers -- from sweet chef (Adrian Grenier to literary stud (Simon Baker -- and from cotton blends to chicest of Valentino, Chanel, Donna Karan, Bill Blass, Galliano and Prada. Guys who know squat about labels can take pleasure in the uberbabes wearing the threads.
Director David Frankel makes expert use of the light touch he brought to HBO's Entourage and Sex and the City. And screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna leeches out the book's malice in favor of wicked sass. Does the movie bite the fashion hand that feeds it? You bet. But it also pays due respect to the artful details turning the wheels of an industry that only seems frivolous. There's no doubt Andy learns much from watching Miranda at work, even with all the insults and fool's errands. The script tries to paint Miranda into a corner -- the lonely careerist who can't keep a husband or find personal happiness -- but Streep won't wallow in the cliches of victimhood. In a party of a movie, her performance is a comic and dramatic tour de force. comic and dramatic tour de force.
上个星期六,我和爸爸一起去看电影:少年派的奇幻漂流。为了能买到票,我们早早地先去买半价票,然后我们再到肯德基去吃早餐。吃完早餐,电影始的时间刚刚好到了,我们快速上楼进了放映厅,坐下来,开始看电影。
这部电影讲的是一个少年人的冒险故事,它是以一种回忆的方式来进行拍摄的。有一个叫派的印度少年人,从小生活在一个温暖的家庭里,他爸爸开了一个动物园。但是随着派的慢慢长大,环境也在改变,他家的动物园无法经营下去了。派的爸爸决定全家移到加拿大去,同时把动物也运到那边去卖掉。登船日期到了,派和他的家人上了船出发了。路途中,他们遇到了暴风雨,派在这次灾难中失去了家人,他自己却被船员送到了救生艇上,但是几只动物也到了救生艇上,特别是孟加拉虎,派非常害怕。老虎吃掉了船上的所有动物,派必须冷静地面对危险,勇敢机智地与老虎一起生存下来。最后派得救了,老虎也回到了树林。
电影放完了,我慢慢走出了电影院。通过这部电影,我懂得了遇到危险要冷静,不要慌张,再想办法脱离危险。或者一开始就用聪明机智的办法尽量避免危险。
爱情是一张票根,凭它我们乘上时光机器,穿过长长短短的岁月,寻找那么一些些曾经让我们怦然心动的回忆。爱情也是一张船票,它曾漂荡在大西洋的无垠碧海,沉入海底几万英尺的寂寞深渊。爱情还是一张电影票,它见证了十五年光阴似水,历久弥新,再次击中我们怅然若失的心。有些事,无法启齿,终是冷暖自知,仿佛自己私密于心的那些恋爱琐事,尘封在记忆的底端,却时不时情不自禁,想拿出来回味一番。
说到爱情,最美不过天长地久、海枯石烂,大抵脱不出一个“永恒”。与时间赛跑,我们永远都只会输,不论你爱得有多轰轰烈烈、惊天动地,最终不过是历史车轮碾过的一抔黄土、一缕尘埃。《泰坦尼克号》的动人之处,或许就在于那穿越时光,永远不变的爱情。当老得不能再老的罗丝爬上船头,将价值连城的“海洋之心”扔向大海,以纪念她的爱情以及她于海底长眠的爱人时,我们又有多少人能不动容呢?
当杰克在平静冰冷的海面和罗斯说着那些临终的嘱托,那不是什么海誓山盟,不是什么甜言蜜语,只是一些很小很小的对生活和生命的期许,杰克给罗斯的温暖从相遇到生命的终结,狠狠戳中泪点。很多时候,爱情之所以让我们觉得值得铭记,就在于这些细小的温暖,给了我们勇敢走下去的力量。
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