When I was a freshman in college I watched the film Gua Sha Treatment for the first time, now I am a junior student and I come back to review the movie from a multicultural aspect, I have many different feelings after watching the film again.
At the beginning of the film, XuDatong is given an award and later he delivers a speech. What makes me impressed most is in his speech he says “one day I will become one of you, a truly successful American, today this award proved that America is a true land of opportunity and I am the living proof of that.” At that moment Xu thinks he has realized his American Dream totally with his lovingly wife and adorable son. However, I think it is ironical that to make a speech like that and I assume it is made on purpose to hind a clue for the story's development. How many non—American people have such a beautiful American dream? One of my classmate studies in American now and before he went aboard he told me his American dream is he can stand at the top of the New York. To be honest, I also dream that one day I can get the Green Card living there happily and successfully maybe working at the Wall Street. When Xu gets the award he thinks he entirely melted in the melting pot neglecting the multicultural obstruct, later the plot goes against the way he thinks. And later Quinlan asked Xu'why you be the scapegoat of your father?' Xu answers 'because he is Chinese.' Then maybe Xu knows that there is always a wide gap between Chinese and American cultures.
The second scene is Xu hit his son Denis because Denis hit the son of xu's boss, at the middle of the film xu tells his boss that he hit his own son is only to show his respect to his boss John Quinlan, that time Quinlan feels puzzled “what a Chinese logic”,yes, American can never understand such a logic full of Chinese characteristic, because they respect everyone including the children, they won't beat a child to please the boss, and there is no such a conception of degree between employee and employer, they feel everyone is equal, which is quite different from china.
Connected to the second scene, the third difference I want to analyze is the care for the children. In America, people pay more attention to the right of children which can be seen from the law—leaving children alone at home is illegal, while in China it is so common that almost everyone may experience such loneliness. And Children Welfare Agency does work in America which shows the importance Americans attach to children's right. What's more, I remember a line 'No one won the case, especially the child.' In my opinion, it also manifests the universal concern from the American public to the children.
The fourth aspect is following the procedure, in the film, more than there times, the people focus on the rule, the law, the procedure. At the Christmas Eve Xu wants to return back to his home pretending as a Santa Claus, what a pity, the security recognizes him and persuades 'you are always a good tenement, never causes troubles for me.' And another scene is at the end of the film , the judge says 'I have to follow the procedure.' However, in China people always have to ask for a favor to do something, and later you have to pay back the favor,for myself, I prefer the American style, strict to the procedure.
The fifth and the last point is the humors, Quinlan says 'you can't fall, your health security is the company paid.' 'Datong, welcome home, maybe next time, you can come from the front door.' 'dady, why you come from the window' ' because we don't have a chimney.' I really adore this distinguished American humor, especially in dangerous situations, which is quite rare in China.
That's my whole reaction to Gua Sha Treatment.
My father is a tall, with big eyes and black hair...
He is also a kind person, like to participate in activities...
I remember one time I failed the exam on the exam. But dad didnt scold me also said that after "to learn" Im a 5th grade children, still have to need to take care of mom and dad. In my small heart father is how great ah! Dad to work to make money to feed us, dad every day to day work. Father will be very early Monday to Friday to cook for us...
When I was a kid my father often told me stories, for example: "Cinderella" "little red riding hood," "Snow White"... Actually when I was a child is very naughty, often fell bad things, break things, dad would say: be careful next time dont fell bad things again, each child will get errors, mistakes and just change the are good children. The words impressed deeply in my heart. I want to say to my father: dad, you really great, you are my hero in my heart.
我的爸爸是个个子高高的,眼睛大大的`,头发黑黑的……
他也是个善良的人,喜欢参加活动……
我记得有一次我在考试上考砸了。但是爸爸并没骂我还说“以后要好好学习”我现在是个5年级的孩子,还得需要爸爸妈妈的照顾。在我小小的心里爸爸是多么伟大呀!爸爸要工作赚钱养活我们,爸爸每天还要起早贪黑的工作。星期一到星期五爸爸会很早起来为我们做饭……
在我小时候的时候爸爸经常会给我讲故事比如说:《灰姑娘》《小红帽》《白雪公主》……其实我小时候很调皮,经常会摔烂东西,弄坏东西,爸爸都会说:下次小心点不要再摔烂东西了,每个孩子都会出错,知错就改那是好孩子。这句话深深的印在了我的心里。我想对爸爸说:爸爸你真的很伟大,在我的心目中你是我的英雄。
这部电影里我最喜欢的一个场景是,Mary为了在全白人高中上课,向法院申诉。当法官提醒她弗吉尼亚还在实行种族隔离政策,当地的法律还是支持全白人学校拒接接受黑人学生时。她很聪明地援引法官的经历,提出了‘the importance of being the first’的论点。
黑人女性在全白人学校上课,在弗吉尼亚是闻所未闻的,
正如在宇航员Alan Shepard之前,美国人到达太空是闻所未闻的。
现在他将作为The first to touch the stars的美国人被人们永远记住,
而玛丽自己作为无法改变自己肤色的黑人女性却想成为NASA的工程师, 她说道‘I have no choice,but to be the first.’
自从王尔德的那句‘我们都生活在阴沟里,但仍有人仰望星空。’被大家熟识,星空在人们心里有了更美好的臆想。而NASA是最靠近星空的地方,这让在其中工作的Katherine,Dorothy和Mary,身为在种族隔离区的黑人女性,更有了触碰星空的***。
我们在这部电影里可以看到在60年代的弗吉尼亚,种族隔离这种制度性的歧视在白人眼里还是是理所当然的,而三个主人公抗议歧视的方式是,在劣势的工作环境中,通过努力让同事看到其不可争辩的成绩。电影表现的内容非常丰富,在马丁.路德.金领导的民权运动和人类开始向宇宙更深入探索这样激动人性的大背景下,通过三个主人公故事的展开,讲述的不仅是种族歧视,女权,还有突破壁垒的信心和勇气,几乎所有人都能从中得到鼓舞和启发。
Mary勇于尝试不可能的事,打破了黑人不能在全白人学校学习的规则,拿到了工程师学位,成为NASA和美国历史上第一个女性非裔航空工程师。
Dorothy干着主管的工作,却得不到主管的头衔,尽管她的上司,蜘蛛女邓斯特饰演的Mrs Mitchell并不承认自己种族歧视,但我们很明显能看出来她的偏见。当Dorothy成功操作IBM机器终于被提升时,Mrs Mitchell说"I don't have anything personal against you." "Yeah that's probably what you believe." Dorothy回答。她成功地让自己不可替代,成为NASA第一位非裔主管。
Katherine 的工作环境是最糟糕的,她每次跑半英里去上有色人种厕所的情节,现在看来是多么的荒诞,而当时的人们却认为是理所当然的,连咖啡壶也要贴上有色人种的标签,和白人区别开;工作壁垒重重,她得通过对着光照看出被墨水涂掉的机密数据,从而作计算,她打破了女人不能进这个项目会议室的规则,通过自己的表现赢得了所有人的尊重。当宇航员John Glenn在发射前得知数据不确定时,他在性命攸关之际选择信任Katherine,’the smarter one’。她也成功地让之前怀有偏见的谢耳朵心甘情愿为她倒咖啡,在Katherine 97岁时她被授予总统自由勋章,当时的美国总统是第一个黑人总统奥巴马。
这部电影让我们看到了隐藏在幕后却星光熠熠的人物形象,三个黑人女主角让配戏的白人明星都黯然失色,而她们打破规则和壁垒的信心和勇气将激励所有想触碰星空的人。
初恋50 First Dates
What would it feel if I can wake up everyday forgetting what happened for the last whole year?
Lucy in the movie “50 First Dates” told me this feeling. Every morning when she woke up, she only rememberred the Sunday of last year which was her father’s birthday, also the date she had the car accident which made her only keep memory before Sunday, so she always felt happy living the same habit as what she did on Sunday a year ago with the kind set-up by her father and brother. After meeting Hey, she could only remember who he was on the same day. But after one night, he became a stranger to her. She couldn’t even recognize he was the one she used to date and love everyday. Hey tried his best to give her a new different meeting every day so as to win her smile and regain their “First Date”. Hey made her tapes every morning to help her remember what happened the day before and the last whole year. Lucy thus felt grateful with all she had when she woke up everyday. On the same day, she always had the same deep gratitude to face Hey with her sweet smile. What a beautiful feeling it is to always feel thanksgiving and to always
appreciate each other’s effort. A touching story between a memory lost woman and a devoted man taught all of us, normal people, the essence of love. When two people can thank each other for their devotion everyday like what they did for each other on first date, love can forever be refreshed and energetic. On Lucy’s side, people with memory will ask for more than yesterday and become critical of their partners day by day, while people without memory will feel grateful for their life and the people around them everyday.
In the movie, when one day Lucy decided to break up with Hey to let him rebuild his life by burning all their diaries and tapes, I cried for Hey’s broken heart. For her, it was just one day feeling. For him, it was long-term affection and connection. It was easier for her than him to give up their love. On Hey’s side, people with memory will always remember the past happiness and
treasure it for the rest of their life, while people without memory will easily give up at the end of the same day.
What a ruthless feeling it is to end a relationship just after one minute thought. People with fragile mind would easily ruin a long-term relationship no matter what reason they have. The torture between Lucy and Hey tells us the fatal factor to do harm to intimacy between a couple is their fragile mind of
balancing emotion and reason. Thus most of couple lose their trust for each other after experiencing this weakly testing broke-up.
飓风Taken
What is the right relationship between the father and the daughter? There is no certain answer. But the love of Brain's to his daughter must be one of the best ones.
His daughter, a young pretty 17-year-old girl was kidnapped during a tour in Paris. Brain got the news and hurried to France to take his daughter. He found that the gangsters that kidnapped his daughter were connected with an old friend which made him exetreme angry. He finally found the place where was holding an auction selling young virgins and broke in successfully taking his daughter away.
No matter how hard and stressful the situation was, and how dangerous things he faced, he never went back just because of the greatest love of a simple father. In the movie, we are all moved not only his actions of kindness, but also his insistance and the greatest of all- a father's love.
魔术师THE ILLUSIONIST FACTS
When word of the famed Eisenheim's (Ed Norton illusions reaches Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewell, the ruler attends one of the magician's shows in order to debunk the performance. But when the prince's intended, Sophie von Teschen (Jessica Biel, assists the magician onstage, Eisenheim and Sophie recognize each other from their childhoods, and pretty soon they're totally hot for each other. As the clandestine romance continues, the prince's best cop (Paul Giamatti is charged with exposing Eisenheim, even while the magician gains a devoted and vocal public following. Before long, Sophie turns up dead, and the logical suspect is Eisenheim himself.
一线声机"Cellular" has the setup for a solid straight-ahead thriller: A kidnap victim who does not know where she is being held phones a total stranger who must then stay connected on his cell phone to find her before she is killed. Joel Schumacher scored earlier with a similarly phone-themed Larry Cohen story, "Phone Booth." As executed by tone-deaf director David R. Ellis, however, "Cellular" becomes an unintentionally hilarious cousin to Brian de Palma's "Raising Cain" and "Snake Eyes."
Ellis seems to have unwittingly spliced together two different films with
mismatched tones: Kim Basinger as the kidnapee and Jason Statham as the kidnapper occupy the deadly-serious, straight-to-video thriller half, while Chris Evans as the rescuer and William H. Macy as a police officer seem to be in a "Saturday Night Live"-alum action comedy. Nowhere else is the disjointedness in tone more apparent than when Basinger and Evans's performances are placed side-by-side during their conversations: The scenes keep cutting between an overwrought Basinger wringing out every drop of melodrama, while a blissfully inept Evans seems to be channeling a cross between Chris Kattan/Jimmy Fallon and Ben Affleck/Keanu Reeves.
Meanwhile, Ellis pulls out tricks intended to generate thrills and surprises. He throws in out-of-nowhere "shocks," a la "Final Destination"; he throws in
flashbacks; he throws in a gun-blazing Macy in Jerry Bruckheimer action-hero slo-mo; and yet, Ellis has no handle on staging any of them competently. Case in point: "Cellular" is the proud owner of one of the most ineptly scored chase sequences ever, as if Ellis simply heard a snippet of the song's lyrics ("...where you gonna run to?" literally and paid no attention to the inappropriateness of the accompanying music (which just bop, bop, bops along. (The song is even reprised during the closing credits, which itself is misbegotten in conception.
And yet, for all of its failures as art, "Cellular" is always entertaining for those very same faults
绝对政治正确的一部电影,四平八稳,人设没有缺点,这是最大的缺点,感觉缺了点人味儿。
女主角的Love line应该是为了交代为什么改姓氏,但实际上她们的奋斗史和工作内容会比爱情故事更有趣。
三位非裔女性,在面对性别和肤色的双重歧视下,用卓越的工作能力突破难关,打破种族隔离的高墙,实现了梦想。
有色人种的咖啡壶、有色人种的食堂、有色人种的座位、有色人种的学校,Katherine连上个厕所都得跑到8百米开外的建筑。
当一个有色人种出现在白人聚集的地方时,人们会讶异地对她行注目礼,一脸“走错片场”的问号+感叹号。
Jim Parson和Kristen Dust分别代表两种带着不同歧视思维的白人。
一种是丝毫不加掩饰的歧视,一种是“不把歧视当歧视”。
而她们得到尊重的方式,惟才能而已,也庆幸遇上任人唯才的上司,Katherine的爆发得到重视,只因她的上司认为肤色比不上她的才华重要。
没人能算出的答案,她迅速算出来了;
宇航员需要她的一句话才能安心升空。
她在职场上无可取代的强者姿态,是打破一切限制和枷锁的力量,得到话语权和自由。
频繁地使用眼泪,并不能让你赢得尊重,只能把你定位成弱者,你终其一生将受制于人。
曾访问一个童婚的案例,家暴男经常打小新娘,却对调解的女义工低头做小,原因就在于女义工是处理该难民社区事物、为他们争取权益的领袖,而非男人的附属品。
有人曾说谁谁谁一生顺遂、家境优越,搞女权没什么说服力,可是实际上偏偏能推动女权的正是有钱有权的人。
因为她们受过高等教育,知道要争取什么,要怎么争取,且手上的人脉比起一般家庭出身的人要多,知名度让别人听见她们的声音。
若Katherine没有遇见Harrison,若Harrison不是任人唯才的上司,若他不是NASA最有话语权的主管之一,Katherine的逆袭之路可能没有尽头。
严格来说,我不是女权份子,但我希望男女平权,女生一样能受到教育,职场上能者居之,生活上互相分担义务,而非靠生殖器来决定谁升职、谁该承包所有家务,同工同酬,一切待遇平等。
女人化妆,是为了让自己照镜子的`时候,看到美美的自己而开心,不一定是为了化给男人看。
道阻且长,姐妹们加油!
P.S.一看到Jim Parson,很自然就想到了Sheldon,总觉得他下一瞬间就要很不懂事张口用一堆物理知识怼人,结果他不但没怼人,还还被人怼了,我觉得好不习惯,可见他的Sheldon多么地深入我心。
本片主要讲述了一直担任马拉松赛领跑人的男主角“周万浩”(金明敏饰,决定跑完一场马拉松长跑的故事。“我是个马拉松领跑人,马拉松一共42.195km,但对我来说30km就是终点,我就是这么一个对奖牌、名声没有期望的国家代表……依然为了成就别人的胜利而领跑到30km,这是我的目标也是我的任务。但总有那么一些时候,我希望为自己而跑一次……
人是脆弱的动物,所以我们在身体疲惫之前,就彷徨于30公里,心理早在30公里就停下,所以有太多的事我们没有从一而终。有多少人可以在为别人奔跑了大半辈子,勇敢的为自己跑一次,从30公里处开始。我想这就是我喜欢这部并不精致影片的原因。
A review of the Pursuit of Happiness
“The Pursuit of Happyness” was released on the 15th of December 2006. It is a dramatic story based on a biography of Chris Gardner’s nearly one-year struggle with homelessness. Directed by Gabrielle Muccino, the film stars Will Smith as Chris Gardner, and co-stars Jaden Smith playing Chris’ son, Christopher Jr. For Will Smith’s performance in the film, he was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Actor. The ‘different’ spelling of the title, ‘Happyness’ is seen by Chris Gardner on the building outside the play centre is son attends, which Chris reminds the owners of the building multiple times that it is spelt with an ‘I’.
The film shows us the struggles Chris Gardner has with homelessness. He is bankrupt because he invested his life savings in portable bone-density scanners, which he thought hospitals would be interested in buying, but in the end hardly any doctors wanted one, as they considered it an ‘expensive luxury’. During the struggles, his wife Linda leaves to go to New York and Chris and his son are left in San Francisco with no income and living in a motel. Chris sees interest in become a stockbroker, but to become one he has to go through an internship. Meanwhile, Chris and his son are evicted because they can’t pay rent, and they are forced to go to a homeless shelter, and even one night had to sleep in the bathroom of the underground rail system. During his internship, he never once mentions his financial struggles and at one point he is asked to give one of his bosses 5 dollars for a cab, a sum that he can’t afford. After an intense six months, Chris is taken into the bosses’ office, and is offered a job as a stockbroker, the final scene shows him being in unbelief of the position he was offered and showing his happiness and gratefulness for the opportunity, Chris realises that his financial struggles are over as he now has a job with a regular income.
Christ was unfortunate, for he got a wife who was not understandable at all (though she has her own difficulties and was in bad luck with his business. But he was very fortunate also, for he got a son who was very thoughtful and, I think, tough life experiences always make a great person. It is said that this movie is inspired by a true story, and I want to say, this movie does inspire me a lot. What impressed me most are: Christ’s wife left him because of life pressure; Christ’s love to his son and Christ’s strong belief towards life. Through these, I know that it is not easy to be a good husband and a good Papa, since in reality, only love cannot only make everything. And I also learn that one has to strongly believe in himself, no matter how difficult the situation is, but of course, hard-working is indispensable.
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