Life Is Beautiful

托“中文系同学会”之福，观赏北京人艺1997年版（猜的）话剧《雷雨》。

（照片真难找，只找到一张貌似像的）

观感如下：

1. 濮存昕演技教人失望。当然周萍这角色是很不好演的。
2. 人啊，不可压抑感情，不然会得精神病。
3. 虽然曹禺小朋友没想着要骂社会，但千错万错，仍然是社会的错啊社会的错。
4. 人要有信仰亚要有信仰，随便你信马列还是信耶稣。不然被压抑得得了精神病，再信就来不及了啊来不及了。
5. 不要标榜了自己是新女性，又把希望寄托在男人身上，整天要人家带你走。有本事请自己离家出走。
6. 年轻时犯错不要紧，但是，请告诉儿女究竟是犯了什么错，再让他们从中学习。不要天天叫他们“不要重复他们娘过去犯过的错”，又不肯说到底是什么错。总而言之：有话直说，有雨就下，说话说一半儿憋着另一半儿终究会酿成大错啊酿成大错。
7. 俺要是5年前开始酝酿一部戏，现在八成也著成巨作。不料曹禺小朋友抢先一步，俺只好大器晚成了啊大器晚成。
8. 秘密。谁没点儿秘密？如果不幸有了见不得人的秘密，建议两条出路：一，不让别人知道；二，也知道点别人的见不得人的秘密。如此，即有了安身立命之根本也。
9. 二三十年代的德国医生，要么技术不咋地，要么医德不咋地。
10. 还是周冲这孩子好，心地单纯，又舍己救人（虽然没救成），我喜欢。可是，贾宝玉说的对，女孩儿嫁了人就完（这前半句不对），男孩儿长大了就完。
11. 文学这档子事儿，比化学还没逻辑。我很高兴我没在文科系。

1， 音乐的力量太大了，能把坏人变好人。

2， 就算做了对不起人的事，也别急着死；万一死错了就太冤了。

3， 图书馆太过分，竟然买没字幕的碟。不过虽然听不懂，好电影无国界，还是能打动人。

4， 精彩片断youtube都有，且有字幕，enjoy~

Trailer (German)

The Lives of Others Trailer (English subtitles)

IMDB

“礼品包装吗？”

“不用，这是给我的。”

听到最后的这句话，竟然流了眼泪出来。

太喜欢它的的结尾了。

Youtube spoils market by providing the complete movie in English subtitles.

Albeit in 15 parts.

"a French idiom for something where you get out what you put into it. It is also sometimes used to mean a busy, chaotic place." – wikipedia

(English Title: The Spanish apartment)

Before all, caught the familiar face of Audrey Toutou? -_- Is she seriously in all French movies?

Next up, I would comment that it is THE most hilarious French movie I have ever watched, despite the heavy French flavour that’s unavoidable. Note: "hilarious" is not really a usual adjective you would use for French movies.

I had a nice time making up my lessons on "life as an Erasmus student". It looks real. And would be fun if it’s really real. (oh what fun I have missed!)

So, if anyone is interested in watching it (again, possibly?), do ask me to join you in the fun!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283900/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L’Auberge_espagnole

DVD loan available at Central Lib.

Excuse me for not writing more. I am not in the mood to.

先播放老歌一首：

Those were the days –Mary Hopkin

法国电影《天使爱美丽》/ Amélie

Summary:

很好很正常。

其他观后感如下：

1，Life is a piece of ART work!!!! Unlike what some minor role in the film has uttered, "life is a draft", or "life is rehearsals that never gets played on stage". No, it’s a masterpiece of your own. You choose the way you want to live it. And the best way is, of course, to treat it with gentlest care that you’d give to the most painstaking painting that has taken you 30 years to do.

2，The French-style romance is oozing out from every single detail, the colouring and the overall aura! The imaginary Paris is just soooooo beautiful like fairtale, you cannot help falling in love with it~

3，Definitely THE best French movie I have seen, due the following reasons:

a) No "surprise" ending (for those who have watched "The Deep Blue", or "Jeux d’enfants", you know what I mean)

b) No death except for the early mother.

c) Clever small things and witty twists makes it all funny and poignant.

希望法国多出好电影。

也希望Audrey Toutou不要再演Da Vinci Code这样的片子了。

A couple

who realised how much they were bored of and hated each other

decided to erase each other from their own memory

with a kind of technology that was actually available in the real world.

Additional to the difficulty in exhausting the countless memories that they had together,

the recollection of which is required for the removal of them,

it occurred to our friend Joel, (the guy in the story, duhh)

through his backward tracing,

that some of the memories meant so much to him

that he regretted and wanted to quit at some point.

But it was beyond the point of no return,

the erasing was successful after all.

Just that eventually, the two had some sort of telepathy to arrange for a meeting again

which served as a new beginning.

Not the normal kind of brainless movies.

So I was once again made conscious of my adequate intelligence

that I have to watch the movie once again

in attempt to piece up the story in chronological order

and to try to distinguish between memory and reality

or to merge the two.

I am just wondering

whether the reunion of the couple would be appropriate.

Maybe the playwright is trying to say

Love Beats All

and, you know,

nothing can really erase the real linkage between a couple 

who are probably destined to be together?

But does the remembering of how-I-used-to-feel-about-you

necessitate the continuation of weaving a net already full of holes?

They have gone so far before

to discover how unsuitable they are for each other.

Do they really have to go through it once again

only to get disappointed by the same discovery about their incompatability,

since nobody would have changed a tiny bit?    

I feel so sorry for the couple for getting together again in the end,

for what worse reason could they have wasted their money in the memory-erasing operation!

No, it’s definitely not the money.

It is the whole lot of time they are set to waste on each other again.

What does it take for those poor people to LEARN?

Disclaimer: I am no relationship expert.

Just dismiss the above  as some senseless comment,

if you are ready to embrace and perhaps to remedy all holes in your net.

Don’t tell me sh** happens to all couples.

Confucius did not say that. =)

I believe it just doesn’t happen to some. =)

(Oh by the way I am impressed by new heights in acting Kate Winslet has reached! So it is not just Leonardo who worked hard and improved. ~)

Row, row, row your boat

Gently down the stream

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

Life is but a dream.

These are arts, I agree.

But let’s be kinder to kids and give them a chance to make decisions for themselves when they grow up, will we?

To think about the physical pain it takes to remove any tattoo…

Entrance fee of 15 Euros fades in comparison.

Typical scene of on-the-spot: tattoo artiste, customer and customer’s boyfriend/girlfriend, all heavily tattooed.

Outside while waiting for train: a cigarette advertisement no longer seems that harmful.

*More scary images not posted for the benefit of general viewers’ mental health. Nightmares shall be confined to the blogger’s own dreams.

(this is just a random pic from my own treasured collection~)

Watched the movie twice on consecutive nights. I believe it was not compulsion, but I can offer no better reason.

After the first time, I felt elated as many of the points raised in the conversations came through much clearer than the time when I watched it in JC. Those universal questions about life, world, relationships and self, valid to people across different continents and ages. I was glad that I have come to an age to understand those concepts much better rather than wanting to fall asleep through the incessant dialogues.

It was the second time when I turned defensive. I found myself trying to reject some of the ideas, by having thoughts running rapidly through my mind, raising counter examples/arguments. I thought watching a movie should not be a critical thinking session and you should just sit there and appreciate what the director/playwright has to express. But apparently I could not take it so easy. I don’t like having others trying to feed me with thoughts that I do not agree with, to say the least, especially passive thoughts that leave people disappointed and helpless after the discussion.

It is a beautiful movie nonetheless, with scenic shoots all around Vienna, as well as a pretty (French) actress.

(I maintain the street poet is more handsome than the lead actor himself, anyone? =p)

Recommended to watch

if (you happen to study photography)

elseif (you haven’t done preliminary travel study for Vienna)

elseif (you do not know English at all and the copy you get has no subtitles)~

p.s. No idea how many people out there love this movie, just hoping you all dun get put off by this entry;p