"little children" (2006) 还是有些让人失望。为什么美国的许多indie films都这么爱憎分明的。爱憎分明没有什么不好，可是非要拍的让观众觉得每件事的发生，每个人的癖好，都有原因, 未免有点无趣。。。 不过，对恋童癖的刻画还是很不错大

 

本周推荐还是要数1998年的片子“他们微笑的样子”Così ridevano

Babel果然厉害。。没错，我最终还是忍不住把它给看了. 本片的idea和kieslowski的decalogue很相似，但是much more straightforward, 和a bit judgemental. It makes its point so clear and play it so smartly, to a point, a bit pretentious. 不过也许正如此，才可以以强大阵容大面积上映。 太难的片子，据说不会被通过。不过，整体感觉功力还是满深， 音乐，画面，尤其是camera work - great!

 

last king of scotland and babel are my favorites this month!

 

"Babel"正在上映中，还要再忍3天，觉得心都在疼

写论文的日子，欲望最简单

最想做的事是在寄出申请之后，发呆一周！

中午照镜子，才发现眼睛里有一根睫毛，大概住了很久了吧。

自从带了隐形眼镜后，眼睛的抗沙能力越来越强了，常常异物住了很久都不觉得。

大概人的身体和情感一样，都是极具张力和适应性的。

以前容不得一粒沙的，现在都释然了。

People say the three elements leading to happiness are something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.  So in some sense, it's very easy to be happy. No? for example, keep yourself busy + have a pet (if can't find a partner) + have your favorite food in the fridge for breakfast tomorrow morning, then you have the 3 keys. But on a grander level, it's rather hard to acheive any of them. what if the something to do currently is something you hate, what if indulging youself to really love someone is irrational, what if you don't know what you really want, so you don't really have something to look forward to?  Things can be small and insignificant, but makes you satisfied enough. So it's big. Things can seem to be close, but when you think harder or look at it more truthfully, it's not that clear to you any more. So it's distant.

三番的Castro Theatre 这周末即将放映 Asia Argento - the Italian " master of macabre" Dario Argento's daughter 的 debut -"the heart is deceitful above all things"。据说Asia 多才多艺，而且很是 hot :).(不可错过！！！）. 然后是期待已久的 "L'intrus (the intruder)". 当然期待的理由很是shallow,因为喜欢的Gregoire Colin 在其中。“如果爱”也将在近期放映。。。 开心

 

"I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema of the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested n anything in between"

 

 

Watched two movies about obsession in a roll tonight - Werner Herzog's "Aguirre, der Zon Gottes" (1972) and Francois Truffaut's "L' Historie d'Adele H." (1975) .  The first one is about Aguirre's mad obsession with conquering new continent and the story of finding Mexico, which only destroys him and his men eventually. The very end of the movie is unbearably sad, with Aguirre left alone on the rift in the dreadful river, accompanied by dead bodies and wild monkeys, while he is still obsessed with being "the wrath of God"... After the movie, I couldn't wait to get the autobiography book by Klause Kinski. "the story of Adele H."  is a good one too.  The passionate Adele ( daugher of the famous french poet Victor Hugo) is driven crazy by an unreciprocal love. Her obsession of marrying him turns her into a stalker, a liar and sadly a phsycho in the end. But at the same time, she is a strong-willed woman who guards and leads her own genuine desire and that is ithe only thing matters and accompanies her in her life. Although those obsessions are insane, destructive, suffering, I can not deny that I find it extremely beautiful and pure as well.  That is when one  is strongest and weakest at the same time, noble and insane at the same time. mixture of complication and intensity.

Just found out from Adia's blog, I was called on to answer the following questions back in Feb.  Hope it's not too late, Adia. 虽然还是有些觉得是小孩子喜欢做的问题，但是觉得这种点名的方式很有趣。   ------------------- 遊戲規則:寫在自己的SPACES上,回答完如下十題之後,刪除其中自己最不喜歡的一條,再添加自己的問題一條,然後另點6人.也就是你需要如实回答其中的9个问题,再问一个问题。   1.你会为了最适合你的人一直等待吗? 会吧，但是可能是一边等一边玩我的 ---oops, does this mean it contradicts with the definition of waiting: :p. 好吧，真实的答案是，我不相信有单纯的“最合适的人”，i believe in interaciton and dynamics.   2.下一个目标是什么? write a great paper and get a real job!     3.另一半如果出轨的话,你会怎么做? It depends. 有些情况下可能会原谅，但是还是会选择离开。   4.目前的生活是你想要的吗? 目前的生活是我目前想要的，因为每天都在选择作自己像做的事。     5.如果你爱上了你的好朋友,你会怎么办? 什么怎么办？当然是和他在一起了。。     6.如果你要找bf or gf, 是要找个可以管住自己的还是的? 千万不要“管住我的” “对自己百依百顺“ 我会觉得boring. Better be with someone with a bit resistence, who can push back a bit, of coz, OCCASIONALLY :p。   7.如果发现和自己的好朋友爱上同一人，你会怎么办？ uh...不会这么寸吧，天下那么多男人。当然还是视情况而定 - 我们三个人的感情。大家一起在一起也许不错，haha     8.你认为喜欢和爱的区别是什么? 喜欢一个人的时候还可能会喜欢其他人，爱一个人的时候，心里没有其他人的位置。 喜欢一个人的时候，我是清醒的，爱一个人的时候，他变得powerful. 喜欢是chemistry,爱是commitment.     9.你知不知道自己想要的究竟是什么？ freedom   10.相不相信一见钟情？ nope!     去掉第6题 增加一题   你认为感动可以最终变为爱情吗？ --觉得自己问了比较烂的问题，没办法，好想睡。   点名: HC, Edu,Chuan， Yangyang, Yuanzhi, Xinxin, Jason,quanquan,Rui,Laocai,Xuanxuan,Peng