1-3-2011
In the past year I watched 7 to 8 movies. Coincidently, all of them have been nominated in the 83th Academy Award. Only “The King’s speech” is an exception that I haven’t seen for myself as Hong Kong seems to be packed too much new year movies to be digestered. However, I was not surprised “The King’s speech” has swept biggest awards from best acting, best actor to best original screenplay and best picture of the year. I just can’t miss it.
Back to my favorite movies, it is hard to choose.
Inception, it won the best sound effect, sound editing, visual effect plus cinematography. It deserves the honors because that is the parts of elements made it popular and unique. Nevertheless it is the film that reveals subconscious effect on our human life in dramatically serious approach impressed me mostly.
After learning NLP theories, I have realized that sub-consciousness controls our 90% or even more thinking system and time. The film implies that beliefs and ideas are like a parasite. Once it is implanted into our subconscious mind, it will grow and eventually rule our conscious mind, determining our life and destiny. That is exactly thoughts become things.
The Social Network, won the best adapted screenplay and the original scores, a bit disappointed for its fans for sure. Well, it was a film that I was compelled to watch during my working hours just before it was off the cinema.
I just couldn’t understand why Facebook originated from a university’s website could spread to the whole world like virus. Many people simply cannot live without it today. So I had to find out myself.
The film was so genuine about the history of Facebook that it looks like a documentary rather a drama. It is a Harvard computer students’ life; it is how the students starts business in the campus; it is a film about friendship, communication, conflict and interest when the business becomes more and more serious and wealth sharing has to be an issue. It strikes me that many problems would be avoided if they had communicated better.
I found that nowadays, although social network, which is supposed to improve communication, has been getting more popular, communication is still the root of conflicts and relationship problems.
I must say that this is a film not only belongs to the young and the internet generation but to their parents because from them, the parents can find the shadows of your sons and daughters, in terms of their language, characters, individuality and potential and even hidden problems. From Facebook founders’ story, I can see the students’ fearless spirit as newbie of entrepreneurs. I really appreciate their ambitions, their try and error approach. Something we need to learn from our children especially when we are getting older and when our experience becomes our burden rather than our drivers.
Facebook’s success indicates that if a product can meet people’s collative need and desire, it will hit the market. The success of Google, E-bay and Alibaba and Skype all prove this rule.
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Just before the Oscar night, I did a movie spree, indulging myself in two Oscar nominates - “127 hours” and “Black Swan” consecutively.
127 hours is a real story of an adventurist Aron Ralston fighting five days of thirst and pain with his arm stuck under a bolder in Blue John Canyon, Utah.
It is one-man, one-line story that I have never seen before. James Franco’s performance was so impressive that I almost identified him as Aron Ralston in the end part of the movie. It is also a film not like a drama but a documentary instead.
What really touched me was throughout the 1 ½ hours, we can’t see any pessimistic feelings from the only character, even facing death. On the contrary, his humorous reflection on his life in the desperate condition brings us so many insights about human weaknesses and strength. He comes to the realization this accident is deemed to happen all because he is too-self-centered and too confident in himself. Everything he has done has led him to this ordeal. He didn’t blame anyone else, but himself. That is the beginning his survival spirit starts to sublime. After that, his dreams, hallucination and memory all fill with fun, love and happiness with his family, friends and his future family, which drives him to make every endeavor to gather his will to break his injured arm, setting him free from the 127-hour’ stuck and evacuating himself from the deep canyon, with his single arm.
There are so many powerful messages from Aron’s deadly adventure -
Habit will affect a person’s fate and attitude will decide a person’s destiny Positive and optimistic attitude always gain control in adversity. Stay optimistic and never give in. Never say DIE.
• We should always adjust our habit and attitude to reduce mistakes to minimum. Bad habits result in big mistakes and decent habits lead to big success.
• Express what you want to tell instantly if possible and thank people you want to thank immediately. You never know when it is the last day you will never have a chance to tell.
• We cannot always change event but we can react. It is our reaction that changes the outcome.
127 hours is a movie for all ages. I fully recommend the your and old to watch.
Well, I have deep mixed feelings about “Black Swan”. While I was awed by Natalie Portman’s brilliant performance, (my best actress in my Oscar award picking), I feel so heavy and sorrow for the protagonists Nina Sayers and her mother’s experiences.
Nina is an emotionally fragile, perfectionist and still a baby sweetie of her mother, a former ballerina and a typically neurotic, overprotective mother. The film disclosed the artists’ darkest life through her struggle for main dual characters. The film approach is a sheer philosophical complexity - to create great art at the sacrifices of great performers -the dual processes of creation and destruction.
Under intense physical and psychological pressures, surrounded by isolation, jealousy and sex assaulting, Nina is psychologically broken-down gradually despite her breakthrough for perfection and her climax in career, bringing a successful debut but a tragic ending.
Throughout the movie, it shrouds with psychologically disturb and horror, anxiety and ugly, dirty human characters. Even with feeling heartbreak and depressed, I didn’t cry until the stage curtain dropped down.
What stroke me is our own life is not short of the senses. Similar tragedies do happen in our society! Whenever we see our children kill themselves despite their affluent life, we cannot deny the fact that parents’ overprotection and dreadful pressure from the society and the education system only do more harm to the young people physically and psychological development, turning them into a more vulnerable, rebellious group.
I believe the film is sending a message that positive thinking system and stress management skills should not be ignored any longer in school curriculum.
I am a typical movie-goer. Sitting in the cinema, not only can I entertain myself with the fun and beauty of the film’s fine art, but experience the journey that the characters are going through and learn the insight of the stories induce to us, meanwhile improving my critical thinking.
A great film can influence our life, inspire our creativity, definitely.
In the past year I watched 7 to 8 movies. Coincidently, all of them have been nominated in the 83th Academy Award. Only “The King’s speech” is an exception that I haven’t seen for myself as Hong Kong seems to be packed too much new year movies to be digestered. However, I was not surprised “The King’s speech” has swept biggest awards from best acting, best actor to best original screenplay and best picture of the year. I just can’t miss it.
Back to my favorite movies, it is hard to choose.
Inception, it won the best sound effect, sound editing, visual effect plus cinematography. It deserves the honors because that is the parts of elements made it popular and unique. Nevertheless it is the film that reveals subconscious effect on our human life in dramatically serious approach impressed me mostly.
After learning NLP theories, I have realized that sub-consciousness controls our 90% or even more thinking system and time. The film implies that beliefs and ideas are like a parasite. Once it is implanted into our subconscious mind, it will grow and eventually rule our conscious mind, determining our life and destiny. That is exactly thoughts become things.
The Social Network, won the best adapted screenplay and the original scores, a bit disappointed for its fans for sure. Well, it was a film that I was compelled to watch during my working hours just before it was off the cinema.
I just couldn’t understand why Facebook originated from a university’s website could spread to the whole world like virus. Many people simply cannot live without it today. So I had to find out myself.
The film was so genuine about the history of Facebook that it looks like a documentary rather a drama. It is a Harvard computer students’ life; it is how the students starts business in the campus; it is a film about friendship, communication, conflict and interest when the business becomes more and more serious and wealth sharing has to be an issue. It strikes me that many problems would be avoided if they had communicated better.
I found that nowadays, although social network, which is supposed to improve communication, has been getting more popular, communication is still the root of conflicts and relationship problems.
I must say that this is a film not only belongs to the young and the internet generation but to their parents because from them, the parents can find the shadows of your sons and daughters, in terms of their language, characters, individuality and potential and even hidden problems. From Facebook founders’ story, I can see the students’ fearless spirit as newbie of entrepreneurs. I really appreciate their ambitions, their try and error approach. Something we need to learn from our children especially when we are getting older and when our experience becomes our burden rather than our drivers.
Facebook’s success indicates that if a product can meet people’s collative need and desire, it will hit the market. The success of Google, E-bay and Alibaba and Skype all prove this rule.
===============================================================
Just before the Oscar night, I did a movie spree, indulging myself in two Oscar nominates - “127 hours” and “Black Swan” consecutively.
127 hours is a real story of an adventurist Aron Ralston fighting five days of thirst and pain with his arm stuck under a bolder in Blue John Canyon, Utah.
It is one-man, one-line story that I have never seen before. James Franco’s performance was so impressive that I almost identified him as Aron Ralston in the end part of the movie. It is also a film not like a drama but a documentary instead.
What really touched me was throughout the 1 ½ hours, we can’t see any pessimistic feelings from the only character, even facing death. On the contrary, his humorous reflection on his life in the desperate condition brings us so many insights about human weaknesses and strength. He comes to the realization this accident is deemed to happen all because he is too-self-centered and too confident in himself. Everything he has done has led him to this ordeal. He didn’t blame anyone else, but himself. That is the beginning his survival spirit starts to sublime. After that, his dreams, hallucination and memory all fill with fun, love and happiness with his family, friends and his future family, which drives him to make every endeavor to gather his will to break his injured arm, setting him free from the 127-hour’ stuck and evacuating himself from the deep canyon, with his single arm.
There are so many powerful messages from Aron’s deadly adventure -
Habit will affect a person’s fate and attitude will decide a person’s destiny Positive and optimistic attitude always gain control in adversity. Stay optimistic and never give in. Never say DIE.
• We should always adjust our habit and attitude to reduce mistakes to minimum. Bad habits result in big mistakes and decent habits lead to big success.
• Express what you want to tell instantly if possible and thank people you want to thank immediately. You never know when it is the last day you will never have a chance to tell.
• We cannot always change event but we can react. It is our reaction that changes the outcome.
127 hours is a movie for all ages. I fully recommend the your and old to watch.
Well, I have deep mixed feelings about “Black Swan”. While I was awed by Natalie Portman’s brilliant performance, (my best actress in my Oscar award picking), I feel so heavy and sorrow for the protagonists Nina Sayers and her mother’s experiences.
Nina is an emotionally fragile, perfectionist and still a baby sweetie of her mother, a former ballerina and a typically neurotic, overprotective mother. The film disclosed the artists’ darkest life through her struggle for main dual characters. The film approach is a sheer philosophical complexity - to create great art at the sacrifices of great performers -the dual processes of creation and destruction.
Under intense physical and psychological pressures, surrounded by isolation, jealousy and sex assaulting, Nina is psychologically broken-down gradually despite her breakthrough for perfection and her climax in career, bringing a successful debut but a tragic ending.
Throughout the movie, it shrouds with psychologically disturb and horror, anxiety and ugly, dirty human characters. Even with feeling heartbreak and depressed, I didn’t cry until the stage curtain dropped down.
What stroke me is our own life is not short of the senses. Similar tragedies do happen in our society! Whenever we see our children kill themselves despite their affluent life, we cannot deny the fact that parents’ overprotection and dreadful pressure from the society and the education system only do more harm to the young people physically and psychological development, turning them into a more vulnerable, rebellious group.
I believe the film is sending a message that positive thinking system and stress management skills should not be ignored any longer in school curriculum.
I am a typical movie-goer. Sitting in the cinema, not only can I entertain myself with the fun and beauty of the film’s fine art, but experience the journey that the characters are going through and learn the insight of the stories induce to us, meanwhile improving my critical thinking.
A great film can influence our life, inspire our creativity, definitely.
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