I haven’t done film reviews in a long time, and to be honest, I probably won’t be doing this for a while again. Now, I normally don’t like horror films since “リング” (“Ring”). Not because it’s such a classic that all else can’t compare, but because at some point in my life, I couldn’t suspend [...]

I was reading this post on China’s soft power: http://www.thechinabeat.org/?p=4001 In it, the author draws from different sources to explain his point, of how China is shooting itself in the foot when it comes to influencing other nations. The following paragraph uses media and entertainment as an example: Yee-Kwang Heng (2010) uses this point to [...]

一句講晒: “重好睼過風雲系列”

這部批評美國所謂的“錯情報”跟George Bush的帝國主義政策 說真的，已經過時了。 跟 Hurt Locker 比起來，Hurt Locker陳述的是個人在戰爭的感受，想說的是“不管我們為甚麼在這裡，都已經來了就要做好我們自己本份”。可是Green Zone講究的是政府機關之間的內鬥加上民憤之間的匆突導致政策失敗，那個過程。 看這部電影速度很快。看Matt Damon演出一個陸軍准尉，雖然他自己沒有從軍的經驗，可是看的時候也看不出來。 Overall, I highly recommend this movie.

A movie that takes place in the japanese-occupied portion of the ROC’s capital, Nanjing (China’s WWII version of Vichy). Confusing ain’t it? At the time, Wang, Jing-Wei collaborated with the Japanese, while keeping the banner of being the official government of the Republic of China. While Chiang, Kai-Shek lead the resistance (at least in title) [...]

A very good biographical documentary by Deanna Borshay, about how she was replaced with another child at an orphanage during the Korean War, given a different name, and adopted to America. All this despite the fact that her parents were still alive. This movie was her search to find out who the real Cha, Jung-Hee [...]

This movie may have been a Korean-American co-production, but aside from the setting taking place along the New York-New Jersey border, and the supporting actors and actresses being American, it is very much a Korean movie with a very Korean feel. In fact, the scene where 송혜교(Song, Hye-Gyo) is making Korean food convinced me and [...]

剛剛看完了。太浪廢我的時間。電影到底是甚麼意思還不明。我只能批評以下部緞： 爸爸出事（從馬跌下來）生命危旦，小兒子問他姐“爸爸是否能回來？”表示他知道死是甚麼意思。 可是後來還有個一場，他吃飯還問他姐“‘死’是甚麼意思？。。。為甚麼人會死？” 狗屁！小孩子會真的不懂死是甚麼呢？電影作家到底為甚麼常常用小孩子拿來當做天真羔羊？ 而且頭一場，他怕他爸爸死而哭出來，很顯明的知道死亡是甚麼，怎麼會在後一場還明知顧問？ 故事的背景是第一世界大戰之前。在另一場面有個女人在外面給她孩子哺乳。。。 第一：亂去哺乳在西方國家是最近這20年來才有的。偶而有些人還會為這樣的事搞到去法庭爭論。更何況是那年代？ 第二：有個男人走來看到她哺乳喂奶，大家也沒甚麼反應，好像大家很無奈。女人也不把男人趕走，那男也沒有覺得不好意思的走開。還坐下來跟她們還聊起來。 荒謬。 裡面地主的老婆有了外遇。還當面跟他老公說她會走。 一個女人在當時的時代，遽然有了不倫關係還會跟她丈夫說嗎？ 這樣犯法會受死刑，還不靜靜的不聞不覺的走溜？ 而且整個電影一直有個敘述者嘮嘮叨叨解釋故事給我們聽。那你為甚麼還要拍電影呢？不如錄收音機節目吧！還可以省點製作費！不過如果沒有那個人在說話，恐怕整個片會更糟。這也是顯明寫劇本那個人不會寫。 Bottomline: I hate this film. 不過如果你還想要的話就隨便你。。。

What?! What war?! The war on crappy education. That’s right! Day 2. I dropped my accounting class today. So it was class after class of cooking-related stuff, followed by the battle to stay awake in the 70s film appreciation class. Yes, some of you think I deserve a medal for even volunteering into getting into [...]