1.19.2009

Slumdog Millionaire,The Coffin, The Saw V

Slum Dog Millionaire...

This is a hollywood film, altho all of the scene is Mumbai base, but it doesnt feels too bollywood.... film started Jamal being interrogating with violence on cheating in the indian version of Who wants to be a millionaire. he tells his story of how he get to answer those question as a slumdog without any proper education...which seems to be coincident to know the right answer.... this is when the flashback started in his childhood..... This story is not only about a Millionaire.... but it's about love he's looking for....which makes him a millionaire....
The director never forgets to add in the typical dance in the end of the movie...and Oh. My~ Gosh~ Jamal dance so well.... a very different side of this Character..lol...



The Coffin
A believes of the thai on cheating death on this ritual brought some breath taking experience to both of them.... altho it doesnt happens at the same time, but it looks like it is...
Well personally thinks that it is ok, not as scary as i imagine.... kinda predictable most of the time.... but certain things doesnt make any sense to me.... Su's husband was in HK, met an accident, and she was at his funeral, but like she never went back HK yet.... and where exactly was that?..... i was confused...



The Saw V.....the jigsaw pieces continues after the Dr. dies... this has got into a worst situation when it comes to the inside job.... not gonna talk too much abt the stories, as it links from 1-5, but i heard the 6 is the final one...
Anyone who watch the first few episode would know what type of movie is this....
every moment for the hostage are just..eukkk, awww, ouchh, ooshhhh......
dont watch this movie if the smell of blood causes dizziness.... hehe...
Poster for Saw VI...ouch

1.15.2009

動人心弦的小男孩 (Little Boy Touches Hearts)


I was walking around in a Target store, when I saw a Cashier hand this little boy some money back.
我在「塔杰」商店閒逛時,看到收銀員將一些錢退還給小男孩。

The boy couldn ' t have been more than 5 or 6 years old.
這男孩不過5、6歲。

The Cashier said, ' I ' m sorry, but you don ' t have enough money to buy this doll. '
收銀員說:『抱歉!你買這娃娃的錢不夠。』

Then the little boy turned to the old woman next to him: ' ' Granny,
are you sure I don ' t have enough money? ' '
小男孩轉向他旁邊的老婦人:「奶奶!妳也認為我的錢不夠嗎?」

The old lady replied: ' ' You know that you don ' t have enough money to buy this doll, my dear. ' '
老婦人回道:「親愛的!你知道買這個娃娃的錢是不夠的。」

Then she asked him to stay there for just 5 minutes while she went to look around. She left quickly.
她要小男孩呆在那裡5分鐘,她一下就回來。 她迅速離開了。

The little boy was still holding the doll in his hand.
小男孩的手仍然握著娃娃。

Finally, I walked toward him and I asked him who he wished to give this doll to.
最後我向他走去,問他這個娃娃你想給誰。

'It ' s the doll that my sister loved most and wanted so much for Christmas.
『這是我妹妹的最愛,非常想要的聖誕節娃娃。

She was sure that Santa Claus would bring it to her. '
她一直認為聖誕老人會帶娃娃來給她的。」
I replied to him that maybe Santa Claus would bring it to her after all, and not to worry.
我告訴他不用擔心,聖誕老人最後可能會帶給她的。

But he replied to me sadly. ' No, Santa Claus can ' t bring it to her where she is now. I have to give the doll to my mommy so that she can give it to my sister when she goes there. '
但他哀傷地回答我『不!聖誕老人不可能將它帶到她現在的地方給她。我必須將娃娃交給我媽,當她去那裡的時候可以給我妹妹。』

His eyes were so sad while saying this. ' My Sister has gone to be with God. Daddy says that Mommy is going to see God very soon too, so I thought that she could take the doll with her to give it to my sister. ' '
他說話時的眼睛是哀傷的。『我妹妹已經和上帝在一起。爸爸說 媽媽很快也將要去見上帝,因此我認為她可以將娃娃帶給我妹妹。』

Ny heart nearly stopped.
我的心臟幾乎要停止了。

The little boy looked up at me and said: ' I told daddy to tell mommy not to go yet. I need her to wait until I come back from the mall. '
小男孩看我說:『我叫爸爸告訴媽媽現在不要走,讓她等我從購物中心回來。』

Then he showed me a very nice photo of himself. He was laughing. He then told me ' I want mommy to take my picture with her so she won ' t forget me. '
然後他拿出一張他自己非常漂亮的相片給我看。他笑著告訴我『我要媽媽帶著我的相片,這樣她就不會忘記我了。』

'I love my mommy and I wish she didn ' t have to leave me, but daddy says that she has to go to be with my little sister. '
『我愛我的媽媽,我希望她不要離開我,但是爸爸說她必須去找我妹妹。』

Then he looked again at the doll with sad eyes, very quietly.
然後他安靜地用哀傷的眼睛再看著娃娃。

I quickly reached for my wallet and said to the boy. ' Suppose we check again, just in case you do have enough money for the doll! ' '
我趕緊摸著錢包對小男孩說『我們再檢查一下,說不定您有足夠的錢買玩偶! 』

'OK ' he said, ' I hope I do have enough. ' I added some of my money to his without him seeing and we started to count it. There was enough for the doll and even some spare money.
『好呀!』他說『我希望有足夠的錢』。沒讓他看見,我塞了一些錢到他的錢包中,我們開始數錢。買娃娃的錢足 了,甚之還有剩餘呢。

The little boy said: ' Thank you God for giving me enough money! '
小男孩說:『謝謝上帝給了我足 的錢!』

Then he looked at me and added, ' I asked last night before I went to sleep for God to make sure I had enough money to buy this doll, so that mommy could give it to my sister. He heard me! ' '
然而他看著我補充說『昨晚睡前,我要求上帝讓我的錢能足夠買這個娃娃,因此媽媽能將它帶給我妹妹。祂聽見我了! 』

'I also wanted to have enough money to buy a white rose for my mommy, but I didn ' t dare to ask God for too much. But He gave me enough to buy the doll and a white rose. ' '
『我也想有足夠的錢買一朵白玫瑰給我媽媽,但我不敢要求上帝太多。但祂給的錢足 買娃娃和一朵白玫瑰了。』

'My mommy loves white roses. '
『我媽媽喜歡白玫瑰』。

A few minutes later, the old lady returned and I left with my basket.
幾分鐘後,老婦人回來了。我也就提了購物籃離開了。

I finished my shopping in a totally different state of mind from when I started.
我從一開始就在完全不同的心境下購物。

I couldn ' t get the little boy out of my mind.
小男孩一直無法離開我的心境。

Then I remembered a local news paper article two days ago, which mentioned a drunk man in a truck, who hit a car occupied by a young
woman and a little girl.
我想起兩天前當地報紙的一篇文章,提及一位醉酒卡車司機,撞上了一輛載著年輕少婦和一個小女孩的汽車。

The little girl died right away, and the mother was left in a critical
state. The family had to decide whether to pull the plug on the
life-sustaining machine, because the young woman would not be able to recover from the coma.
小女孩當場死亡,母親呈現彌留狀態。 這個家庭必須決定是否要拔出維持生命機器的插管
,因為年輕少婦不可能從昏迷中恢復。

Was this the family of the little boy?
他就是這家庭的小男孩?

Two days after this encounter with the little boy, I read in the news paper that the young woman had passed away.
碰到小男孩的二天之後,我看了報紙年輕少婦過世了。

I couldn ' t stop myself as I bought a bunch of white roses and I went to the funeral home where the body of the young woman was for people to see and make last wishes before her burial.
我不自主的買了一束白玫瑰,來到喪家,年輕少婦的遺體在她埋葬前讓人瞻仰與最後許願。

She was there, in her coffin, holding a beautiful white rose in her hand with the photo of the little boy and the doll placed over her chest.
她在那裡,裝在棺木中,在她的手中握著一朵白玫瑰和小男孩的相片,娃娃則放置在她的胸口。

I left the place, teary-eyed, feeling that my life had been changed for ever.. The love that the little boy had for his mother and his sister is
still, to this day, hard to imagine.
我離開了這裡,眼淚奪眶而出,覺得我的人生已經永遠改變了。至今,小男孩對他母親和妹妹的愛,仍然難以想像。

And in a fraction of a second, a drunk driver had taken all this away from him.
就在一轉眼工夫,一位醉酒司機奪去了他的所有。

The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect
I like the idea of the butterfly effect. But both stories have got the same ending..... which is both doing for the good of their love one.....friends, family, or lover..... You get selfish at first, when u want to "own" someone or something....but in the end, you see what happens when u get what you want.... you need to sacrifice a lot...
If only we could turn back time....
but the tricky part of butterfly effect is...you know the consequences immediately after you made the decision.... it shows perfectly well when he was doing the effects on his bed....when he wakes up, he was in a total different situation... cool....
now i know what eeli meant... the butterfly effect... LOL...
The Butterfly Effect 2
Comparing with the first movie, butterfly effect 2 is less "scaring".... cos the differences of life were shown perfectly well with the contrast shown..... what happen in ur childhood makes you into what you are and who you are.... butterfly effect 2 time line were short..thus the effects werent as much as such.

1.13.2009

Woah

I think the last time or the first time my area flood was 1994 or 1997....
Last nite was 17 on the lunar calendar, the high tide....3rd and 18th are the highest of the month. the day before got flooded at some lower places....not to mention batu kawa or matang area....those are worst.... somehow around 5.30pm yesterday, the water raises real fast.....within minutes...
when it begins..............


looks deep....yea, almost reached the knee
it went into their office
within seconds.....
it got more and more.........
and it covered
the water keeps flowing up from the drain....

before and after
half way up the main road....rest of padungan was flooded.....
wah..almost came in.... -.-""

1.11.2009

Into The Wild

I felt so down after watching "Into The Wild" by Sean Penn........
I felt so sad with the end of Christopher McCandless aka Alexander Supertramp.
He is a man with such a quality character.... definitely an intelligent man... I admire his braveness and spirit achieving what he wants out of his life....
This man walk into the wild, donate his entire 24K in his account to OxFam, burn his cash, left his car, burn his ids, thrown his cards after he graduate from college....2 years of expedition, he make it to the north- Alaska.
He found this "magic bus" and lived in it....and this is where his corpse was found too.
He wrote "Happiness is only real when shared"
He carved "Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause "the West is the best." And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild. - Alexander Supertramp May 1992"
The supporting actors are brilliant.........
Watch it!! it's a nice movie.......
These are the self portrait they found undeveloped in his camera....
"GoodBye Alex."

1.09.2009

Moveeeeeeeiii

The Polar Express
I know I'm a kinda outdated....since xmas passed long time ago....and this animation was long time ago too.... Somehow i couldnt get this movie out of my mind every xmas since the release till my last xmas, i missed it, i wanted to watch it, until i watch it was more than 5 years....
I finally sat down for this nice animation and.....yea, pretty predictable... but somehow weird too..... it feels like.....kids being kidnapped from town to meet the santa and elves....then being sent back again within.......errr few hours?? 12 midnight was the time he hop on the train... but back before the next first light...from the america to the north pole... hmmm....
anyway, i do like the "spirit" and the "tickets"...hehe... "blue coat" - this is how i name the conductor on the train.....especially when he punches tickets...hahaha...wicked~
I do love the spirit of "believing"... I believe that is wat we need to believe....especially fairy tales are so much destroy by "science" and "humanbeing" nowadays......

P2
It's xmas eve....Angela is still in office rushing for the documents to be fax...... When she finishes work ready to leave the building for the family dinner.... her car she parked down the P2 carpark couldnt be started... This is when the terror starts.
Exits were all locked, everyone left home for xmas and trusted security guard were being sorted. It turns out that Tom, the Carpark security guard has been planning all these by observing Angela for some time. Tom is a psycho....several times of emotion explosions under pressure.....
I think this film is trying to be as cruel as can be with all the "painful" scene....the broken finger nail, where Angela needs to pull her nail off......the abdomen and body organ squeezing out, the head crushing, the stabbing to death on the dog.....eukk.... extremely awful i must say.....
Angela being potray as an independent lady, workaholic, and she demonstrate a extreme calm and rationale lady as well..... it was a one on one situation, the only way to get out from P2 is to kill ur enemy.... she did it....and did it well... i believe anyone who watch it will applaud wat she did to him. Bravo.

Troy

I never expect the war started from "jealousy" or "woman".... But to the king of Greek, this is just the spark that causes the fight.
Achilles is definitely unbeatable, but in the end, i too must say becos of the lady of his that causes his life.....
I was so touch by the act of King of Troy, Hector's father... the night Hector lost the fight, he sneak into Achilles tent begging him for Hector's body....Achilles claims Hector kill his cousin, his father told him "he thought he was you. how many cousins, brothers, fathers, you have killed?" Achilles was stoned. He says, tomorrow morning you are my enemy, the king says "tonight you're my enemy, but there's still respect between enemies..... he deserve a warriors funeral, let me wash his body, let me put two coins on his eyes....." the love of a father touches Achilles entirely....
Anyway, i thought the Trojan was build with solid structure where they spend time sculpturing it instead of a Trojan that was build with ships wooden plank and logs like dat... but it was amazing... the believe of gods beat the Troy down.....

Pride & Prejudice (2005)
"one word from you will silence me for ever"

beautiful...beautiful....a very beautiful film.....Pride and Prejudice........
I hate it when i missed it in the big screen, Birm Again.........

Life seems pretty simple for a lady during the time in Europe.... All they look for is to marry an ideal gentleman with a perfect background.... i think it's very much on love at first sight for most of them..... doubt that many will have the same experience with Elizabeth.... i guess most of them missed their first meeting, they missed it for life....