long time no paint... and long time no write blog....lazy lazy....how can i get rid of it.....

 

開始的時候，沒有想過會這麼累的... 而且畫室只有自己一人，沒有其他人引開你的注意力，很專心一致的樣子，這個是我嗎？好懷疑…

 

當大約把幾朵花的位置定好後，坐著不知怎樣畫下去﹗那些在背景內模糊一片的藍色綠色是怎麼一回事？於是決定唔再看原稿了，自己根本沒有任何的根基，怎可能將顏色處理得層層疊疊，像霧又像「花」﹗

 

大筆一揮，在花與花之間加入了葉.... 是藍色的葉子.... 之後的事便是真正的純創作... 即純粹的感覺....下了豁出去的第一筆之後，事情真的來得享受多了，我想都是這樣吧，反正要做，隨自己心意做，最後都是享受多於一齊呢﹗

 

暫時還未知有冇人會接收，但是，放在自己那裡也巒不錯呀﹗hehe :) 如果唔收，最多下星期再畫過囉﹗

距離上一次寫Crash有參不多兩個月，也有兩個月無上過自己個BLOG了，如果唔係今日有個朋友 (阿魚AH)話睇緊，我諗我己經唔記得咗佢﹗

近日Crash在香港正式上映，不同的媒體內都有影評啦，我自己必睇的影評分別是《壹週刊》同《SCMP》。套戲用了所有的篇幅去交待歧視 ( 坦白講，雖然每個演員的膚色都黑白分明，但個人並不認為只獨沽一味講緊種族歧視﹗) ，前前後後、衝衝突突咁，都好有條理，咁我都覺得有好多位多咗感性，但係我鍾意人人都好judgmental 個信息，讓我想起好多自己好judgmental嘅嘢﹗所以有好多的認同。

 

講真，睇影評之前冇諗過有人會對這套戲有相當不太認同甚至乎有一點負面的批評，但係so far 原來啲人都覺得套戲老套，重話似十年前的L.A. Law﹗當然影評人可以甚麼也寫，個人並不是想跟人進行筆戰的行為，但是，唔… 我發現原來自己好似冇預留過空間比人judge 套戲bor﹗點解我會咁judgmental 架﹗

 

 

Quote 咗 scmp的影評﹗有興趣睇吓﹗

Thursday, June 22, 2006

MOVIE REVIEW

Crash 

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Review by Andrew Sun

 

Crash, the Oscar-winner for best picture, fails to be original in its portrayal of racial tensions in Los Angeles, despite good performances from its cast, including Thandie Newton and Matt Dillon 

 

 

Starring: Matt Dillon, Don Cheadle,  Thandie Newton, Brendan Fraser

Director: Paul Haggis

Category: IIB

 

More than a decade after the Rodney King riots, people in America still just can't get along. That includes film critics. A war of words broke out between Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times and the LA Weekly's Scott Foundas over Paul Haggis' surprise Oscar best picture. Ebert agrees it is the movie of the year, Foundas thinks it's 2005's worst film - and the two have traded not-so-friendly rebuttals in print.

 

Crash certainly pushes sensitive buttons and it has divided audiences, but is it a better movie than Brokeback Mountain? Not by a long shot. It may be an effective ensemble piece dealing with the racially incendiary city of Los Angeles, but it's also disingenuous, clichéd and as emotionally simplistic as a McDonald's commercial.

 

The film begins with a minor fender bender between an Asian woman and a Latino female who end up screaming at each other after the accident. Then, a white couple is car-jacked by two black kids, an Iranian shopkeeper receives racial slurs from a redneck, and a black yuppie TV executive and his wife are harangued by white cops who've had a bad day. Each incident triggers further anger and resentment, with victims then perpetrating their own ignorance and stereotype on the next person of a different race.

 

The film lays out its intriguing theory early as a black detective (Don Cheadle) suggests people today are so disconnected, the only way they can engage is to literally and figuratively "crash" into each other.

 

The film may be a heartfelt plea for tolerance and civil kindness, but it's also a middle-class conscience exercise in multicultural promotion. Dramatically, the characters are too neatly slotted into predictable social types. When they're not hurling insults, they're walking morality lessons. While you can't argue with the earnest themes of collective redemption and forgiveness, it's also not a new message. Crash often feels like an old episode of LA Law and ER, with its rushed sense of dramatic payoff. Matt Dillon is a racist cop in scene one, in scene two you see he's stressed because of a sick dad, and the denouement redeems him as a flawed but heroic human being. It's too easy to be considered realistic or believable.

 

Still, the cast - from Cheadle, Thandie Newton, Sandra Bullock, Terrence Howard to Ryan Phillippe - deliver nice work. If only the movie came out 10 years ago, then it might be called original and brave. Now, it's just white, liberal schmaltz.

Moving at the speed of Life, we are bound to collide with each other.

 

---電影官方網站上的一句引言。http://www.crashfilm.com/

 

唔知點解會去了台北六日五夜，應該是有點擔心四日的復活節假期吧，也有可能是因為有一段時間沒有外遊了，想出去走走，台北近近地，幾好呀，仲要同一些沒有一起外遊過的朋友一齊去，一定會滿足到雙子座最大的貪新鮮情操，於是沒有多想，便自己走去check機票，仲要因為即使只是一年多前走訪過台北，但是至今印象模糊，決定請多日假，一個人走走，畢竟一個人在異地逛街看戲，應該有十年以上無做過了。

 

生性賴散的我，因為持著放假大晒，結果上飛機前先慢慢check放映電影的戲院，要去的酒店在那裡 (一個人的時候決定了做甚麼也撘公車)，於是在飛機起飛後15分鐘才到達機場，幸好偉大的asiamile名不虛傳，馬上為我安排了下一班飛機，幾順利呀﹗

 

航班2:15分起飛，從未試過坐全架飛機都是清一色的台灣佬，我諗全部人都是公幹的，港台兩邊走，除我以外，無人要填入境表，順理成章，做落地簽證時只有我一個人，明明望住個大叔蓋完印，佢叫我到隔離窗比錢喎，好無聊，我指佢，左手交右手，我就移咗一步咁多，但係，又好順利噃﹗

 

撘咗130元台幣的飛狗到酒店，我立即御下行裝走出去，好怕自己會hea一個鐘，結果會miss埋套戲。是日台北光點最後一日播放改自村上春樹短編小說的東尼瀧谷，上年電影節買唔到票，所以都好想睇。都唔錯，因為真係好村上春樹，無人可以解釋的怪異行徑導致死亡，大家都總是非常孤獨及寂寞，特別是主人公，但係小說內的角色往往視此為等閒，有唔寂寞的時候，佢地會不安，因為太唔尋常啦。個故事好短，又好現代，不停見到宮澤理惠因為一定要買晒所有靚衫時的病入膏肓，好好睇噃，唔知係未因為好現世呢﹗

 

回酒店後等了又等，我的同伴在接近零晨二時的時候出現，第一句話是，喂﹗五分鐘之後lobby等，麻辣火鍋。orr，諗起一個人一日都無食過正餐，好喎﹗

 

結果台北之旅在點點滴滴之下完成，包括︰

 

忠考東路後面有好多小舖行，好多嘢買，同理啲姐姐仔及sales都好唔錯，靚、健談、有禮貌。個人認為神旺(酒店嚟咖)對面，california後面街的舖型啲﹗Reene話Tiger波鞋六百蚊，抵呀，買啦買啦﹗

 

去咗一間叫FIFI的地方飲嘢，星期日晚，10枱有9枱仔，ok様嘅噃，香港少見，應該話係未見過﹗

 

去了一間叫人間的地方飲嘢，在遠東酒店對面，個地方無咩特別，但係一支MacCallen只係港幣600元，非常抵，飲咗兩支，有人醉咗﹗唔係我﹗

 

台北無時無刻都係灰濛濛架﹗同理starbucks緊有一間係左近﹗

 

台北的捷運原來只有10年歷史，同埋廣播語言有四種，分別係台語、客家語、國語及英語，好似架佢地，一句讀起來你會聽唔出個分別架。我地扮讀站名都玩咗一程車。但係台灣朋友話，真係無立場呀，咁邊個先係官方語言呀，如果唔係呀偏，點會搞成咁﹗

 

多得團長做咗好多準備同埋台灣方面朋友的介紹，當然有食唔盡的好東西，陝西菜固然好玩，普通一家家常菜也不錯，郁芳小館的醬茶鴨好好味、牛肉面好好味、胡椒餅好好味、MacCallen好好飲﹗

 

 

成個行程最深刻印象的，係喺信義誠品行出來時，看見灰濛濛的101大樓，同埋一句當地的貸款廣告中的copy…透支人生﹗

 

 p.s.睇相請睇埋caption.....

 

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