Life is Movie

May. 13.

Knowing

Knowing was advertised as a science fiction film, but turned out to be horrifying when I was watching it. When the 911 number combinations were appearing in front of me I realized this was a disaster film.

When the more and more disaster films come out, they cannot help the lack of new ideas, but this film was well developed, to puzzle the audience with a sci-fi one. Nicholas Cage played the leading man, MIT’s teacher. Having visited Boston, I’m very familiar with the background, where the disaster happened, terrifying. The film predicted that on October 19 this year, the Earth would be destroyed. Unlike in the day after tomorrow, in Knowing, the sun would swallow the earth, so no one could flee. Then the film can play to its strengths of being imaginative, doing whatever is wanted, and the day dreams that cannot be realized are now able to realistically show to the audience, and everyone feels like the real thing; it really feels better doesn’t it? Without taking any responsibility, a dream comes true. Sometimes dreaming has the same purpose, but the dream is done passively, while the film is actively making, and to create the box office value doubles the benefits.

The dream in the film was that, Everyone else was doomed, but a boy and a girl were rescued by aliens to another planet to begin another round of Adam and Eve. The planet looked like paradise. Perhaps this was the origin of human beings? Only Adam and Eve were allowed to start a new life? Life is hard since beginning.

Why was it like science fiction? It played a game of numbers. In a primary school 50 years ago, the teacher asked students to paint a picture and put in a Time Capsule in order to give the future students 50 years later. Instead of painting, a girl filled numbers in the entire page. 50 years later, Nicholas Cage’s son received this piece of paper. Nicholas was looking at these figures, suddenly noticing 0911, aware of the rules of these figures, the disaster of 50 years, the date and the number of deaths. Of course, disasters occurred on time, and inevitably. He saw the tricks of the figures in the other unknown number, and they were longitude and latitude, indicating the location.

Then there was his ultimate concern, and the final prediction would be October 19, reversed two of number three; it was not 3, but E. What did E mean? Adam and Eve? When the little girl drew a picture, pointing to the painting of the sun, Nicholas suddenly thought of the sun, end of the world. Then no one could flee, but why was it EE? This time aliens stole the children. When Nicholas caught up with them, and realized the true meaning. Except for EE Everyone Else could not escape, then the aliens were to rescue the children – the human. When the aliens indicated that only the kids could go, Nicholas resolutely goodbyed his son, since his son carried the hope of all humanity.

It would be marvelous if the first disaster film was like this.

Cherish every day, nothing else.

Tagged: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

May. 13.

La Moustache

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“La moustache” is a counter-logic film.

“What if I shaved my mustache?” Mark asked his wife Agnes. “No idea. I like it. I’ve never known you without it.” When Mark shaved the mustache he had in the past decade, his wife, old friends, and colleagues all denied that he had had his mustache. But the problem was that, when his wife was indifferent, Mark did not immediately tell his wife that he shaved his mustache, but quietly waited for the attention from his wife. When Mark fussed about this petty thing, there’s a dialogue between the young couple. Agnes: “It’s hard to say it?” Mark: “not difficult, but no need to say.” “Say” has two meanings: 1. Pronounce, utter the words; 2. Express, articulate (à sortir, à avouer). This minor detail pointed out the common problems in life.

Even more terrible is that Mark clearly heard his father’s telephone recording that asked him and his wife to dinner the next day, but when he mentioned it to his wife, his wife said that his father already passed away two years ago, and Mark was almost insane. What would Mark do? Two possibilities: commit suicide, or go to China. Why China? In order to leave France, go to a very different place.

Mark hurriedly pulled out a passport, went straight to the airport with nothing but money, and a flight happened to fly Hong Kong, he then went to Hong Kong. Why Hong Kong? Because it’s a free port, and Hong Kong is an island surrounded by the sea; Mark needed water to wash away the past, reborn.

Mark constantly took the ferries between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, and finally took fishing vessel to an island. When the time was passing, his mustache was growing slowly. Prior to this Mark wrote an unsent postcard, “without your eyes, I can not see.” As if at the same time he was saying, “with you, I’m mad.” The world is drunk I alone am sober.

One day, he returned to the small hotel. The owner told him, his wife was in the room. When he opened the door, his wife was lying in bed, and the closet was covered with her clothes, dresser filled with cosmetics, as if his wife had been staying for a very long time. His wife said, “I still like the way you do not grow a mustache”, he took the razor again. This time his wife did not turn a blind eye, but responded immediately, expressing that she noted his change and that she liked it.

The film ended like this. Mark knew to escape did not solve the problem. At the beginning he was pursuing hard of the recognition, and now he got it. But would his life be Zhouzhuang or butterfly? He did not know, he did not want to know, and he would continue to live in the eyes of others. Was the outcome positive or negative? Mark did not commit suicide; it’s of course positive. The world is drunk and I alone am sober, and Mark went back to be crazy and live in the eye of others; this certainly had its negative side. The director changed the ending of committing suicide to that others were paying attention to Mark and from Mark’s being isolated to his facing the eyes of others; it’s positive, strongly positive.