Monday, March 17, 2008

Paris, Je T'aime



昨天在谷中城看了这部2006年的旧电影,最近才在GSC电影院上映。单单看她的简介,大概知道这不是一部普通的商业片。这部为2006年康城影展开幕影片的电影是由18位导演拍摄的短片组成。(预期是20位)故事发生在巴黎,由18个故事组成,围绕巴黎20个区,有关爱情、亲情、友情,以及人性。

Montmartre (Bruno Podalydès)一切开始在巴黎第18区的蒙马特,那里老旧、混乱,却散发着老巴黎的味道。但是整部电影的主题是温暖的,所以他在清晨很巴黎的前撞后撞获得停车位,随后很热心的救助晕倒的女人。他和女人一样孤单,需要温暖,他们前一天都不知道自己明天将遇到什么,是爱情吗? 这个故事的男主角是典型的法国单身男士,自认样貌不差,事业有成,却没有女伴。。。就在那一个和平是没两样的清晨,他遇见了她,就那么的偶然,她在她的车后昏倒了。。。在车上一个眼神他们就认定了对方。用这个故事作为开始,观众对巴黎这个浪漫都市更加憧憬。

Quais de Seine (Gurinder Chadha)5区,塞纳河畔,几个法国年轻人用惯用的法式语言调戏着经过的女子。其中一个男孩一直沉默,他注视着坐在远处包着黑头巾的她。她摔倒了,他去帮她,他称赞她美丽,他去清真寺门口等她,他尽量和她的祖父说话,他小心地追逐自己不同民族的爱情。 这是一个冲破种族隔膜的一个淡淡的爱情故事,也揭露了法国人对穆斯林女性的不尊敬和不了解,男主角是修历史系的,也不知不觉爱上了这个不同宗教信仰的女主角。

Le Marais (Gus Van Sant)4区,马海区,巴黎有名的时尚,同性恋区。他在印刷室里遇到他,一直讲话,不停地讲,他不知道因为他听不懂法语,完全不明白在说什么。两个年轻人用眼神交流着,放佛冥冥中法国男孩知道他听不懂法语,但是他的心能听懂他的心。 里边提到了很多什么灵魂伴侣。。。直到男主角离开后,男配角才说他完全不懂男主角说了什么。他虽然不懂法文,却了解对方的意思,于是冲出门,想追上男主角。。。

Tuileries (Joel and Ethan Coen)1区,卢浮宫的所在地,Tuileries公园,地铁站,美国游客憧憬着有蒙娜丽莎的巴黎,却被一对疯狂的年轻人和不懂事的孩子在地铁站里一番“折磨”。(是所有片段里最讽刺,有趣的。) 这一部的笑点很多一下,导演从头到尾都用讽刺的手法带出来。

Loin du 16e (Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas)16区,她每天早上天还未亮就把自己的孩子送去集体托儿所,然后乘bus,换捷运赶去市中心给法国家庭做保姆,她给自己的孩子还有照看的孩子唱一样的童谣,可惜自己的孩子只有在清晨和日落才可以听到。

Porte de Choisy (Christopher Doyle)13区,Porte de Choisy,中国城,法国造型师在巴黎碰撞中国文化,遭遇中国动作美女。 杜可风执导的短片,从头到尾不懂他要表达什么。。。非常无理头。最后播放王菲的旧作“天空”最为经典。

Bastille (Isabel Coixet)12区,巴士底广场,他们结婚多年,他像大多数男人一样,外遇,和别的女子偷情,直到一天妻子说自己得了绝症。 已经渐渐失去的感情,丈夫想在一个他们常去的餐馆提出离婚,怎知妻子却说她患上了绝症。他决定照顾她,在过程中,他发现原来他一直厌恶她的东西(包括她常哼着同一首歌曲,只穿火红色外套),他渐渐重新爱上自己的妻子知道她离开人间。。。这是我最喜欢的故事,因为一开始非常的幽默到最后淡淡的哀伤。

Place des Victoires (Nobuhiro Suwa)2区,胜利广场的亲情故事,母亲失去了心爱的儿子,伤心欲绝,幻觉出现了,仿佛见到了儿子,可是儿子说,妈妈回去吧,爸爸在等你。 儿子在生的时候常常幻想,妈妈往往都不相信他直到他骤然去世了。。。妈妈开始有和儿子一样的幻想,在幻想中跟孩子道别,重新生活。

Tour Eiffel (Sylvain Chomet)7区,埃菲尔铁塔,小丑的故事,好像是诉说给儿童听得故事,其实又或许是给成人看的。 非常可爱的故事,纯粹是导演个人的发挥。这个故事要告诉观众,即使生活多么的不开心,也可以像小丑般以笑容面对世界。

Parc Monceau (Alfonso Cuarón)17区,Parc Monceau蒙梭公园,他和她见面,相拥,她一直说不相信他,他一直搂着她,哄着她,他们交替说着法语和英语,让路旁的人看了以为是忘年恋,可是她终于还是说,爸爸,no. 她和友人赴约,他照看小孩,违背刚许下的诺言,那起香烟对着他的孙子吞云吐雾。

Quartier des Enfants Rouges (Oliver Schmitz)3区,红孩儿区。她从美国飞来巴黎演戏,她向他买迷幻药,他对着她的背影有些情不自禁,她在陌生的异国也有些意乱情迷,是相遇,还是错过,或许生活充满了未知。 故事道尽了在娱乐圈里,艺人放纵的生活,毒品,乱性。。。

Place des fêtes (Oliver Schmitz)19区,巴黎最乱的区位之一,有色人种的聚居区。节日广场。他在节日广场下的看车库,他看到她,不惜丢了工作追逐她。最后她终于面对他,可是那时他却失去的是自己的生命。 他们真正的交流竟然是他死亡前的一刻,他撑到最后一口气,让女生知道自己是谁。。。可惜,最后他们都无法一起享用咖啡。

Pigalle (Richard LaGravenese)9区,Pigalle,故事发生在红磨坊附近的红灯区。他们是相濡以沫了几十年的对手,伙伴,爱人。他们讨论性,他们思考爱,是不是一切可以重来,一切可以有个最美满的戏剧落幕?

Quartier de la Madeleine (Vincenzo Natali)8区,玛德莲娜区。欧洲到底有没有吸血鬼?很多游客都在想这个问题,如果半夜遇到你会怎样,会不会像他一样爱上女吸血鬼又或者引诱女吸血鬼把自己变身。 看到我直冒冷汗的一个故事。。。男女主角最后的互咬对方的颈项,让我汗颜。

Père-Lachaise (Wes Craven)20区,故事发生在拉雪兹神父公墓,那里埋葬了非常多的名人,包括浪漫的英国诗人王尔德。将要结婚的伦敦伴侣来到巴黎度假,因为王尔德著名的唇印而真挚,又因为王尔德的诗句而复合。 男主角是典型的英国男人,不懂幽默,女主角却很欣赏如王尔德那种幽默的诗人。男主角最后“王尔德上身”,成功夺取女主角的芳心。

Faubourg Saint-Denis (Tom Tykwer)10区,圣丹尼。他们相遇在她排演角色的时候,他看不见她,但是他一直试图用心去看她,爱她,给她法国的世界,法国的生活,法国男生的爱情。他们开始,他们热恋,他们跳舞,他们同居,他们讨论,他们争执,他们开始疏离。他一直到最后还在说,他看得见她。 非常有MV feel的一个短片。他们之间的生活好像在拍舞台剧般,连对话也是剧本来的。男生是失明人士,一直都很自卑,觉得自己配不上女主角。直到最后,男主角觉得他已经看得见她。他们真正的在一起了。

Quartier Latin (Gérard Depardieu)6区,拉丁区,最最巴黎的区份,散布着咖啡馆,书店,还有名牌大学,中学。他们已经年过古稀,说着英语生活在巴黎。他们都有各自新的生活,他们讨论他新的家庭和孩子,他们约定和共同抚育孩子见面,他们互相仇恨或者仍然思念,他们知道爱情或者生活从来都不是那么简单。 非常虚伪的对话,谈话中双方都不想透露自己内心的寂寞,尤其是女主角。他们讽刺对方的谈话,观众看得很过瘾。

14e arrondissement (Alexander Payne)14区,片子最后是落幕在蒙素立公园,美国游客用非常美式的法语叙述自己和巴黎,她行走,感觉,努力靠近巴黎,虽然是一个游客,虽然语言不通,但是这一切妨碍不了巴黎魅力的展现,妨碍不了她对巴黎的爱。美国auntie一个人游玩巴黎,她没在巴黎找到真爱,最后却发现她已经跟巴黎谈恋爱了。
看完后,觉得很丰富。这部电影已经完完全全把巴黎说完了。。。我曾经在巴黎过了一天一夜,还差点在那里迷路。。。电影里的街景,我还有一些印象,尤其是吸血鬼那里,la Madeleine。巴黎的东区和西区有非常巨大的差别。。。一方是繁荣区,一方却是贫民区。一边处处霓虹街灯,另一边却是危机重重。
有机会的话,我一定会重游巴黎。看完这部电影后,我相信很多观众有和我一样的想法,那就是。。。C'est la vie。。。这就是生活。

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Malaysian has spoken

Last weekend, 8 March 2008 was 12th National Election Day for Malaysia. As this is the first time I'm qualified to voting, I went back to hometown as early as on Thursday night.


Before the voting day, many people has predicted that Barisan National, the ruling party for over 50 years will face some challenges this time but eventually still can easily win with 2/3 majority in Parlimentary seats.


For over 2 weeks before the election day, BN use all medias to promote his party, actually it's monopoly...I felt kinda sick when watching all those advertisement, they still think that people will believe all these craps and will keep voting for them. They have used the same tactic like in the past, raise the racial issues and threatened Chinese community that if chinese people support DAP (the main opposition party) in this election, PM will cut down the numbers of ministers...blah blah blah...


As usual, DAP and other opposition party have many talks and once again attracted many people attending their talk. They don't have any "jamuan" and don't have any artist like Siti. People even have to stand when listening to their talk. What they have is all the truth about Malaysia, what problems do Malaysia facing now.


On the election day, I went to vote with my parents. There was BN supporter trying to change our mind by saying that if we do not support BN, what what what will happen...sick...


At night, all of my family members were so excited about the election results. At about 8pm, some of my frens and my neighbours had told us that Penang has new government!! DAP has won more that half seats in Penang state. What?? I don't believe...then, I receive some calls including my fren who works for a newspaper said that most probably opposition party will take 5 states...BN lost 2/3 majority...surprising....shocking...all the feeling has in me...


Yet, what I get on the TV, broadcated from UMNO central, the big screen showed that BN has won 133 seats while opposition party jz won 33 seats...this is their update at about 2am...pening...they still cannot face the truth.




Results of Parliment and State seats

This election has proved that Malaysian has spoken. With over 50 years governed by BN, what we see is prices of all stuff keep increasing, criminal case keep rising, toll fees keep rising...what I feel most sick of is BN leaders keep talking about racial issues. This election proved that their racial govern style has outdated and forsaken by people now.


I believe that our nation will be better developed and could be more competitive with fresh government... My sweet sweet home, Penang is now governed by DAP with PKR. I have really big hope for Penang new government. I'm waiting for a new Penang, a great Penang.

Baby me

Hi...long time din update my blog liao...I jz went back to my hometown on last weekend, and I took some photos of my old photos...haha...baby me pictures!!!check it out...

flying baby...


first modeling pose...


riding motor with my cousin (with my dad's license)...haha!!


proving that I'm really cute...

Many people said my face not much difference since I were small...My primary school old friends who I didn't meet for many years still can recognize me easily...Now looking back on these pics, finally I realize it...sien...

As I told many ppl, it's not easy to keep my look, u know?

still think that I'm cute? ok lar...u may keep thinking that...