12 angry men - 十二怒漢

It's a very amusing name for me - 12 angry men (...............). Well, it's not angry at all. The film revolves around 12 juries disscussing a case of murder, and the most impressive thing of the movie is the film have only one scene - the jury room. The 12 juries and 1 jury room assistant are the all people you can see in the film - you can't even see the defendant. With 12 men and 1 room, astonishingly, it made one the most sensational movie you ever seen.

The film embarks on a 12 juries in a sweltering jury room discussing whether a young defendant guilty or not. All of them expects a unanimous vote that would rule the young boy is guilty - except one man. The man refuses to make a shoddy decision and so he votes down the ruling. Therefore he is soon seen as a troublemaker by the other 11 men and then a fierce row is posed. At the very beginning, audience solely gets the vaguest idea of the story, the lack of information make you keep an eye on the screen. As the story going forward, more and more details are being unveiled and the story is finally finished with a unexpected ending. In this film, we can see the power of a movie script. Even there are just 12 actors and one scene, a sophisticated script makes everything possible, it's much more powerful than a exaggerated special effect or some elegant decoration.

The flim also hails the juridical system of America. It reflects the ideas of repecting life and pursuing justice. Indeed, the movie comprises of many element, such as the 12 men is a micro view of the America society, those men each is a badge of a corresponding class. To a certain extent, each of them shows a pervasive personality of that group of people, it's plain to see in the film.

A glitch

Ordinarily i do not miss such glitch, because it's so plain to spot. But i was dazzled by a heavily packed text and thus i overlooked it. For every single room, only one person can dwell inside. There were 4 rooms and i spotted 5 persons - but i didn't sense the fault. Then i was distraught and spent more than 2 hours to cope with the error but, of course, i could not get my way.
When i found the glitch out, i thought that even a pig is more competent than me.

Super Star

It is likely to be the most weary TV show on Sunday. The show is just taking the cue from its Taiwan counterpart, but everything is entirely down-graded. It attempts to emphasize the friendship among the participants, tries to pose a ruthful ambience to the show. But they overdo it, such makeshift emotion is unable to grab any sympathy and it solely makes the progamme cosmetic. The soild relation between participants seems stemming from nothing, and you would presume they are already well-known each other for a very long haul. When one of them is out, the others would cry miserably and vie to embrace the pathetic loser, despite they have not even talked with each other. The producers may envisage that the audience are a dupe at all.

The talk-too-much hostess also play a big role in the show. Every single word form her mouth is never handled with her brain, her meaningless comments and defiant attitude to the particpants shows her lack of modesty. Apparently the producers also spot her inability to take up the show, so they arrange a relatively more versatile actor to be her partner in an attempt to mitigate the strained ambience. And i am now grateful to see that she obviously talks much lesser than before.

All of participants are just ordinary folk, none of them can be dubbed as a Super-Star. I concede we should not pose such illegitimate demand on them, they are just amateur, i know. In fact they have outshone a bunch of appliants to grab the qualification, and if the profession of the judges is concrete, we would only assert that the competition is fail to grip genius talent to take part. There are many similar singing contest held in the past, but then no one can get the whereabouts of those winners. Even someone wins such march, his/her path to sucess is not promised. So there is just a measly attraction for the talents to take part in those contest, in stead they may opt to roll out their masterpiece by their own or just wait to be excavated by prominent producers. In fact they are not needed to play a role in those farces. However i still intent to praise the courage of those participants, even there are a big room for them to improve.

Maybe the only thing that can please you is the judges. Most of them is a versatile and experienced performer, and boast a substantial achievements, they are solely a team of veteran singer. We are hardly found today's artist like them who strive to polish their own technique. They really far outshine the participants.

Drug Test

Despite you are a girl, you dress so boyish. I intend to confirm your gender, so i come to you and ask you to show your tits. You assert i have no warrant to do so, it is obviously illegitimate. You say i am ignorant and crazy. But then i say: If you are really girl, why dont you show me your tits to shut me up? Now, because of your reluctance, i affirm you have an ulterior motive and attempt to conceal something.
So would you will to endorse my advise, and strip youself off?

weekly review

Time to go bed, just make it short.

Ted Kennedy had passed away, posing an end to the Kennedy's legendary dynasty. The leftover America's medical reform issue would thus be stalled because of the pass of the 'powerhouse'.

Dalai Lama's visit to Taiwan put the president Ma to an awkward postion. The swift response from Taipei seemed to foil the plot of DPP sucessfully.

Parents of speical school's students failed to protract the free education period to their children.

Arsenal was routed by MU in result of 2-1. (Fxxk you, Man Dog)

Home Alone

My family had been travelled aboard in this week, and left me alone in home. It was marvellous to stay in home just myself and i could spend my time much more effectively. (Pls forgive me, my dear mother.) For instance, i can turn off the television and thus i can escape form the weary TV programme, or i can eat at any time (also any where in home).
I presumed that unless you lived only with yourself, you were hardly to have such a peaceful night. I was envisaging to finance my family to travel aborad again and so i could have another happy hour. (Sorry again, My mom.)

A watershed in life - 《UP》沖天救兵

For those have yet to see the movie, Pls think twice to proceed this passage. I went to see the movie a week before. When i leave the cinema, i merely though that it's just fairly good, contrasted with a pervasive praise to the movie. Many dubbed the movie as "the best movie in the summer that you must go to", and i presumed i was duped at this moment. The story was indeed pristine and touching, and told with a entertained way that made the movie very conclusive. I conceded that the movie was indeed a good movie providing a profound amusement, but was it really worth such a overwhelming hailing?

After his wife passed away, a old man's life plunged into vacant. He found that life became so diffcult without her, and the sweet memories in the pass grinded him a lot. One day, a accident propelled him to recall a promise that he had made to his wife a long time ago. To address the miss to his honey, old man set to ride and strived to fullfill the promise that he had made in the pass, that's the opening of the story. Old man and a boy had hurdled many uphill and thorny challenges and turned out that they accomplished the struggled mission. Maybe the 3D-glasses made me so uncomfortable, that i was already wearing my glasses, i was somehow disappointed by the movie. If you really treasure and love someone, you should do good for her(him) when she's alive. Death is a inevitable destination for all of us, we cannot turn it around, so we should know that the time for us to stay with our loves is very limited - we cannot envisage what'll happen tomorrow. We must be grateful when we are still mingling with our loves, and strive to grip every chance to escalate our relationship. If you want to do sth for them, DO IT NOW, dont wait and hide it in heart. When it's too late, you have nobody to blame but yourself. No matter you set to do anything, weep how miserablely, the people you loved would never know, and you are merely compensating yourself, mitigating you grief - it is totally meaningless. Pls dont soak in the story and obscure by the colourful movie scene, it is reality.

This perspective persisted in my mind for a few days. But everytime when i recalled the scene of the story, i got bewildered. I didnt think that a cosmetic story can touch anyone, but, i confessed i was somehow touched by the brave old man. Maybe i had missed something. In these day, I attempted to open up myself and let the story sink in, and forget about the 3D-glasses, I seemingly got a brandnew view of the story.

When you plunge in an desperate ordeal that it deprives everything from you, razes everything you built, and now you are not as strong as in the pass. You have nothing, and your life seems surplus and no merit, apparently death is the only wayout to you. At this moment, do you have the courage to restart everything again? Can you ignite the flame in your heart - as you do in the pass, engage to a new tour and write down a new page in your life?

There is a very enlightened quote from 《Rocky Balboa》, and i think it can appropriatly explain the gist of the movie: "Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! "

That's the point i overlook. For the old man, it is not something self-compensation or remedy, it is substantially a badge of his courage, a courage to usher himself in a new page, a courage to overcome uphill challenges with his frail and pesky body - it is the courage to make a watershed for the man's life. It is not for the pass, it is for the future. I persume that's just the movie intended to show us, and it is just the reason to touch me.

Well, maybe it is the best movie in the summer that you must go to.

Reference link: 回到核心去︰《沖天救兵》的「冒險號」