导演：李志毅
改编自日本漫画


暂别这个地方多时，决定以这个电影回来。因为这部电影，让我从新反思自己对梦想的追求。

我一向偏好艺术电影，也很喜欢看日文片，我喜欢日语温柔如乐的调子，更喜欢他们温雅缓慢的步伐。

这是一部芭蕾电影，唤醒我曾经对舞蹈的热衷。我曾经好喜欢好喜欢跳舞，但是随后因为没有天分而不了了之。但是我不会忘记跳舞带给我的快乐。

不懂舞蹈，看昂跳舞已经是一种享受。强而有力的节奏感，从心底发出的自信心与固执，让她在舞台上发光。昂的舞蹈，好像她的名字的完美诠释，一步一步地，到如今我仍然记得她跳着舞时我所感受到的悸动。

我喜欢昂和弟弟和马之间的小小默契，那种因为对某件事情的热忱而带来的生命力或许不是每个人都可以懂得，但它确实不是传说，而是确切地存在着。昂对舞蹈的坚持让我不断思考自己对梦想的方向，我确实有很多梦想，但是说起来我没有像昂一样对它们都有同样的热忱与重视。或许梦想对我而言没有那么重要？又或许我太过于贪婪，想涉足于一切我渴望的，但到最后或许一无所有？

但我确实还没有，为梦想孤注一掷的勇气。我还没有，所以我不配。

 

Director: Mark Waters
Adapted from Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's Novel

me being a fantasy fiction freak, you can be sure that i won't give this movie a miss! well the movie is really fascinating, good effects here, especially for the goblins and flower fairies. it's a pity i've never read the book before so i can't really comment on how well the movie is adapted.

however it was rather obvious that the movie doesn't revolve around the fantasy realm arthur spiderwick has discovered, but rather on the difficult journey of a family that is losing a father. watching the movie i realised that most of the time, parents are like heroes to their kids and its hard to accept the fact that your very own parents have done something wrong. a divorce brings about hard impacts on children that perhaps some adults have never considered while making the decision? and the kids are really at no fault.

what i liked most about the movie was the message on children's perspective. kids see things at a different view from adults, and perhaps as we grow up, we have forgotten that part of us. we must have forgotten that everything is possible, and not to not believe what we don't see. as we grow up we become less trusting, more suspicious of the world, and we demand for concrete evidence for everything. perhaps that is why, it is easier to share the gospel with children and teenagers, adults simply don't understand the meaning of a free gift.

i hope, that part of me stays as i grow up...... =)

 

Director: Jean Yeo
Adapted from Dr. Catherine Lim's novella

unfortunately i did not catch the movie on february 29th.

i decided to watch this movie because i was fascinated by the concept. somehow it sounded like the ancient story of the lovers who could only meet once a year. on the other hand some part of me did not believe that love could  sustain without seeing each other for so long a period as four years.

the movie was a surprise in some ways. i was grateful for the effort placed in the sound effects and music, as  they were most often neglected in many Singaporean and Malaysia productions. Also i found the ideas trying to connect the 4 leap years together(four seasons and calenders) and many scenes in the movie similar to our amateur productions in nyjc. like throwing paper aeroplanes(heartstrings), running in the rain(angel on the seventh step). sounds cliche though. haha. but i really liked the idea of beautiful quotes appearing on the lunar calenders on every february 29th! ^.^ here's one:It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.~William Shakespeare.

although the storyline wasn't strong, many thoughts of the movie sank into me. Especially the part when Jeremy commented how Li-Ann was brave to not to be with someone just to be with someone. it reminded me of myself, encouraged me in some way. I admired Li-Ann's courage to stay true to herself, the way she held on to what she believed and pursued her true love regardless of how people looked at her.

It takes courage, to wait for the true someone. in the same way, it takes courage, to accept loneliness. 

“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous”- Einstein.

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作者：尚-多明尼克．鲍比（Jean-Dominique Bauby）

认识这本书的开始，应该是由五月天的歌起头。
然后高一的时候，老师要我们每个星期为这本书的一章写观后感，虽然后来不了了之，但是写观后感的那段时间我最敬爱的朋友车祸身亡。对我而言，那打击很大，而读这些篇章的时候感触更深，因此每一次读后感都拿很高分。

我是感动的，在读者本书的时候。一个人可以用一只眼睛写出一本书，可想而言并不容易，且也需耗很大的力气和意志力。更何况作者全身只有那一只眼睛能够动。
读着每一个字，感受着作者对文字的坚持与热忱，我很佩服。有什么比有梦想有坚持的人，更令人羡慕呢？

或许。作者是幸运的。虽然患上一个奇怪的病，但是在临终之前，他仍然在努力做着他喜欢的事。而我不禁在想，倘若作者没有忽然中风而全身瘫痪，他那只如蝴蝶般轻盈自在的想象力与心灵，可能就没有这么容易被释放出来。他或许仍然忙碌于自己的生活，或许根本没有时间让自己的思绪翱翔……

我认为，作者是幸运的。在生命结束之前，上帝给了他一个礼物。让他有机会细细的回味他生命中各种美好的事，穿梭在他爱的人之中，他体会到了人生最大的意义。

Director: Menno Meyjes

i've been wanting to watch this movie since i saw the trailer. I knew it would be my cup of tea.

i never understood adults, although i am a young adult myself now. i didn't understand why they think that we don't understand anything. in fact, i think kids have a clearer view of how the world works. like what harlee said in the movie, she thought that dennis was an old soul, instead of a weirdo as people see him as. he has the world figured out.

i love the way dennis was played out. he portrayed the insecurity of a kid well. and i was reminded of myself. how i pretended that i fitted into everything. how i used to imagine that i was from another planet. what especially touched me was his idea of floating away. how he was afraid that the person he cared most did not believe in him. 

why do we always put expectations on others? why do we look at people, and stare when they are different from us? how do we know if we are the ones that are weird, and they are the normal ones? 

and we have absolutely no right to discriminate people who are different. it is okay to be different.

we have no right to pull a kid from their world and force them to be stucked in ours.

every child needs love to grow. 

'I don't want to bring another kid into this world. But how do you argue against loving one that's already here?'



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