Movie - Spice

The below is also a very nice movie. This one and the other one called "Like Water for Chocolate" are something about how magical cooking can be. How food can make people happy and make people cry. Apparently this one is about spice and how you make a difference in using various spices for cooking. The boy's grand pa told the boy about each spice's characteristics and also the controversial point of using cinnamon with pork. The spice would also make people remember something and in time such memory would boost a person's mind back to something they wouldn't be aware of, as the movie's theme - the way to everyone's heart!

Bruce Lee - 苦海明燈 (Light in a dark sea)

When people often pay attention to Bruce Lee on his Kung Fu's movies, there are some movies he appeared at his younger time, together with some great actors/actresses. This movie was about him being an abandoned boy in an orphan house led by "White Swallow 白燕" as the school principal. Later on, his real mother showed up due to his career success as a great doctor. The story may be the same old one, but Bruce Lee, as a 10 year old kid did a very nice performance in the movie and I think he is even better than the other actors.

Movie - The Motorcycle Diaries

The young and the adventurous, Che Guevara took a motorcycle with his friend from his home country Argentina all around in South America up to the northern part in Columbia and Guatemala and for sure his revolution in Cuba. He was a medical student with a Marxist mind (I'm not to here to promote Communism but in fact Communism derives from Marxism). Che Guevara had his eye sight over the many places he had been to, until he arrived to a place where there were the patients with leprosy (skin infection once thought of being infectious in the old time and those patients being locked up like evil persons). He realized how some people's sick mind was and decided to help those patients. Thereafter he decided to change the world - counter-social and counter-capitalism and ultimately a contemporary revolutionary advocate. Regardless of the movie's background, the movie showed some spectacular views of the whole Southern America!

Movie - Moulin Rouge

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return" was typed by a writer Christian (Ewan McGregor in the movie) in a dim blue room up on the hill of Montmartre, Paris where grew the Bohemian culture in the late 19th century for the musicians, painters and artists looking for freedom of art and improvised lifestyle. Various great pieces of songs were used, such as "The Sound of Music", "Your Song", "Lady Marmalade", "Come What May", especially remarking the hook lines and the spiritual parts of all those songs like "The hills are alive with the sound of music", "I hope you don't mind. I hope you don't mind that I put down in words. How beautiful life is. Now you are in the World." . Nicole Kidman was so good in interpreting the character Satine - the Sparkling Diamond in a French nightclub crowded with customers living in obsession, jealousy and desires. Christian fell in love with Satine. There he wrote a musical play for Satine while Satine was suffering from an irrecoverable dying sickness and living under the devil hands of the investor of the play - the Duke. The show must go on. Satine held her last breath until the show was finished. From the obsession of love, the power of greediness and possession, to the loss of love and emptiness.

Movie - The Contact

This movie is one of the few ones I have from time to time been watching it again and again. It may be quite boring for someone especially for the scientists including Jodie Foster to keep tracking on signals from other intelligences of civilisation of outer space. However, I was just so into those moments for them to keep searching, as I hope I can be one of them to search some extra-terrestrial. In fact, I still remember on a hot summer night in Palm Springs, I was out on a patio looking up to the sky, there I witnessed with my friend a transforming semi-transparent metallic jelly-fish like flying object moving vertically upward far far away. One day if I am asked "are you willing to join us to see our world?", I would definitely raise my hand and go without any hesitation.

This movie also mentioned something about religion. Jodie (in the movie) got asked if she believed in god. Her answer was no. So she couldn't go to take the trip on the twisting dimensional pod made on the 3-D design blue print transmitted by the far-away advanced intelligences, because there are 70% of people having religions. So the person who was chosen for this journey should represent the majority of the human being. She was disqualified then. Unfortunately the pod was blasted by a religion-maniac in despising science going against religion. So Jodie was asked by a trillion tycoon who made a second pod built in Hokkaido (Japan). There she finally made her trip to a planet which is so many light years away from our mother Earth. The extra-terrestrial intelligences made themselves look like Jodie's father who died when Jodie was a girl, so as to make Jodie feel easy to communicate with them and made the scene as a sunny beach with calming sea waves...... Do you want to be contacted?