- 著名法國設計師 Phillipe Starck 即將退休?
- Does he mean it? Or is he just having a personal crisis?
設計只是物質主意的奴隸嗎？ - Muxtape
- Hey, do you remember mixtapes? You take a bunch of songs you love and give them to someone, hoping that they will love it too. Now you can do it with just a few clicks.
- 《冬日戀歌 – 動畫版》 官方網站
- 有預告片。 (By the way, Wikipedia這一篇故事大綱寫得很搞笑。)
- 網民利用關懷協會留言版 引至癲癇病患者發作
- 好恐佈。 咁攪法會攪出人命…
“Time waits for no one.” That’s the difficult lesson that Makoto Konno, a tomboyish high school student and the main character of The Girl Who Leapt through Time, was forced to learn as she suddenly gained the power to travel back in time.
It was just a normal, lazy school day, when Makoto fell in the school’s science lab and realized that she can go back in time by making big jumps. At first, she used the ability for small things: gain better grades, avoid accidents in Home Ec class, and eat a dessert before her sister does. But pretty soon she is using the ability to avoid situations that might affect her friendships with Chiaki Mamiya and Kōsuke Tsuda. Instead of making choices, she goes back in time and prevents the event from happening. Sure, others might find her acting a little weird, and there are some unexpected results (like matchmaking Chiaki with her classmate), but at least she is able to keep her life relatively the same… Right?
Yet her choices begin to catch up to her, and she sees that some choices must be made, or she will risk losing her friends forever. Unfortunately, that is also when she realizes that she only has limited trips back in time. With only a few leaps left, can she go back and make the correct decisions to save everyone?
Poignant and bittersweet, The Girl Who Leapt through Time deals with growing up and facing life’s responsibilities. Although this was an animated science fiction, you can feel the film was carefully directed to highlight Makoto’s youth and growth. I especially like one sustained shot, late in the movie, that shows Makoto just running and panting and running and panting. It was a long and boring shot, but it’s great because it screams about the movie’s theme, and “hey! this is important to her”. It’s attention to that sort of rhythm, and the hopeful/regretful tone that made me enjoy this. I recommend for you to go see it.
“It has less dialogue than a lot of our past films, but it’s still really fantastic. After all, the art of animation is about what the character does, not what it says. It all depends on how you tell the story, whether it has a lot of dialogue or not.” – John Lasserter (executive producer)
Show of hands, how many of you love movies by Pixar Animation Studios? Whether it is their characters, designs, visuals, technology, or layered screenplays, there is something in every Pixar film has enabled them to receive acclaim and box office numbers alike.
But with continued success, a creative group runs the risk of repeating itself. If you look at their past movies, you might notice some similarities: items being cutely personified, rescue missions, and stories about coming of age… Luckily, Pixar realized this, and on recent films such as The Incredibles and Ratatouille, they took the riskier approach, and explored new themes.
And they are going to try more new things this summer with WALL•E. For starters, its setting is darker: through rampant consumerism, Earth has been used up and has been abandoned by humans, and a robot (WALL•E) is left alone for 700 years to clean it up. But somehow, WALL•E has developed a personality and falls in love with a space drone.
Yes, consumerism, environmentalism, dystopian future, and learning to love – these are all big themes for Pixar. But perhaps even more surprising is the choice that WALL•E won’t contain much spoken dialogue. Instead, most of it will be told through animation and various robotic sound effects. In a way, this is different and jarring (can you imagine Toy Story without dialogue?), but the early trailers are captivating. WALL•E the robot is emotive and funny.
But while it sounds nice for a short film, can Pixar keep the audience engaged for an entire feature? Will the animation deliver? Will film audiences fall in love with this unconventional hero? We will find out on June 27.
Further reading:
Ain’t It Cool News – Interview with Andrew Stanton
Apple.com – WALL•E Trailers
難怪咁多人要爭相回流掘金
以前有事走咗去
今日無事返番嚟
佢哋有無當過香港地係佢嘅屋企
這是「農夫」歌曲「十年人事」的其中幾句歌詞。最近開車時每次聽到這隻歌都被這幾句歌詞牽動。
我在九十年代初在加拿大讀大學。畢業後回流是當時的一個大趨勢（當年還沒有發明回流這個詞彙）。但我在友儕間大力的推動不回流，理由是，我們拿了加拿大的護照，受了加拿大的栽培，我們對這國家該有承擔。我覺得作為加拿大公民，理應留下服侍貢獻這國家。儘管當時我一家四口四散在四個地方（香港，內地，加州，溫哥華），我仍選擇留在加拿大。
後來香港經濟持續轉差，便沒有人回流了（反而有一些朋友再回流回來加拿大）。
香港經濟轉好，現在又多了人回流了。不只回流到香港，轉往內地，美國，甚至Alberta發展的人也甚多。但十多年後的今天，當全球化已經成為現實，在這個年代，我們如何實踐對國家的承擔？全球化與國家主義(nationalism)是否相排斥？居留是否承擔的必然先決假設？
我不知道。
