Friday, February 18, 2011

The Reader

看了电影 The Reader. 很感人. 每一个细节, 都是真情. 现在回忆起, 眼泪还是出来.

在Hanna身上, 我看到的是生命的力量. 在监狱里,她自己学会了阅读和写字. 为什么最后选择了离开人世, 是她生命力量的体现, 还是导演的安排?

Michael 和 Hanna, 是一个生命对另一个生命的爱. 这个爱, 没有其它的夹杂. Hanna为他擦洗后背, 脖子, 胳膊, 那是爱. 他们骑车出游, 是最快乐的时光, 感动得人哭. Hanna的一句"I don't want to know." 满是信任和快乐.

即使是西方的影片, 如果恋爱的双方, 女性是年龄大的那个, 最后的结局, 也是女性退出. 这也是一种对女性的教育和熏陶? 为什么大年龄的男性, 就没有人置疑他选择年龄小的女性? 而女性大的, 就是不正常?

Friday, February 11, 2011

Out in the first snow

I need a new cupboard for my kitchen, and it would be best if I can have it custom made, so I went out this afternoon to a furniture store not far from home. It was still snowing, the first snow in the whole winter.

It turned out that the furniture store had been closed, and a new Carrefour hypermarket was opened at the very same place. I have been too busy to notice all the changes. I went in to see if they had the apples that one of my customers recommended to me.

I walked back home, carrying two bags of apples. It was getting darker. Still that feel, a small being walking in the big city. Remembered a word in V, - 'It is your soul that sustains you.'

The apples are expensive but sweet. The cupboard thing has to be postponed.