The winners of Pulitzer Prizes came out. It reminds me of my photojournalism course in SG. To be honest, it was quite hard for me in the second semester but at the same time thankful, cuz my classmates at that time were very kind and with good skill of photography(compare with me)!

I really miss the days that picked up the camera(Nikon D70) and just choose whatever place to shoot. Or I should say I miss the day traveling freely and without pressure. I'm looking forward to the day that I can be an observer in the trip once again n I can see the world with whole new angle, writing, photographing freely:) 

Back to the Pulitzer Prizes, the work of the winner of Breaking News Photography is very astonishing to me. The serious of black-n-white photos contains lots of tears, pain and courager that made me tearful when I saw them. Especially the one a woman lifted herself off soon as she gave birth to her child for spare the place for another woman to deliver-how brave she was?! and I even can feel her pain through the pic which touched my heart very much. http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2009-Breaking-News-Photography

As to the Feature Photography, I should admit that I dun surprised and dun really like the prize goes to "Obama" cuz he already catch much much attention from the media around the world. Okay, say it directly, I'm a bit tired of him (he's in every issue of Newsweek and Time, even his dog...) :p But I can deny the photos of him are good, some are incredible, like the one he and the cloud. Oh, I forgot to say, the first one of the collection which was Obama stood in the rain is quite handsome, hahah...(did I say I'm tired of him?!) Here's the work. http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2009-Feature-Photography

Anyway, u should hv a look of these amazing works!


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就如我娘親所說,就是要趁年輕多走走多玩玩。

因此,我們出發了。

【預想版】一路向南的我們在到達目的地後,一片萬里無雲的晴空與春天和煦的陽光迎接我們。短褲、夾腳拖、bikini、遮陽草帽,走在人潮洶湧的墾丁大街上,騎著喔兜麥穿梭在台灣最南端的個個景致,挑戰人類對香蕉船翻船的忍耐極限,然後帶著一身健康小麥色和伍佰老師一起跳「你是我的花朵」,最後心滿意足的回到沒有陽光的台北城。

以上純屬幻想。

事實上,當我在客運上睡的東倒西歪,好不容易搖到了車城,一踏出車門的第一個想法是:太陽呢?!若是微風緩緩地吹著那還顯得有些詩情畫意,然而,我們似乎低估了落山風的威力。另一方面,看似「勇健」(請用台語發音)的我,竟然不敵感冒的侵襲,正值發病第一天,生理期第二天!!天啊!這是什麼世界~墾丁的海水以及近在咫尺的四重溪溫泉都離我好遠!

接著,如何到達民宿?

答案是,沿著不知名大路一直走,碰見的第一個村莊就是了。路程:約一公里。

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一路上,落山風狠狠地刮著。汽車與機車從我們身旁呼嘯而過,除了抱怨著「為何不載我們一程」之外,也讓我和阿卞回想起曾經對警察北北叫囂後,還惡人無膽的不敢接受人家的美意。於是乎這條筆直並且扮演對外交通之樞紐角色,也就是我小腿肌為何越來越發達的原因。由於路途實在遙遠,為了增加趣味,我們想出了打發時間小遊戲。

「冷風颼颼長路漫漫之主題接歌遊戲」主題分別是風啊海啊,可說是相當符合情境。然而,托妮妮的福,通常都進行不過一輪。

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混搭風墾丁大街

我倒是沒想過有一天會走在墾丁大街上「喊冷」。若可以,巴不得無視旁人眼光直接以bikini上陣,但老天真是有眼,知道這樣會有礙觀瞻,所以不開心地颳了風還下了雨就是不讓我有機會獻醜,是吧!不過,明顯可以感受到許多大街上的女性同胞想必都跟我有同樣的遺憾,在輕薄的小衣外,都不得不多加件外套(多煞風景)。這時就很羨慕男性們,t-shirt外穿羽絨衣,還是可以洋洋得意的自認為帥氣:p

也許是因為天氣的關係,並沒有看見預期的人滿為患。原本打算要來個不醉不歸和dancing-all-night的計畫,也都被感冒病毒還有天氣破壞了,殘念。不過,除了啤酒,其他的倒也沒少吃,確切也記不清到底「儲存」多少東西在胃袋裡,只能說,大抵是走一路吃一路就是了!

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What's a crazy night!

Despite all the "unlucky things", it was a wonderful night with my cute and sexy friends!!!

Episode 1

Ha, talking abt the unlucky things...hmm... it could be quite impossible that the first club we went was closed! What??? What kind of club could be closed at Thursday??!! Anyway, since we already did our make-up perfectly and finally could meet Bre, we decided to find another one!!

Episode 2

"Taxi!" We jumped into a cab and went across to the other side of Taipei city. "Here we are." The taxi driver told us. And yes, we did saw many ppl there, but it's not the one we wanted! Mr. driver, r u kidding us??? U know what?! After 15 min waliking in high heel shoes and keeping asking, we finally got the answer! The club we wanna go is UNDER CONSTRUCTION--that is REARRANGE!!!WTH~~~

Episode 3

Well, the situation was really provoking, so we made our minds immediately that we MUST go clubing TORNIGHT no matter what!! Then we back to the one with a long queue. WE waited in line and chated.

Pin said," omg, what's wrong with us tonight?? not our day!!"

Bian replied, "yeah~ maybe we will hv so-called police check togight..."

Pin, "gosh, hope it won't happen!"

Episode 4

Finally, we drank some and had some dance. Then again we were in the queue, the drink-waiting-line this time. With some dizzy, we looked at the pool- a lot of ppl dancing, raising their hands and shaking with the VJ. Suddenly, someone lighted up the light, music stopped and u could see clearly the ppl u danced with or even u flirted with (that means now u got the chance to CORRECT your choice, ha :p). Before we figured out the situation, I saw the police! Okay, correctly is group of plice! Good!!! What is 一語成讖, I think I know it quite well now... To be honest, I even imagined that we were all taken back to the police station and forced to do the urine test...

God bless us!!

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不得不說,能把心理變態電影詮釋的恰到好處非韓國莫屬了。

추격자 (追擊者)描述一個連續殺人犯的故事,改編自韓國真實殺人事件。其實,劇情架構很簡單,開宗明義的告訴大家誰是兇手、作案方式。然而,這或許就是導演了不起的地方,明明就在知道答案的情況下,身為觀眾的我們還可以被嚇得驚叫連連,跟著又罵又叫。

若說起這部電影成功之處,首先就是「色調」。灰褐色色調明示著這是一齣悲劇的序曲,像是活在個被壓迫到無法呼吸的世界。當然,搭配著兇手面無表情卻嘴叫上揚的表情很是有戲劇效果。這讓我聯想起「Old Boy」(台譯:原罪犯)這部經典的韓國驚悚劇情片,一樣的色調,一樣令人窒息的氛圍。

接著是「涉入感」。以應召站老闆角度敘述故事,無論是故事本身還是那些打鬥場景都引人入勝。除了跟著故事文本情緒起伏外,我特別喜歡那些動作場景,在暴力美學的呈現之外,導演的手法更讓人有深入其境之感,人物的急速奔跑搭配上喘息聲、打架場景的節奏感;另外再加上「真實感」,Hollywood 電影中的英雄是打不死的,還可以一對十,但在추격자 中卻不是,英雄也會被打的頭破血流、追壞人時也會摔倒。

另外,兩位主要演員真是令人驚豔。殺人兇手以憨直形象隱藏其變態行徑、心懷不軌的表情;應召站老闆唯利是圖的嘴臉到滿懷愧疚之情的心境轉變。雖然看完這部電影實在令人不舒服,但仍控制不住的回想起兩位演員的畫面,就衝著這點即可說這是部值得觀賞的影片。

我必須慚愧的說,雖一直自封為韓國通,但我真的不認識飾演應召店老闆的演員!不過,變態殺人犯我倒是很熟,哈。他絕對不是幾年前會火紅的演員類型,不像宋承憲的美型、沒有張東建的帥氣、李東建的鄰家形象、蘇志燮的有型,但如果看過他在「布拉格戀人」中扮演的司機小角色,你就能明白他為何會發光發熱。「把小角色詮釋成大角色」正是原因,能讓司機角色變得如此搶眼,應該也只有他了吧!(To阿如:如果你看到這篇,請快去看這部電影!!看看我們的東南變得多可怕><)不過,看完他的殺人犯角色應該很難再喜歡他了吧,我可憐的金室友說她因為這部電影身心受創!!

anyway,喜歡暴力血腥驚悚電影的人千萬別錯過這部。


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又是一部深得我心的二戰電影。我承認,在這方面,我是個偏執狂。

一個猶太女孩去勾引德國軍官的故事聽起來似乎有些落入俗套,同時這些啊慾啊常常成為電影公司炒作的話題,讓愛情這配角喧賓奪主。然而,不可否認的是,亂世中的真感情確實特別吸引人,特別是跨越了是非對錯亦或是種族問題。在黑書(Zwartboek)中,德國軍官與猶太女孩的感情來得很快,不像色戒中以三場床戲做為情感的象徵,表示易先生與王佳芝身陷其中的程度。黑書中兩人的感情都只能被淹沒在時代的洪流。

而這部電影精彩之處即在於不到最後不要妄下斷語的劇情安排。屠殺猶太人的畫面有些過於殘忍,而且快得讓人措手不及。德軍的殘忍是不在話下,但更讓人反胃的是在戰爭期間,又有多少人將殘酷的戰爭當作是獲利的契機,把人命當作籌碼以期藉著交易從中得到財富。納粹在冷血的殺了人後貪婪地奪取財物的嘴臉令人不齒,但那些不把別人性命當作命的「商人」更是讓人感到噁心。女主角在這之中扮演的角色就是那被販賣的商品,只是她幸運逃過劫難,只想僥倖地苟活時,殊不知又成了別人的棋子。

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Carice van Houten,女主角,荷蘭女星。完全是個靈魂人物。一個演員若能讓你跟著她哭跟著她笑,同時有一副好歌喉以及超級好身材,除了「天生是吃這行飯」的說法,還有什麼好說的?特別是電影中最後的哭戲,抽搐著、顫抖著,卻怎麼也止不住的哀傷,導引著觀眾的呼吸的頻率。另外,她說起德文真是太sexy了!!!

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Sebastian Koch,德國軍官,男主角之一。當初知道這個角色會由「知名德國男演員」出演時,我就很想賭賭看會不會是我認識的演員,沒想到,竟然是他。「竊聽風暴」的劇作家!Gosh!除了情報頭子之外,我也很愛他啊,ㄎㄎ。他是個很有魅力的演員,即便是一個小小的微笑,都會讓人不得不注意。在黑書中,他並不像女主角那樣光芒四射,但卻也遮不住在他身上流竄的某種紳士氣息。題外話,因為這部片而把到女主角的他,真是太幸運了,哈。

 


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