Sense8──超感8人組/超感獵殺

   最近開始想看美劇，於是上網爬文，最後鎖定這部：Sense 8。

   台譯《超感8人組》於2015年6月5日在Netflix首播，首季共12集。劇情圍繞來自世界各地的八個陌生人展開。某日，這八個人之間突然產生了精神和情感上的感應，之後發生了一系列的故事。編劇在劇集中力求超越政治、社會身份、性別、性取向和宗教等差異，並對這些話題展開探索。

 以上資料來自wiki。

   這部劇的題材使我相當感興趣。就像是一種精神感應能力，能讓你在瞬間讀懂全世界的心靈與奧祕。在剎那中，你忽然發現自我生命就等同於全世界的融會圓通之感。那種瞬間，心中充滿為世界全景之絢麗壯闊以及揭示超時間與空間原理時帶來的滿滿震撼。

然而實際上Sense 8的感應能力與我所想的有所出入。加之其是巧妙的八個支線匯整成一個主線劇情模式，是以一開始會讓觀眾產生不知該向誰投入主要追隨視角的感受。然而撐過第一集後開始漸入佳境，但個人還是覺得步調過於緩慢，容易讓人飄去注意力。  
這讓我想到大衛·米切爾的小說《雲圖》Cloud Atlas。《雲圖》同樣擁有交叉龐雜的六段故事。在閱讀時，也感到追隨主角視角的問題。不是很能體會作者特殊手法的用意，在我看來相當可惜。這個時候就要推托給文化差異對於靈魂轉世的看法不一，而不是自己的智商。

究竟何謂雲圖(Cloud Atlas)？

  「靈魂穿越世代，就像雲朵越過天際。雖然一朵雲底形狀及顏色和大小不會一直維持原樣，但他仍舊是一朵雲，靈魂也是。誰知道這朵雲從哪裡吹來，或是這個人明天會變成哪一個人？只有雲底地圖知道。」  ────第333頁。

觀劇心得待補。可以先再複習一下4 Non Blondes 的 What's Up。

筆記本狂熱──LYC&拉赫曼

     LYC&拉赫曼

【1002夜筆記─格子內頁】手工圓背精裝版《A5深藍》

      筆記本狂熱是我久經不退的病症，而最近的戰利品就是LYC&拉赫曼的手工圓背筆記本！有一陣子對於超厚精裝筆記本有種購買慾，然而要挑到紙質有保證的又不多。而價格也讓人有些小卻步。不過，收到成品後，直覺得太讚了~~十年日記這種東西的必備啊!

   賣家還特地附上小禮物與留言小信封，包裝也貼得仔細又美觀，真是非常貼心!!

挑選電影的眼光──惡女訂製服(The Dressmaker)

惡女訂製服(The Dressmaker) 2016/01/08

光看預告片，會覺得這是一部摻雜時尚和愛情元素的勵志喜劇。就因為這樣我把它列入「有空時可以看看」的名單。

  劇情到了中間，會覺得女主角緹莉(凱特溫絲蕾)的過去相當可憐，蒙受不白之冤，被迫離開母親身邊成長。而盡管長大成人後回到家鄉，依舊認定自己深受詛咒。

一開始，她也是想試著讓大家接納她、喜歡她，勝過於對迫害她童年的人們進行復仇。直到和男主角(連恩漢斯沃)展開一段戀情後，我才覺得這終於有了預告片給我的感覺，就在他們正訴說著兩人的未來，也許可以一同離開這個蒙昧無知又自私自利的偏遠小鎮，過上屬於自己的幸福身活後，劇情突然急轉直下。

(劇情相關)

男主角為了證明天緹莉沒有受到詛咒而跳入穀倉，然後他就這樣突然領了便當！

我一整個就是傻眼的狀態啊！這還是我以為的「勵志喜劇」嗎！ 接下來，緹莉所愛的人個個相繼離世，她在此終於了無牽掛，最終以一把大火燒毀了整個小鎮，遠走高飛。

你要問我這部片好看嗎？我回答你其實還不錯。然而我有一種受到欺騙的傷心感......。

摩登時代─閱讀題記(7)

 《摩登時代：MODERN TIMES》 伊坂幸太郎 著

讀了摩登時代，才覺得留在《魔王》裡的伏筆是如何的巧妙。

故事接續在犬養執政後的50年展開，伊坂幸太郎建構出一個更具時代規模的故事背景，運用一連串的線索，我們隨著「勇氣只有兩公升」的懦弱系統工程師，從而窺見了支撐時代的巨大運轉之物。

國家的每一個舉動都是為了讓國家本身繼續存在。

國家和生物沒什麼不同，一心只想著如何存活下去。

在這龐然大物之前，人人都不過只是小小的齒輪。

我們一直一來都身處其中，但從未察覺。而直到某一天，當你隱隱看出什麼若有形體之物，當下所引發的恐懼感可真的足以恫嚇妄想改變或脫離的人們。

書中主角們所要對抗的，可不是什麼可以有精確定義與範圍的「敵方」，而是一種「現象」。

American Literature(15)

•  Sylvia Plath ( 1932 –  1963) was an American poet, novelist and short story writer.

       Plath suffered from depression for much of her adult life, and in 1963 she committed suicide.Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for her two published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel.
       In 1982, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems. She also wrote The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death.

•  Anne Sexton ( 1928 –  1974) was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. 

She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Themes of her poetry include her long battle against depression and mania, suicidal tendencies, and various intimate details from her private life.

 On returning home she put on her mother's old fur coat, removed all her rings, poured herself a glass of vodka, locked herself in her garage, and started the engine of her car, committing suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

• 推薦電影：Sylvia(2004)

American Literature(15)

• THE COLD WAR

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• Containment 

was a United States policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge communist influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, Africa, and Vietnam. It represented a middle-ground position between appeasement and rollback.

The word containment is associated most strongly with the policies of U.S. President Harry Truman (1945–53), including the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a mutual defense pact. 

• Samuel Langhorne Clemens ( 1835 –  1910)

 better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885),the latter often called "the Great American Novel."


Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He died the day following the comet's subsequent return. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature."

•  Twain was a master at rendering colloquial speech and helped to create and popularize a distinctive American literature built on American themes and language. Many of Twain's works have been suppressed at times for various reasons. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been repeatedly restricted in American high schools, not least for its frequent use of the word "nigger," which was in common usage in the pre-Civil War period in which the novel was set.

• 英語口語文學

1. 雙重否定文法(I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out.)
2. 拼錯字

• "Moon River"  (music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Johnny Mercer)

Moon River, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you're going I'm going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end--
waiting 'round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.

• 推薦電影：Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

• "The Open Boat"

 is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). First published in 1897, it was based on Crane's experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida earlier that year while traveling to Cuba to work as a newspaper correspondent.

American Literature(14)

• Henry James(1843–1916)

1. was an American-born British writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He is primarily known for the series of novels in which he portrays the encounter of Americans with Europe and Europeans.James contributed significantly to literary criticism, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest possible freedom in presenting their view of the world.
2. James is noted for his "international theme" – that is, the complex relationships between naïve Americans and cosmopolitan Europeans.
3. If the main theme of Twain's work is appearance and reality, James's constant concern is perception. In James, only self-awareness and clear perception of others yields wisdom and self-sacrificing love. As James develops, his novels become more psychological and less concerned with external events. In James's later works, the most important events are all psychological – usually moments of intense illumination that show characters their previous blindness.

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• works

The Portrait of a Lady(1881)

The Wings of the Dove(1902)

Daisy Miller(1878)
Transatlantic Sketches (travel pieces, 1875)

• Stephen Crane (1871 – 1900)

 was an American author. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation.

 Crane's first novel was the 1893 Bowery tale Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, generally considered by critics to be the first work of American literary Naturalism.
 He won international acclaim in 1895 for his Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage, which he wrote without any battle experience.

• realism(literature)

Like Romanticism, naturalism first appeared in Europe. It is usually traced to the works of Honoré? de Balzac (巴爾札克)in the 1840s and seen as a French literary movement associated with Gustave Flaubert(古詩塔夫‧福樓拜),  Émile Zola(埃米爾·左拉), and Guy de Maupassant(居伊·德·莫泊桑). It daringly opened up the seamy underside of society and such topics as divorce, sex, adultery, poverty, and crime.

Naturalism flourished as Americans became urbanized and aware of the importance of large economic and social forces. By 1890, the frontier was declared officially closed. Most Americans resided in towns, and business dominated even remote farmsteads.

"You are all a "génération perdue."   

                                                                            ──  Gertrude Stein

•  "Lost Generation"

The "Lost Generation" was the generation that came of age during World War I.
The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel, The Sun Also Rises.

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