It’s amazing

When I thought I have gave up, something amazing just happened—the connection went back to normal. Absolutely no problem with 0% packet loss.

In the mean time I watched When Harry met Sally, and I love it.

夏天的尾巴

電影裡有交代「夏天的尾巴」的意思，簡單直接，但又讓我意想不到。

當然有更深層的意思吧。與我看過的台灣電影感覺差不多，無論感覺是如何都不像朋友所說的「純愛」，可能是自己所感受到的就不是這些而已。

我在想，有多少我們這一代的，會放紙船到河上，讓它自由漂到他方？就算放到溝渠上去也不減浪漫：重點是無聊自在的生活。我們這青春的一代，來到這裡生活太忙碌又苦悶，期望的是未來的退休生活。所謂理想的生活開始的那時，生命已過了理應最精彩的大部份，那，不是很可笑嗎？

我想我的思考過程裡一定是欠缺了些甚麼，走在我前面的人一定已經想過些甚麼。問題不是誰的理論正確，是誰的理論較適合自己。

說回電影，我想我喜歡這種花很多時間營造某些感覺的手法。但我仍想看點別的，台灣的所謂青春電影，應該不止這樣吧。

故事很簡單，音樂很好，只是末段的剪接不太喜歡，但亦不失感情。

留意演員序，夏天的名字是布布。

《藍色大門》

「小士，看著你的花襯衫飄遠，我在想，一年後，三年後，五年後，我們會變成什麼樣子呢？由於你善良、開朗又自在，你應該會更帥吧。於是我似乎看到多年以後，你站在一扇藍色的大門前，下午三點的陽光，你仍有幾顆青春痘。你笑著，我跑向你，問你好不好，你點點頭。三年，五年以後，甚至更久、更久以後，我們會變成什麼樣的大人呢？是體育老師，還是我媽？雖然我閉著眼睛也看不見自己，但是我卻可以看見你。」

今天沒有啥事，翻開書桌上的雜物，拿出光碟將它推進電腦去，看《藍色大門》。

陳栢霖實在係太正啦！

咳咳，朋友說的沒錯，這大概是《盛夏光年》的相反，男女性別換過去就是了。不同的是，人物關係並沒有《盛》般是長久的朋友，本身就有很深厚的感情，就算事情過去了，相信也是一樣。《藍》呢，他們的關係都很簡單，情節也是。

情感以外，我在想，簡單與單純不就是那個年紀應有的特色嗎？也就在那個時候，很多事都要蘊釀改變。

如果藍色大門有某個含意，我想那是代表著改變，是成為大人的那種改變。我們可以想像到多年後會是怎樣的嗎？多年後，如果我還能回到藍色大門前，希望可以對某個朋友點點頭，說我過得很好。

藍色大門的含意你可以寫下自己的定義，就正於導演所說的。但，你看到它是甚麼，也可代表你是一個怎樣的人，你在想些甚麼。

The pursuit of happyness

I am not intending to write a review. Though I especially like the music at the start and the starting scenes with San Francisco as background. I think the plot after Will Smith Chris Gardner sold the last scanner and be with his son on the beach is not necessary. The audience knew he will get the job, anyway. Cough... I'm not intending to write a review.

Chris said the part of life that he got the job is "happiness". It keeps me thinking: which part is he calling it "happiness"? If you think about it, getting a job doesn't make one feel happy automatically. You see, you have to do work after you get a job, and payroll doesn't even start! Where is the happiness in any job itself?

And I have always thought: if the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of a good job, then I'd say happiness is pretty damned boring.

But what "getting a job" curtails is what can result in happiness. It can be that the father and his son can finally leave the hell they are living in. It can be that he can stop feeling the frustration of waiting to get a better living. From him, who is even struggling for basic needs, I can feel happiness already when they were at the beach. Everything after that is a little bit overkill.

It is difficult to say what happiness is. In a situation like this we usually use other stuff that can demonstrate signs of happiness. We gradually accustomed to the idea that these stuff is happiness. If one don't think very hard what they really want, one can be distracted easily. At least this is what I think.

The main idea of the movie is not about this, and is instead extremely simple.