12.26.2010
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9.20.2010
Silent Before Dawn. Shh.
Enlightenment. Visualizing. Brewed Steaming Black Coffee by the desk with laptop's fan spinning puffs of wind out of the compartment. Estrella's lazy jazzy songs softly caressing my ears in the background. Night without daylight white noise is......spongy stubborn. Screen radiating tender glows of moonlight. Ohya, assignment attended too. Fingerprints piano-ing carbonized dark keyboard. Time hanging by the edge of speed 3 ceiling fan. Rustling of roommate's breath. Vivid? Perhaps.
9.16.2010
9.07.2010
Movie Watching：The Fly and The Fly 2
苍蝇人（The Fly，又译苍蝇/变蝇人）是个1986年的老片子，经常见到有人提起它，却一直没有看过，印象中是部小经典的科幻恐怖片。没想到影片如此震撼，两部都令人动容。
一个聪明、和善又腼腆的科学家，发明了可以使物体瞬间转移的机器。一位漂亮的女记者结识并仰慕他，两人坠入爱河。在一次感情误会中，科学家醉酒后冲动得用自己做实验，有只苍蝇不小心飞进了仪器，系统出错把人和苍蝇的基因混合，科学家变成了恐怖的苍蝇人。
他开始老得很快，后来发生变异，脸上长满血疙瘩、皱皮、流脓，身体血肉模糊并长出昆虫的毛，吃东西要先吐出酸液融化再吸食.....其视觉效果即使在20年后的今天看还是恶心到极点，让人真想一枪毙了它，然而这恐怖东西体内，却是那个曾经聪明可爱的男人，他还会开玩笑说自己可以被关进动物园。女记者眼睁睁看着相恋至深的情人变成一团狰狞的怪物，昔日俊朗的脸她的手只要轻轻接触就会把肉撕下来，她上前紧紧搂住这个发脓发臭的苍蝇人，除了痛哭，无能无力。
科学家的状况一天比一天糟糕，牙齿、指甲、皮肤通通脱落流脓，肌肉大块大块烂掉，里面长出苍蝇的躯体，与此同时他开始逐渐失去人性。看着镜中的自己，曾经拥有美丽的女友和最伟大的发明，曾经前途无量，然而现在他的头脑和灵魂还在，身体却是苍蝇，他告诉女友要她离开永远别回来，因为也许自己会伤害她，听到女友远去的脚步声他又陷入痛苦绝望，他的爱已经永远无法表达---我想起了经典的Edward Scissorhand。
更不幸的是女记者发现自己怀孕了，而且是带有苍蝇基因的胎儿，惊恐中她去堕胎，得知消息的苍蝇人在最后一刻赶来，女友哭着说自己没有选择，他低下头不停重复“too bad,too bad”看到那无比悲伤、心碎的眼神，我觉得他太可怜了，谁说这是科幻恐怖片？从头到尾都是爱情悲剧。苍蝇人这个角色从诞生的时刻开始，就注定了自己的悲哀。
接下来的结尾，科学家肉体彻底脱落，变成一只巨大的苍蝇，口中喷出的液体象浓硫酸一样具强腐蚀性，善良的本性也完全泯灭，他丧心病狂得强行把女友推进仪器，想通过操作使包括胎儿的他们三人合为一体，变成一个混合人。最终，前男友救了女记者，失败的苍蝇人慢慢爬向女友，我以为他象许多影片一样要做最后袭击，但不是，他用苍蝇爪子抬起女友的枪对准自己的苍蝇脑袋，示意女友开枪，结束他如此痛苦的生命。
看过太多爱情童话，结局往往是美好的，而且总在试图告诉人们，外表并不重要，心灵才是最可贵。可是，当一切成为现实时，没有童话，只有噩梦。别以为爱可以化解魔法，爱得再深，也只有用枪声结束曾经的刻骨铭心。这一点和《KingKong》的结局不谋而合。再想起苍蝇人，我已经忘了他的可怖，象《Edward Scissorhand》一样，记住的只有悲伤。
《The Fly》2围绕女记者生下的孩子马汀展开故事。马汀跟他的父亲一样友善、腼腆，并且更聪明。他在实验室里长大，被那些人表面友好、实际却把他当成实验品。开始马汀是正常人，想继续他父亲事业的人都失败了，只有他成功并且还找到了替换DNA的方法。那些人用马汀的金毛狗偷偷做实验，看到狗狗被折磨成半死不活的痛苦怪物时，马汀哭了。
马汀还幸运得遇到一位对爱情同样忠贞的美丽女友，可惜他体内潜伏的苍蝇基因注定要发作，可惜他注定不是一个完整的人。不甘心被当成实验品，他和女友开始了逃亡。逃亡过程中马汀经历了和他父亲一样恐怖的外形变化，这也是最令人伤感和感动的一段，欣慰的是不管他变得多么可怕，不管他多么绝望，不管他怎样哀求，女孩始终都没有离开。而且即使如此，善良的马汀也始终没有打算牺牲别人来替换自己的变异DNA。
可是当马汀全身被体内吐出的茧丝牢牢织住，变成一只大虫茧再也无法动弹，他们不得不又回到实验室。2比1人性化了许多，马汀后来破茧而出变成巨型苍蝇，与实验室的人们作战时，他会放过保安犬并轻抚狗狗。个人更喜欢第二部还因为它是喜剧结尾，马汀最终在紧要关头依靠自己发明的DNA替换技术救了自己，坏老头变成全身腐臭的苍蝇人供实验观察，马汀则拥有了全新的完整人生.
皆大欢喜，坏人得到惩罚，好人活下去。
科学家和他漂亮的女朋友（The Fly）
Haha牺牲色相。也是TheFly的情节。
变形后的科学家和前男朋友的战斗。（TheFly）
完全变形。（The Fly）
孩子出生啦！（The Fly 2）
Like Father, like son =.=(The Fly 2)
Movie Watching: Splice
Staring the youngest Oscar Winner Adrien Brody, directed by Vincenzo Natali and his friend Guillermo del Toro(Bravo for his imagination!). Eventhough theme of "Splice" sounds cliche, this, is surprisingly twisted. Yes, the genetic and human cloning issue is no longer an unknown topic to the public. Yes, splicing of human DNA and Animal DNA used to be debated across it's morality stance. But this movie? No, they talked about the possibilities of the outcome. What is science without religious guidance, or from the starting point, Ethics of the creator, you might ask? Well while I am watching this movie,I can't help flashing back to a 1986 movie called "The Fly". (You know, Elsa the female scientist was pregnant by that monster. That's the sequel starting point, i guess.) Kinda scraping horror elements from the past, except that the graphic technologies improves a lot.
Lots of space for the audience to weight in. Giving name to the Specimen(adding in human characteristic); Contradiction among protagonists. Baking Old Greek mythology (having sex with the mother and kill his/her father to end the tale) That's why I said, it's heavy but without pleasure. Your sight is blurred by the spiky emotional and moral grotesque, that kinda dark pleasure.
Loneliness, poor Dren. She(or he? she changed her gender into male at the end of the movie) followed the sequence of evolution and learned from her parents through observing every single action. (Can't imagine to have a kid like this) What is her purpose of living in this world? To apply makeup and wear beautiful clothes? To play around with a kitten? We won't know.
"Splice"Movie Poster 1
"Splice"Movie Poster 2
Adrien Brody
Rating: 7.0/10.0
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