昨天放了GREASE约十五分钟，全家都受不了那个刺激，关了。儿子说这是他看到的最次影片。看十五分钟后的感觉是：表演做作、肤浅，粗俗的舞台剧。

借GREASE是因为宁娜曾经推荐过这部电影，还把它列在十部经典电影之内。据说这是一部票房极好的音乐片。Well, not my cup of tea.

看了土耳其电影

Bliss (2007)

http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/movies/07bliss.html

Cultures and Sexes Clash in the Aftermath of a Rape in Turkey

In an early scene of “Bliss,” the glowering stepmother of Meryem, a teenage rape victim in eastern Anatolia, gives the girl a rope with which to hang herself for bringing dishonor to her family, and you prepare to endure a Turkish variation of “The Stoning of Soraya M.” That recent harrowing film, based on a true incident, depicted the public execution of a young Iranian woman falsely accused of adultery, with the graphic ferocity of B-movie torture porn。

“Bliss,” fortunately, is not a one-note exposé created to shock, although its vision of a misogynistic patriarchy is almost as repellent. Adapted from Zulfu Livaneli’s 2002 novel, it observes the collision of two cultures, one ancient, the other modern, in contemporary Turkey. Directed and produced by Abdullah Oguz, “Bliss” has ravishing cinematography by Mirsad Herovic and a mystical score by Mr. Livaneli that match the novel’s feverish, poetic language. The natural beauty of the waters around Istanbul is breathtaking. And once the story moves from the Anatolian village where Meryem’s unconscious, brutalized body is discovered by a shepherd, the movie’s initially monochromatic palette bursts into brilliant color.

 

 

More than the novel, the film focuses on Meryem’s steady awakening to her own autonomy. After fitting a noose around her neck, Meryem (Ozgu Namal) removes it and refuses to kill herself as tradition dictates. Her stern uncle Ali Riza (Mustafa Avkiran), the dignitary in the rural village who decreed her suicide, decides to wait for his son Cemal (Murat Han) to kill her when he returns from the army. Cemal’s instructions are to take Meryem, his cousin, to Istanbul on the pretext of an arranged marriage and dispose of her en route.

 

 

The young soldier’s sympathy for the disgraced girl, whom he routinely reviles as a whore and smacks in the face at any suggestion of what he deems improper female behavior, conflicts with his fundamentalist beliefs. In one scene he calls her a demon after having an erotic dream about her. But he can also be tenderly protective.

 

 

He delays the killing until they reach the city, where they visit his brother Yakup (Erol Babaoglu), who disparages the village’s benighted customs. Still feeling obliged to follow orders, Cemal takes Meryem to a bridge and instructs her to jump. But when the do-or-die moment arrives, he plucks her from the edge, and the cousins become fellow fugitives from their repressive background.

 

 

They find lodging and work on a remote fish farm and later on the yacht of Irfan (Talat Bulut), a suave, white-haired Turkish professor, educated in the United States, who has just left his unhappy marriage to a wealthy woman.

 

 

In one of the most pointed scenes of culture clash, Irfan instructs Cemal to set the table and serve dinner. When Cemal refuses to do “women’s work,” Irfan exerts his authority as the ship’s captain and declares, “There are no women’s jobs and men’s jobs on my boat.”

 

 

Cemal also assumes that the fatherly interest Irfan takes in Meryem is really lust waiting to pounce. And when she disappears with Irfan on his motorboat to observe marine life, a potentially lethal tussle between the soldier and professor breaks out upon their return. Irfan has his own demons: his dream is to find a way of living in which he doesn’t have to think about tomorrow.

 

 

As Cemal and Meryem discover the cosmopolitan world, with its bikinied young women who drop by from other boats, Meryem chafes at Cemal’s dominance. But traditional ways don’t die easily. Cemal’s indoctrination in hyper-masculine authoritarianism runs to his very core, and he often reacts violently without thinking. The movie goes out of its way to ridicule his attachment to his macho military title, “commando.”

 

 

There are moments aboard the boat in which the competitive male rituals between him and Irfan recall Roman Polanski’s “Knife in the Water.” But the game-playing psychodrama in “Bliss” is only a minor element in a panoramic allegory of Turkish national identity, beautifully acted by Mr. Han, Mr. Bulut and especially by Ms. Namal.

 

 

The screenplay, written by Mr. Oguz with Kubilay Tuncer and Elif Ayan, turns the novel, in which the rapist’s identity is disclosed early on, into a thriller in which the truth is revealed in an explosive Hollywood ending that rather too neatly ties up loose ends left dangling in the book. However streamlined, this consistently gripping, visually intoxicating film stands as a landmark of contemporary Turkish cinema.

 

 

BLISS

 

 

Opens on Friday in Manhattan.

 

 

Produced and directed by Abdullah Oguz; written by Kubilay Tuncer, Elif Ayan and Mr. Oguz, based on the novel by Zulfu Livaneli; cinematography, Mirsad Herovic; edited by Levent Celebi-LewQ and Mr. Oguz; music by Mr. Livaneli; art director, Tolunay Turkoz; released by First Run Features. At the Cinema Village, 22 East 12th Street, Greenwich Village. In Turkish, with English subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes. This film is not rated.

 

 

WITH: Talat Bulut (Irfan), Ozgu Namal (Meryem), Murat Han (Cemal), Mustafa Avkiran (Ali Riza), Emin Gursoy (Tahsin), Sebnem Kostem (Done), Meral Cetinkaya (Munevver) and Erol Babaoglu (Yakup).

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你说波波没上网？她有事，过段时间才行。

这个电影其实一点也不血腥，土耳其的地区差距很大，中部安那托里亚高原很保守，我去的时候，那里的女人都不让人照相。这两部电影我都是ONLINE PLAY的，今年奥斯卡获奖的没看，但我建议你看看2006年还是2007年入围的短片子，我在前贴提到了。

BLISS。(有个FLASH，但看不见。)

欣欣这是指

 

搞清楚了。欣欣说的是瑞典的2004年的As it is in heaven. (这个FLASH不显示，什么都看不到。我以为欣欣在用英语写感慨呢!)

不久前看的，还行。欧洲的电影，给我一个感觉，人家对演员的长相要求不高，这个电影里面也一样。但演出来的角色，很有味道。奥地利的，这方面更不讲究。不久前看的一个《Revanche》，也不错。

 

伊朗的那个石头砸死人的电影看完了，很血腥。好在有共产党的邪恶垫底，这里的邪恶毕竟不是第一。

 

有时候也在想，我们有些朋友热衷于划分这第一，第二邪恶之类，是不是也是想按照第一，第二的顺序去解决这些黑暗和不公平的问题。

如果不能“一下子都解决”了的话，那就按顺序去解决。

羡慕，我都没有看电视的时间！家里倒是中国录像带一大堆，都是每次回国家里买来叫带来的。

在电影上，我是绝对的崇洋媚外，我以为看西方的好电影胜过在中国冗长的电视剧里浪费时间。

这个好，一下子解决了不只看啥好的问题。看来我在NETFLIX 上看得尽是不上席的，名单里的一个都木有看过。尽去看什么炸绿西红柿，美国总统之类的东西了。

刚才统计了一下。过去的三年中，我看了不下900部影片，平均每年300部。

你说的这部电影，我看过了。还不错。

你？忧郁症还是怕三角恋恋 ？

我不知道那影片里有三角。我是怕看了影片后马上自杀。(儿子还没有上大学呢，现在怎么不能自杀的。)

欣欣说俺粗心， 俺说欣欣算术不行。 一年300片， 一月那只10片？ 都快一天一片了。。。那次俺说“昨天当妈， 今天当爹”， 被欣欣说成“昨天当爹， 今天当妈”。  姐姐， 不是俺要报复啊！是你连环犯错。

 

I Have Never Forgotten You---很棒的记录片，

 

A comprehensive look at the life and legacy of Simon Wiesenthal。这个人是有名的纳粹追踪者

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Wiesenthal

 

我想说的被你说了，王友琴算一个这样的人吧。

是胡杰。

俺昨天向一下子学习， 看了3片。 Fracture是很不错的法律教育片。 一下子看过吗？ 每天准备去看Ironman2 . 一般是陪女儿去看的， 但她在去罗马的路上。 她在罗马18天， 耗资5.5K， 太贵了（学校收费， 说是上“美术史和建筑”课。。。）

至少要让她们知道赚钱不容易，长大后第一大事就是独立，大学的学费你可以先说借给她（一部分也行）。

小猪娃上来了，我看一下子中了奖，我外孙女现在叫家瓦啦