Time travel in one day

Back to the Future I, II, III (1985, 89, 90)

Since I caught a cold, I stayed at my room all day watching movies.

Needless to say this series is great !

I have watched it over and over again though.

Maybe it's impossible to see the world with time travel in real....

that cause too much trouble.

Yuki

Hello James !

East of Eden (1955)

Writer: John Steinbeck

Director: Elia Kazan

Stars: James Dean

Julie Harris

I fell in love with James Dean at first sight !!

It took almost one month to read original navel by John Steinbeck

which is so dynamic story covering 3 generations of two families.

This story is basically based on the story of Cain and Abel from Bible.

Both of Cain and Abel gave God Yahweh their presents one day.

Yahweh liked little sheep Abel gave, but didn't pay much attention to crop Cain gave.

Cain got mad at this, and he killed Abel.

Yahweh expelled Cain to east of eden.

The story is just simple like this.

John Steinbeck's East of Eden is telling us that

we cannot help but repeating things like this over generations.

This is about love.

Back to the film,

Elia Kazan had visualized last part of original nocel.

James Dean as Cal (stands for Cain) wants to be loved by his Father Adam,

but somehow his father likes Aron (Cal's twin brother) more than Cal.

Still, Cal tries to obtain father's love.

I want this novel is read by many people in the world.

It may let you dive into the world of this novel and you can think about meaning of our lives.

Yuki

Justice.

Took a class of Michael Sandel.

I mean I watched a TV program.

This time, our topic starts with the story of Osama Bin Laden.

1. U.S. killed him in the name of victims to 9.11 and fear of terrorism.

Do you think this is Just?

There were about 20 students from China, Japan and the U.S.

Some say this is just and some say not.

To think about this question, we had two more other questions.

2. Four of U.S. soldiers were spying in Afghanistan.

But they were caught in sight of goatherd.

What they should do?

kill them just in case they tell enemy this thing?

release them because they seem nothing to do with this matter?

3. Two planes were hijacked by terrorists.

One is already plunged into a tall building in the big city.

The other one also seems to be dive into the city killing a lot of people down there.

Is it just to shoot that plane to save life on the ground?




As a conclusion, Sandel  gave us some hints.

To think about these questions, there are three main themes.

1. theory of number
It is just to kill somebody to save large number of people.

2. One's dignity
Nevertheless there exists the problem of number, we should respect one's dignity.

3.problems beyond them
All three questions we faced today would be classified here.
We have to think both 1 and 2 at the same time and sometimes it is urgent decision.

It's ultimately difficult to decide and we'll never know which is right or wrong.


What is Justice ?
The more we think over this matter, we dive into bigger maze.

Yuki

Dreams of explorers

Sanctum (2011)

F**k 3D !!
Let me put the story aside.

There was no 2D as an option, so I had to choose 3D.
However this is not an action movie.
There was no good of watching this with 3D.

Ohhh, I hate 3D !
Hate it hate it hate it !
just making it expensive.
I rather watch this kind of film 2D than f**kin' 3D.

By the way, it was telling us the mystery of our earth.
It made me go exploring ! yay !

Yuki

Retreat Hell !!

Battle Los Angeles (2011)

Director: Jonathan Liebesman

Stars: Aaron Eckhart

Michelle Rodriguez

The battle with aliens.

They have to conquer the fear of fighting with creatures came to invade the earth.

Although all U.S. soldiers fought fiercely, few of them survived.

It depends on one group of Army whether or not human beings can survive or not.

That's the story.

Fight was powerful and dynamic.

and I liked it.

But story is too simple and lack of detail I thought.

Ummm.

Nothing much to say to this.

I could enjoy watching this film though.

Yuki

Paradise again !

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore

Needless to say, this is a masterpiece.

Thought over the story of a soldier who waited princess for 99 days and finally had left her place on the day of promise.

Alfred said he was afraid of breaking promise.

But my opinion is different.

He knew now she loves him.

and now the time she runs for him, so he doesn't have to wait for her anymore.

Maybe both Toto and Elena would continue to love each other which will never be born any fruit.

Especially Toto cannot give up on her.

But it's good enough for them just knowing they love each other, just like the story of soldier and princess.

Talk to her (2002)

Benigno taking care of Alicia never be caught off his care just in case she wakes up from long time sleep.

On the other hand, Marco cannot talk to his girl because he thinks she is totally different and she is not what she used to be anymore.

At last story shifts to the relationship between Marco and Alicia, but I don't pay any attention to it if he runs for her for his own benefit.

Benigno was a great man.

Citroen 2CV

I'm not interested in cars much,

but I found a nice car.

I'll love this car if I can get one.

cute !

Yuki