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no, i don't actually have an uncontrollable urge to exterminate teenage girls
Hi, i can be boring sometimes. And i often sound evil to conceal life's banalities. But i really am a kind and peace-loving creature. That despite the URL. |
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 and so, my perceivably very sick and twisted wish of catching my most anticipated 2007 horror film on the big screen finally realized on friday. albeit at the price of incurring the wrath of mariam seow and lgf, (LGF incidentally happens to be the abbrievation for Lionsgate Films, which is notorious for distributing what people these days call torture porn and splatter flicks) both unwilling victims of my undying persuasion and enthusiasm for all things morbid and twisted.  to call the film 'gruesome' would be a huge understatement. it is in fact the ultimate exercise in misogynistic sadism, or at least that is what the film presents itself as at its most superficial layer. whether the film succeeds in passing off as a dig at capitalism and the bush administration or coming across as just that, a misogynistic, excessively gory and sadism-filled cinematic trash is anyone's call, cos try as eli roth and his proponents might, the conservative camp will never be able to accept blood, guts and sadism in general as a medium for transmitting messages of any forms. which is not entirely unforgivable, admittedly, cos' the sight of a nude heather matarrazzo sliced and diced upside down for another nude old woman's orgasmic bloodbath is really... not for the weak-stomached. the infamous bloodbath for the curious. you have been warned though! this definitely classifies as the most barbaric and inhumane scenes i've ever seen in the history of the many gory films i've watched. for good or bad, i don't know, hostel 2 is the first film that has managed to spawn a 45minutes discussion between me the hostel fanboy and mariam and gf, the two traumatized and outraged members of the audience. let me just address some issues here to clarify and affirm my sanity and humanity. accusation: the perversely voyeuristic act of viewing the scenes of women being tortured in the cinemas is a worrying social phenomenon that points towards the desensitization of violence. (so gp) does entertainment value necessarily stem from voyeurism or the act of women being tortured in itself? i'm more inclined to liken such issues to that of an accident scene - it's horrifying all the same, but you just can't look away. the obsession with all that excessive splatter onscreen? what cannot be sought in reality intrigues. what is beyond the moral boundaries which we are confined in, fascinates. it's not like i go to sleep every night only after i dream up a novel method of slaying women in captive. in other words, i will not, in subdued forms or not, put what i see onscreen into real-life action. to me, it's really just an extended interest and curiosity in the matters which are beyond the taboo markers we have set for ourselves and others in life. right. does it sound like too much of a stretch? im trying my darn hardest to rationalize here. it is to assure people that i will not, out of sheer boredom, slice them up for a bloodbath someday, you know. if you need further assurance, please also note that i watched another movie, blue gate crossing （蓝色大门）, on the very same day, and loved it all the same. another commonplace taiwanese college melodrama which wow, involves a moody teenage love triangle! only that it stars guey lun mei as the self-confused, self-rejecting, almost self-loathing teenager, which really makes all the cliches instantly forgivable.  是一部很青涩，很朴实的。。不一样的纯爱电影 相信每个人多少都希望有人能敞开自己心中的那道蓝色大门 让自己能解开缠绕已久的愤世嫉俗的心结， 勇敢洒脱地做回自己。。 and on to the sodagreen concert on saturday.    it was truly a sentimental and heartfelt affair for sodagreen and theirs fans alike. interaction was for once, a truly conversational and candid affair, as qingfeng quipped about everything from encores being pretentious to ah fu's newfound japanese fling. haha. i guess we were all equally touched by the 30 odd songs the band invested so much emotion in performing, as well as the band's refreshing down-to-earth demaneour. i love my sodagreen! some idiot actually had the audacity to shout “你很娘，可是你很可爱！” while qingfeng was well, prancing around doing his thing onstage. while that was a little too blatant for comfort, it was also that bit of insensitivity that led to qingfeng's best quotes that night. with much class and candidness thrown in, he retorted - 你们觉得‘娘’真的是一个很难听的字眼吗？ 我觉得还好耶。 我觉得我们都要懂得学会爱自己。 我娘，可是 骂我娘的人。。。。 唱歌都不比我好听！ ..to roaring applause from the audience. brilliant retort and inspiring statements made at the same time. how many people can pull that one off?! 青峰说的确实很有道理。 一味自暴自弃，自我贬值，不仅会让人拥有看低自己的权利， 而且还会把自己困在一种自怜，自责的可怜楚楚的恶性循环。 有人说青峰的造型歌声不难不女妖里妖气， 但他却还是勇敢地毫不畏缩地跃进大染缸里，带领着其他团员在自己音乐世界里任我忘我地遨游着。 在他那高耸柔情的歌声中，我没听见什么ah-kua的声音，只听见他谱下的一首首自信又自在的动人旋律。 在苏打绿的音乐中，我没听见被商业市场需求污化的歌曲，只听见一个个发自内心掏出肺腑编出的感人音符。 演唱会的一首首歌曲，一幕幕画面至今仍然在脑海里荡漾漂浮着，我想过了很久还是会挥之不去的。 苏打绿－飞鱼 词曲：青峰 老船说这海上我都看过 老船说这海浪我都触摸过 老船说这海我都聆听过 生活我已全然看透 没有什么想要做 汪洋说云你没有摘过 汪洋说深水你没有泅潜过 汪洋说对岸村庄你没去过 眼泪还没有流透 笑得整夜不熄灯火 看天国看快活 看眼角耳际开出花朵 看遨游看沉没 看飞过天堂人间生的耳膜 尽管痛苦麻痹还是那么多 天空就算不蓝或许还有彩虹 是谁说不能够要求收获 是谁说呻吟是一种罪过 是谁说天性不可以推托 开花不结果又有什么 是鱼就一定要游泳 是谁说生活生来就要活 是谁说难过还一定要过 是谁说歌曲必须写前奏 冲破极限想寻找什么 一定找得到没有过 找线索找窗口 钻出海平面乌云的舌头要解脱 不要躲会看到更多感受 不要捉会把自己逼到角落 不管飞行还是蹉跎 都仍是自己的生活 烦恼不会凭空 不如捕捉笑声涂上耳朵 换一个轮廓 快乐比较多 放自己好过 i love the optimism conveyed in this song! though not always applicable to life, still, a nice listen. till then! |