Tag: Movie

“Little Women”(2019) : Female Relationship, Secret Thoughts exploding

Just want to make sure that I am not faking anything..

I have faked too much…

That is what I was thinking when I reached to the point that I cannot stop crying while watching the film today at the theater.

But besides, no matter how faithful I have been to myself or not enough,
here is what this movie taught me,

women are great, and being a woman is amazing.

I should watch this film over and over again whenever I find any kind of misogyny towards myself. I am sure that then I can forget about it.

Though I was crying for almost the whole time in the latter half of the movie,
the first scene that made me cry was the scene where Jo stayed with Beth on the shore and read a story for her.
Then I realized that what I had been touched from the entire “something” of this movie besides the story line was that..

I miss women, I miss all my female friends and female friendship.

The beautiful soul of each of the sisters and their relationships, and the MOTHER played by Laura Dern…
It just truly made me realize how female relationship has been important to me.

As a 30 year old who got ‘married’ with a male partner (*Technically I am not ‘married’ though. We only have common-law marriage relationship to avoid changing surname) and is currently struggling in decision making for my career,
there are just too many things that hit me in this film and they were literally everything that I am worried of and I question in my daily life right now.

It is not easy to share my true feelings as being a woman with him,
I wonder if I have been really faithful to myself,
I wonder if I have been faking myself or faking something to him..
I sometimes truly believe I would be a different person if I get out of this home..

What if.. I chose the different option
What if I had an idea being partners with a woman
What if…

This film is such an ‘evil’ that pulls all of these secret thoughts of mine into tears.
Phew..!!

I am so glad that I went to see this one at the theater today.
I am sure that this would stay as one of the most important films for me and I will be inspired forever.
Thank you so so so much to all the creators for delivering this story to the world.

There are some natures too lofty to bend.

― Margaret “Marmee” March  (“Little Women” 2019 )

#movie #justwatched #映画 #感想 #Little Women #ストーリーオブマイライフ #わたしの若草物語 #女性 #姉妹 #女同士

“The Half of It” /『ハーフ・オブ・イット』(2020)

Let’s just save the words that Ellie Chu delivered right here.

 

Love isn’t patient and kind and humble.
Love is.. messy. And horrible and selfish and.. bold.
It’s not finding your perfect half.
It’s the trying, reaching, and failing.
Love is being willing to ruin your good painting for the chance at a great one.

—  Ellie Chu  ( “The Half of It” [2020] )

 

「愛とは
素敵な絵を自ら台無しすること。
もっと素晴らしい絵が描けると信じて。」

 

声の高くないアジア系の女の子がフィーチャーされた作品としても本当に価値があるし、
まさにEllieと同じ思春期の頃、哲学に興味を抱いたり、思考を言語化することの面白さを知って日々日記を書いたりしていた私としては、
Ellieという “言葉のdeliverer” が輝くこの作品に、とても勇気づけられます。

世界中に存在するEllieのような若者たちが、皆どうか幸せでありますように。

 

Here are also some great words from the actress Leah Lewis, who played her :

“Most people think a love story has an equation, and that’s usually boy meets girl, girl meets boy, or girl meets girl,”

“It’s a self-love story because these characters don’t really end up with each other, but at the very end, they end up with something. For me, that’s even more valuable than just finding your other half; it’s finding a part of yourself along the way. It is a love story, it’s just not a ‘romance’ story.”

— Leah Lewis ( “Teen Vogue,”  2020-05-01 )

 

There are so many ways to “love”.

 

Big respect to the writer, director of the story, Alice Wu.
Ellie’s story is now seen by millions of people, and so many people are feeling safe, because of your work that you tried to deliver your own story out to this world.

 

When I’m writing, I never think to myself,
“What will the audience think about this?”
The really interesting question is,
“What is the thing you’re dying to say through this character?”
Because you’re the only person who can write that thing.
So write that thing. Don’t write the thing that somebody else could write.

— Alice Wu  ( “Netflix Film Club,” 2020-05-07 )

 

 

 

#映画　#感想　#ブログ　#quotes　#セリフ　#名言　#ハーフ・オブ・イット　#物書き　#philosophy　#アート　#Art　#Asiangirl　#移民　#immigrants　#LGBTQ+　#selflove　#Netflix　#ネットフリックス

Nothing that happens is ever forgotten －『千と千尋の神隠し』銭婆の言葉－

 

“Nothing that happens is ever forgotten, even if you can’t remember it.”

(「一度あったことは忘れないものさ。思い出せないだけで」)

－ 銭婆  Zeniba

 

一度あったことは忘れないもの

あったことはあったんだから、また思い出す時がくるかもしれない

あなた自身が思い出せなくても、

きっと誰かが覚えてくれている

 

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#千と千尋の神隠し　#SpiritedAway　#ジブリ　#映画　#セリフ　#台詞　#quotes　#翻訳　#字幕　#吹き替え　#translation

人権について語るのは誰か　－ “Transwomen are women” －

 

「その属性の人間でなくても、その属性の代弁という形ではなく、守られるべき人権について語る権利はある」
                                                                                   ―  @mlookslike_ さん

 

 

例えあなたがストレートを自認していたとしても、lgbtq+の人たちの人権を守ろうと語ることをためらう必要はない。
「自分は当事者じゃないから代弁なんてできないけど…」
“代弁”しようとしなくていい。
“代弁”である必要がない。
あなたがその問題についてcareしているなら、
あなたが話すことが誰かを助けるかもしれないと信じているなら、
何のためらいもなく声を上げていいのです。

 

*The primary sources of the amazing statements from Gryffindor and Hufflepuff :

– from Dan
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2020/06/08/daniel-radcliffe-responds-to-j-k-rowlings-tweets-on-gender-identity/

– from Eddie
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/eddie-redmayne-jk-rowling-anti-trans-tweets-harry-potter-fantastic-beasts-1234630226/

 

*関連日本語記事

・ダニエル・ラドクリフ、『ハリポタ』著者の「大炎上発言」をファンに謝罪【全訳】（『Frontrow』2020-06-09）
・『ファンタビ』エディ・レッドメイン、『ハリポタ』著者の“炎上発言”に「賛同しない」【声明全訳】（『Frontrow』2020-06-11）

 

#TranswomenAreWomen　#TransmenAreMen　#JKrowling　#Harrypotter　#DanielRadcliffe　#EddieRedmayne　#lgbtq　#TransgenderRights　#ハリー・ポッター　#J・K・ローリング　#トランスジェンダー　#アライ　#pride　#pridemonth

Study like GRANGER

My school got finally started this Monday.
The lectures are interesting since many of the methodologies are tallen on the basis of the lecturer’s experiences.

Ms. Granger has been on my wallpaper since the end of last year.
I can’t find any other person who I admire more than her in terms of studying.
She may judge my accomplishment when I leave Canada.
Work hard, myself.

#StudyLikeGranger #TESOL

1 Film in 2 days

Apparently I’ve already watched seven films since I moved to my shared flat, that means almost one film in two days, mostly because of my roommate, who studies in Vancouver Film School and has already watched more than 1400 films in his life ever.lol
Not to mention I am super happy for this because I’ve been willing to watch more and more movies since last year! But I’d never expected to share a room with such cool people here. It is very interesting to hear the stories from them about movies and what they are learning at school.

I took the photo above with my new camera, PowerShot G7X MarkⅡ, and the tripod which my roommate was using for his work at the film school.
This was my first try of taking a long-exposure photo. It was much faster to learn it from him than by reading the manual book.

★The list of the films I’ve ever watched

#movies #photos #AwesomeRoommates

“The Reader” / 『愛を読むひと』(2008)

It seems this movie got to be one of my favorite movies.
*SPOILER ALART!!!*

I was so surprised when I watched the deleted scenes after the main program, since all of them were pretty important scenes and meant a lot to the whole concept of the movie! I didn’t even understand why they got rid of them from the film..  The film itself was still great though.

Though almost one week has passed since I watched it, it still makes me think about the several things in the story over and over again.

This is such a power movie, which strongly make us try to imagine Hanna Schmitz’s life and her background, probably both related to and not related to the war, revealing that she was actually an illiterate person.
She chose by herself to be jailed for her whole life rather than to get lighter sentence by telling the truth even though she would lose every opportunity to see people and the rights to live free. This bring us to think how isolated she had been from even before the war. She might have never expected or imagined to have any kind of “happiness” which people commonly think, staying with friends, family..
And this movie finally doesn’t show us any actual reason or situation she had to become illiterate. Though we could only imagine it, she might have lost their parents when she was young, she might lose opportunity to go to school, and those might have been related to some wars..
And I’ve been questioning why she wanted to avoid revealing her illiteracy that much even at the crucial moment in the court.. what made her embarrassed that strongly..

As keep trying to understand Hana’s background as above, we almost forget that she was a criminal, who had left the 300 Jewish people locked inside the building to be killed by the bomb, and who was actually one of the persons in charge choosing the people to be sent to the extermination camp on the regular basis.
One of the Hana’s statements at the court, “Our job was to guard the prisoners…We were responsible for them!” reminded me the banality of evil, the theory of war criminals discovered by Hannah Arendt.
However, Hana might have had a different cause that made her unable to find guilt on what she had done. Being illiterate should have brought a person in a worse situation more severely in the era than today. Did she even know the fact that Jewish people were discriminated and killed? And did she have exact understanding about the whole discussion after the war? And this lack of knowledge might have caused her to be a guard of the prison..?
And I also found sort of lack of self expression in her behavior, that she didn’t have words to express her sadness or loneliness.. while she had many strong words enough to get people away from her.. That might be the saddest part in the entire movie.

#TheReader #愛を読むひと #感想　#ブログ　#アカデミー賞　#ナチスドイツ　#ポストナチ