The Wedding Banquet

Director: Ang Lee

Written by : Ang Lee, Neil Peng, James Schamus 

The Wedding Banquet is a 1993 film about a gayTaiwanese immigrant man who marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card. His plan backfires when his parents arrive in the United States to plan his wedding banquet.

The film was directed by Ang Lee and stars Winston Chao, Mitchell Lichtenstein, May Chin, Ah Lei Gua, Dion Birney, Sihung Lung, and others. The Wedding Banquet is the first of three movies that Ang Lee would make about gay characters; the second is Brokeback Mountain and the third being Taking Woodstock. Lee himself makes a cameo appearance in the film as a wedding guest attending the banquet. The film is a co-productionbetween Taiwan and the United States.

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Androgyny

cicada & Enno

Kent -- Duett

Jag fick ett brev 
Ett riktigt brev med frimärken 
Ett vykort ifrån längesen 
Då framtiden var vår 

Och som du skrev 
Om din spaning efter friheten 
Ord bevingade som fjärilen 
Och jag tror att jag förstår 

Att långsamt, långsamt, åh så långsamt 
Så vann du dina nätter tillbaks 
långsamt, långsamt, åh så långsamt 
Så gled vi in i glömskan där ljuset är svagt 
Det som var du och jag 

Jag skrev ett brev 
Om att leva med förbannelsen 
Jag gav dig min version av sanningen 
För att få dig att förstå 

Att långsamt, långsamt, åh så långsamt 
Så vann vi våra nätter tillbaks 
Långsamt, långsamt, åh så långsamt 
Så gled vi in i minnet, gömda längst bak 
Det som var du och jag 

Långsamt, långsamt, åh så långsamt 
Så vann vi våra nätter tillbaks 
Långsamt, långsamt, åh så långsamt 
Så gled vi in i glömskan där ljuset är svagt 
Det som var du och jag 


I received a letter 
A real letter with stamps 
A postcard from long ago 
Then the future was ours 

And as you wrote 
If your quest for freedom 
Word of the winged butterfly 
And I think I understand 

That slowly, slowly, oh so slowly 
So you won your nights back 
Slowly, slowly, oh so slowly 
We slid into oblivion where the lights are low 
It was you and me 

I wrote a letter 
Where to live with the curse 
I gave you my version of truth 
To make you understand 

That slowly, slowly, oh so slowly 
So we won our nights back 
Slowly, slowly, oh so slowly 
We slid into memory, hidden at the back 
It was you and me 

Slowly, slowly, oh so slowly 
So we won our nights back 
Slowly, slowly, oh so slowly 
We slid into oblivion where the lights are low 
It was you and me 

Miss Lonly-Heart -- Nathanael West

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**  " 我是一個大聖人，"史萊克大叫："我能憑自己的雙腳走在水上。你沒聽過史萊克在午餐餐館的狂熱演說或在冷飲吧檯的康愾發言嗎?當時，我將基督身上的傷口比喻成一只神奇的口袋，人們把自身罪顏愆像玲錢班的存放進去，這比喻好極了。但我們來想想人體身上的洞，為什麼會有這些先天的傷口?每個人皮膚裡都藏了不可思議的叢林，血管如同茂密的熱帶植物爬滿衰萎的器官，也布滿細瘦的腸道，紅黃相間的扭曲糾纏著。叢林裡住著一隻名叫靈魂的小鳥，他輕快的從石頭灰的肺非到金黃色的小腸，靈巧來回肝肺之間。天主教徒憑藉麵包和酒補捉這隻鳥，猶太教徒憑藉黃金準則，新教徒憑藉沉重的言行規範，佛教徒憑藉的是手勢，黑人憑藉的則是鮮血。我完全唾棄他們。呸!而且我呼籲你們和我一起唾棄。呸!你會把鳥做成標本嗎?不，親愛的，智做動物標本可不是我的信仰。絕不!我能說上千萬遍的不!我告訴你們，寧可在身體叢林裡當隻活鳥，也不當書桌上的動物標本。"

    他"講道"時手在她身上也沒閒著。講到最後，他將他的三角臉埋在她脖子裡，像是把短斧砍了進去。

** 對大部分的人而言，人生充滿著痛苦掙扎，,......生命是.....


    他寫不下去了，轉而又開始想像絕望者，心碎者和其他讀者仍在那沙漠中排出他的名字。他們的蚌殼用完了，改用泛黃的照片、骯髒的扇子，時刻表、撲克牌、損壞的玩具和假珠寶---各種被回憶負與價值的垃圾，使它們筆大自然所孕育的一切還珍貴。


**  美國人將充沛的精力消耗在毫無節制的切割石頭上。在美國文明短短幾年中，他們切割的石頭比埃及人幾世紀以來還多。而且他們歇斯底里、不顧一切的建設，彷彿預知未來石頭會反擊一般。


**  "或許我能幫助妳了解。讓我從頭解釋。這工作是給報紙讀者建議，目的只不過是要提升閱報人數，同事都覺得這職位是個笑話。但有個人接了這份工作，因為它可能演變成一個八卦專欄，而且這個人厭倦了當跑腿的。他發現大部分來信都是讀者虛心請教道德和心靈上的建議，這些是真正痛苦的呼求。他也發現這些來信者很把專欄作家當一回事。他生命中第一次被迫要檢視他的人生觀。檢視過後，他發現自己是這笑話的受害者，而非加害者。"

I Am Love

Synopsis:

A family embraces the positive and negative sides of new freedoms fate has brought their way in this drama from filmmaker Luca Guadagnino. Edoardo Recchi Sr. (Gabriele Ferzetti) is the patriarch of a wealthy Italian family who've amassed a significant fortune over the years through shrewd investments in manufacturing. Edoardo has a beautiful wife, Allegra (Marisa Berenson), and they have four grown children -- Tancredi (Pippo Delbono), Edoardo Jr. (Flavio Parenti), Gianluca (Mattia Zaccaro) and Elisabetta (Alba Rohrwacher). The family gathers for a reunion at Edoardo and Allegra's villa in Milan, with Tancredi's wife Emma (Tilda Swinton) and Antonio (Edoardo Gabbriellini), a chef planning on going into business with Edoardo, also in attendance. But the happy gathering takes a somber turn when Edoardo suddenly dies while having lunch with the family. The death takes the family by surprise, and causes nearly everyone to reassess themselves and their lives. In the months that follow, Allegra discovers that Elisabetta is a lesbian, and deals with new desires of her own when she falls in love with Antonio. Tancredi finds that his relationship with Emma is not as stable as it once was as he struggles to keep up the elegant image of the Recchi name. And Edoardo Jr., now controlling much of the family business, is disappointed with how changing styles of business have eroded the company's dignity and good name. Io Sono L'amore (aka I Am Love) was an official selection at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival.

~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

What a wonderful world

Life is like a game

VIrus

病毒會氾濫會到處傳染。但大部分的人在感染之後都會康復，本來是怎麼樣的人終究還是那個樣子。然而大部分的人會不斷的周而復始；除非他傷了她的中樞神經因此終身免疫，於是在身上留下永遠的異狀。