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Boyhood is very underrated and it deserves the Oscars. As a fine artist and also a CGI Major, I deeply feel the spirit behind the movie. I mean our technology can improve and can change; but we can’t change our time. We cannot do time-travel, that’s the fact. This becomes one of the reasons contributing to my lacking concern on the Hollywood blockbusters. I desperate to watch Hollywood movies again. CGI? I’m working in CGI, I know how it makes and most importantly I know it’s fake. I don’t mind to tell my last movie in cinema is Gone Girl in 2014. I like Linklater’s “before” trilogy too. Linklater shows the real and inner part of the movies.

If you watch the movie, you would find one thought has been centered : “Amazing Amy”. This phrase has made two ambiguous points.
On one hand, it demonstrates how great our female lead is. She is super intelligent that she can control anything like imitating to be a victim. On the other hand, it tells how pathetic she is. She loses her jobs while her husband loses his job. His husband started his own business while she was a housewife. It’s like a scene of 1950s America. Tracing back to 1950s, many women were mobilized to be caregivers at home, while men were breadwinners. Most of the women were frustrated and unhappy. They suffered from “the problem has no name”(if you read Betty Friedan you would know). They don’t have any self-identities and all they need to do is to take care of their families. The movie pinpoints how the problem (along with Nick’s cheating) led to Amy’s mental breakdown, knowing that Nick’s action makes her feel betrayed and insecure.
Thie movie is indeed a very deep thought of feminism- it tells the problem of which women can understand and men can barely realize.

Great article to show how the original scores influence the movies. I personally admire Hans Zimmer. I like his style of integrating the classic music with modern(electronic) elements. Some of his famous original scores such as “Tennessee” from Pearl Harbour are aesthetically descriptive pieces, which makes the movies more persuasive. The guy that gained attention from Zimmer , Ramin Djawadi, is very good at composing the majestic and sorta medieval/Celtic-inspired style of music. He is a composer of The Main Title from Grame of Throne.

Interesting article for discussing anti-capitalism in Hunger Game.
Hunger Game franchises remind me of the ten-year chaos in China to a certain extent. Chinese suffered from starvation and they were poor before and during the Cultural Revolution. The revolution is about the students(Red Guards) purging the capitalists. It turned out to the great destruction of cultural, economic, diplomatic and social failures in China.
The pathetic history arouses me to speculate about the last chapter of Hunger Game. Is there real peace after rebellion? Or just other chaos come out? Do you guarantee that the new government has a sufficient policy to any recovery in society?

I like folk songs. I always feel that the folk songs can help us to learn more about the past.

Performance art is the most controversial art form , but it is also the most “liberated” and direct one I have ever seen. Some of the performance artists take themselves to more extreme level in order to arouse the audiences’ awarenesses to certain kind of issues such as human rights. In my definition, the performance art is experimental and conceptual. It is more about the experience of an artist (such as pain) to interact a concept(like rights) with the audience.

Great Article to analyze the Sales

Quentin Tarantino is undoubtedly one of the best directors in terms of creativity. His stories are not only to be ironic and controversial but also to ridiculously show senses of black humor.

Among all the Tarantino’s movies, I like Pulp Fiction the most. I find out his storytelling skill is really impressive in this cult film.