Elizabeth-The Golden Age

The story is against the backdrop that England queen-Elzabeth(acted by Cate Blanchett)was threatened by the betrayer of royal who believe in Catholicism,while the regime(政權) was believing in Protestantism.

Then a handsome young guy appeared.The man(acted by Clive Owen)who is totally unlike those athelings(貴族)caught the queen's eyes.He is adventurous,brave,and every word he said to queen is out of his heart.Soon,the queen fell in love.

But because the situation was quite bad,Elizabeth gave up this love for the whole situation and encouraged the man to associate with her beloved lady-in-waiting-Beth.

In the end of the movie, she said,"I have no master......I'm myself."

I think the movie is not bad.You can see a country leader must do some sacrifices(marriage,lover,family,etc.) to protect his/her people.It is not that easy to be a King or Queen we consider.

If you want to see this movie,I have a suggestion to tell is realizing more about the history will help you to get in the story further.

Cafe Triste,傷心咖啡店之歌

The story is talking about a group of people who lives in the prosperous Taipei want to find what the true value in their lives is and what they are desirably seeking for.
The leading character,馬蒂,is a thirty-year old woman but her life is actually a mess.
Her marriage is failed,the relationship in her family is indifferent,and she doesn't have any performances in her career,while most her classmates of university have done something in their field.
As a result,she begins to question herself whether she wants this kind of life or not.
But at the same time,she is afraid to persuade what she desires because she cares too much about other people's thinking and the value of society.
Then,she bumped into a group of people who run a cafe.
These people live their style and teach 馬蒂 to live for herself not for others,don't put emphasis on others' thought.
In the end,馬蒂 screwed up her courage heading for the place that she dreams her whole life,Madagascar.There,she has realized what is the true treasure to her and found the way in her life,although she died in an accident in Madagascar.
Sometimes when I am alone,I would think what I have done for 18 years.And sorrily I find that there are full of study and an variety of exams.I don't know what I am looking for and after all the school I have finished,what can I do and want to do?Working to death?Oh!That scares me.It seems that the dreams in our childhood disappear and the reality ties us up.We must find our dreams and passion back;otherwise,we will get lost and waste our life!That is why this novel attracts me.

Lust,Caution

CNN has interviewed with Ang Lee,the pride of Chinese people.Because after a controversial movie,"Brokeback Mountain"filmed,he has directed another one,"Lust,Caution"which depicted the psychologic struggle and female sexuality of a woman secret agent(acted by湯唯)against the backdrop of the war against Japan.The original novel is written by 張愛玲,a legendary woman in the contemporary Shanghai.I have not only seen the movie but also read the novel and I think it is a kind of Age tragedy.Falling in love with someone is not wrong.But at the background of Chinese eight-year war,the role you played and the one you loved should deeply considerate,not to mentioned,you two were in the opponent sides.So many people kept an eye on you and the social conscience would tie you up.It is the destiny that they would not have a happy ending; instead,one must kill the other one even her partner to ensure his savity.

http://www.bvi.com.tw/movies/lust_caution/main.html

A creative person

One of creative people that I admire is Tyra Banks.She was a supermodel before and broke through some discrimination in the fashion world,for example;she is the first black model to have the shot for Victoria's secret and she is not the kind of skinny model,in fact,she has a plump body.After retiring from the fashion stage,she gets the ideas to use what she knows and learns from modeling to run a company,produce,and host TV shows.And one of her TV shows"American Next Top Model"makes her career reach another climax.I have seen this TV show from cycle 1 to cycle 8 and I think every episode has great ideas which not only let the competitors realize more about fashion and how cruel it is in this career but also make the competitors progress and promote themselves harder.To her,Tyra Banks,retirement is not the end but a beginning.It depends on how you create your life!

This is Tyra and the winner in cycle 2,Yoanna.