…is throwing in the towel. Stupid Pop China.
(I had a Pop China exam Friday afternoon, and then Math 21b in the morning Saturday.)
(I had a Pop China exam Friday afternoon, and then Math 21b in the morning Saturday.)
It is an awesome, awestriking page. It is a page to be proud of. It is a page to sing the praises of. It is a page to go down in the pages of history, if you’ll permit me (in the annals of history, if you won’t). It is a page to gaze at and say admiringly, “By God, there’s a page! By God, those were the days when men knew how to write pages!” It is a page not to be surpassed, nay, not even to be equalled. It is a page from which to remove so much as a punctuation mark would be entirely unforgivable. It is a page to which to add a word would be a disgrace upon humanity, much less three more pages.
Mostly for hid’s amusement, I suspect. Well, really mostly for mine.
(I hate leaving people out of jokes, so I’ll just explain that this picture appeared as a lecture slide in Pop China.)
(Also, I guess you should probably know your way around Courage Wolf. Language warning, I should say.)
(This is Centre Stage, about the actress Ruan Lingyu [if that means anything to you], for Pop China.)
Full post:
I found the film of “Farewell My Concubine” more provocative than meaningful — perhaps my taste in movies is much tamer, but beyond the things that were shocking I didn’t really see enough substance there to hang an epic on. Despite the length of the movie, few of the characters were depicted with anything resembling depth, and those few I generally regarded as unsympathetic. The movie seemed too anxious to make me care about these characters, without really giving me much reason to care. Historical events came and went, but the narrow focus on the lives of the main characters served to trivialize, rather than personalize, them, at least for me. Chen Kaige’s directorial ambition, as I saw it, was to take a rather uninteresting love triangle and use it to depict the revolutionary changes going on in China, but I did not find the three characters representative of anything but a very small, very insular segment of society. Even if the movie meant to show how Chinese popular culture influenced and was influenced by the historical changes, I’d respond that popular culture was poorly represented by Dieyi and Xiaolou, who remained always strangely isolated from the crowds.
