美国
Bobos In Paradise
Douban
David Brooks publishing house: Simon & Schuster 2001 - 3
It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore grey, and went to church. The bohemians were the artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the radical 1960's; bourgeois were the enterprising yuppies of the 1980's. Now the 'bo's' are all mixed up and it is impossible to tell an expresso sipping artist from a cappuccino-gulping banker. In attitudes toward sex, morality, leisure time and work, it is hard to separate the renegade from the company man. The new establishment has combined the countercultural sixties and the achieving eighties into one social ethos. These Bobos define our age. Their hybrid culture is the atmosphere we breathe, their status codes govern social life and their moral codes govern ethics and influence our politics. Our hybrid Bobo culture is going to be dominating society for a long time to come. Read all about it in this serious and witty essay on how we live now.
Read
June 2, 2015
Brooks太幽默,边看边笑,太感同身受——针对前两章,四星;后面越来越雷同,有堆积感了,看得就有点烦了- -所以Brooks大概还是适合止于Columnist的长度。Educated Elite/Bobo can be a suitable but loosely defined term to capture our peers...
社会学 美国 2001 DavidBrooks
Outsourced (2006)
Outsourced Douban
★ 6.6 21 ratings
约翰·杰夫考特 actor: 阿西夫·巴斯拉 / 阿耶莎·达尔克 …
other title: 世界是平的 / 一个美国人在印度
电话收单业务主管陶德(Josh Hamilton 饰)惊闻公司要将电话收单外包,相同的工作交由印度职员完成,实在可以节省不少成本。陶德被公司借鸡下蛋派往印度培训当地接班人。苦于工作未满年限陶德只得服从安排。 甫下飞机,陶德便目睹印度邋遢又充满活力的异域特色,除了名字被念做托德(蟾蜍)以外似乎没有太大不妥,前来接站的接班人普洛的名片上赫然写着“未来经理”。陶德入住一家私人旅馆,同时经过战场般的荷丽节洗礼,得以更加亲近印度文化。另一方面,陶德为提高工作效率在培训之外适度奖励,收效明显。随着印度部门业绩提升,陶德离开的时候快到了,但他实在不愿让与下属亚莎的爱情成为一段回忆……
Watched
June 1, 2015
看完剧再看了电影版就觉得“真”很多。但是么最后由于cost-saving搬到上海去实在太瞎了吧,谁在上海开call center啊,毫无价格以及语言优势好么。
美国 文化 2008 印度
My Brooklyn (2012)
My Brooklyn IMDb TMDB Douban
My Brooklyn is a documentary about Director Kelly Anderson’s personal journey, as a Brooklyn “gentrifier,” to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood along lines of race and class. The story begins when Anderson moves to Brooklyn in 1988, lured by cheap rents and bohemian culture. By Michael Bloomberg’s election as mayor in 2001, a massive speculative real estate boom is rapidly altering the neighborhoods she has come to call home. She watches as an explosion of luxury housing and chain store development spurs bitter conflict over who has a right to live in the city and to determine its future. While some people view these development patterns as ultimately revitalizing the city, to others, they are erasing the eclectic urban fabric, economic and racial diversity, creative alternative culture, and unique local economies that drew them to Brooklyn in the first place. It seems that no less than the city’s soul is at stake. Meanwhile, development officials announce a controversial plan to tear down and remake the Fulton Mall, a popular and bustling African-American and Caribbean commercial district just blocks from Anderson’s apartment. She discovers that the Mall, despite its run-down image, is the third most profitable shopping area in New York City with a rich social and cultural history. As the local debate over the Mall’s future intensifies, deep racial divides in the way people view neighborhood change become apparent. All of this pushes Anderson to confront her own role in the process of gentrification, and to investigate the forces behind it more deeply. She meets with government officials, urban planners, developers, advocates, academics, and others who both champion and criticize the plans for Fulton Mall. Only when Anderson meets Brooklyn-born and raised scholar Craig Wilder, though, who explains his family’s experiences of neighborhood change over generations, does Anderson come to understand that what is happening in her neighborhoods today is actually a new chapter in an old American story. The film’s ultimate questions become how to heal the deep racial wounds embedded in our urban development patterns, and how citizens can become active in restoring democracy to a broken planning process.
Watched
April 17, 2015
#The Right to the City#以Downtown Brooklyn的Fulton Mall的redevelopment为主线,呈现了gentrification的方方面面,算是近来看的各种讲类似话题的纪录片中讲得最清楚的。Growth machine, local residents, newcomers的观点都有谈到。Kelly Anderson本人的态度非常明确直接,很喜欢她。
美国 纪录片 Gentrification
Nightcrawler (2014)
Nightcrawler
★ 8.1 680 ratings
other title: 夜行者 / 头条杀机(港) …
When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
Watched
March 22, 2015
If it bleeds, it leads.还蛮喜欢一黑到底的设定,要是最后突然抓起来了就会觉得失色不少。其实想来有些人之所以能“成功”,也就是信奉着自己一路到底,挡路者“死”。
美国 2014 剧情 人性 犯罪
The 87th Annual Academy Awards (2015)
The 87th Annual Academy Awards Douban
★ 7.5 63 ratings
other title: 第87届奥斯卡颁奖典礼 / 2015第87届奥斯卡金像奖颁奖典礼 …
【获奖名单】 【提名名单】 【相关豆列】 (获奖)、 m/doulist/36997168/(提名) 【奖项条目】 第87届奥斯卡颁奖典礼将于美国当地时间2月22日举行,尼尔·帕特里克·哈里斯(NPH)担任主持人。 【具体时间】(*以下北美时间均指太平洋时间) 北京时间:2015年02月23日(周一)上午09:30(07:00开始红地毯) 北美时间:2015年02月22日(周日)下午17:30(15:00开始红地毯)
Chappie (2015)
Chappie
★ 6.9 391 ratings
other title: 채피 / チャッピー …
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.
Watched
March 8, 2015
误打误撞看了个gangster版Baymax. 但多少有点消费gangster culture和AI的意思,后半部分不喜。
美国 2015 NeillBlomkamp HughJackman
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Catch Me If You Can
★ 8.5 1983 ratings
other title: 猫鼠游戏 / 逍遥法外 …
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
The Book of Life (2014)
The Book of Life
★ 7.3 138 ratings
Jorge R. Gutierrez / 豪尔赫·R·古铁雷斯 actor: 迭戈·卢纳 / 佐伊·索尔达娜 …
other title: 마놀로와 마법의 책 / ブック・オブ・ライフ ~マノロの数奇な冒険~ …
The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart. Before choosing which path to follow, he embarks on an incredible adventure that spans three fantastical worlds where he must face his greatest fears.
Watched
Jan. 5, 2015
故事蛮平淡的,就是墨西哥风的绚丽画得很好看。以及再次印证了现在动画总算受了女权主义的影响,不再刻画需要营救的公主形象了。
美国 动画 墨西哥
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
★ 8.2 1195 ratings
other title: 霍比特人3:五军之战 / 哈比人:五军之战(港/台) …
Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.
Watched
Jan. 3, 2015
了却心事一桩。中土世界再见。The hobbit那么薄一本书拆成三部够拼了,the orc怎么蠢这仗都不该输嘛。虽然笑场无数,但带着对魔戒的深深眷恋努力看到了最后。
美国 PeterJackson
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.8 244 ratings
伍迪·艾伦 actor: 伍迪·艾伦 / 约翰·卡拉丁 …
other title: 性爱宝典 / 情欲奇谈 …
A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of the male orgasm, characters like a court jester, a doctor, a queen and a journalist adventure through lab experiments and game shows, all seeking answers to common questions that many would never ask.
Mozart in the Jungle Season 1 (2014)
Mozart in the Jungle Season 1 part of TV Series: Mozart in the Jungle Douban
★ 8.2 37 ratings
亚马逊网宣布新剧《丛林中的莫扎特》(Mozart in the Jungle)将在12月23日播出(第一季10集一次性公布)。该剧根据Blair Tindall撰写的回忆录《丛林中的莫扎特:性爱、毒品和经典音乐》(Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs & Classical Music)改编,描述了纽约交响乐团的「幕后故事」——当乐团在台上演奏气势恢弘的交响乐时,人们会为之倾倒,可是谁又能想到幕后发生着什么?有艺术的奉献精神,有创意的碰撞,有尔虞我诈的心理游戏,有勾心斗角的政治活动,还有残酷的生存本能……至于性爱、毒品和其他肮脏下流的东西,你也都能找到。该剧由Malcolm McDowell和Bernadette Peters主演,Gael Garcia Bernal、Saffron Burrows、Hannah Dunne、Lola Kirke和Peter Vack参与演出。
Watched
Dec. 30, 2014
#AmazonPrime#有人愿意拍交响乐题材总归蛮开心的,虽然和《交响情人梦》风格完全不一样,还是会想起。对原书改编蛮大的,在纽约的音乐梦嘛怎么看都欢喜又现实(艰难)。
美国 音乐 Amazon 美剧
Titanic (1997)
Titanic
★ 9.1 2574 ratings
other title: 泰坦尼克号 / 铁达尼号(港/台) …
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.
Watched
Dec. 25, 2014
2012年沉船一百周年纪念的时候和爹妈去影院重温了经典,从头哭到尾。预知了悲剧的结局还要看绚烂的过往原来如此残酷。
美国 灾难 爱情 经典 卡梅隆
Bananas (1971)
Bananas
★ 7.5 79 ratings
伍迪·艾伦 actor: 伍迪·艾伦 / 露易丝·拉塞尔 …
other title: 香蕉 / 傻瓜大闹香蕉城 …
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
The Giant Mechanical Man (2012)
The Giant Mechanical Man Douban
Lee Kirk actor: Malin Akerman / Topher Grace …
other title: 机械巨男
这是一个关于街头艺人与动物园管理员——两个与世界格格不入家伙——的爱情故事。
Watched
Nov. 27, 2014
#AmazonPrime# 就是那种“人群中多看了你一眼就知道you are my kind”的cliche....
美国 爱情 喜剧 2012
Interstellar (2014)
Interstellar
★ 9.1 3414 ratings
other title: 星际穿越 / 星际启示录(港) …
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Watched
Nov. 16, 2014
和想的还蛮不一样的。场景音乐都好,但是不太喜欢结尾,最烦爱是人类终极答案了。还不如42呢= =
美国 科幻 2014 诺兰
Food, Inc. (2009)
Food, Inc.
★ 8.4 202 ratings
other title: Food, Inc. - Was essen wir wirklich? / 食品公司 …
Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of the food chain in the United States, from the farms where our food is grown to the chain restaurants and supermarkets where it's sold. Narrated by author and activist Eric Schlosser, the film features interviews with average Americans about their dietary habits, commentary from food experts like Michael Pollan and unsettling footage shot inside large-scale animal processing plants.
Watched
Nov. 10, 2014
"We are engineering our food". Political Economy all over the documentary. 看完大概大家都不想吃肉了,但是过两天该吃的还是继续吃。。。
美国 纪录片 环保 食品安全