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Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek
★ 8.0 675 ratings
other title: 星际迷航 / 星空奇遇记(港) …
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.
Watched
Feb. 18, 2018
春節的電影頻道,连star trek都可以被剪= =比star wars好看多了,比黑客帝国爆米花。不过Spark把自己归为濒危物种一员真是好萌啊!'Live long and prosper.'
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Coco (2017)
Coco
★ 8.7 2814 ratings
other title: 寻梦环游记 / 玩转极乐园(港) …
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.
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Feb. 4, 2018
有点生气,因为觉得过于轻浮地处理了死亡、家人、梦想这样严肃的主题;但也忍不住想流泪,对于自己这种容易被媚俗感动的体质而对自己生气
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Frozen (2013)
Frozen
★ 8.1 1825 ratings
other title: 冰雪奇缘 / 魔雪奇缘(港) …
Young princess Anna of Arendelle dreams about finding true love at her sister Elsa’s coronation. Fate takes her on a dangerous journey in an attempt to end the eternal winter that has fallen over the kingdom. She's accompanied by ice delivery man Kristoff, his reindeer Sven, and snowman Olaf. On an adventure where she will find out what friendship, courage, family, and true love really means.
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Jan. 6, 2018
Disney公主片终于开始跟上时代了
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Between the World and Me
Douban Min reol
★ 8.4 14 ratings
Ta-Nehisi Coates publishing house: Spiegel & Grau 2015 - 7
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.” In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Lolita
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弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫 publishing house: Random House Audio 2005 - 4
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. Awe and exhilaration–along with heartbreak and mordant wit–abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love–love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.With an Introduction by Martin Amis From the Hardcover edition.
Barbarians at the Gate
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Bryan Burrough / John Helyar publishing house: Harper Paperbacks 2003 - 6 other title: Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Barbarians at the Gate has been called one of the most influential business books of all time -- the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's gripping account of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988 is the story of deal makers and publicity flaks, of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms -- giving us not only a detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era.</p> Barbarians at the Gate -- a business narrative classic -- is must reading for everyone interested in the way today's world really works.</p>
The Catcher in the Rye
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J. D. Salinger publishing house: Penguin 2010 - 3
"The Catcher in Rye" is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. Lazy in style, full of slang and swear words, it's a novel whose interest and appeal comes from its observations rather than its plot intrigues (in conventional terms, there is hardly any plot at all). Salinger's style creates an effect of conversation, it is as though Holden is speaking to you personally, as though you too have seen through the pretences of the American Dream and are growing up unable to see the point of living in, or contributing to, the society around you. Written with the clarity of a boy leaving childhood, it deals with society, love, loss, and expectations without ever falling into the clutch of a cliche. 点击链接进入中文版: 麦田里的守望者(纪念版)
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Dec. 9, 2017
2017冬:时隔几年,在德国回上海的飞机上读了第二遍。
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Rules of Civility
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Amor Towles publishing house: Penguin Books 2012 - 6
A sophisticated and entertaining debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. Set in New York City in 1938, "Rules of Civility" tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year- old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her own brand of cool nerve, Katey embarks on a journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool through the upper echelons of New York society in search of a brighter future. The story opens on New Year's Eve in a Greenwich Village jazz bar, where Katey and her boardinghouse roommate Eve happen to meet Tinker Grey, a handsome banker with royal blue eyes and a ready smile. This chance encounter and its startling consequences cast Katey off her current course, but end up providing her unexpected access to the rarified offices of Conde Nast and a glittering new social circle. Befriended in turn by a shy, principled multimillionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow who is ahead of her times, Katey has the chance to experience first hand the poise secured by wealth and station, but also the aspirations, envy, disloyalty, and desires that reside just below the surface. Even as she waits for circumstances to bring Tinker back into her orbit, she will learn how individual choices become the means by which life crystallizes loss. Elegant and captivating, "Rules of Civility" turns a Jamesian eye on how spur of the moment decisions define life for decades to come. A love letter to a great American city at the end of the Depression, readers will quickly fall under its spell of crisp writing, sparkling atmosphere and breathtaking revelations, as Towles evokes the ghosts of Fitzgerald, Capote, and McCarthy.
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Oct. 31, 2017
浮光掠影过40年代的纽约,加上几个有趣的情节转折,还不忘抖抖小书袋或者文化梗。比期待的轻快很多。
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The Dark Knight (2008)
The Dark Knight
★ 9.1 2318 ratings
other title: 蝙蝠侠:黑暗骑士 / 蝙蝠侠前传2:黑暗骑士 …
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.
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Sept. 20, 2017
有一些雄心的超级英雄片,可是太贪心了;哪怕两个半小时,还是有太quan多bu角pei色jue流于脸谱化。
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Frances Ha (2012)
Frances Ha
★ 8.5 673 ratings
诺亚·鲍姆巴赫 actor: 格蕾塔·葛韦格 / 米奇·萨姆纳 …
other title: 弗兰西丝·哈 / 纽约哈哈哈(台) …
An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.
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Aug. 16, 2017
好棒的幽默感。音乐也好。/二刷。友情真是微妙而强大的东西啊。/有些电影刚看完觉得是四星,但是事后想想又觉得值得五星。
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Before Midnight (2013)
Before Midnight
★ 8.8 1328 ratings
other title: 爱在午夜降临前 / 情约半生(港) …
It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.
Watched July 2, 2017
好殘酷。
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Black Swan (2010)
Black Swan
★ 8.3 1721 ratings
达伦·阿伦诺夫斯基 actor: 娜塔莉·波特曼 / 米拉·库尼斯 …
other title: 黑天鹅 / 夺命黑天鹅 …
The story of Nina, a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her retired ballerina mother Erica who zealously supports her daughter's professional ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice.
Watched
May 31, 2017
四刷:Stop being so fxxking weak
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Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon Douban Goodreads Skybridge
★ 9.0 7 ratings
Toni Morrison publishing house: Vintage 2004 - 6
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.
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May 21, 2017
第一次讀黑人文學。
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