Movie afterthought...or feeling

SentimentalValue spoiler alert

I watched this last month.  I like it very very much!  The theme of the movie is about movie making.  This is kind of a slow movie.  But director brilliantly mixed present and flash backs, keeps it interesting.  And I saw a comment online saying the flashback was actually narrated by the house itself, i thought it made senses.  

I only saw two actors before, one is ElleFanning, the other is StellanSkarsgard.  I love them both, espeically ElleFanning, a tremendous Actor.  I like her performance here so much.  Her role was really out of place in the whole movie, the shining American movie star.  And one of the most memorable section of the movie was the comparison of her acting for a scene and RenateReinsve's acting on the exact same scene in a script.  

I was going to watch TW's 左撇子女孩，but it was so raw that scared me a little.  I had so much apprehension about the ending that I switched to SentimentalValue.  The basic difference between the two I think was really the sound and music.  

The photography of SV was just beautiful.   The conflict between daughter and father, the love between the sisters.  Both Stellan and Elle's vulnerability in the movie was also palpable, especially when the characters were forcing to make the movie, when both them, especially  the director, know it's now working.  I feel as an audience we can just see it, without any commentary.  Palpable is a good word to describe the scene.  

The movie's story was really quite interesting, when you think about it.  I like Stuckman's word to describe this movie, personal.  A father wanted his daughter to play a part of his own memory from his youth.  But he did not know that his daughter actually had a similar experience.  Once that was revealed, it really packed a punch.  

It's cringe for me.

 Spurs beat Thunder in game 7 last night.  I stayed up late to wait for the highlight.  Though I was happy to see Spurs won.  It was cringe to see Wemby scores.  The way he is scoring is really for a 6 foot point guard.  And people are simply praised him for it...  How sad to see a 7' 6" guy struggling with people 1 food shorter than him.  I hope he can stay healthy to play another 20 years, but I have my doubt.  Dirk is 7', he can shoot three, but the way he plays for mid range is a lot more different than Wemby.  I feel he knows how to use height,  but not Wemby.  I truly feel like if Wemby perfected Skyhooks, maybe he could play more than 10 years.  I think Wemby's real asset for Spurs is really defense.  Spurs offense is really the whole team, I think the manager is first to be praised, the second the the coach and coaching staff.  Look at Harper, Castle, and all the team mates were so good, If Wemby is not playing, they are still a great team.  Maybe a bit weaker in the defense.  But their scoring will remain the same.  There're countless game like this, but all the media only mentioned how great Wemby is...  If Wemby can't find a better way to score inside, it's such a waste of talents...  

And for NBA, there's no point to watch it anymore...  The inconsistent of the refence is the real reason for this game 7.  It feels so much that NBA is controlling the game with referee...  Totally lost confidence in NBA.  Yeah, I will still want some highlights in the future, but no more than that...  

I think I will start to follow FIBA instead...  

Some thoughts

 So I was writing down some thoughts about a work related topic yesterday.   It is something bothers me for sometimes.  Since I came to work at this place, I feel like I did a couple things that's quite important for the company in terms of general procedures on Picking orders, Requesting items, and Receiving packages.  I don't need to go into detail now.  But I feel there are many aspects that can be improved upon.  So I even made a Receiving log, which compiled all the Receiving record through out the years.  Of course, I've expressed this thoughts to Maya, David, and Kevin before.  One of the goal is to be able to calculate SKU with their respected Lot and all the Lot related information together.  And by doing such, we can get better current lot results in Picking list.  And then the middle goal is that we can work remotely as order team.  The long term goal is eventually this going to help migrate to a new system, maybe a database working either in QB or along side of QB database with lot and lot related Product information.  

But while I was doing it last night, something dawned on me.  I like to do this more than shipping and receiving.  But what is it that I am doing?  Is it system design?  I am not sure.  What I know is that it is something that's visible and gives me a satisfaction.  But I feel there's a step that I do not know how to move from forward.  

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I just checked what's the average time I spend on youtube.  It is well over 2 hours; IG is 48 min.  Both numbers are ridiculous.  And the funny thing is that google showed me the age group for using this apps, the older the group, the less people spend on them, especially IG...  My group is about 25 min per day.  Me?  Double the time...  That's total of more than 3 hours on social media.  Mainly just short video now.  Is that why I feel brain rot?  

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I left TK for an embarrassing reason.  But I was going to buy those cooking oil thing...  le sigh.  

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I went and played Ping Pong at BTTC.  I played quite hard yesterday, kept bending my knees and swinging hard.   I enjoyed a good workout, when I left, my should was killing me.  And I can feel it in my body this morning.   When I was leaving, only played about 2 hours, but I was starving.  One of the OG was surprised to see me go, he said many people went for a sandwich then came back for more.  But like I said my should hurts as well, so I still left.  It's probably one of the most intense time I had over there.  Kind like it.  

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今天的紀錄

 我正聽著 joniMitchell 的 BothSidesNow。  好奇怪，從 Coda 聽到這首歌的當下還不怎麼樣。  可是後來就一直聽。  現在聽的是 NewportFolkFestival2022， 快八十歲了鳩尼現場唱， 有 CardiB 和。 不知怎地我實在好喜歡好喜歡。  似乎可以一直聽下去， 不斷重複。  

Random

 因為他沒有光 (約翰福音 11:10)  

不知道為啥，剛坐下來就想到這句話。  這大概是我自己對自己的寫照。  不過， 更接近事實的應該是: 「因為他閉上了眼睛。」  

Afterthought about OneBattleAfterAnother

This movie was long, 3 hour almost.  It hosted some of weird characters with conspiracy theory, mixed with current event, and the love about parent and his kid.  

I feel I did not particularly like the movie in the movie.  But I have to admit, the movie maker knows his craft and was very good at it.  For some reason, I sit here and think back, CoenBrothers came to mind.  I guess this movie maker and the brothers are both excellent movie makers.  They can create rhythm, and images that's catches people.  

There were points in the movie I felt a bit long.  But as I watched it, there were always elements of the movie kept me going, be it soundtrack, cinematic visuals, character development, or plot twist.  

I read someone thinks it's too political.  But now I thought, nay, it gave the movie too much credit.  Revolution always gives interesting flavors, they are the purest drama in the world, especially from the left.  That's where young people usually is.  

The actors in the movie was top notch.  No one wasted their times on the screen showing their faces.  And there's quite some humor in it too.  It's intentional and it works despite that.  

The movie was long, but when I saw the father and daughter reunite, I was elated and so happy.  It's not a bad movie to watch, I was certainly entertained.  

鈔的歌詞

 

Salt Then Sour Then Sweet

Song by SaraBAREILLES ‧ 2025 ::   Lyrics by AndreaGIBSON

Performed by SaraBAREILLES and BrandiCARLILE

Lyrics

Give me the light years

But I want the dark ones, too

Grief is the singer in my band

She's a passenger van

And a shortcut straight to the truth

Learn from the nightshades

They grow in the darkest places

Had we not been stung so many times

Would we ever have arrived

At this Heaven on Earth that I don't wanna waste

Pick a lucky penny up

And I'll marry you for your money, love

So keep the Novocain out of my wisdom teeth

Want to feel it all

Salt then sour, then sweet

Wanna kiss you and write love's name on my crumbling walls

Lay them at your feet with the rest of me

Salt then sour, then sweet

Come to the porch, love

Look up at the perfect sky

Holding the sun, and the moon, and the thundering June

While she teaches the birds and the rain how to fly

I don't need to perfect

No, I just wanna touch the truth

I wanna cherish the trying

And the living and the dying

And they make big mistakes the way kind people do

Pick a lucky penny up

And I'll marry you for your money, love

So keep the Novocain out of my wisdom teeth

Want to feel it all

Salt then sour, then sweet

Wanna kiss you and write love's name on the crumbling walls

Lay them at your feet with the rest of me

Nothing more I need (nothing more I need)

Life is lovably (life is-)

Salt then sour, then sweet

So sweet (so sweet)

So sweet

Life is lovably

So sweet, so sweet

So sweet

去年看的書和影片

 Zootopia 2, LouisePenney's The nature of the beast, 羅胖的文明之旅 TY 影片，F1, how to train your dragon Live show, how to train your dragon 2, the return(movie with RalphFiennes), mission impossible the final reckoning, 

This is pathetic....very very very pathetic!!!!!?????