MOVIE REVIEWS 2! LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

Life is beautiful- movie reviews

 plot

 The story should be chased back to 1939 , before the World War 2. Everything was started in a countryside in Italy. There was a smart boy called Guido, who was always very active and talked entirely. He had a good friend and they always drive their old car around the village. Make fun of everything, like all the boys, they began to be tempted by the girls in that age. As the plot goes, he fell in love with Dora(who is his real wife in the reality) when he tried to open a bookstore. Dora was a teacher and Guido really tried his best to be close to her, in Dora’s mind, it seems like everything is planned by the destiny. And then, they married and had a kid called Giosue, who is a very cute boy. And the true story, had just been started in this moment.

The time was fast forwarded to the period during the World War Two and their son was 5 years old. Unfortunately, they were separated by the Nazis and put into a concentration camp. Although the Nazis didn’t allow the child been taken with, Guido still keep his child in the camp secretly. They even had used their wisdom to use the camp speaker in order to send a message to their wife and mom, let Giosue pretend being a German child in order to let Giosue have a better care by the Germans. The kid were almost found in the German kids but the danger was head off fluently by Guido’s wisdom. When Guido was doing the labor, he hid Giosue in a iron box which can fit Giosue properly called the most safe place in the camp. Guido showed the most powerful side to his son but actually he was really weak after the labor. During that period in the camp, Guido told his son how fierce the chaos are and, hardship and suffering in the country are a game and that the winner will be awarded as a real tank when all the things were over. But once they tried to escape the room to find his wife, he was found by the Nazis. At that time, Giosue was looking at the Nazis holding a gun and aim to his father and Guido was killed. From the tiny iron box. But what the happy ending is that Giosue found his mom when the chaos are over while sitting in a real tank of the U.S army. His goal was reached in the end. But the real tank is the Incarnation of Guido as well as the paternal love from Guido.

  Theme and clue

  I think the theme of the movie is the paternal love from the daddy. He devoted himself to protect his son and gave him the best care and support Giosue to survive in this dangerous environment. I can see the strong desire from the behavior of Guido that how he expect the reunite of the family. He successfully escaped first time but he failed in the second time. I think the clue which throughout the whole story is the real tank. When the Germany soldier spoke to people in the same tiny room. Guido pretended that he knows German but actually doesn’t. He didn’t understand all the things what he was talking about. But he just changed all the instructor’s word into his own words which encouraged others and especially for his son. His son regarded the hope of tank as his goal in the period of the time in the camp and hi did never quit. But It is used to be a joke at first. But as we all see the result of the story. Giosue’s goal came true and the U.S soldier picked him up to the real tank. That moment, the environment is full of peace and happiness.

Feelings

  We all have the paternal love from our father. Some of our father are good at expressing their to you but some of them aren’t. But in my opinion, they all make efforts as much as they can in order to give us a better life. As a foreign student, my father is not beside me. After watching this moving story, l should spend more time to give him a call and tell him I am fine or not. Although it is just a common behavior, we can’t imagine how warm it is for our parents. We never imagine if our parents leave us, why not do more to our parents as much as we possible? That’s the reason we should cherish the paternal love and keep them at the bottom of the heart as the most valuable treasure in our life. I love you my daddy.

                                                                 

                                                                                                                                                      Tony

Essay on needs and wants

Essay on needs and wants

       

how can the definition of needs be differentiate from wants.

  Needs and wants are defined by different meanings. Needs mean the things are necessary for us. We have to get them to survive or to reach our purposes. Some people who are contented with a simple and economical life but they are still happy; Wants are the things they don’t have and they want to get for satisfying themselves and take something for granted. They pursue the luxurious life and ‘waste a lot of things’ in many perspectives. I think the needs come from the requirement of survival and the wants come from a sense of vanity and temptation.

Needs are the basic requirement of the human being for surviving. Basically consist of the materialistic needs and the spiritual ones. About the materialistic needs, such as air, food, water, nutrition, protein, the things we need to use in daily life. In general, materialistic needs are depend on different people because we all have different standards to distinguish the needs. The spiritual needs are technically consist of the love between families, the love between couples or between friends, the care come different walks of life, the donations from the society and many people believe one of the religions as their believes. They are called spiritual pillars which can make us feel being concerned. For example, lots of people live in a depressed environment with hopelessness. There are statistics about the needs in the poor areas. Over 1.1 billion people in the world live on less than one U.S. dollar per day.500 million people are hungry and another 500 million are so poor that they get too little food to be fully productive. Every day 25,000 people, many of them children, die from the results of dirty drinking water. They need the hope and spiritual pillars. So we should be completely contented with life we have given by our parents. In my opinion, needs are the things are easy to get in our life, but we should save the needs for people who are really need it.

  Wants are the things we have out of our control and most of them are come from the sense of vanity and temptation. They give us the maximum satisfaction. It can also defined as the desire and pursue. For example, my friend is using an iphone 3. But the iphone 4 is better than iphone 3 and then she bought the latest one. That’s why apple company is so attracted by the young people. And why the brands are so popular such as LV, GUCCI, PRADA, CHANNEL….They all catch the desire of the people want the luxurious life and it can show the position in the life. On the contrary, I cannot say wants are wrong because some people have enough money to satisfy themselves buying many things we seems like crazy. They enjoy the life with alcohol, fabulous cars, jewelry, great cuisine and do whatever they want. I think the most important for us define the wants and needs is to control ourselves depends on the self-ability. Don’t let the wants never stop.

  In conclusion, actually we all want a lot of things instead of keeping the basic needs in our life. But the most important thing is we should control our balance of the needs and wants. Actually it is not hard to make it, we should think more, take more into account. And I think the balance will be well controlled. Needs and wants are all around us. I think we can all be away from the vanity and the temptations.

Success

Different people have different angle to see work as success

  “Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”--Barack Obama.

Obviously, Being successful roles importantly in this 21th century. Economic is growing rapidly. No doubt that the people live in a society which is more and more competitive and cruel. There are too many temptation in this world cause many people to chase. Everyone wants to prove himself or herself as a successful man or woman. Most of the people might relate the success to the money. But the definition of success depends on the people who have different characters and different goals. I think success for some people can being healthy or spending time with their own family.
   I think being healthy is a part of success. People think highly of health problems and the cases of the cancer is significantly increased in the world. In one US study, in a company, 40% of the workers described their jobs are very stressful. Obviously nowadays the working environment is becoming more and more stressful. As the health records in the UK, the nursing and teaching occupations are most affected by work-related stress, 2% of workers are influenced by the stress-related environment, and it caused the depression and anxiety. And the situation about teachers rises to 4% when including physical conditions relating to stress. Care workers, managers and professionals are the next highest affected occupations, with over 1% suffering from serious work-related stress at any one time. The result was that work-related stress affects men and women in equal numbers, and that people in the middle age or older suffer more than younger people. And I was told many people keep working in a long term under the radiation get chronic sickness very often due to the bad air and the radiation. Especially for those people who work in the digital industry are easy to get cancer or even worse. So I think health is the priority we should seriously take in to considerate. If you got health, you can face things in a happy way and solve them positively.
Being responsible and spending time with family are also the symbol of success. Albert Einstein said ”Try not become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. ” I think own a happy family is a part of the value in the lifetime. The family is the only place you can share your emotions and happiness in a most relaxed way. Family is a place of spending your time and effort to concern about. It’s important to make the ‘big decisions’ – selecting careers and jobs, breeding children, being considerate and taking the and responsibilities, etc.­ Many people use a whole life to support a simple, small family. We should stop thinking of money and the position, just stay with the family as much as we can. Although working is important for us, but the balance between family and work should be controlled. Family is a shelter for any difficulties and blocks in our life which we must cherish it forever. I think the company with family can exceed everything which is a part of success. 
 What exactly is success? That’s still a question for everyone who hasn’t got success or who has got success already in the world. In my opinion, health and family is the basic success. And then after that, we can make efforts to our goals in the rest of our life. We are loved by others close to us and love others from our bottom of the heart. I think the Success is the love as long as it exists.

                                                                                                                                              Tony

Divorce

The number of individuals opting for divorce has been steady increasing over the past few years. Because the human society is becoming more and more competitive. The people nowadays are all working for their own career hard. Many couples are influenced with that problems. But in research, many issues and conflicts in the marriage can be solved in variety of ways including effective communications and calming down and talk with each other in a nice way. The detail of the life is important as well. Attitude, behavior and eye contacts are the ‘shooters’ of the marriage issues. The ways of avoiding divorce including avoiding denial, assess yourself and effective communications.

1.      Avoid denial.

Many people can’t take anything in a right way.Don't deny the truth hoping it will just go away and everything will be okay. You need to take action and the first action is to accept that there's a problem so that you can set about working to resolve it. They must be tackled as soon as possible.

2.        Assess yourself.

This may sound contrary if you are not the one asking for a divorce but an evaluation of yourself is a good way to start looking at what factors may have caused a divorce to come up. Are you the same size as when you were married or have you put on weight and let your appearance slip? Do you take the time to make yourself attractive to your spouse or do you take them for granted. Sometimes divorce can be the result of failing to take care of ourselves which directly impacts how your mate feels about you. Love needs intensive cares and effective communications.

3.      effective communications

  Communication is the source of every human relation. We need to have a good communication with our partners to avoid divorce. Effective communication can let you and your partner to express your feeling and solve any problems that might be happened. Bad communication will only lead you to a divorce since it will hit your marriage each time arguments happen. You need to set communication as your priority. Do not hide every single thing from your partner. Let them know your current feeling and emotion. Let them know too what is going on in your life right now. It proves that you do not hide anything from them. 

  We will still face the marriage one day. Although the whole process is tough and complicated. We have to take our responsibilities and be nice to our partners who will spend the whole life with you and your kids. Divorce is not a good result for anyone who loves you and concerns your marriage. Spending a whole life with your love is a fantastic thing for me despite rich or poor. We must stop divorce and make the relationship between couple better as long as you can!

                                                                Tony

The Thought After Watching "Grave Of The Fireflies"

My Thoughts After Watching “Grave Of The Fireflies”

The world was in chaos during the WW2. The atrocities of war exist everywhere in Japan. Bombs falling from the sky. War-planes shooting innocent people. A boy and his sister, orphaned when their mother was killed in a bomb raid, were left to survive on their own in what remains of civilization in Japan. The things happened and the emotions between the pair of brother and sister showed me what real kinship is. Fireflies appeared many times in the movie when they are in the darkness. The light from the fireflies represented their hope, guiding and supporting them.

  Grave of the Fireflies is a touching but extremely painful movie. The movie is not about introducing how fierce the war atrocities were. On the contrary, it showed the sibling love from a typical nuclear family. When their mother was killed in the bombing of Tokyo near the end of World War II, teenager Seita and his little sister, Setsuko, were left on their own: their father is away, serving in the Imperial Navy. The two children initially stayed with an aunt, but she has little affection for them and resents the time and money they require. Soon, they decided to leave their aunt and set up home in a cave by a stream, but their meager resources were quickly exhausted, and Seita is reduced to stealing to feed his sister. The scene when Seita was beaten up by the farmer after he was caught stealing food really touched me.

I have many thoughts after watching this movie. Nobody can live without their family. Cherishing and keep a good relationship with my parent are very important to me. As an international student who has just left my family in Shanghai to study in Singapore, I am no longer able to spend as much time with my parents. This is the first time I am leaving home alone and after watching the movie, I wanted to call them, to talk to them and to tell them not to worry about me. They have given me too much and I think the best I can do to return their love will be my good study results. I also cannot help but feel that I have taken too many things for granted. I cannot imagine if I lose my parents one day. Time goes by more quickly than we realize. It seems like yesterday when I was still a child, and, today, I am already an adult, living and taking care of myself away from home. Time files so we have to cherish the time with our family, and to give them more care and love.

  In the movie, Seita takes on all the responsibilities of an elder brother and was forced to steal the food from the field at midnight for his sister. Watching the movie actually made me very envious of Setsuko. I am so touched by the sibling love from Seita. Unfortunately, due to the one-child policy in China, I do not have an elder sibling who can take care of me or a younger sibling whom I can shower my love. I will like to have a younger sibling whom I can take of because I think a strong sense of responsibility is important to men.

  No one said life is a bed of roses. While we are very fortunate not to have to experienced war, I have seen on the news of people suffering and families torn apart due to natural disasters. Watching the movie also reminded me of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, which saw 200,000 people die and thousands of families torn apart. Floods, caused by the earthquake, wiped out entire villages and swallowed the lives of innocent people that stood in its way. But like the movie, hope still exists. Despite the disaster, we saw many Chinese people, and friends from all over the world, come to Sichuan to help the people after the earthquake. Even those who have lost their families came forward to help the other people who were suffering. As I watch the movie, and see the fireflies, which represent hope, I see the hope back at home as lives and houses were rebuilt, and in some places, after three years, a brand new city was built.

Around the world, there are still so many people living in bad situations. We are very fortunate to have a good education, a loving family and so many friends to spend our time. If there are lessons the movie has taught me, it will be that we should never take things for granted and to always cherish the things we have and our time with our family. Also, when things become difficult, we must remember that there is always hope, persevere and it will become better. 

Tony

Whatever about myself.......

Hi lecturer Ken,
 

  I am Tony Wang from China.Having been new here in singapore since i came here on the 21st of June. I am fully confident that i will mix with the lifesytles and the calssmates from all over the wrold.Now its the time to talk sometheing about myself.As i said on class.I am really crazy about coffee and a collector of  starbucks tumblers as well.I have 120 tumblers and 100mugs.I buy them in different designs,and there are many stories inside.
  Music plays an important role in my daily life as .I love listening music on my school bus everyday.I like playing the guitar because it helps me relaxed after studying for a wole day.Moreover,I love playing basketball games with my roomates from my hostel.We all have the similar hobbies and lifestyles.I was a team member in my high school swimming team in frogstyle and i even tried to get an license of the life guard.

  My dream was used to be a gourmet when i was in middle school.OTAH,prawn noodles,Hainan chiken rice are all my favourite local food.By the way,I am an extrovert so i am interested in communicating with others.So that is the reason i am going to take marketing and Public Relations after the foundation. 

Best regards,

Tony

Something about myself

Hi lecturer Ken,
 

  I am Tony Wang from China.Having been new here in singapore since i came here on the 21st of June. I convince that i can mix with the lifesytle and the calssmtes from all over the wrold well.Okay talk sometheing about myself.As i said on class.I am a mad of coffee and am a collector of  starbucks tumblers.I have 120 tumblers and 100mugs.That sounds crazy ah?
  Music plays an important role in my daily life as well.I listen music on my school bus everyday.I like playing the guitar because i feel relaxed while playing this after studying for a wole day.Moreover,I love playing basketball games with my roomates in my hostel.We all have the similar hobbies and lifestyles.I was a team member in my high school swimming group in frog and i even tried to get an license of the safe guard.

  My dream was used to be a gourmet when i was in middle school.OTHA,prawn noodles,Hainan chiken rice are all my favourite local food.By the way,I am an extrovert so i am interested in communicating with others.So that is the reason i am going to take marketing and Public Relations after the foundation. 

  Hope that we will have a smooth cooperation in the future.Thank you.

 

Best regards,

Tony