Santa Monica

So I'm back, after almost exactly 3 years. I've been used to changes these years, so it's a bit surreal to see the exact some stores on Sawtelle. It really looks like that I just left last week or so. Little Hong Kong, one of the most overpriced unauthentic HK food you can find around LA, is still not closed down yet. If they open this in Hong Kong they won't last more than few month.
I also wonder if I'll still see the exact same places in Boston as well, when I eventually re-visit.

My ex-coworker also looks the same. But he has learned and travelled a lot for these years. Happy to see him again.

And then, when I checked in this hotel.... I got a moment of Deja Vu. But not, really, I've been here before. For a minute I thought I was here 3 years ago, but that's not true. Upon entering the lobby I realized that this was actually more than 6 years ago . I was here interviewing for my current job.

I don't like this hotel, as it's over priced and have such noisy air-con. It's also funny that while they promote 'green choice' by encouraging you to skip room service or linen/towel replacement, and even make fridges available by request only, but at the same time they have only paper and plastic cups in the room! Yes, it's the first time that I only see plastic and paper cups in a hotel room. And as mentioned, this is an overpriced hotel, in fact their homepage even tries to claim that it's a 'luxury' hotel.

But I guess it wasn't that bad at that time then. At least I passed, and so I can be back now.

廢片 心魔

很少片一看完就立即把dvd丟到垃圾桶.

如果我是馬來西亞政府早就把這個導演編劇驅逐出境, 剝奪國籍, 免得影衰國際形象.

這片企圖'寫實', 扮'文藝', 結果就是寫了幾個廢到不能再廢的青年, 然後找來一批丑少女 (從來沒看過電影有那麼多丑女, 除了50多歲的阿媽'主角', 其他女角全都好丑.....), 拍出來的沒劇情又沒畫面.

全片唯一感到美感的竟然是王菲的歌....

片中廢青可以毫無理由的不小心殺人, 殺了可以不轉移屍體, 又不處理屍體, 然後就只是在怕怨鬼報復.

沒有那個功力, 就不要用什麼 '心魔' 這種片名. 這個片沒有什麼精神變態, 沒有暴力, 沒有道德禁忌, 也沒有人性考驗. 片名應該改為 "廢青殺丑女".

不過, 觀眾其實不是那麼好騙, 找到這條舊聞:

至於香港亞洲電影節閉幕作《心魔》，則在票房上與《關》片出現鬥仆現象，首天安排於百老匯電影中心及The Grand Cinema各映五場，僅錄得五千二百多，每場觀眾平均僅得個位數字

http://hongkongfilms.mysinablog.com/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=2013436