Born on the Fourth of July (wp↗) (1989) | Reveals the virtue and integrity of patriotism. (amazon.com↗)
Modern Times (1936) | Charlie Chaplin↗. Exceedingly fantastic. Reminiscent of movie Brazil. (wp↗)
Dr. Strangelove (wp↗) (1964) | Director: Stanley Kubrick. Shows two planes copulating in the prologue. (amazon.com↗)
Brazil (wp↗) (1985) | Director: Terry Gilliam. | paperwork gone berserk | Character I love: Jill Layton (Kim Greist). Care for some necrophilia? (amazon.com↗)
the People vs Larry Flynt (wp↗) (1996) | Larry Flynt is the founder of Hustler mag. With its unprecedented obscenity that made a brouhaha and he became a free speech hero. In 2003, he took part in California Gubernatorial Thing Recall .
A Clockwork Orange (wp↗) (1971) (amazon.com↗) | It's about street violence and its rectification. Wonderful is the erotic arts in this film.
Fight Club (wp↗) (1999) | A splendid love story. A philosophy class-room experience for fat upper-class white-collar American donkeys. The Marla Singer character is Helena Bonham Carter. She's inordinate oddity is sweet.
Leaving Las Vegas (wp↗) (1995) | A fantasy land of pain. I love both Sera (Elisabeth Shue) and Terri (Valeria Golino) very much. (amazon.com↗)
Lolita (wp↗) (1962) | Director: Stanley Kubrick. Splendid masterpiece. I love Lolita Haze (Sue Lyon). I love her blondness, her tender flesh, and her consummating maturity... This is a true love story. (amazon.com↗)
Run Lola Run (wp↗) (1998) | Fate, is what it is. A great love story of exigency.
2046 (2004) | A great story of a love life. Wonderful music. (wp↗)
Batman (wp↗) (1989) | Characters I love: The Joker, Batman. | Comment: A modern thriller employing high-tech visual stunts. However, what attract me are the characters Joker and Batman, especially Joker, and the fact that the film is beautifully shot in a graphics novel style with dreary overtone. Both characters are psychopaths. Joker because he is terribly defaced (caused by Batman). Batman because his childhood trauma, where his parents are killed in a robbery by the then a young, handsome Joker. Joker hides his feelings by an eternal laughter, while Batman is eternally sulky with a serious face. This is cop and robber insane. (amazon.com↗)
Joker calls Batman the “Sideshow phony”. Not until few years later i realized how much culture and history that jab alludes. It's so fittingly funny too. If you want to know more about sideshows, i recommend the film: Sideshow: Alive on the Inside (1999) (amazon.com↗) . You'll see conjoined twins, living person missing body parts from waist down, and others that we technically call freaks. The first time i got interested in conjoined twins is when i read about Hensel Twins in Time mag around 1996. (Hensel Twins photo) At the time i was thinking “gosh, what a philosophical can of worm this is.”. Now i've read about and seen on video quite a few conjoined twins. They are fascinating. I would marry the Hensel twins, for their beauty. See also: Conjoined twins↗, Abigail and Brittany Hensel↗
Exotica (wp↗) (1995) | Characters I love: Christina (Mia Kirshner), Zoe (Arsinée Khanjian) | Comment: One might call this film a psychological thriller. The film is centered on few characters, each is given an intense development. Each character are morbid in one way or another. The theme of the film is similar to “Sex, Lies, and Videotape”. Both sells on the psychology of characters and their relations. (amazon.com↗)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (wp↗) (1989) | Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo), Ann (Andie MacDowell) | Comment: A simple story of a man and his relations with his high-school friend, the friend's wife, and the wife's sister. (amazon.com↗)
Crumb (wp↗) (1994) | Documentary of a pathetic comic book artist and his morbid family. (amazon.com↗) See also: Art of Robert Crumb.
Taxi Driver (wp↗) (1976). | Directed by Martin Scorsese | a film of a schizoid. (amazon.com↗)
Thomas in Love (wp↗) (2000) | about the digital agoraphobic world many of us tech geeks live in. The beginning virtual sex scene is just fantastic. See also: Agoraphobia
Titus (1999) (wp↗) | Director: Julie Taymor. | Like other men, the part i really enjoyed and appreciated is the raping of the girl, the cutting off of her tongue, and then cutting off her hands and stick tree branches in the remaining stumps. I avow you to enjoy this timeless appreciation with me. Aside from the rape scene, i just love this movie for so many other scenes, and definitely the orgy scene. The scene where two heads are showcased by a circus-like clod and a red-headed girl is so attractive. The boy in this movie, the Goth queen and her 2 sons, and the black Aaron, and the emperor and Andronicus are all so arresting. (amazon.com↗)
Here's full annotated text of The Tragedy Of Titus Andronicus.
Freaks (wp↗) (1932) | Director: Tod Browning | film with real deformed people. | Daisy Hilton and Violet Hilton conjoint female twin. Martha Morris “armless wonder”. John Echkardt, “Johnny Eck, The Half-boy” — a man without hips and legs. Randion “the living torso” ?-1934 — a man without any limbs... Many of the females here are utterly attractive. Daisy and Violet, two sweet and docile heads in one piece. The Cleopatra womanly goddess, not deeds but body. The armless girl with her nubile bare feet. The midget woman Frieda with her sincerity and sorrow. Besides the female attraction, all other freaks here are so utterly cute and lovable. Hercules is the one person in this film that’s hateful. This film, reinforced strongly an idea, that happiness is immaterial. Also, that human can survive fine without limbs.
Death and the Maiden (wp↗) (1994) |Great music. Great pussy torture. See also: A Love of Torture .
Cabaret (wp↗) (1972) | Director: Bob Fosse. | There are many films on showgirls; this is the most revealing. (amazon.com↗)
霸王别姬 (Farewell my Concubine) (wp↗) (1993) Director: 陈凯歌. The greatest epic in film.
活着 (To Live) (wp↗) (1994) | Directed by Bin Wang?, Xleochun Zhang?, 张艺谋, Plot Summary: In the 1940's China, the story of a gambler's life. .
红高粱 (Red Sorghum) (wp↗) (1987) | Director: 张艺谋 (Yimou Zhang).
Final Fantasy (wp↗) (2001) | Though this one has not received rave reviews, but i personally loved it. Imagine, this movies is produced entirely by computers, sans models even. Sometimes in the foreseeable future we'll have movies generated by computer that is indistinguishable from real-life recordings. (amazon.com↗)
Logan's Run (wp↗) (1976) | Directed by Michael Anderson (I)
2001: A Space Odyssey (wp↗) (1968) | A realistic rendering of a story based on artificial intelligence, with a philosophical twist on contacting aliens. (amazon.com↗)
Twelve Monkeys (wp↗) xxxx |(amazon.com↗)
The Matrix (wp↗) (1999) |Love Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss). Athletic, demure, calm, love lorn, good hearted. A bit under powered, but that's ok. (amazon.com↗). Subsequent Matrix films are crap.
City of Lost Children (wp↗) (1995) |I love the little girl Miette (Judith Vittet)| “Sincerity always wins.”| Comment: fantasy, fairy tale, surreal, gloomy. There are a bunch of queer characters, some are extremely sad. Irvin suffers from chronic migraine, and Irvin is a brain living in a fish tank. Krank, who are of a supreme mind but he is incapable of dreaming. He steals dreams from children but obtains only nightmares. (amazon.com↗)
“The singular burden of solitude spares no one, not even great minds”
blade runner (wp↗) (1982) | The character Rachael (Sean Young) in the movie is for some reason is sexy. A quite type with potent sexuality. I love the owl too.
Jurassic Park (1993) | Every character in this movie is quite quirky and fascinating. (wp↗)
The Fly (1986) (wp↗)
Apollo 13 (1995) For more info, see: (wp↗)
Total Recall (wp↗) (1990) | Character I love: Lori (Sharon Stone) Athletic, determined, moraless, kick ass femme fatale and blonde.
Dark City (wp↗) (1998) | love Emma Murdoch/Anna (Jennifer Connelly) She's so silently seductive. So meek. So radiates a ripe, mature attractiveness. She's also in: Hulk↗ (2003), A Beautiful Mind↗ (2001), Requiem For A Dream↗ (2000). She's beautiful in all of them. Labyrinth↗ (1986)
Being John Malkovich (wp↗) (1999) | Directed by Spike Jonze. An oddity. (amazon.com↗)
Princess Bride (wp↗) (1995) | Directed by Rob Reiner.
Four Weddings and a Funeral (wp↗) (1994)
饮食男女 (Eat, drink, man, woman) (wp↗) | Directed by 李安 (Ang Lee). I love that girl Rachel (played by Yu Chen) working in MacDonalds. She is the supreme dark haired flagrant goddess who reins power and throws attraction in a glimpse that draw my concentrated attention. .
A Fish Called Wanda (wp↗) (1988)
When Harry Met Sally (wp↗) (1989) | Directed by Rob Reiner. | My God, what a beauty, that Meg Ryan, Sally Albright goody two-shoes character. Blonde, blue eyes. Clear blue eyes. Pert and perky smiles. These women go around ensnare men. I am a prey to them.
The Wizard of Oz (wp↗) (1939) | Wonderful.
Dreams | Director: Akira Kurosawa. | I particularly liked the first few sections. One about the fox procession and one about peach tree, also the one about soldiers (tunnel).(amazon.com↗)
American Beauty (wp↗) (1999) | Love the two chicks. One for her well-fed American teen-girl mannerism, and one for her youth crisis gothic-ness. (amazon.com↗).
Heavenly Creatures (1994) | Two highschool girls suspected of lesbianism, and in fear of separation, they murdered one of their mom. Based on a true story in Australia. (wp↗)
The Day when the sun turns cold (wp↗) (1994) | Directed a Ho Yim. | a simple murder mystery story
Camille Claudel (wp↗) (1988) |Camille Claudel (Isabelle Adjani) is a supremely beautiful lass.
The Ice Storm (wp↗) (1997) | Director: Ang Lee. Love Wendy Hood (Christina Ricci), Libbets Casey (Katie Holmes) for her sexiness. Love all other actors.
Rain Man (wp↗) (1988)
Disclosure (wp↗) (1994) | Character I love: Meredith Johnson (Demi Moore)| Comment: There's nothing more important in life than the issue of Sex in the Office. Perhaps a American government branch should be erected for all sex related subject matters, with one department focusing on the law, prevention, and enforcement of sex at work. It is also commendable to invest in a tech device that can be embedded into genitals at birth, so that government can detect every illicit sexual intercourse.
The Crying Game | It's not what you think!. Wonderful film.
和你在一起 (together) (wp↗) (2002) | Director: 陈凯歌
秋菊打官司 (The story of Qiu Ju) (1992) | (wp↗)
菊豆 (Ju Dou) (wp↗) (1990) | Directed by Yang Fengliang, 张艺谋 (Yimou Zhang), Plot Summary: A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural ...
大红灯笼高高挂 (Raise The Red Lantern) (1991) | Director: 张艺谋 (Yimou Zhang). (wp↗)
一个都不能少 (Not One Less) (wp↗) (1999) | Director: 张艺谋 (Yimou Zhang)| about a 13-years old substitute teacher in a poor rural area of China. Wonderful film.
the red dwarf (wp↗) (1998) | Directed by Yvan Le Moine. Black and white. A bit pointless. Art for arts sake. Supremely beautiful little girl Isis Colombe (played by Dyna Gauzy). Best acting. The clown, Bob, and the girl. The film of circuses.
Three Colors: Red (wp↗) (1994) | The aspect of enjoyment for this film is watching. By that I don't mean visual treats, but rather, a story told in visual form. It is not a dramatic story. The film does not engage in sexiness or any apparent excitement of the senses. Instead, it's the aspects of telling a plain story gets you fascinated much in the same way you are curious to what happened to your old friends or acquaintances. I like the judge for his unerring confidence and decisiveness. I like the girl of her sincerity, virtue, and with her fine countenance and delicate body, beauty.
Pulp Fiction (wp↗) (1994) | drugs and shooting people and pussy eating philosophy and sex-slave keeping cops. Pulpy. (amazon.com↗).
Mulholland Drive (wp↗) (2001) | Director: David Lynch. | Eerie, scary, beautiful. Fantastic lesbian scene to boot. I love the Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn (Naomi Watts) What wouldn't i do for a blonde & blue eyes? I also love waitress at Winkies (Missy Crider). The blonde actress Lori Heuring (director's wife) is also lovely. One too many blonde running around and i'll die in heaven. The raven haired Rita (Laura Elena Harring) is also lovely. (amazon.com↗)
Last Exit to Brooklyn (wp↗) (1989) | Comment: Pain and fear of the outcast.
Do the Right Thing (wp↗) (1989) | Comment: Pain and fear of the outcast. (amazon.com↗)
Natural Born Killers (amazon.com↗) (1995). | Directed by Oliver Stone.
To sleep with a vampire (wp↗) (1993) | Director: Adam Friedman. | I love stripper Nina (Charlie Spradling). I love her looks, love her attitude, love her mannerism, love her despondency and destitute. I love her fairly big tits too. She's the dark haired angle. (amazon.com↗)
Queen of the damned (2002) | In it, there's this chick Jesse (Marguerite Moreau) who is exceedingly womanly. I love her so. (wp↗)
Interview with the Vampire (wp↗) (1994) | Eternal youth may not be a good thing, after all. The girl actress Kirsten Dunst (playing Claudia) is fascinating to watch.
Soldiers are slaves of the government. Patriotism is the seed of war. —Xah Lee
Apocalypse Now (wp↗) (1979) | Often praised as the best film on war ever made. I've never seen so many helicopters flying about like a swamp of dragonflies of the tropic. These helicopters are “death from above”. The scene of the chopper attack wrung my heart out of shape. It is the best scene in the film. (amazon.com↗)
Full Metal Jacket (wp↗) (1987)
Platoon (amazon.com↗)
Bound (wp↗) (1996) | A very dark black comedy showing the power of love between two womem. It features cutting off of the fingers, one by one.
Blue Velvet (wp↗) (1986) | Director is David Lynch. We have in it a woman who's a masochist, wants to be beaten by her lover.
Primal Fear (wp↗) (1996) | Illustrates the fantasy of total control of emotion.
Silence of the Lambs (wp↗) (1991) |Character I love: Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) | Comment: The art of culinary on human flesh is the most difficult to master. I'm not much into cooking, but i long to savor a vulva or a tongue. The is a prequel Manhunter (wp↗) (1986) and sequel Hannibal (wp↗) (2001) are both excellent. The latter involves the explicit depiction of eating of a human brain, live, with a lady. Palpitating (amazon.com↗) The latest in the series Red Dragon (wp↗) (2002) is ok.
The Vanishing (wp↗) (1988) | A psychological thriller focusing on a puzzling disappearance of a wife.
Psycho (wp↗) (1960) | rating: 10| classic. Based on the serial killer Ed Gein.↗, along with the Buffalo Bill of Silence of the Lambs and the guy in Texas Chainsaw Massacre ~1975.
The Shining (wp↗) (1980) | Comment: Superb acting. Beautiful scenery. Standard Stanley Kubrick film. Jack Nicholson is fascinating to watch.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (wp↗) (1988) | Fantastic. See also Why Don't You Do Right sung by Jessica Rabbit.
Little Mermaid (wp↗) (1989) | See also: Is Disney Hurting Gender Feminism?
Aladdin (wp↗) (1992) | a culture rape by the WASP. Similar deeds are Sinbad (~2003), Mulan↗ (1998), Pocahontas↗ (1995).
What Disney do is — perhaps innocently as side effects of capitalism — to take a foreign culture's mythology, twist and turn it into a fairy tale of American mores and ethos. All foreign cultural elements of the myths are wiped clean. Instead, you have American heros (with a American heroine and a dog), American Justice Obsession, American humor, WASP freedom and equality sensibilities, and a WASP family value happy ending.
How can the WASP, who has genocided the Native Americans successfully and more in numbers than the Germans did Jews, with cutting off women's pussies and wear them as souveniring hats, have the audacity to run a movie Pocahontas shewing how “well we had our differences but finally became friends”?? Maybe if the Germans succeeded in eliminating Jews, then their propaganda machinery will show some family value fables about how Germans and Jews had some misunderstands but finally resolved their differences.
For some info on some reality of these Disney twists, see:
For a glimpse of the nature of Arabian Nights, see 70. ABU AL-ASWAD AND HIS SLAVE-GIRL
Spirited Away (wp↗) (2001) | Directed by Hayao Miyazaki | great modern tale, exemplary of Japanese animation at its best.
Project A-ko (wp↗) (1986) | Fantastic comedy. All the series.
Ghost in the Shell (wp↗) (1995) | Contrived touch of philosophy. Realistic but not perfect animation quality.
The Ultimate Teacher (1988) | An original and outrageous comedy. The story runs around two characters, with a third in the end. A school girl leader battles a cockroachman. Later, a spiderman comes along. The cockroachman is an accident of a secret government sponsored genetic project. The spiderman was the project leader, now he is genetically engineered with spider's genes in order to match power and capture the escaped cockroachman...
侠盗高飞 (Full Contact) wp↗ (1992). Fantastic.
Swept Away (wp↗) | Full title is “Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August”. A fantastic movie illustrating the primitive nature of man and woman.
Lust, Caution (2007) (wp↗) See: 天涯歌女 (The Wandering Songstress).
High Art (1998) | Drama. Love story. Artists. Fantastic. (wp↗)
Cyrano De Bergano
Sense and Sensibility
Pan's Labyrinth↗ (2006)
Downfall (2004) | On Adolf Hitler's last days. (Der Untergang↗)
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (wp↗) (1999) | A good, real-life cartoon show for the whole family. (amazon.com↗)
新龍门客棧 (Dragon Inn↗) (1992) | Director: Raymond Lee. (wp↗) The dialogue is extremely wily.
夜宴 (The Banquet) (2006) | (wp↗) Loosely based on Shakespeare's Hamlet. Beautiful cinematography. Terrible gongfu fighting scenes though.
英雄 (hero) (2002) | Director: 张艺谋 (Yimou Zhang). | the telling of a tale. (wp↗) .
House Of Flying Daggers (2004) | Directed by 张艺谋 (Yimou Zhang). This movie features the most grand poem on a lady: 北方有佳人. (wp↗)
Many.
Considering that many students visit my site and the many parents consider pornography harmful to children, thus I will not put up my porno comments at this moment. In case a penis pops out from the screen, cut it off!
Is pornography harmful to children? why? Better yet, write an essay that explains the matter. Or, you can educate me by pointing me to the sources of such essays or reports by prominent thinkers or scientist. If you are not well informed in this matter, I can tell you that there is no reliable evidence whatsoever that indicates pornography is inherently bad for the young. I think it is not good to censor pornography. Instead, parents should educate their children about pornography just like everything else. Give them guidance, and tell them candidly what it is. The gist being: “porn are materials that excites adults sexually, and is part of adult's life. Avoid them if you can, because some of them are low taste and leave you bad impressions”.
Funny that Americans cry out loud about censorship yet in their TVs and Movies show all kinds of sick violence and innuendo to sex and they fucking love every minute of it.
Tell you a secret: Personally, watching people fuck makes me feel that there's so much to life! (besides masturbation) That people are so diverse. That mainstream or traditional or conventional judgments that so conceived by each person's insignificant sights are not the only judgments of things in the world. That I must be myself, and act myself. It is the ultimate expression. A true beauty. Candidness and understanding are the beginnings to harmony. I want to see people without gazillion of hats, suites, medals, uniforms, makeups, or masks.
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