While We're Young 玩轉4字頭

中英文的電影譯名都算吸引觀眾，一心以為應該是笑片一齣，不過差點忘了，我看過Noah Baumbach幾齣作品都不是笑片，而是令人細味的佳作。對上一齣在電影節看的Frances Ha，十分喜歡，相比下這次真的有點失望。

"A middle-aged couple's career and marriage are overturned when a disarming young couple enters their lives." (imdb)

故事本身可塑性不俗，加上一點幽默，一直看一直仍抱希望，想著應該是不錯的，結果卻非如此。imdb的6.4分比Rotten Tomatoes的83%更中肯。不過有說是Noah Baumbach多齣作品最賣座的一齣了。唔，Frances Ha在香港好像沒有上過正場，此片可以上正場可能是因為片名及兩個主角。

你說電影heavy嘛，它又不算，你說它幽默攪笑嗎？它又不全是。總之有點什麼都不是的感覺。每種元素都欠一點。相信不少四字頭，即便已婚或未婚，都會看得有點不是味兒。導演自己本身46歲，不太認同他的想法。有朋友未看，簡略說了故事給她聽，她說很不認同，亦因而打消去看的念頭。和她看法一樣，很多我們這一代人都活得精彩，亦不見得被二字頭的一代弄得不是味兒的感覺。說到生bb就更不認同了，（或許美國人真的很著重有小孩子吧）怎麼生不到小孩也要去海地領養一個呢？完全不能苟同。

"He's not evil, he's just young."或許有點對，但十個不認同。

和我進場的人看畢後說：怎麼近來你揀的電影都不好看？ (哈哈，無奈)

現在倒想看看導演前作Greenberg(2010)，也是Ben Stiller。當然更期待Mistress America。

imdb連結(6.4 out of 10)

Rotten Tomatoes有83%

Jimmy's Hall 翩翩愛自由

原來此片應該是我喜歡的導演Ken Loach最後一齣劇情片。個人感覺沒預期中喜歡。

不過有音樂有舞蹈的故事，怎樣也不會令觀眾太失望。

在沒有審判下歷史性地被遞解出境，社會上的不公平，不限時空 ，不限地理，自古至今都比比皆是。

Ken Loach下一齣作品會是什麼？不過年邁的他還有心有力，已經令人極之佩服。

故事：During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America. Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and he looks to re-open the dance hall that led to his deportation.(imdb)

 

 

Rotten Tomatoes有76%，中肯。

How To Get Through...

life when mum is sick...

1. Treat everyday as your last days. I actually have been doing so for quite some time, long before mum got sick. Guess losing our dad in a sudden way more than a decade ago explains why I treasure all the quality time I can spend with my mum. 

2. Eat well. Drink well. Yes, and I gained weight this year, about a month after mum came home from surgeries. And yes, I'm at my record high. Gosh.

3. Don't waste time on people that you hate, say having lunch with colleagues that you hate a lot. :) Life is short, you deserve good lunches on your own or with people that you love/like. 

4. Some shopping from time to time does no harm ;) Even online shopping can help de-stress.

5. Convince your spouse or significant other that you need more time with mum, hope he/she understand. 

6. Things to do with mum (as I always do): movies, watch sunset (maybe even sunrise!), nice meals, yummy icecream, play games like scrabbles, go to church, a walk in the park, and many more. I took sick leave one weekday to join my mum and sis to go see "Inside Out" and went to Via Tokyo after the movie  :) 

7. Pray and be prepared. No, I haven't sought help from counsellor or whatsoever yet... although a friend in the industry advised me and my mum to consider. 

8. Hope for the best. You never know what God plans ahead for us. And stay positive! 

住家飯

四月中開始，娘家一星期三天有鐘點姐姐來買餸煮飯，當然會煲湯，可喜可賀。

姐姐頗年輕，但煮飯確有一手，只要我們想得到的她都會做，不時令人有驚喜，水準一直都不錯，實在感恩。

我們盡量少吃雞，當然也不會吃禁品如蝦蟹和鵝鴨等（我和家姐外出吃飯則例外）。她的拿手本領是魚湯，不會有魚腥味，濃濃的魚香令人回味。

其次是金沙骨、牛腩、beef stew、魚頭雲、煎釀三寶、鎮江骨、魚粥、雜菜煲（你真的會在煲裏見到三款不同的菜！） 、南乳齋，一時數不盡記不下。

欣賞她煲瓜湯下的功夫，我一向不喜歡合掌瓜湯及老黃瓜湯，因為合掌瓜的皮有一條條渣，老黃瓜也是，皮又厚又要吐。姐姐煮合掌瓜湯會先把那條渣除去，自此我也喜歡此湯。而老黃瓜，她會把皮削去，但保留在湯裏，這樣便保留到瓜皮的味道，而吃時又可以大啖大啖吃那些瓜了。

還有刴肉餅，很難得的是，她會自己刴豬肉，那肉餅和我們母親做的很不一樣（其實或許是吃慣了，我還是喜歡吃母親做的）。另一樣母親做得比她更好吃的是蝦糕蒸排骨。記得留學日子最懷念是母親的蝦糕蒸排骨。

昨晚我們想起，不如叫姐姐包雲吞/餃子，不過先要告訴她去哪裏買雲吞皮/餃子皮，相信她不會令我們失望。