Sunday, November 27, 2011

Time Travel

Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the need for the traveler to experience the intervening period (at least not at the normal rate).  You may not know or never think about what is time travel, but some of you may know a movie which is Kate and Leopold. This movie is a story about two strangers meet in New York city but the time for the man differs 100 years from the woman. Two differences concept of value have a conflict because the 100 years. Today in here I do not want to try to explain time travel in a specific scientific way, what I want to talk about is just a dream from a girl.

When I was a little girl, I always dream if I live in a fairy tale, I will be a pretty princess wait for my prince and have a romantic love story. This dream was faded away when I getting older. Since now I still have some similar dreams like that, but now I'm start to dreaming about if I can have a time travel. What I will do if I have a time machine? I think I will come up with a lot of different answers. In the most simple way I will just tell you I want to go to the 10 years after now because I want to see my job, my friends even my husband in the future. I may also answer you I want to go to 2 years before now because I want re-spend my ninth grade life, I won't not study everyday like I used do, then my life may totally changed just because one year's hard-working.

But what I most want to do if I have a time machine I think will go back to Chinese history time to start a new life. There are too many things interest me in the history time. I want to go back to Qin dynasty see how emperor Qin built his mausoleum which is Terracotta Army; I want to go back to Han dynasty see how the ancients arouse the war, and the military tactics show from the war; I want to go back to Tang dynasty see how the literati write all different kinds of amazing poems; I even want to go back to Yuan dynasty see how Genghis Khan leads his army seize more and more cities. Also I want go back to the history year tell people the knowledge and technology we use now to help my country get stronger.

I always dreaming of a wonderful time travel. Now, what do you think?

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Schindler's List

Oskar Schindler is a German industrialist and casual womaniser, who is using cheap Jewish labour in Poland in the hope of making his millions from war profiteering. He's also a Nazi. His business runs into trouble however when the Nazis begin to implement the Holocaust, and his cheap labour is rounded up and deported to a labour camp under the baleful eye of Amon Goeth. Schindler bribes Goeth at first to release the Jews to him, because he needs the cheap labour and he's fast approaching bankruptcy without them, particularly his pin-sharp accountant Itzhak Stern. But something else is stirring inside Schindler, a feeling that he should be doing more. Something not designed solely for profit. Something human.

In this movie, there is a scene that excite people's mind. In the crowd of black and white, there is a little girl who wear a red coat was walking in the throng, without any purpose. This is a monochrome movie, with a black and white background, the red coat was been more conspicuous in the frame. I think red is the color of life, brilliance but fragile. Live in the war times, lives have no safeguard, people might be dead the next second, but in this situation, it makes lives been more precious. Just like what the mother said in the movie, "An hour of life is still life."

Another scene that always stay in my head is the night Schindler makes that list. An oil lamp, a typewriter and two men. In a slient night, we can hear the Jewish names were said from a clear and firm voice, one by one, more and more names were been typed on the list. “This list is an absolute good. the list……is life. All around its margins lies the gulf.” Everytime when a name said from his mouth, that means a life was been saved.

I like this movie not just because the moving story but also the score and editing, those things all make the movie great.