Ting Shuo/ Hear Me

Yang Yang(秧秧) wanted to help her elder sister, Siao Peng(小朋) to win the champion in Deaflympics, so she cheered up for her sister on the side of the swimminf pool every day. Tian Kuo(天闊) delivered lunch boxes to the selected contestants every day. He saw that Yang Yang talked to Siao Peng with sign gesture, so he also talked to Yang Yang with sigh gesture, and even asked her for MSN address.


To make the chances of meeting her, Tian Kuo sold lunch boxes every day in front of gym. He purposely saved a box for Yang Yang, and he knew that she ofter starving and having financial problems.

Therefore, he started to make Love Lunch Box which contained excellent food made from tasty ingredients. Especially, he gave her these luxurous lunch boxes for free, which made Yang Yang feel touched and warm. However, she still noted all the prices of these boxes and insisted that she would pay back some day.

Through delivering lunch boxes, Tian Kuo had realized Yang Yang's life more clearly, and felt touched that she did her best to take care for her sister in every details. They became closer and cluser gradually but they had some conflict dut to some misunderstanding. Adding on Yang Yang thinking that she didn't pay enough attention to Siao Peng, so she decided to break up with Tian Kuo. How could Tian Kuo rebuild the relationship with her beloved lover........

All the audience may feel impressed because we found that Yang Yang was not deaf. In fact, the director had kept told us that most of us only saw the thing on the surface but not inside. Apparently, the leading male and female character are Tian Kuo and Yang Yang whom we paid most of our attention to. However, we could find this truth by looking at the interaction between these two sisters. The director wanted us to watch this film with eyes and realized it with our true heart.

Ji Jie Hao/ Assembly

Assembly(集結號) is a 2007 Chinese war drama film directed by Feng Xiaogang(馮小剛).
It is among the first Mainland-produce films to protray the Chinese Civil War in a realistic style. The movie is an adaptation of the novel "Guan Si"(官司)which is based on the real life account of a retired old soldier who engaged in upholding his company's honor.



The story begins in 1948 during the Huaihai Campaign of the Chinese Civil War (淮海戰役/國民黨稱為徐蚌會戰) with Gu Zidi (谷子地), a captain of the People's Liberation Army, fighting the KMT and winning the battle with severe casualties. After that, Gu's commanding officer, Colonel Liu (劉澤水團長), soon sent Gu and his 46 remaining men off on a new assignment; to defend to the last man with limited resources, and they couldn't retreat until he heard the bugle call for assembly with the regiment.

Just as the platoon fortifiled the position, the KMT army suddently attacked with various weapons and a large number of soldiers; the company fiercely fended off the army. Duty bound, Gu decided to stay which moves the remaining men to follow him and fight to the death. An undeternmined amount of time later, Gu was seen in an army hospital, the only apparent suvivor of the battle. Incredulously, he was treated as a prison of war for wearing a scavenged enemy uniform when he was found. No one can prove he was a soldier to fight against KMT.
Gu remained guilt-ridden over the next several year: he went on to fight in the Korean War and was wounded in the face during a sabotage mission bt a landmine to save another soldier Zhao Erdon(趙二斗).

With the help of Zhao Erdou, he found the old battlefield of Wen River (汶水).
Realizing he is now his company's only living witness, he camps out in a mining but near the old battlefield and started to dig at the huge coal pile daily with a pick and shovel, despite protests from the miners.A month into the ordeal, the old battalion's political offocer was found, and the men were finally honored through an offical notice.
Assembly has two part: the former one emphasizes the fierous battlefield while the later focused on the loneness of the heros. The director used the blood battlefield and sacrifice of the brave soldiers to emphasize the rediculous war. Soldiers held on their position but became unamed corpse in the end. What is the price of their sacrification?

August Rush

A famous and charming gitar player Louis and a beautiful celloist Laira, they met in a happy party. They quicly fell in love and had a one night stand accidently. However, the living background finally prevented them from being together.

After the separation, Laira found she was pregnant. Due to the high expectation from his father, he can't endure her daughter's behavior. After a serious argument, Laira had a serious car accident in a heavy rain. However, her father hid the infant secertly and sent it to a orphanage where the infant grew to the eleven years old.

Evan, a boy who had fantasy and enthusiasm to all the sound around him, like the sound of the wind, straw, birds and insects. All of the sound have been beautiful chapters in his clear mind. Although the officer of Walfare Affair wanted to find a parents for him, but he still believed that his parents would find him someday and they would be reunioned again. He left the orphanage and came to New York. However, his genius of music always attract the attention from other people.

Finally, after the tremendous struggles, he finally stood on the stage of the Central Park, attending the Spring Court. Thousands people stood there thereand heard his excellent performance will bring his parents to him in the end.

The movie successfully combined the classical music and the popular one.

We may think that there was too much luckness in this film. Music is certainly everywhere. The perserverance of the little boy make himself believe that his parents had not abandoned hin and still try to find him. Moreover, he believed the music will rebuild the connection between him and his parents.

The plot that I liked most is the little boy met his father but they didn't know each other, and their relationship. They only had the same interest and played the music happily. Maybe the parent-children relationship made them have the connection in their mind.

The end of this movie was pretty happy. The little boy accomplished all of his dream, because his beloved music helped him find back the love of them.

Music is all around us, what we have to do is listen.

Music can be so touchful, which brings the three connected their minds. Music can be so amazingly similiar. The little boy loved music more than any other else. Although he had grew up in an orphanage, he still believed that his parents will try to find him. Because when he heard the music playing in the city, although he couldn't see that , he kept waiting. Because once he the can be heard by each other, something amazing can be true. Instead of language, music van explain everything, and that is why the music can be so attractive.

Ginga Testudo no Yoru/ The Memeories of Galactic Railroad

Giovanni is a boy from a poor family, working hard to feed his sick mother. His kind friend Campanella cares for him. At school in a science class, the teacher asks Giovanni what the Milky Way really is? Giovanni knows that they are stars but cannot answer. The teacher asks Campanella, but he intentially does not answer to save Giovanni's face.

On the way of a large festival , Giovanni meets his classmate Zanelli. He makes fun of Giovanni and runs away to the festival. Giovanni can not go to the festival because he has to take care of his mother.

Tired, Giovanni lies down on top of hill. He hears a strange sound, and he realizes he is sitting in a train with Campanella. The train travels through the Northern Cross and other stars in the Millky Way. Along the way the two fantastic sights and mee various people- scholars excavating a fossil from the white sands of crystal and a man who catches herons to make candies from them.

Children who were on a ship that crashed into an iceburg get on the train, suggesting to the readers that the train is transporting its passengers to their afterlife. The train arrives at the Southern Cross and all the other passengers get off the train, leaving only Giovanni and Campanella in the train. Giovanni promises Campanella to go on forever, together. But as the train approaches another sites, Campanella disappears, leaving Giovanni behind.

Giovanni wakes up on the hill. He hands to the town, and finds out that Zanelli fell into the river from a boat. He was saved by Campanella who went into the water., but Campanella had not come up since then and is missing.

The story contains a religious question by author Kenji Miyazawa . The main theme of the story is "what is true happiness?"

The definition of happiness can be various, large or small.
Getting good grades can be happiness.
Earning money by taking part-time job can be happiness.
Finding a beautiful thing and feeling touched can be happiness.
Chatting and eating with friends can be happiness.
Readind a touching story can be happiness.
Leading the hand of a girl walking in the campus can also be happiness.
Breathing air in the high mountains and seeing stars in the night heaven can be happiness.
Happiness is all around us, but the problem is that we can't hold it in time.
Letting it slipping through our fingers or ignoring any possible tiny happiness.
We don't grab tiny happiness, not realize touchingness but enlarge unpleased and sdafeeling in our daily life.
In brief, we sell our soul to a devel whose name is Sadness.
Even though we beg the pity from God by this name, he may not give any forgiving to us.

Therefore, we have to let ourselves feel happy.
But I don't want to occupy myself in the happiness, because it's not all my life.
Don't take good things or bad ones for granted, and embrace them together.

If it can be so, our life will be happier.

Ashita no kioku/ The Memories of Tomorrow

Masayuki Saeki is a famous supervisor in an advertisement company. He is hardworking and respected by his officers and co-workers. He can devote himself in his work with the support of his wife, Emiko will be married very soon with an unborn baby. Happiness seems surrounding him all around. Until one day, due to the long headache, he goes to the doctor, and he amazingly knows that his health has faded away gradually. He can't not remember his co-workers, the street he passes everyday. He can't even remember the meeting time that which was decided one minute ago.

The theme of the book is describing a man who is disabled by Alzheimer's Disease and the interaction between he and his co-workers, friends and family members. In the movie, the memory of Saeki and Emiko in the youth appears again and again. In the novel, detailed information of Alzheimer is described like becoming forgetful, but the disease can't be cured. When a man suffers Alzheimer, he can't live over five to seven years.

When Saeki is told by his doctor, he can't believe the serious consequence. In the movie, Saeki even wants to jump out of the hospital building to end his life, but the doctor and Emiko succeed encourging him to face the reality. Emiko says "I will be with you forever." The words are not the love dialogue between elder couple. From the moment, the destiny of the couple is determined. They will walk together in the long life.

I'm wondering why the movie is so popular among the audience. The reason is that the plots in the movie may become reality among our life. Not only the patient of Alzhemier, the range can enlarge to all families which have elder people. In the seventies, the health problems will be serious. When our parents' health problem have been worse or they may even pass away very soon, how will we feel and what will we think. Will we regret that we haven't treated them well enpugh and how can we accompany them to the rest of their life. When the day come one day, how can we face it?

Joyeux Noel/ Merry Christmas

Joyeux Noel was a forgotten history in Christmas Eve in 1914. The authority of French even wanted to concel this thing until some missionaries spread this story gradually.










The director of this movie wanted to make a film about World War I. When he read "Battle of Flanders and Artois", he found a chapter named "Amazing Winter in 1914." In the winter, armies of German, Frence, and British had a ferious battle in the boundry of Frence. All of the three sides suffered great lost. On the battlefield, all soldiers seem to devote themselves for the battle, but actually they were pretty tired and exhausted with the coming of Christams.





At that time, a German tenor with his girlfriend coming to the frontline sang a touchful song "I'm dreaming of home" for all the soldiers. At this moment, not only German soldiers were touched but also the Frence and British soldiers. They all sang the same song and played instruments together. They shared their food and their missing of their family. Perhaps their language were different, but the enthusiasm and sincerity eased their distance and warmed their heart.

However, the reality couldn't be so perfect. After the touching Christmas Eve, the war continued for four years and the commanders were punished. However, the hope of enging war and sympathy of peace were revealed thoroughly in the Christmas Eve.

Joyeux Noel showed he value of peace. The director hoped that this movie not only inspired the people of the three countries, but also the everyone of the world. This forgotten history, the most warming, shortest and peaceful Christmas Eve.

In the groups of our daily life, not only the class or the club. All of us devoted ourselves to achieve the same goal and complete the same thing. However, as we know, it's impossible for everything to be done perfectly. Perhaps may occurred misunderstanding or some conflicts. At this time, we can see the originality of our behaviors is to achieve the same thing smoothly and completely. Only through the mutual understanding, mutual trust and mutual hope, we can receive the most precious accomplishment.

This is the song that they sang "I'm Dreaming of Home"

I hear the mountain birds

The sound of river singing

A soug I've often heard

It flows through me now

So clear and so loud

I stand where I am

And forever I'm dreaming of home

I feel so alone, I'm dreaming of home

It's carried in the air

The breeze of every morning

I see the land so fair

My heart opens wide

There's sadness inside

I stand where I am

And forever I'm dreaming of home

I feel so alone, I'm dreaming of home

This is no foreign sky

I see no foreign light

But far away am I

From some peaceful land

I'm longing to stand

A hand in my hand

forever I'm dreaming of home

I feel so alone, I'm dreaming of home

Diarios de motocicleta/ The Motorcycle Daries

I heard of this movie before, but I hadn't seen this film until my assignments of essay writing. This film describes the early life of Che Guevara,a famous revolutionist in Latin America.


The theme depicts a journey before he was engaged in revolution, which had a great impact on his view toward the life and become his originality of his idea to have revolution for people in Latin America. We can see in the beginning of the film: Che wanted to achieve a great goals with his innocent enthusiasm. However, he suffered several obstacles, like motorcycle breaking, unkind people, terrible weather, etc. He visited Machu Picchu to think about theie ancient civilization. Che stopped by a village of Leprosy and had sincere communication with the patients there. This movie is not only about the travel, but also an inspiration to encourage the youth to go outside and broadern their horizon. Che was born in a small happy family, he left the medical school to adventure with his closed friend Alberto Granado. If he chose to finish his diploma first, he might become restricted to the real life, and he would become a popular doctor on his hometown instead of a historical revolutionist. This movie encourages the youth to see more things. Even though the equipments is very old and insufficient, the main point is the passion to overcome every obstacles to deal with every unpredictable accident along the road. Looking the personality of Che, we can see that he has great enthusiasm, courage and perseverance. When he lived in the village of Leprosy, he swam across the river to the patients, this behavior can represent that he is willing to overcome any obstacles, and he certainly achieved revolutionary stories in his later life.


He was a nature rebeller to illness, bad weather and unsuitable principles, and we can see him involving serious problem. Of course, now in our country, we don't need to have revolution against the ruling authority because our laws have become sufficient and efficient enough to help us express our own opinions. However, although we can sastify our material life, the opress between hierarchy, disappearance of traditional culture and the carelessness of the social walfare. Many entrepreneurs may deliver touchful sppeches or publish their own opinions on the mass media, but there is few people like Che to get into the life of people in need. In the village of Leprosy, medical servants have to wear mittens, which may protect themselves but isolate from patients. Che refused to wear them and lived together with patients, which made them win the respect of the patients.

Now I am the member of Aborigional Service Club, we will go to aborigional tribes to do some a series of services and activities. From the past to now, I have seen many advertisements and programs saying that children in the mountains have little resources and need our help. However, at that time, like most people, I felt pity for them and donated a little money. Until now, I have known that only when I involve in their real life and lead the same life with them can I become a friend with them.

By arranging a large activitiy, this is the first time to design a large activity. I found it' s difficult to arrange every details pertty well. I also learned that if we want to take cart of others, we can't only have a kind heart, and we have to learn many kind of skills to help others.

In DFLL, I've seen that many classmates want to study abroad or take holiday working in other countries. Going to other developed countries can explore our view of gloalization but may not inspire our sympathetic emotion in our heart. I think I can also also learn something important in the aborigional tribes. The former will tell us how others live happily, while the later will tell us how we live happily.