《北風》電影

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這部南韓參展坎城影展的力作,根據「黑金星」事實所改編。全片拍攝極具真實感,尤其金正日那幾幕,幾乎可亂真。

The Korean award-winning film "The Spy Gone North" is an impressively realistic, suspense-filled, and ultimately uplifting film based on the true story of "Black Venus".

 

情節緊張、演技洗鍊。雖然充滿爾愚爾詐,但是片子最後意外的呈現出中低層情報人員經歷生死考驗而超越敵我的情誼和義氣,著實感人。尤其與上層官員政客卑鄙自私對比下,顯得人性的高貴。

有些場景在台灣拍攝。

極為推薦的另類佳片。

林中斌 2018.9.16

 

Although the story is filled with intrigue and distrust, the noble brotherly bond between low-ranking operatives across the line between enemies that was formed through the crucible of life-threatening danger is deeply moving. It is especially so as in contrast to the selfish and base calculations of the high-ranking officials and politicians.

Rotten Tomatoes rated it “Five Stars out of Five”

Highly recommended.

Chong-Pin Lin September 16, 2018

 

The Spy Gone North (2018) - Rotten Tomatoes

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_spy_gone_north/

評分:100% Rotten Tomatoes rated it “Five Stars out of Five”

 

In 1993 Korea, the only country where the Cold War continues, tensions surrounding the development of nuclear weapons escalate. Seok-young Park, an army major in the South Korea military intelligence with the code name 'Black Venus' is assigned a mission to infiltrate the North Korean nuclear facility. Seok-young disguises himself as a South Korean businessman working on a collaborative project with North Korea, and approaches Myung-woon Lee, a North Korean high official based in Beijing. After laying down groundwork for years, Seok-young finally manages to win the North Korean ruling class' trust and secure a contract for joint advertising. However, Seok-young soon discovers that both North and South Korea are making secret deals for their own interests in the 1998 South Korea presidential election.

 

《北風》是一部2018年劇情片,由尹鍾彬執導的一部韓國劇情片。入圍第71屆坎城影展午夜單元。本片獲得第23屆釜山影展最佳影片、導演、最佳男主角、男配角、劇本及美術獎7項大獎提名,從演技到技術全方面獲得評審的肯定。

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Jennifer Schuessler, “Calligraphy? Chicken scratch? Both, actually”

The New York Times International Edition,

July 19, 2018

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書法表露人格。中西皆然。
左邊是7歲的小女孩一絲不苟的書信。她將統治日不落的大帝國。右邊是加速帝俄朝廷崩潰的"瘋僧"

Compare the handwritings. On the left is the tidy letter of a seven-year-old girl who would become queen ruling an empire that saw no setting sun. On the right is that of the "mad monk" who corrupted the Tsarist Russian court before it collapsed in 1917. (Queen Victoria vs Rasputin)

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We are living in a golden age of both fretting about handwriting and fetishizing it. Polemicists lament that cursive is going the way of the dodo. Meanwhile, oldschool devotees of pen and paper post their work on social media with hashtags like #snailmail and #penpal.

“The Magic of Handwriting,” an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, might seem at first glance to be part of this nostalgia. Instead, it simply luxuriates in the humble, intimate and sometimes very messy traces that some of the great figures of history have left behind.

The show features some 140 items from the encyclopedic holdings of the Brazilian collector Pedro Corrêa do Lago, who got his start at the age of 11, when he wrote to prominent figures to ask for their autographs. Today, he owns roughly 100,000 letters, notes, receipts, manuscripts, signed photographs and other pieces documenting notable lives in the arts, politics, science and other fields.

During an interview at the museum, the loquacious Mr. Corrêa do Lago, 60, called his collection “a symbolic snapshot of Western culture over the past 500 years.” He also sees it as it the product a kind of madness. “It became an absolutely crazy project that drowned all the money I made,” he said, with a laugh. “I should be in a straitjacket.”

Here is a sampling of items from the exhibition, and the sometimes quirky, sidelong glances they offer at their creators.

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出芽(Piping)

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小小觀察,或許有助於露面公眾及國際場合的朋友參考。
*西裝袖口露出其內()襯衫或稱"出芽"應注意:
1.
出芽應不多不少。約1.5公分。
這是歐西社會數世紀的傳統,有其審美莊重的基礎。中國古裝遲至滿清,亦有此特性。"出芽"(piping)一詞中斌借用來自滿族內人家旗袍的縫邊。雖然近十年,美國流行減少出芽寬度,竊以為遲早回回歸基本美學。

2.西裝袖口,穿衣人直立時,外肘邊應比內臂邊長。如此穿衣人彎肘時,如坐沙發時,出芽寬度才均等。

連先生不合格。習先生合格。美防長Jim Matiss合格。

*穿西裝,站立時,扣上鈕。坐下時,不扣鈕。(穿雙排釦西裝例外,站立和坐下都扣鈕)

連先生不合格。習先生合格。美防長Jim Matiss合格。

 

林中斌 2018.7.15

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台灣每人每年吃肉60公斤

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*南韓吃掉51.5公斤,中國人49.8公斤。
*戰鬥民族俄羅斯人每年吃掉60.9公斤。
*這些數字尚不包括海鮮。
*臺灣有全世界密度最高的吃到飽餐廳。
*臺灣運動在教育中不受重視。運動風氣長年落後,雖然近來上升,但與歐美日本對岸相比,嚴重落後。
減肥大賺錢。
*感謝彭啟明博士獨立研究發現的數據。


林中斌 2018.7.23

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“Top Dog” Pentti Sammallahti’s Photographs

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Pentti Sammallahti, Finnish Photographer

第一張"Top Dog"是今年68歲的芬蘭攝影名師的作品。

2003年曾被20世紀偉大的攝影師布列松選為一百張"最感人、最有衝擊力、最令人快樂"照片中的首選。

In 2003 Henri Cartier-Bresson chose a photo (first on the left) by Mr. Pentti Sammallahti, a 53-year old photographer then --one of 100 images that the French master found most "stimulating, joyful and moving"-- for his foundation's inaugural exhibition in Paris. A big dog sits high up on a Russian snowmobile, it's ears pricked, king of all it surveys.

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China’s Economic Outlook in Six Charts

IMF July 26, 2018
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《中國經濟前景的6張圖表》
今年726日,國際貨幣基金會發表 "中國經濟前景的6張圖表"
其中第二張圖表(下面附圖在下移為首張)標題是:
質量和數量
中國目前處於歷史的轉捩點。幾十年高速度成長之後,聚焦在高品質的成長。即使中國經濟成長減緩,到2030年可能將超過美國稱為世界上最大的經濟體。

全文請見
https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2018/07/25/na072618-chinas-economic-outlook-in-six-charts

感謝Frank Liu 提供資訊

林中斌 2018.8.23

p.s. : Why did IMF seem to differ in tone from Trump's White House which has avoided affirming the prospect of China's rise? Is it because, unlike World Bank which is led by an American, IMF is headed by a European? These days, the Europeans are not totally pleased by the U.S. President.

China’s Economic Outlook in Six Charts
July 26, 2018

2. A focus on high-quality growth. China is at an historic juncture. After decades of high-speed growth, the government is now focusing on high-quality growth….Even with a gradual slowdown in growth, China could become the world’s largest economy by 2030.

 

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《黃昏清兵衛》電影

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鄭重推薦。
這是少有的佳片。多年前看過,至今難忘。
充滿感人至深的情義;
和人生所遇兩難的困境;
逼出個人不隨俗妥協的內在正能量;
情節曲折精彩。
背景是武士即將沒落的世代。
身懷絕技不求聞達的窮武士每天下班便回家照顧老母,不參加同仁武士飲酒社交。被調侃叫作"黃昏清兵衛"
一直到遇見無法置身事外的不平之事...
是暢銷三部曲小說改編成的電影中最精彩的一部。(都精采)
他的童年女兒問他:
"
你為何要我們讀論語?"
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因為這是亂世,我要你們活下去。"
看電影的我感觸良多。崇日的國家社會已開始要揚棄孔子了。而日本最受歡迎的武士片在推崇孔子!!!

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"With Ships and Missiles, China Is Ready to Challenge U.S. Navy in Pacific"

New York Times, Aug 29, 2018

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/world/asia/china-navy-aircraft-carrier-pacific.html

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這是一篇紐約時報對中國海軍驚人大躍進的報導。涵蓋面廣,資料的來源引據確實。是目前最完整的解放軍海軍現代化報告。

●2017 軍艦與潛艦總數:
中國 317:美國 283
2017
年,中國海軍已成全球最大。
今年3月,美國印太艦隊司令Philip S. Davidson上將說:"除了正式開戰之外,中國現在已可在各種狀況下控制南海。...未來即使開戰,美國沒有把握打贏中國"

“China is now capable of controlling the South China Sea in all scenarios short of war with the United States,” the new commander of the United States Indo-Pacific Command, Adm. Philip S. Davidson, acknowledged in written remarks submitted during his Senate confirmation process in March.....
“There is no guarantee that the United States would win a future conflict with China,” he concluded.

蘭德公司的專家Lyle Morris說:"中國在西沙南沙部署飛彈使得美國必須部署軍艦在它們射程以外,但中國飛彈射程愈來越遠,使得美國這招變為不可能。"

Lyle Morris, an analyst with the RAND Corporation, said that China’s deployment of missiles in the disputed Paracel and Spratly Islands “will dramatically change how the U.S. military operates” across Asia and the Pacific.

The best American response, he added, would be “to find new and innovative methods” of deploying ships outside their range. Given the longer range of the ballistic missiles, however, that is not possible “in most contingencies” the American Navy would be likely to face in Asia.

過去10年,中國建造100多艘軍艦,此數目甚至超過許多國家的海軍總數。
The carriers attract the most attention but China’s naval expansion has been far broader. The Chinese Navy — officially the People’s Liberation Army Navy — has built more than 100 warships and submarines in the last decade alone, more than the entire naval fleets of all but a handful of nations.

 

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光彩金山  

Golden City Shine

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林中斌,〈台灣: 大愛與理盲並存的社會〉
《聯合報》 2013年4月15
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感人至深!!

*這或者是撲向臺灣的颱風連續幾年都臨時轉彎的原因之一。

*臺灣亂象充徹的媒體上看不見的社會另一面。

*一定要有淤泥才會長出蓮花嗎?

林中斌 2018.8.16

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    嬌小的身影,柔軟的音調。台上拿麥克風的女孩,指著銀幕上她相機所捕捉的「草根台灣臉譜」皺紋滿面的阿公阿嬤,娓娓陳述台灣低層社會賺人熱淚的獨擊報導。

    一百零三歲阿美族人瑞婆婆,正在細心手編要送人的多彩竹藍。她告訴沈芯菱自己快樂秘訣:要不斷把快樂帶給別人!

    連續種玉米得冠軍的阿姨,在驕陽下戴著斗笠燦爛的笑著。她送給鞠躬不已的鄰居禮物竟是一包包玉米種子。周圍有優良的玉米花粉,風吹蜜蜂飛,阿姨的玉米才會不斷得冠軍。

    出身雲林縣貧苦家庭,半工半讀,清華大學畢業,現攻台大研究所。廿三歲的沈芯菱,從十一歲起開始她獨特的愛心事業 ─ 幫滯銷果農網銷、助弱勢學生教育等 ─ 已是國際知名的慈善家。

    三月廿四日,我很榮幸為「台灣創格論壇」作主題演講。但是我與人分享的,遠不如我從三位隨後登台青年身上獲益的多。除了沈芯菱之外,還有卅歲的「倒立先生黃明正」,和「名人開講」(TEDXTaipei)台灣創辦人卅出頭的許毓仁。他們共同之處有四:

    一、出身低微。不是攤販、便是貧農。二、有夢想、有毅力。他們所做,開始時倍受嘲諷,但堅持不輟,成果斐然。三、有邏輯、無贅字。講話理路清晰,無膨風,沒廢話。四、大愛。沈芯菱感人事蹟不說,黃明正用倒立激勵癱瘓兒童追求他飛行的夢想,用倒立引人注意環境的破壞及地震災民的困難。許毓仁以影像紀錄不同人士「十八分鐘自述」為社會注入關懷與溫馨。

    這四項中最大的力量是愛心。從捷運上讓座的青年,到澳洲洪水後立刻出現救災的當地慈濟人(市長打了八通電話給政府,仍沒人來),大愛已是台灣耀眼的光芒。

    聽完他們三位的故事,我看到台灣的希望。但是愉悅的心情不久便被「核四」爭議覆蓋了。

    國家面臨如此重大的公投議題,無論在媒體上,無論在政府文件上,無論在專家分析上,人民卻看不到一頁正面反面理由同時出現的比較表!在歐美,公投前,此種正反對照表早已滿天飛了。

    在台灣,我們每次所能看到聽到的都是一方面的論點。單看單聽,都言之成理,而且振振有詞。

    例如,擁核的會說:「法國百分之八十靠核能,從未發生意外。不建核四,核一核二更危險。」反核的會說:「近年政府運作失常,無法保證不會誤失,核災一旦發生無法挽回。」除上列說法之外,雙方各式理由還有更多。但是就是見不到一目了然囊括所有正反理由的全貌。

    其實,對幾乎所有的爭議,除了總統選舉,台灣都看不到正反論述併陳的報紙版面,或雙方辯論的場合。為什麼?

    淺見是: 理盲。我們社會在思緒智力上已愈趨退化了。對深度研究不耐,卻熱衷腦筋急轉彎。我們國際比賽獲冠軍的項目是:釀酒、製麵包、服裝設計、高爾夫球、中學樂隊等。哲學歷史的創見?科學的重大突破?多嗎?

    所以,堂皇的國會裡討論嚴肅的安全議題,居然問國防部長「人魚線為何」!報紙頭版頭條竟然充斥綜藝新聞!

    台灣的弱項是智慧淺碟化。台灣的強項是愛心海洋化,既深又廣。

    台灣若長此以往,政治軍事恐將淪為配件,生活社會將升為主體。

    未來,台灣強軍建國?甭想。也甭難過,因台灣將成小而美的社會。

 

    林中斌曾任國防部副部長,現為退休國際關係和戰略教授。

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