Cape No. 7
I only saw the movie “Cape No. 7” last July when everyone else already seen it. It tells the story of a Taiwanese man, A Ga, who returns to Kending after failing as a musician in Taipei .
Back home he becomes a member of a local band, which is organized by a Japanese girl with whom he falls in love. Though there are various of quirks with lovable characters in the movie,
I’m not sure why A Ga is pissed off all the time. (Actually he gets the long face look in entire movie)
One scene I found particularly funny : The romantic scene when A Ga says to the Japanese girl: “留下來或我跟你走”, meaning, “stay or I will go with you (back to Japan)”, was translated into “stay or I walk with you.” It becomes stay here or I will walk with you on the beach or…something. I don’t know if anybody discovers this but it would become quite different. It’s meant to be sweet and romantic now it becomes hilarious. “If you can’t stay,how about we walk hand in hand later on…? Can we see it as an understandable mistake.----
**You may call me crazy. I love to read – always have – and here’s one of my biggest peeves: I can’t stand it when I buy a book and someone else asks to read it before I’ve had a chance to. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a crisp new paperback or some well-worn and musty classic. It doesn’t matter if you’re my family, or a dying orphan child, or Barack Obama: The answer will always be “no.” It’s My book; I get to read it first. Regardless of what I might have taught my students about sharing, I hate the idea of someone else turning those pages ahead of me, maybe taking away some of a book’s magic – because I do think that books are magic – before it gets to me.
The problem is that I buy books the way that some women buy shoes or trendy stuff : on impulse, and without any consideration for the huge backlog of unread books I already have at home. My reading list is becoming longer and longer and soon I would forget some of the books’ names. This is incurable, I know and I’m not intend to fix it. So go ahead and call me “Weirdo”.
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