This Is It | 就是这样 | 2009

周末拖家带口去西单大悦城的电影院看了期待已久的《This Is It》，由于Vivienne和老妈沉迷于购物而错过了让无数MJ迷泪奔的开头字幕，等我们摸黑找到座位的时候那首《Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’》的旋律已经响了起来。第一次有要鼓掌的冲动是放到《They Don’t Care About Us》，Vivienne和我不同，MJ不是陪伴她成长的巨星，所以我需要给她解释为什么这里要放马丁·路德·金的原声。影院一直都是静悄悄的，直到片尾《Heal The World》才有点稀稀拉拉的掌声，这和水木BBS上说观众的掌声数度响彻全场完全不同。这时我才明白人们争抢首映的意义，珍贵的地方不在于你可以比别人提前几个小时或者提前几天知道剧情，而是在于你可以享受有着共同爱好和追求的人在一起的那种共鸣，10月28日凌晨的影院一定是泪水伴随着欢呼的夜晚，每一个观众的情感迸发都能够从旁边的观众身上得到呼应，那种感觉一定棒极了。一周以后再走进电影院，恐怕只能是孤独的欣赏舞台上的MJ，孤独的去回味每一首歌曲背后每个人不同的记忆了。我不愿意在天王前面加上“昔日”这两个字，因为他永远都是舞台上的神，不仅有神一样的音乐天赋和舞蹈天赋，还有常人难以企及的勤奋，Kenny Ortega说这场演出汇聚了全世界最优秀的音乐、伴舞、伴唱、灯光等工作人员，但他仍然要和方方面面的每一个细节较真，用谦逊而歉意的语调重复着再来一遍的要求。在片尾字幕出现之前，导演一共剪辑了14首排演的歌曲，我敢打赌全世界的歌迷都没有听够，因为MJ有太多太多的经典。大爱，是MJ音乐永恒的主题，当电影行进到《Earth Song》那一段，出现了MJ音乐中非常少见的独白，他对于自然和美好的呼声一定能感召更多的歌迷投身环保运动。以《Man in the Mirror》作为结尾让我稍感意外，不过我对《Bad》整张专辑的每一首歌都耳熟能详，我更愿意把它看作MJ呼唤美好的继续，那个略显消瘦的剪影在舞台上一遍又一遍的重复着“If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and then make a change”，写到这里我突然发现这首歌也很适合奥巴马演唱，就用这个玩笑作为这篇悲伤影评的结尾吧。9/10

窃听风云 | Overheard | 2009

我在高速大巴上看完了这部电影，一部云集了香港影坛新老帅哥的谍战影片，和那部一字之差的德国经典影片《窃听风暴》相比，差距绝不止一个字的距离。贪念，七宗罪之一，影片中的特警无法抵御，我扪心自问也很难。很早的时候，我就非常明确的告诉自己远离官场，因为在这些致富基本靠贪污和受贿的岗位，面对不够健全的法律和监督体制，我难以抵挡送上门的诱惑。与其每天把自己的脑袋别在腰上混官场，不如靠自己的双手和智慧过生活，所以我非常坚定的没有选择入党也没有考公务员，因为我有预判性质的自省。7/10

Wall Street | 华尔街 | 1987

前面刚刚谈过贪婪要不得，这里又要说说贪婪的益处，之所以花如此大篇幅直接贴上电影台词，是因为这个桥段是整部电影最闪光的地方之一。由风流帅男Michael Douglas扮演的Gordon Gekko是一个在资本市场翻云覆雨的金融大鳄，公司的创业者和守业者一般都将独立董事视为掠夺者，这是他入主Teldar Paper这家公司之后在董事会议上的一段辩论，简直是精彩绝伦。

Gordon Gekko: [at the Teldar Paper stockholder's meeting] Well, I appreciate the opportunity you're giving me Mr. Cromwell as the single largest shareholder in Teldar Paper, to speak. Well, ladies and gentlemen we're not here to indulge in fantasy but in political and economic reality. America, America has become a second-rate power. Its trade deficit and its fiscal deficit are at nightmare proportions. Now, in the days of the free market when our country was a top industrial power, there was accountability to the stockholder. The Carnegies, the Mellons, the men that built this great industrial empire, made sure of it because it was their money at stake. Today, management has no stake in the company! All together, these men sitting up here own less than three percent of the company. And where does Mr. Cromwell put his million-dollar salary? Not in Teldar stock; he owns less than one percent. You own the company. That's right, you, the stockholder. And you are all being royally screwed over by these, these bureaucrats, with their luncheons, their hunting and fishing trips, their corporate jets and golden parachutes.

Cromwell: This is an outrage! You're out of line Gekko!

Gordon Gekko: Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can't figure it out. One thing I do know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I'll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these vice presidents. The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you. I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much.

Gordon Gekko还有一段台词很有意思，但这就是真相，前一阵子在“人渣经济学”郭凯的博客上也看到了类似的数据：The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars [注：1987年的水平]. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons.

本片是导演Oliver Stone献礼他父亲的电影，因为他爸爸就是一个股票经纪人。我最早注意到这部电影的时候，以为是关于1987年华尔街股灾的纪录片，没想到讲述的是一个毛头小伙子在华尔街闯江湖的故事，略感失望。8/10

生活琐事：

1.      在优衣库（Uniqlo）买了两件纯棉短袖背心，穿在衬衣里面很舒服，难怪鬼子们都喜欢这样穿，这是我第一次在冬天主动寻求保暖措施，果然一过25岁身体就开始走下坡路了。

2.      发现成城日本料理的煎鹅肝很好吃，但其他菜点和就餐环境完全配不上那个价位；同时发现王品台塑牛排名不虚传，不过环境一般，建议约情人吃牛排还是选西堤牛排吧。

3.      北京国安夺冠了，我首次关注了中超整整一个赛季，对国安多少有点感情，但Vivienne却和国安势同水火，原因竟然是她觉得某些球员素质很低……

4.      米兰再战皇马，希望中场球员能多分担进球任务，最近两年进攻点单一的问题一直没有改善。Forza Milano!