Ingat dak this one guy, seorang PakCik kaya yang cacat, yang duduk kat Connecticut, yang kadang-kadang ada di Battery Park City, NYC, yang dulu aku pernah ke tempat dia di Connecticut tuh, kerja for like an hour or so, then dia kasi seratus dollars?
Dia ada talipun aku pagi tadi, dia nak mintak aku tolong kerja jaga dia for like 4 times a week.Aku beritahu dia yang aku kerja dan bila dia tahu aku banyak masa free kalau weekdays, dia suruh aku datang di sebelah malam, dan spend the night kat rumah dia sebab dia sekarang dah tak ada orang yang jaga. Dia kesian kat bini dan anak kecik dia, so dia nak kan ada orang yang bantu dia for a few hours a day.
Berat jugak aku nak setuju tapi sebenarnya boleh kot, cuma aku takut nanti tak cukup tidur pulak. Iyalah, nak ke Norwalk, Conn tuh, sejam setengah. Tengoklah macamana, kalau PakCik tuh beria sangat, mungkin aku setuju kot nanti, tak pun aku cuba lah mana-mana yang patut.
Aku tak ke mana-mana di sebelah pagi, sebab kat luar hujan renyai-renyai. Aku takat makan buah aje for lunch. Tapi cuaca ok, tempreture was in the high 60's, nyaman gitu. Pelik, a few days ago, sejuk sampai ke low teens, boleh jauh sangat turun naiknya.
Aku sampai apartment David/Hal awal jugak, sebab hujan tu lah. So aku melepak kat lobby aje dulu sebab malas lah aku nak terus naik ke apartment diaorang. Every second counts, ekekeke.
Dia ada talipun aku pagi tadi, dia nak mintak aku tolong kerja jaga dia for like 4 times a week.Aku beritahu dia yang aku kerja dan bila dia tahu aku banyak masa free kalau weekdays, dia suruh aku datang di sebelah malam, dan spend the night kat rumah dia sebab dia sekarang dah tak ada orang yang jaga. Dia kesian kat bini dan anak kecik dia, so dia nak kan ada orang yang bantu dia for a few hours a day.
Berat jugak aku nak setuju tapi sebenarnya boleh kot, cuma aku takut nanti tak cukup tidur pulak. Iyalah, nak ke Norwalk, Conn tuh, sejam setengah. Tengoklah macamana, kalau PakCik tuh beria sangat, mungkin aku setuju kot nanti, tak pun aku cuba lah mana-mana yang patut.
Aku tak ke mana-mana di sebelah pagi, sebab kat luar hujan renyai-renyai. Aku takat makan buah aje for lunch. Tapi cuaca ok, tempreture was in the high 60's, nyaman gitu. Pelik, a few days ago, sejuk sampai ke low teens, boleh jauh sangat turun naiknya.
Aku sampai apartment David/Hal awal jugak, sebab hujan tu lah. So aku melepak kat lobby aje dulu sebab malas lah aku nak terus naik ke apartment diaorang. Every second counts, ekekeke.
[Ini lobby apartment David/Hal]
Diaorang ada guest malam nih, so makan besar lah jugak diaorang tuh. Aku balik awal sikit sebab lepas siapkan Hal kat bilik tidur dia, guest diaorang tuh sama-sama melepak kat bilik Hal, sembang-sembang sama Hal.
Hujan masih renyai-renyai masa aku turun kat 57th Street. Aku nak pergi tengok wayang show pukul 10, so ada lah dalam sejam aku melepak merayau sana-sini kat area Lexington Ave, Madison Avenue, Park Avenue, sementara menunggu wayang mula.
[Plaza Hotel, panggung wayang The Paris tuh kat sebelah bangunan hotel nih]
Aku kena tengok jugak filem nih sebab walaupun review dia tak berapa bagus tapi dengar ceritanya filem nih akan dicalunkan untuk Globe Nominations dan jugak Oscar. Lagipun, minggu nih ada dua filem lagi, at least, yang aku nak tengok. Doubt (Meryl Streep, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams), walaupun nampak macam bosan (pasal cerita kat church), tapi reviewnya bagus, one of the best films untuk tahun ini. Lagi satu, film yang aku rasa nak tengok, The Day The Earth Stood Still, rasa macam tak percaya aje aku nak tengok film yang tak masuk akal nih, tapi itulah, once in a while aku nak jugak tengok filem gitu.
Aku ada baca kat paper, nama-nama filem yang dijangka akan bertanding kat Globe dan Oscar nanti, jugak nama-nama pelakun, directors. Hampir semua filem-filem tuh aku ada tengok. Kalau tahun-tahun lepas, aku macam tak pernah dengar aje nama filem-filem yang dicalunkan, tapi tahun ini lain pulak. Kecuali filem Milk (pasal gay activist), Frost/Nixon (bosan), yang lain tuh semuanya aku dah tengok. That's so sad kan? Macam tak ada life aku nih kan? Tapi, on second thought, orang lain langsung tak pernah tengok filem-filem yang aku tengok tuh kan, diaorang tak tahu pun aku cakap pasal apa. Hmm, itulah jurang kekelasan yang memisahkan antara aku sama korang kan?
Best jugak movie tuh, The Reader (Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross), panjang ceritanya, dalam 2 jam gitu. Tapi, yang bosannya (bosan?), the first half hour tuh, asyik bogel, kongkek, bogel dan kongkek (Kate Winslet sama David Kross, a German actor, umur pun baru 18 tahun), sampai aku terfikir, sure terkulat-kulat Ralph Fiennes tengok budak tuh, umur baru 18 tapi dapat mengongkek Kate Winslet. Banyak kali pulak tuh.
Macam tengok porn lagi rasanya. Full-frontal nudity pulak tuh, kongkek pun macam-macam style. Kate Wisnlet nih memanglah terkenal kalau bab-bab bogel nih, aku pernah tengok filem dia yang sebelum zaman-zaman Titanic dulu, yang bogel habis, shot dari atas pulak tuh, sampai nampak jelas, sampai boleh bilang bulu, ekekekeke
Sinopsis dan review yang aku copy/paste aje:
It is Kate Winslet's face and Kate Winslet's face alone that looks out from the cover of the new "now a major motion picture" paperback edition of Bernhard Schlink's exceptional novel, "The Reader," and that's as it should be.For though "The Reader" costars the gifted Ralph Fiennes and gives a lot of screen time to a young actor named David Kross, it is Winslet's haunting performance that gives the film what success it has.
Schlink's memorable book, a powerhouse story of guilt and responsibility that has connections to the Holocaust, was a huge international success when it was published in 1995. It was translated into 40 languages and became the first German novel to get to No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list.
It's taken this long to get "The Reader" to the screen in part because of the exigencies of the movie business and in part because it is not the simplest story to film. Though it has a potent story, "The Reader" is easily as philosophical as it is melodramatic, as deeply involved with what goes on in the mind of its narrator as it is in what he does.In attempting to solve this problem, screenwriter (and accomplished playwright) David Hare and director Stephen Daldry ("The Hours") have in part frittered away the story's emotional force. It is only, frankly, the strength of Winslet's performance that rises above conventional surroundings and makes "The Reader" the experience it should be.
That narrator is Michael Berg, introduced in the Germany of 1995 as a successful attorney played by Fiennes. Successful Berg might be, but he is also enigmatic, distant and not very open, as he apologetically explains at one point to his estranged daughter.Extensive flashbacks, alternating with more modern scenes, show how Berg got that way.
In 1958, when he was 15, he was stricken with scarlet fever (inexplicably changed from the book's hepatitis) on a German street and helped home by a strange woman (Winslet) in front of whose apartment building he collapsed.Once Berg has recovered, he goes to find the woman, whose name is Hanna, to thank her. She is 36, more than twice his age, but that doesn't prevent a kind of charge passing between them and doesn't stop Hanna from almost immediately seducing the boy.This seduction develops into a relationship that lasts long enough to develop qualities of its own. Hanna, as it turns out, likes to be read to as much as she enjoys the sex, and soon Berg is reading her everything from "Tintin" to "Lady Chatterley's Lover." While Winslet's remarkably expressive face and bearing convey vulnerability as well as passion, the difference in ability between her and Kross, the young actor who plays Berg (the film waited till he was 18 to shoot the bedroom scenes), is noticeable.
The affair ends all of a sudden, and the next time Berg sees Hanna it is under starkly different circumstances. It is years later; he is in law school, taking a seminar (from Bruno Ganz's professor) that involves going to a Nazi war crimes trial for low-level concentration camp guards, and there, at the defendant's table, sits Hanna.It is hard to overstate the impact Winslet makes in the trial scenes, even though she says very little. Alternately despairing, distraught and defeated, she allows conflicted emotions to play across her face as she struggles with the life and death decision of which secrets to reveal and which to hide away.
From here on in, "The Reader" is at its strongest, as the film's series of twists that play out over years add to the dramatic and philosophical content. It's also here that "The Reader's" concerns with the guilt-ridden interplay between generations, with whether it is even possible to come to terms with what people we love have done, gain a sharper focus.Though Fiennes' increased screen time helps the film, he never seems to have enough to do. He and young Kross are also hampered by their involvement with the film's most pat and conventional aspects, including the larger role given both to Berg's future wife and their aforementioned daughter.
Schlink's memorable book, a powerhouse story of guilt and responsibility that has connections to the Holocaust, was a huge international success when it was published in 1995. It was translated into 40 languages and became the first German novel to get to No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list.
It's taken this long to get "The Reader" to the screen in part because of the exigencies of the movie business and in part because it is not the simplest story to film. Though it has a potent story, "The Reader" is easily as philosophical as it is melodramatic, as deeply involved with what goes on in the mind of its narrator as it is in what he does.In attempting to solve this problem, screenwriter (and accomplished playwright) David Hare and director Stephen Daldry ("The Hours") have in part frittered away the story's emotional force. It is only, frankly, the strength of Winslet's performance that rises above conventional surroundings and makes "The Reader" the experience it should be.
That narrator is Michael Berg, introduced in the Germany of 1995 as a successful attorney played by Fiennes. Successful Berg might be, but he is also enigmatic, distant and not very open, as he apologetically explains at one point to his estranged daughter.Extensive flashbacks, alternating with more modern scenes, show how Berg got that way.
In 1958, when he was 15, he was stricken with scarlet fever (inexplicably changed from the book's hepatitis) on a German street and helped home by a strange woman (Winslet) in front of whose apartment building he collapsed.Once Berg has recovered, he goes to find the woman, whose name is Hanna, to thank her. She is 36, more than twice his age, but that doesn't prevent a kind of charge passing between them and doesn't stop Hanna from almost immediately seducing the boy.This seduction develops into a relationship that lasts long enough to develop qualities of its own. Hanna, as it turns out, likes to be read to as much as she enjoys the sex, and soon Berg is reading her everything from "Tintin" to "Lady Chatterley's Lover." While Winslet's remarkably expressive face and bearing convey vulnerability as well as passion, the difference in ability between her and Kross, the young actor who plays Berg (the film waited till he was 18 to shoot the bedroom scenes), is noticeable.
The affair ends all of a sudden, and the next time Berg sees Hanna it is under starkly different circumstances. It is years later; he is in law school, taking a seminar (from Bruno Ganz's professor) that involves going to a Nazi war crimes trial for low-level concentration camp guards, and there, at the defendant's table, sits Hanna.It is hard to overstate the impact Winslet makes in the trial scenes, even though she says very little. Alternately despairing, distraught and defeated, she allows conflicted emotions to play across her face as she struggles with the life and death decision of which secrets to reveal and which to hide away.
From here on in, "The Reader" is at its strongest, as the film's series of twists that play out over years add to the dramatic and philosophical content. It's also here that "The Reader's" concerns with the guilt-ridden interplay between generations, with whether it is even possible to come to terms with what people we love have done, gain a sharper focus.Though Fiennes' increased screen time helps the film, he never seems to have enough to do. He and young Kross are also hampered by their involvement with the film's most pat and conventional aspects, including the larger role given both to Berg's future wife and their aforementioned daughter.
Last-last Hanna bunuh diri...oooppssssss....
