Ratatouille(料理鼠王)

    It is a story about a rat, Rémy, want to become a cook. However, although he can understand English and know how to cook well, he cannot achieve his dream just because he is a rat.

    Incidentally, he met a man, Alfredo Linguini, who did some cleaning works in a famous restaurant. He tried to cooperate with Alfredo Linguini and wanted to become a cook by helping Alfredo Linguini. In the process, especially after Alfredo Linguini becoming a famous cook, there were more and more frictions between them. Finally, they fixed, reinforced their relationship, and found that they cannot live without each other.

    The lesson I learned from this movie is “It is impossible to make everyone become great artists, but great artists could come from everywhere possibly.”(不是每個人都能成為偉大的藝術家，但偉大的藝術家可能來自任何地方。)

註:The movie title “Ratatouille” is also a name of a French dish, 南法蔬菜雜燴(雜菜堡)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty(白日夢冒險王)

    The leader, Walter Mitty, is a manager in a large scale magazine firm, Life. His job is to arrange the photos took by the photographer, Sean O'Connell. In Walter Mitty’s daily life, he usually daydreams. Some dreams are crazy, some are impossible happened, and some are romantic, but he never has enough bravery to do one of them. He just choose the way he always choose.

 One day, lots of employees in Life are fired because of the incorporation, and Life is going to issue the last magazine. Then, Walter Mitty received the photos from Sean O'Connell as usual. However, this time he couldn’t found the 25^th photo everywhere, which Sean O'Connell hoped can be on the cover of the last magazine. Therefore, he decided to walk out , find Sean O'Connell and ask him where the photo was. In the travel, he experienced the volcano eruption, fought against sharks, and climbed Himalayas.( 喜馬拉雅山) After coming back from the travel, he never daydreams at all because he tries to do them all.

In our day life, we just like Walter Mitty : We want to something different but do nothing. We want to express our comments but fear to lose something. And we want to change ourselves but give up finally. “Just do it.” This is what I learned from this movie. Change may be good or not. However, if you don’t change everything, you will never know what will happen and what you will get. You will fill your life with the same day. How boring it is! So, just do it!

About Time(真愛每一天)

    Most of people will consider it is another romantic movie at their first scene, and so do I. However, this movie has more dimension than you think. It is about love which is not only couple but also family and friendship.

    The leading man knows that he can get in and out his memory to change his life as long as he wants when he is 21 years old, and all the men in his family can also do that. Then, he use his superpower to prevent all bad things. For example, when his landlord’s drama failed, he came back to the same time and turned it to the right direction.
    Because of this superpower, he has had the almost perfect life until his sister had a traffic accident. Therefore, he comes back to the past again. However, this time when he return from the past, he finds his child became a boy. Wow, it is “The Butterfly Effect”.(蝴蝶效應)
    As for the continue development, I will not keep talking about because there is lots of details. The last but not least, the leading man finally understands that happiness is not according to how perfect your life is but according to your attitude to your life.
    “我們生活的每一天，都在一起穿越時空。我們能做的就是盡其所能，珍惜這一趟不凡的人生旅程。
    把每一天當作從未來回味的每一天，試著把每一天視為不平凡的一天。”

附註:最後一段中文是電影中的對話。

Moneyball(魔球)

    My second topic of movies is “Moneyball”,which is not much popular than others in public,but it’s a so classic example in economics.By the way,this movie is adapted from the book,” Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”.(魔球:逆境中制勝的智慧)

    The protagonist, Billy Beane, is the general manager of the baseball team, ”Oakland”. This team’s size is smaller than others,and its budget is less,too. Thus,to get more excellent player in limited budget, they usually choose the non much traing youngster in the university.However, as long as they have turned the players into the excellent veterans, the other team which have lots of budget would poach them from Oakland ,just like bandits.

    Some day, after Billy Beane’s player was poached another time, he decides to do something different. He seeks for solution, and fortunately finds out what is that --  Peter Brand. They cooperate and choose the players with the statistics, no longer with the scouts’ feeling. Absolutely,this way arise lots of negative waves,but Billy Beane doesn’t care about it and keeps doing what he considers right.In the end,the team he leads wins the qualification into the playoff series.

    The thing I learn is “If we want to break off the situation,we have to do something different from before” and the spirit Billy Beane has. Even though he faces the negative comments from almost all over the world,he can still insist on what he decides to do. It is praiseworthy.