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Inception 6

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Christopher Nolan 2

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Films directed by Christopher Nolan

Following (1998) ‧ Memento (2000) ‧ Insomnia (2002) ‧ Batman Begins (2005) ‧ The Prestige (2006) ‧ The Dark Knight (2008) ‧ Inception (2010)

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Memento（凶心人），有關「遺忘症」。整套電影倒轉播，令觀眾體會到主角「沒有新記憶」的感受。

The Prestige（死亡魔法），有關「魔術」。整套電影本身，是一個「魔術」：原來答案一直就在眼前，只是觀眾被魔術師（導演和編劇）誤導。

Inception（潛行凶間），有關「意念植入」。整套電影本身，是一個「意念植入」：看過後，這套電影中的意念，在腦中揮之不去。

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Christopher Nolan 玩 recursion（自我指涉），比 Charlie Kaufman，還要高一個層次。

— Me@2010.08.01

— Me@2010.08.05

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2010.08.05 Thursday copyright ACHK

天空堤壩 7

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通常，興趣方面，你可以選擇，只處理最喜歡的部分；

通常，工作方面，你不可以選擇，避開最煩人的細節。

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所以，如果把「興趣」化成「工作」的話，它不會再是你是「興趣」，除非，你把「工作」再化成「興趣」。

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興趣 –> 工作 –> 興趣 –> …

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「興趣化成工作；工作再化成興趣」的方法之一是，定期轉工：每隔數年，轉一次職業。「定期轉工」的方法之一是，梅花間竹地，從事兩項職業。

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職業甲 –> 職業乙 –> 職業甲 –> 職業乙 –> 職業甲 –> …

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— Me@2010.08.02

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2010.08.04 Wednesday copyright ACHK

Memory 2

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Memento 2

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Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They’re just an interpretation, they’re not a record, and they’re irrelevant if you have the facts.

— Leonard Shelby

— Memento (film)

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2010.08.03 Tuesday ACHK

Peter and Dilbert

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Bus Stop 3

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蜘蛛俠格言：

能力越大，責任越大。

— 蜘蛛俠, Spider-Man, 又名「失敗的男」

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As opposed to the Dilbert Principle, the Peter Principle assumes that people are promoted because they are competent, and that the tasks higher up in the hierarchy are more difficult to excel at. It concludes that due to this, a competent employee will eventually be promoted to, and remain at, a position at which he or she is incompetent.

— Wikipedia on The Dilbert Principle

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不斷向上爬，不在適當時候停止的後果是，最終你會排第尾。

— Me@2010.08.02

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當你相信「能力越大，責任越大」時，不知不覺間，你會變成一個「失敗的人」。

每當你變大了自己的能力時，就立刻加大自己的責任的話，

你在任何時間，都沒有額外的心神，提升生活和工作的質素。

— Me@2010.08.02

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2010.08.02 Monday copyright ACHK

Inception 5

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Nolan first pitched the film to Warner Bros. in 2001, but then felt that he needed more experience making large-scale films, and embarked on Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. He soon realized that a film like Inception needed a large budget because “as soon as you’re talking about dreams, the potential of the human mind is infinite. And so the scale of the film has to feel infinite. It has to feel like you could go absolutely anywhere by the end of the film. And it has to work on a massive scale.” After making The Dark Knight, Nolan decided to make Inception and spent six months completing the script. Nolan states that the key to completing the script was wondering what would happen if several people shared the same dream. “Once you remove the privacy, you’ve created an infinite number of alternative universes in which people can meaningfully interact, with validity, with weight, with dramatic consequences.”

— Wikipedia on Inception (film)

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2010.08.01 Sunday ACHK

Inception 3

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夢(中夢)^N

A dream (within a dream)^N

睡眠癱瘓症 2

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《潛行凶間》的主題是「清醒夢」和「多層夢」。

而我昨晚睡夢時，因為十分期待今早的《潛行凶間》，所以身體主動極力攻擊我的傷風感冒，導致發了「多層夢」。

「多層夢」之中，有部分是「清醒夢」。

— Me@2010.07.30

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2010.07.31 Saturday copyright ACHK

Customers

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Customers Don’t Know What They Want. Stop Expecting Customers to Know What They Want. It’s just never going to happen. Get over it.

— The Iceberg Secret, Revealed

— Joel Spolsky

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2010.07.26 Monday ACHK

Bo Peep

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Bo Peep does not appear in Toy Story 3. It is implied that sometime between the events of Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3, Bo was sold in a yard sale with her Sheep. The only toy to mention her was Rex when the remaining toys remember their friends who are no longer with them. When Rex says her name, it is apparent that Woody is still saddened and hurt over her loss. However, she appears only as a background toy in archive footage at the beginning of the film during a home video montage of Andy as a child.

— Wikipedia on List of Toy Story characters

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2010.07.24 Saturday ACHK

Dog 2

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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Kindness is invisible to the man who has none.

— Me@2010.07.22

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

— Mark Twain

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2010.07.23 Friday copyright ACHK

Buddha

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Buddha

= the enlightened one

= 開悟的人

— Me@2010.07.22

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Buddha is the one who has realized that he already has (almost) everything he wants.

— Me@2007

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2010.07.22 Thursday copyright ACHK

The Time Traveler’s Wife

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The Time Traveler’s Wife, published in 2003, is the debut novel of American author Audrey Niffenegger. It is a love story about a man with a genetic disorder that causes him to time travel unpredictably, and about his wife, an artist, who has to cope with his frequent absences and dangerous experiences. Niffenegger, frustrated in love when she began the work, wrote the story as a metaphor for her failed relationships.

She has said the story is a metaphor for her own failed love affairs and that “I had kind of got the idea that there’s not going to be some fabulous perfect soulmate out there for me, so I’ll just make him up.”

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Instead, as critic Marc Mohan describes, the novel “uses time travel as a metaphor to explain how two people can feel as if they’ve known each other their entire lives”.

— Wikipedia on The Time Traveler’s Wife

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2010.07.18 Sunday ACHK