Summer Cinema
In the scorching summer, temperatures ignite fires all over the body, the mind grows hazy, and tempers flare. Watching movies is an excellent remedy for the heat: draw the curtains, turn on the air conditioner, put your phone away, and focus on the film. This is a deliberately created cool paradise. These five films all have powerful stories that resonate with me, prompting deep thought. A good movie truly extinguishes the fire in our bodies, its images reflecting the spirit of the times, and the actors' fleeting glances betraying a yearning for freedom.
Author陳思宏住在德國柏林的台灣作家，演過電影，寫散文寫小說。出版品有《鬼地方》（翻譯成12種語言）、《樓上的好人》、《第六十七隻穿山甲》、《叛逆柏林》等。
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Those irreversible slices of life
Recently, in a novel I've come to love, I found myself grasping the weight of life's slices. In the story, there is a wicked sorcerer who freezes people in the instant just before tragedy strikes—suspending everything, sealing it into a crystal ball, and building an entire museum from these frozen moments. And isn't film, in its own way, just as cruel? As viewers, we are little more than instruments for collecting tissue slices—slipping into a character's world for a single fleeting moment, wandering through it in passing, only to return, in the blink of an eye, to the reality that is our own.