Money Ball

Today, I went to see a movie "money ball." Interestingly, nobody except for me was in a theater...

An effort to analyze the players’ performance mathematically and statistically (UR approach), to trade players appropriately (LR approach), and to strengthen a shared sense of unity and solidarity in the team (LL approach) were key to success? Integral approach...

Green Lantern and My Master Thesis

Today, I watched a movie “Green Lantern” in 3D.  Of course, I really enjoyed the movie and I thought this movie was so cool, but further, I was really excited my idea.  That was because I found my topic of master thesis watching this movie (due to the “free zone” in the movie?).

My topic of mater thesis is “Integral Leadership for The Future Universe (Cosmos) Beyond Our world.”  Of course, this is a tentative title, but I will start my final master thesis from now.  Too early?  I don’t think so.   I’m feeling an intellectual excitement right now.  No one can stop me.  I’m enthusiastic, intense, and exuberant!!  Viva, type 7 (Enneagram)!!

Reference

1 Movie Yoga: How Every Film Can Change Your Life

2 The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types

Thor 3D: Movie Yoga

Today, I watched a “Thor” in 3D with my host father in a theater.  It was a fantastic movie.  After the movie, my altered states of consciousness lasted for a long.  This phenomenon might be the effect of 3D… I felt a kind of catharsis in the last scene.  Actually, I’d like to show my unique insight about this movie by using a “Movie Yoga” theory, but I’m reading a book of “Movie Yoga: How Every Film Can Change Your Life” and learning it now.  Next time, I’ll share my opinion form “Movie Yoga” perspectives.

Story: The powerful but arrogant warrior Thor is cast out of the fantastic realm of Asgard and sent to live amongst humans on Earth, where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders.

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins and Natalie Portman

Fast & Furious: Fast Five

Tonight, I watched a movie “Fast & Furious: Fast Five” in a theater.  By chance I could watch it in 3D.  It was so exciting!  While watching, I felt calm, anxiety, excited, joyful, funny, thrilled and free.  I understood the meaning of “almost all movies contain at least one of four universal stages of transformation” (Tav, 2009).   I moved from the safe zone to the trapped zone, war zone and free zone…  A movie lets us experience “death and rebirth.”  I'm intrigued by "Movie Yoga", so I want to learn it more from the book.

The cast includes Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Matt Schulze, Tego Calderon, Don Omar, Elsa Pataky, Joaquim de Almeida and Dwayne Johnson.

Reference:Movie Yoga: How Every Film Can Change Your Life

I saw a movie at a theater in Pleasant Hill with my host father. I saw “Source Code.” That was so thrilling and amazing! The theme of this movie is about cognitive science, neurophilosophy and parallel world. Story is here. http://www.enterthesourcecode.com/#/story/

Sucker Punch

Story: A young girl is institutionalized by her wicked stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the facility.

Director: Zack Snyder

Writers: Zack Snyder (screenplay), Steve Shibuya(screenplay)

Stars: Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens and Abbie Cornish

I watched this movie with my host-father in a movie theater. This was my first time to watch movie in USA.

Although I like a love story or a documentary, this movie was fun for me. Because I watched it in a new and different way. I think that a total world view of this movie is “red” or “amber.” (Please read a book of Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck and Chris Cowan.) Especially, enemy side actors had all “red” world view, I think.

However, I found that main actresses all had a higher level of consciousness. “orange?” No, I think “green.” Why do I think so? Yes, please watch it!

The Social Network

Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer, Justin Timberlake, Monique Edwards
Directors: David Fincher
Writers: Aaron Sorkin

A STORY ABOUT THE FOUNDERS OF THE SOCIAL-NETWORKING WEBSITE, FACEBOOK.

I think that Zuckerberg is one of great innovators in 21st century. He made a creative platform, facebook in this world. I also wanted to create a platform on facebook, like an Integral community.

Facebook will become essential communicating system (Integral Theory:lower right quadrant) in the very near future.

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Pirates of Silicon Valley

• Actors: Anthony Michael Hall, Noah Wyle, Joey Slotnick, J.G. Hertzler, Wayne Pére
• Directors: Martyn Burke

Story:

The revolution came when we weren't looking. It happened in a garage. In a dorm room. In countless hours of effort, imagining and intrigue. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates were changing the way the world works, lives and communicates. The event-packed saga of the quirky visionaries who jump-started the future unfolds with exhilarating, cutting-edge style in Pirates of Silicon Valley. Noah Wyle (ER) portrays Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall (The Dead Zone) portrays Gates in this chronicle of the fierce and often humorous battle to rule the fledgling personal computer empire. "The story is almost Shakespearean... it's a tale of lust, greed, ambition, love and hate," writer/director Martyn Burke reflects. And it's a success story unlike any other.

This movie was fun for me. I wanted to know the relationship between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and also how they achieved success and fame.

Both of them really loved computer and they ungrudgingly made an effort to create new things. I think their state of consciousness in devoting themselves to computer were "flow" or "zone".

The state of consciousness may be key point for success.

Umm, after all, they are quite peculiar character!

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Up in the air

• Actors: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Amy Morton
• Directors: Jason Reitman

Story:Ryan Bingham (Academy Award® winner* George Clooney) is truly living the high life. Flying all over the world on business, he never stops moving...until he meets Alex, a fellow passenger and learns that life isn’t about the journey, but the connections we make along the way. Acclaimed by critics and audiences everywhere and included in over 200 top 10 lists, "Up in the Air is light and dark, hilarious and tragic, bouncy and brainy, romantic and real.”*- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

This movie describes a part of the negative aspects of modern Internet world, for example "mileage" addiction or firing by Internet. Of course, this movie expresses human connections in such a society.

Watching this movie, I looked back on the past my air journey. I love indescribable atmosphere or scent in the airport. Music I listened or movie I watched inside an airplane are stamped on my memory.

And I remembered vividly the beautiful scene of San Francisco, the song I listened and that I was excited last Summer.

What will I feel or what will I think about in the next air journey? I think that next air trip will be unforgettable in my life. Because it means a start of my new life in the new world, America.

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By the way, I don't have loyalty to a specific air company, so I don't rack up mileage points at all unlike the main actor on this movie. I may be indifferent about switching cost.

Um, I will pledge my fidelity to a specific air company any time now. Mileage is my life!! lol

Inception

• Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe
• Directors: Christopher Nolan
• Story:Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in this sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the world of dreams. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the best there is at extraction: stealing valuable secrets inside the subconscious during the mind’s vulnerable dream state. His skill has made him a coveted player in industrial espionage but also has made him a fugitive and cost him dearly.
• Now he may get a second chance if he can do the impossible: inception, planting an idea rather than stealing one. If they succeed, Cobb and his team could pull off the perfect crime. But no planning or expertise can prepare them for a dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy only Cobb could have seen coming.

This was a fantastic movie for me. I think about what is a real or a dream. How can you tell a dream from a real world? That is a philosophical question and also a theme of cognitive science.

A last scene in this movie made me thrilled so much......

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