We've dug deep to find 4 of the most exciting documentary films coming to a screen near you in 2022.
Last Exit: Space
Last Exit: Space, narrated by Werner Herzog, explores the human potential for settling in space and sending people where they've never been before. Since planet Earth is possibly going to hell (地狱) in a handbasket, the film promises to ask the question: where else might we call home? Directed by his son Rudolph Herzog, Last Exit: Space will be available from March 10 on Discovery.
Gorbachev. Heaven
As leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev was once one of the most powerful people on the planet who governed a landmass so big that it covered 11 time zones. Gorbachev's legacy is a complex one — he oversaw the end of the Cold War but many Russians blame him for the Soviet Union's collapse. The BBC says this potentially fascinating look at one of the most significant figures from inside his own home will be airing in the very near future.
We Met In Virtual Reality
This film from director Joe Hunting beats fresh ground in that it is filmed entirely in virtual reality. Less about the technology itself, it is more an exploration of human connections and how these can develop in the 3D virtual world. Early reviews have been positive following its showing at Sundance. Expect a streaming release in late May this year.
2nd Chance
Hold your popcorn tightly when watching this. If the trailer (预告片) is anything to go by, there are going to be lots of near-death moments. 2nd Chance from Oscar-nominated director Ramin Bahrani tells the story of Richard Davis, the wild and odd inventor of the modern bullet-proof vest. "All will be revealed as soon as a release date is confirmed." Ramin Bahrani promised on April 5th.
Chinese traditional painting and dance are two vital parts of the art world. But what about when they meet each other?
This year, a dance drama titled Poetic Dance: The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting was staged on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala and went viral.
According to CCTV, this poetic dance program was inspired by the 900-year-old Chinese painting A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains. Created by Song Dynasty (960-1279) painter Wang Ximeng at about 18, the painting is "stunning in its sweeping scale, rich coloration and the expressive details", reported CCTV. It shows a Chinese blue-green landscape: "mountains and groupings of infinite rise and fall between cloudless sky and rippling water".
To show the Chinese traditional aesthetics ( 美 学 ) of the painting, the dance performance conceptualized dancers as the mountains. They each had a different hairstyle, which resembled a mountain rock. The clothes they wore were shades of green and blue, which is also a poetic interpretation of the mountains and rivers.
When the dancers swayed elegantly, audiences seemed to be looking at the moving mountains and rivers.
"It brings me a pure experience of beauty. It is not only a drama but also an ‘exhibition'. Vast mountains and rivers are coming to life!" internet user Mo Weisha wrote in a review. "More than a thousand years later, green mountains and rivers still wow people as they did long ago."
Some people even decided to watch the dance again when it was staged in the theaters later.
In fact, in recent years, more and more modern shows highlight Chinese traditional culture and have received warm welcome. As for why, it is attributed to people's great love for traditional culture.
"The younger generations have grown up with a more open mindset. They embrace Chinese culture and are proud of it," Yao Wei, director of Henan TV station's Innovation Center, told China Daily.
Constant notifications（ 通知） on your phone. TV news specials in place of your favourite sports show. WhatsApp and Messenger full of COVID-19 articles your out-of-touch aunt just "had to share". Sound familiar? If our daily news intake was counted in calories, many of us would have put on even more weight in recent months.
While audience numbers for network television news shows remain much higher than usual in many countries, ratings are, in some places, starting to decrease. In the UK, news shows have recorded their lowest audience figures since the country went into lockdown. The Nieman Journalism Lab, part of Harvard University, recently reported that "news traffic to news sites, both in the US and around the world, is pretty much back to pre-coronavirus levels".
There are also many people who are finding themselves consumed by the news cycle more than usual. Journalists, communications professionals, doctors, scientist and, most recently, disinfectant （消毒剂） producers are among those having to stay on top of daily comments and data in a way they've never previously experience.
For many, this is happening while they are working from home and managing blurred（ 模糊的） boundaries between their work and private lives.
So how should we balance news fatigue and anxiety with the need to remain informed on the latest news during the crisis? John-Paul Davies, a London-based expert, argues that for most of us, checking the headlines once a day is a sensible goal. This could be reduced to once a week for those with high levels of anxiety. He says it is also important to select "a trusted news site" or radio station with a focus on "facts rather than guesses".
For those whose work is connected to the coronavirus crisis, experts accept it may be much harder to reduce news consumption. But John-Paul Davies says it's still important to make an effort to "put boundaries" around how much information you watch or read. Liz Martin, a therapist based in London, recommends regular digital check-ins with workmates doing similar roles. "It's really important to be a support to one another." she argues.
"A writer's job is to tell the truth," said Hemingway in 1942. No other writer of our time had so fiercely stated, or so consistently ( 一 贯 地 ) illustrated the writer's duty to speak truly. His standard of truth-telling remained, moreover, so high and so strict that he was ordinarily unwilling to admit secondary evidence, whether literary evidence or evidence picked up from other sources than his own experience. "I only know what I have seen", was a statement which came often to his lips and pen. What he had personally done, or what he knew unforgettably by having gone through one version of it, was what he was interested in telling about.
The primary intention of his writing, from first to last, was to seize and project for the reader what he often called "the way it was". This is a characteristically simple phrase for a concept of extraordinary complexity, and Hemingway's concept of its meaning subtly (微妙地) changed several times in the course of his career - always in the direction of greater complexity. At the core of the concept, however, one can invariably recognize the operation of three instruments of beauty appreciation: the sense of place, the sense of fact, and the sense of scene. The first of these, obviously a strong passion with Hemingway, is the sense of place. "Unless you have geography, background," he once told George Antheil, "you have nothing." You have, that is to say, a dramatic vacuum. Few writers have been more place-conscious. Few have so carefully charted out the geographical ground work of their novels while managing to keep background so unnoticeable. Few, accordingly, have been able to record more economically and graphically the way it is when you watch the bulls running through the streets of Pamplona, Spain towards the bull-ring.
"When I woke it was the sound of the rocket exploding that announced the release of the bulls. Down below the narrow street was empty. All the balconies were crowded with people. Suddenly a crowd came down the street.
They were all running, packed close together. They passed along and up the street toward the bull-ring and behind them came more men running faster, and then some stragglers ( 落后者) who were really running. Behind them was a little bare space, and then the bulls tossing their heads up and down. It all went out of sight around the corner. One man fell, rolled to the gutter (排水沟), and lay quiet. But the bulls went right on and did not notice him. They were all running together."
Facial recognition is a technology that uses distinguishable facial features to identify a person. It may allow you to unlock your phone, go through security at the airport, and purchase products at stores.
The first of these, obviously a strong passion with Hemingway, is the sense of place. "Unless you haveThe police use the technology to uncover criminals or to find missing children or seniors geography, background," he once told George Antheil, "you have nothing." You have, that is to say, a dramatic vacuum. Few writers have been more place-conscious. Few have so carefully charted out the geographical ground work of their novels while managing to keep background so unnoticeable. Few, accordingly, have been able to record more economically and graphically the way it is when you watch the bulls running through the streets of Pamplona, Spain towards the bull-ring.
"When I woke it was the sound of the rocket exploding that announced the release of the bulls. Down below the narrow street was empty. All the balconies were crowded with people. Suddenly a crowd came down the street.
Airports are increasingly adding facial recognition technology to security checkpoints. When people know they are being watched, they are less likely to commit crimes. So using facial recognition technology could prevent crime.
Another advantage is that, since there is no contact required for facial recognition like there is with fingerprinting or other security measures, facial recognition offers a quick, automatic, and seamless contact experience.
The biggest drawback for facial recognition technology in most people's opinions is the threat to an individual's privacy. In fact, several cities have considered or will ban real-time facial recognition observation used by law enforcement agencies.It's just not allowing the government bodies to use live facial recognition software.
In addition, there are issues that need to be resolved when a person changes appearance or the camera angle isn't quite right. However, it's dramatically improving now, according to independent tests by a U. S. research institute.
In order to benefit from the positive aspects of facial recognition, our society is going to have to work through some significant challenges to our privacy and civil liberties.
A. Today, it is widely used in various aspects of life.
B. But sales organizations can still use it at certain times.
C. It has got 20 times better at finding a match in a database.
D. So, no other security measures give you a similar experience.
E. There is nothing such as a key or ID that can be lost or stolen.
F. But police can still use devices such as Nest cameras to find criminals.
G. One of the major advantages of facial recognition is safety and security.
Christmas was near a season that we took seriously in our house. But a week or so before the 25th, my father would give each of his children﹩20. This was the 1970s, and﹩20 was quite a bit of money.
But I saw it1 ．My father trusted me to have the2 to spend money wisely. Even better, he gave me the3 to get it. On a very basic level, my father was giving me a shopping spree（狂欢）every year. But he was also giving me charge over my own fun, trusting my ability to manage money and making me feel like a/an4 . He didn't buy me Sherlock Holmes, but he gave me the means to walk into the bookstore and choose it for myself, so it felt like a gift from him.
My mother had a/an5 for giving me what I needed, usually right at the moment I needed it most. This was when I was 25, I6 at being an adult on my very first try. I had quitted my7 job but had no new one. But when my mother paid me a visit, I8 a good show, telling her I had started my own company.
My mother knew that I was trying hard and failing at that time. It wasn't until9 she left that I noticed at the foot of my bed an envelope thick with10 ．She knew how11 I needed it. She knew that had she just shown up with groceries, or offer to pay my rent, she would have made me feel much12 ．The cold，hard cash meant she was helping me. And, funnily enough, the13 with which she gave the gift felt like she was giving me space to14 my life and preserve my dignity. My mother and father both did the same thing. One was giving me the means to take my own decisions, and the other was giving me a second15 when those decisions had cost me dearly.
A memorial service(bid) farewell to "father of hybrid rice" Yuan Longping (hold) in Changsha, Central China's Hunan province on Monday.
Despite it (be) a busy work day, thousands of people wearing black came to the Mingyangshan Mortuary House in the city, the memorial service was held at 10 am, to present bouquets(花束) and bunches of rice and pay tribute(颂词) to Yuan.
The top rice scientist, who developed the first high-yield hybrid rice strain in 1973, died of organ (fail) at age 91 on Saturday would give each of his children﹩20. This was the 1970s, and﹩20 was quite a bit of money.
The agronomist(农学家)spent over five decades (research) and improving hybrid rice, which has reached its third generation, helping China workgreat wonder -- feeding nearly one-fifth of the world's population with less than 9 percent of the world's total arable(适合耕种的) land.
People from all walks of life in China and abroad expressed their condolences after Yuan's death, which indicated that his contribution to the hybrid rice industry has been(wide) recognized and highly praised, Zhao Lijian, spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at a news conference in Beijing on Monday.
"His death is a great loss to China and the world, and he (remember) by people", Zhao said.
He added that academician Yuan not only belongs to China, but also to the world. His lifelong dream was to see hybrid rice to be planted around the world,no one will be left hungry.
上个星期六，她伤了我的心，我到现在还在收拾心情。因此，上学期间我也整天躲着她，但是此刻，我迫 不及待地想听她的解释。
Last Saturday, shemy heart, and I'm still the pieces. So I her during school all day, but now I can't to hear her explain.
尽管空气中弥漫着烤羊肉的味道，但最近我感觉有点不舒服：全身疲惫而且陷入麻烦。
Although the smell of meat the air, I've been feeling a bit under the recently: generally tired and in trouble.
这把梳子绝非平常之物，所以他确信它会成为给 Della 的最好的礼物。
The comb was , so he was sure that it the most wonderful gift for Della.
