From Out the Cave

More Than Sexuality.

The men team lost again. It’s the forth time they are beaten by the women. Trump asked again: what happens? And it did happen, when I was watching The Apprentice. The Apprentice is a hot TV program like some kind of Truman show, which is imitated by Win in China (赢在中国). It started that Donald Trump, the biggest real estate developer, wanted to find a new CEO for one of his companies, a apprentice. And 16 candidates were selected, including 8 men and 8 women. They are divided into two groups by their gender. Each week they got an assignment, and the team lost will be at the board room, where one of them would be fired. 

 I just begin with the very first album. The Apprentice seems to have more than 6. Until what I have seen, four assignments have been finished and the men team lost again and again. Every time I am confident that they would win, they lost. It just makes me sad. When I want to go on with the fifth assignment, Trump, the standard maker, regroup the teams. And there are no men team or women team, and there are mixed teams. Now no hope that men team will turn it over, and win even once.  

Trump said to the women: “ You beat the guys fair and square. But you are coming a little close to the line, relying on your sexuality to win.” Yes, every time when selling or buying women use sexual strategies, which really help. Even in the advertisement, they made ads about sex, which is more attractive.  

The men lost. But It’s not just sexuality. It’s more than sexuality. There are two causes more important for the lost, in my opinion.

 First, it just didn’t come to the parts men are better at. Men are good at logic and have a full picture of something, while women are good at getting well with people and more emotional. Men would do better when come to such subject about logic or bigger deal. Just look forward to it. Second, all these men are leaders, but it confused and mess the team when leaders get together. They are in chaos when there are many leaders in the team. Additional to this, there is a bomb in the team, Sam! He is biggest problem in the team. But the fact is that after he left, the men team still lost.  

The Apprentice is a good TV program, no wonder it was hot years ago. And it’s also useful for us business student to have an interview, as some people say. If you are looking for some video like that , I give you The Apprentice.

The Truman Show

May be ten days have passed since the last time I watched a film, as something is wrong is my computer. May be a month has passed since the last time I watched such a good film: The Truman Show.

 In the first quarter of the film, I just don’t know what it’s about, maybe a boring film, I thought. But Truman began to observe the weird world he lived. And the truth comes out in the sight of the spectators. The world is just a show place, a trueman show place.

 Imagine that a man lives in a world that everything is created for him, and all of the world is watching him for 24 hours a day. His first cry, first step on the ground, first kiss are all known by the whole world. But he even doesn’t know anything about it.

 So what’s the film about? It’s about truths and lies.

 Truman doubted the world and tried to make it of getting out of the world he is living. Of course the passage to freedom is tough, with detours and curves ahead. But he does reach the end of his world, after a fierce storm in the ocean made by the man who created the film place.

 The last dialogue between Truman and the producer touched me. I dictated it as following:

Producer: Tureman, you can speak. I can here you.

Truman: Who are you?

P: I’m the creator of a television show that gives hopes and joys and inspirations to millions.

T: Then who I am?

P: You are the star.

T: Was nothing real?

P: You were real. That’s why so many watch you. Listen to me, Trueman. There was no more truths out of there than the world I created for you. Same lies. Same deceits. But in my world, you have nothing to fear, and I better know you than yourself.

T: You never have a camera in my head!

P: You are afraid, that’s why you can’t leave. It’s OK. I understand. I’ve watched you for your whole life. I was watching when you were born. I was watching when you took your first step. I was watching you the first day you are at school. And I saw you lost your first tooth. You can’t leave, Trueman. You belong here. Talk to me.

   Talk to me. Say something. You must say something. God damn it. You are on television. You are lined to the whole world.

T: (a moment later) In case I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night.

(smiled, bowed and left)

So what the film is about? Maybe truths and lies, and freedom. Just open a window in yourself, you’ll find a whole new world out of truman’s world.