假期看电影
无聊时追电视剧, 恨自己没有will power,一定要看到结局才肯罢休,尽管很多时候早就没有了兴趣, 最后几集常常快进看完的。
电影最多两个小时,浓缩的精华。心情不好时,逃避现实看电影;累了时,给自己一个treat看一部好电影。不少电影我看不少遍,随着岁月的流淌,心境的不同,再看又会有新的意味。
假期这俩星期,倒是看了几部好电影。按看的顺序来说说。
"Marriage Story"
两个电影人,Nicole,Scarlett Johansson主演,Teen的时候就演戏出名了,后来有次去纽约时认识了男主人公Charlie,Adam Driver主演。组建了家庭两人有个toddler儿子。Nicole常常在Charlie的剧中扮演角色,Charlie有望进军百老汇。但是婚姻中的Nicole越来越不开心,觉得Charlie再也不Care Nicole的想法。两人最先为了儿子,想通过mediator协议离婚。但待Nicole去了LA,还是找了律师,和Charlie最终对簿公堂裁决儿子的监护权。
很悲伤的故事,他们俩虽然已分手,但互相之间的感情比很多还留着婚姻中的人要好很多。Mediator开始时让他们俩把对方的好列出来,旨在让他们忆起初心。这两页纸一直贯彻首位,到最后两人都离婚一年,Nicole都有了新男朋友,儿子无意中拿起Nicole写的这篇让爸爸Charlie帮助念,Charlie边读边啜泣不已。
来读这段Nicole的律师的话,我觉得还是蛮诚恳的:
...We can accept an imperfect dad. Let's face it, the idea of a good father was only invented like 30 years ago. Before that, fathers were expected to be silent and absent and unreliable and selfish, and can all say we want them to be different. But on some basic level, we accept them. We love them for their fallibilities, but people absolutely don't accept those same failings in mothers. We don't accept it structurally and we don't accept it spiritually. Because the basis of our Judeo-Christian whatever is Mary, Mother of Jesus, and she's perfect. She's a virgin who gives birth, unwaveringly supports her child and holds his dead body when he's gone. And the dad isn't there. He didn't even do the fucking. God is in heaven. God is the father and God didn't show up. So, you have to be perfect, and Charlie can be a fuck up and it doesn't matter. You will always be held to a different, higher standard. And it's fucked up, but that's the way it is.
电影的反响不错,放假前几天和一个六十多岁的同事互相推荐电影,不一而同地推荐了这部,然后大女儿过节回家聊天,她知道我的口味问我看过没有,她有几个朋友看了也在推荐她看。
“The Terminal”
旧电影,喜剧片,2004年斯皮尔伯格导演,Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones,Stanley Tucci主演,当年获了很多奖。假期里看没心没肺地开怀笑笑,Catherine这个空姐真是经典地美,当年看第一次时就印象深刻,这次难得在Netflix上播出又一次看过瘾了。懒得写情节了。乱说感想哦,努力做对自己负责的人,友善待人,常常心安理得!
“Steel Magnolia”
一部更老的电影,摄于1989年。
浓重的南方口音,南方的风俗习惯。只有女人出入的Hair Salon是这个小community八卦阵地,六个女人足足一台戏,个性不同的她们,心地善良,嬉笑哭泣各自的生活故事。
故事围绕着M'Lynn和女儿Shelby的故事。Shelby自小患有一型糖尿病,专科医生建议她不生育。她幸福地和英俊潇洒的律师结婚,本来说好领养孩子的她还是坚持有了儿子,但至此肾功能衰竭只能开始透析,妈妈M'Lynn自愿给女儿一个肾。最终还是排斥反应过世了。母女俩都是坚强的女人。Shelby说would rather have 30 mins of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special。做妈妈的只能忍痛支持她,甚至捐献自己的肾脏。
Steel Magnolia, a woman posses the strength of the steel, yet the gentleness of a magnolia.
边看边哭,我有我的理由,身为母亲,想到了很多,情景不同,话题不同,我们母女也常有相似的对话。
虽说这是一部chick flick,但拍的太经典,太完美了。
好电影看完总让我唏嘘不已,找背后的故事来读,原来是真实的故事,源于剧本作者的妹妹,妹妹过世后他无法自拔通过写作才开解他的悲哀愤怒。从百老汇到电影。Julia Roberts本片初出茅庐,和其他几位老前辈都演得太出色了。
有兴趣,可以电影背后的真实故事https://gardenandgun.com/feature/thirty-years-of-steel-magnolias/