A. 2012英文電影影評
007第一集,大反派諾博士是個中國人,這部電影上映於1962年的10月5日,之後15天,中印邊境沖突爆發,4年之後,文革中的中國進一步封閉了自己,謎一般的紅色風暴自東方而起,席捲了整個世界,而那些嘶喊吼叫著的左派學生們其實並不知道當時的中國在發生著什麼。
文革過去33年了,西方人眼中的中國是什麼樣子?這個問題始終挑動著所有中國人的心,我們就如同一個少年,有著讓人自豪的成績,也有著不可忽略的缺點,毛躁地期待著,期待著所有人都為那些成績喝彩,所有人都放過那些缺點。我們在每一部大片中尋找著中國的影子,在每一個應該有大國出現的大場面中尋找那紅色的旗幟,在每一次世界面臨奇思異想的滅頂之災時都期盼著中國的出現。我們等來的是什麼呢?是破舊野蠻如集中營一樣的監獄,是中國熊貓的美式減肥之旅,是舊式的軍服和冷酷的軍人,是揮金如土的黑幫富商,是質朴善良卻吃不飽的人民。我們是如此在意西方媒體對我們的看法,所以《參考消息》銷量甚高;我們是如此在意好萊塢鏡頭里的中國是怎麼樣的,所以在失望後我們憤怒,我們謾罵,我們沮喪。
好像一個少年,用穿著球鞋的腳踢著街邊的垃圾桶,發泄著他看似有理卻其實無關緊要的憤怒:這一切,都是成長的煩惱而已。
何必在意好萊塢鏡頭里的中國是什麼樣呢?不需要在隕石撞擊地球之前拉著中國也發射核彈,我們知道自己能毀滅世界;不需要讓蝙蝠俠在香港跳來跳去,我們知道自己有摩天大廈;不需要一個外國導演的感動,我們知道在2008年的5月,汶川、映秀、北川閃耀著怎樣的光輝,那光輝足以在人類不長的歷史上留下璀璨的一點。不需要,其實我們從來都不需要好萊塢的肯定和西方世界的贊賞,我們有《南方周末》,有簡光洲,有盧廣,有×××,有×××(請隨意填空,只要可能被豆瓣刪除的人名都符合條件),我們能夠發現自己的問題,我們也有有勇氣說出這些問題的勇敢同胞。
但是——是的——沒錯,如同那個少年一樣,我們希望那肥大的校服能夠襯出自己一下子躥高了8公分的身材;我們希望那千篇一律的、人人一樣的發型能夠有點變化;我們希望自己成為同齡人中最有魅力的那一個——尤其是和西南角那個黑乎乎的表弟相比;當然,我們最希望的是那些前輩們能夠說一句:小夥子,不錯!
哪怕那些前輩們雖然有的富可敵國,有的學富五車,卻已老眼昏花,跟不上時代,也泡不到美眉了。
少年中國啊,少年中國,當我坐在電影院中,不可免俗地費力尋找你的身影時;當你的名字出現在那張地圖上,我驚呼出聲心中暗爽時;當我和所有觀眾一樣,看到直升機上那八一星徽會心一笑時,我們都是你的一部分——你的少年心性,你的故作深沉,你的不成熟,你的早熟,你的活力,你的不完美,你的沖勁,你的不自信,你的勇敢。
好萊塢的鏡頭里永遠不會有我們眼中的中國,我們眼中的中國只會出現在中國電影的鏡頭里。西方媒體的筆下永遠不會有真正的中國史,中國歷史的記錄者永遠使用漢字,那漢字從前存在於史官懷中的竹簡和市井小民的傳說中,今日則被坐在電腦前的每一個你和我敲擊,那些西方記者們漏掉的每一個歡笑和每一場苦難,都被我們忠實的記錄。
所以,無需費盡去尋找「中國方舟」了,無需為那一句「只有中國能在短時間內做到」而受用無窮,梁啟超在《少年中國說》中說中國「壯麗濃郁、翩翩絕世」,不是嗎?在那些白皮膚的老朽們已經爬到山頂的時候,等待著他們的只有下山的路,而攀爬未半的少年中國,抬起頭,前方是久違300年的絕頂風景。
好萊塢,不如遺忘中國吧,不當大反派,也無意成為救世主,更不想如你們鏡頭中俄羅斯的寡頭、沙特的王儲、印度的科學怪才那般臉譜化。如何編排你們的配角由你們自己高興,但真正的中國,存在在中國人當主角的電影里。
好吧,善良的中國人民都同意了,以後俺們的災難片里,也給你們美國人留一艘船。要減肥哦。
007 first episode, big villain Dr John Ure is a Chinese, the film released in 1962, October 5, after 15 days, the Sino-Indian border conflict broke out, four years after the Cultural Revolution in China to further its own closed, mystery The Red Storm from the East in general into the sky, swept the entire world, and those rages hoarsely roaring of the leftist students in fact did not know then what is taking place in China.
The Cultural Revolution in the past 33 years, the eyes of Westerners, China is like? This question has always been stirring up the hearts of all Chinese people, we would like a teenager, with people proud of the achievements, but also has shortcomings can not be ignored, edgy look forward, looking forward to all those who applaud achievements, and everyone put than those deficiencies. We look forward to every large in China's shadow, in every country there should be a big scene to find that a large red banner, and every wild notion of the disaster facing the world when they are looking forward to China's appears. We waited for the past what is it? Is worn the same brutal, such as concentration camps, prisons, the American-style Chinese panda journey to lose weight is a old-style military uniforms and the cold is a wealthy high-rolling gangsters, is simple but good enough to eat people. We are so concerned about the Western media's views on us, so "Reference News" sales of very high; we are so concerned about the lens inside the Hollywood kind of how China is, so we are angry after disappointing that we abuse, we are dismayed.
Like a teenager, wearing shoes with feet kicked street trash, vent plausible but in fact his anger does not matter: all these are just growing pains.
Why care about Hollywood lens, China is like? Do not need to pull before the meteorite hit the Earth in China also launched a nuclear bomb, we know that he can destroy the world; do not need to make Batman jumping in Hong Kong, we know that they have skyscrapers; do not need a foreign director moved, we know that in 2008 in May, Wenchuan, Yingxiu, Beichuan how brilliant shining, it is not bright enough to a long history in the human left bright point. No, in fact, we never need Hollywood's recognition and appreciation of the Western world, we have, "Southern Weekend", with Jane Kwangju, there is Lu Guang, there is × × ×, there is × × × (please feel free to fill in the blank, as long as may be 豆瓣remove the names are in line with conditions), we can find their own problems, we also have the courage to tell these brave fellow.
But - yes - yes, like that young, we hope that the hypertrophy of Chen Chu their uniforms to a sudden jump high 8 cm tall; we hope that the monotony, and everyone can be a bit like hair changes; We hope to become the most attractive peers of that one - especially with the southwest corner compared to that dark and cousin;, of course, our best hope is that those predecessors were able to say: boy, yes!
Even though some of those predecessors extremely wealthy, and some Xuefu five cars, already Laoyanhunhua, keep up with the times, it can not crush the foam.
Young China ah, young Chinese, when I was sitting in the cinema can not escape convention to effortlessly find your shadow pm; when your name appears on the chart, I exclaimed out loud when the heart Anshuang; when I, like all the audience and saw the helicopter was 81 when the star emblem of a knowing smile, we are all a part of you - your young minds, you Guzuoshenchen, your immaturity, your precocious, your energy, you do not perfect, you have momentum, you are not confident, you are courageous.
Hollywood's lens will never have our eyes China, we are in the eyes of China will only appear in the Chinese film lens. Western media's pen will never have a real Chinese history, Chinese history, the record will always use the Chinese characters, which used to exist in the Chinese historian bosom of the bamboo and the ordinary people of the legend, today was sitting in front of the computer for each one You and I tap those Western journalists who miss each and every one laugh a misery, have been our loyal records.
So, no need to expend a tremendous amount to look for "China's Ark", and no need for that one, "Only China can do in a short time" and is good enough for infinity, Liang in "Young China, said that" that China "magnificent full-bodied, Innocent Steps masterpiece", is not it? In those white-skinned decrepit are already Pashanding time, waiting for their only down the road, but climbing is not half of the Young China, raised his head, the front is a long-hoped-300 years of utterly scenery.
Hollywood might as well forget the Chinese bar, improper major opponent, but also not intended to be a savior, even if you do not want the lens in the Russian oligarchs, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince, India's science geeks be as profiling. How to schele your supporting by your own happy, but the real China, there is the Chinese people when the main character of the movie.
Well, kind-hearted Chinese people have agreed, after the film was a disaster An Men, but also give you the Americans stay in a boat. Oh, to lose weight.
B. 五篇英語電影短篇影評 ( 影評和電影都是英文的)
2012 is a 2009 disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich. The film stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton and Woody Harrelson. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Filming began in August 2008 in Vancouver.
The film briefly references Mayanism, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, and the 2012 phenomenon in its portrayal of cataclysmic events unfolding in the year 2012. Because of solar flare bombardment the Earth's core begins heating up at an unprecedented rate, eventually causing crustal displacement. This results in an onslaught of Doomsday event scenarios plunging the world into chaos, ranging from California falling into the Pacific Ocean, the eruption of the Yellowstone National Park caldera, massive earthquakes, and Megatsunami impacts along every coast line on the Earth. The film centers around an ensemble cast of characters as they narrowly escape multiple catastrophes in an effort to reach ships in the Himalayas, along with scientists and governments of the world who are attempting to save as many lives as they can before the disasters ensue.
I think,it will be, for its audiences, one of the most satisfactory films of the year and it really can be called the "mother of all disaster movies".
《蜘蛛俠2》英語影評
情節想必都知道,以下是影評
So what's your choice between being a common person or a hero with people's respects? Most people will choose the latter. But what will be your choice if the cost is laying your lover among the risks? What will it be if the cost is you can never tell the girl, who you love so much, that you love her? The spider man had this contradiction. But finally he still chose the latter, not in order to be a hero, but to make this word peaceful.
I was so moved by the words the Aunt Mary said:
You will never guess what he wants to be, the spider man. He knows the hero when he sees one, too a few characters out there, flying all around out there, saving old girls like me. Lord knows kids like Henry need hero courageous, sacrificing for people, setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero. People enthrone them, cheer them, scream their names and years later they will tell how they stood in the rain for hours just to get a glimpse the one who taught them to hold on to stand longer. I believe there is a hero in all of us. They keep us be honest, give us strength, make us noble, and finally allow us to die with proud. Ever though sometimes we have to initiatively give up the thing we want most, even our dreams. Spider man did that for Henry, so he wants to know where he is gone. He needs him.
The spider man got much from these words, so did I. And what about you? what's the hero lying in you?
2012劇情
傑克·傑克遜(約翰·庫薩克飾)帶著孩子去黃石公園度假,卻發現曾有美好回憶的湖泊已經乾涸了,而這個地區也成為了禁區。充滿疑惑的他在黃石附近的營地偶然認識了查理。查理告訴他由於自然環境和資源長期被人類掠奪性破壞,地球自身的平衡系統已經面臨崩潰,人類即將面臨空前的自然災害。查理說有些國家已經在聯合秘密研製並建造可以躲避這個災難的方舟。傑克遜以為他是個瘋子就一笑而過走開了。
第二天災難發生了。強烈的地震伴隨大量隕石的墜落,讓眼前熟悉的家園變成了人間煉獄。在地球的其他地方,各種各樣的自然災害也以前所未有的規模爆發。傑克遜和眾多家庭一樣踏上了求生之路。面對全球性的自然災害,不知何去何從的他突然想起查理提到過的方舟和地圖,於是決定前往方舟基地尋找生存的機會。
在尋找和前往方舟基地的過程中,傑克遜一家在經歷災難的生死考驗之後終於到達了方舟基地。然而已經製造完成的方舟數量遠遠不能滿足從世界各地聞訊涌來的受災人群。
誰去誰留已然成為挑戰整個人類的道德抉擇。面對災難,來自不同國家的人類做出了最重要的抉擇:「所有人都是平等的,都有平等的生存機會!」最後人類終於在方舟中度過了這一全球性的災害,獲得了繼續繁衍和發展的希望。
2012英文影評:
The world is ending in a matter of hours, yet justice and humanity don』t penetrate through the brain-shells of politicians. In order to save their own lives, the government officials keep the secret from the rest of human kind and also lets the man whose knowledge saves their lives die. This is the premise of 2012.
But if the viewer is a Tibetan or someone who is aware of the Tibetan culture and the sensitivities of Tibetan issue, one could feel that the justice and humanity are not occurred in the director』s thought either.
There is a scene long enough to mention that takes place in Tibet. In fact the last human beings die there and the new seed of the future human race starts at the neck of Mount Everest, 「The People』s Republic of China」 the movie calls it. Perhaps what no movie reviewer noticed or saw the importance of mentioning is that the prophetic fictitious story of the movie not only makes a statement that Tibet is completely a part of China, but also it totally misrepresents the core culture of Tibetan people. A Tibetan woman killing animals in Tibet is taboo, it never happened except ring the Cultural Revolution when some women were forced to do so. Women killing chickens in the Chinese market is an everyday event, but a Tibetan woman killing a CHICKEN reflects the director』s cultural ignorance and it makes the movie even more ridiculous.
And in real life ethically speaking, Mr. Emmerich failed to hire Tibetan actors who can speak their own language. All the actors who play Tibetan characters are Chinese very poorly pretending to be Tibetans. Their Tibetan is hundred times worse than Zhang Yi』s memorized English or Leonardo DiCaprio』s Swahili (well I can imagine!).
影評翻譯
世界是結束一個小時的問題,但正義和人類不穿透腦政治家炮彈。為了挽救自己的生命,政府官員遠離了人類的其餘的秘密,也讓男子的知識,能拯救他們的生命死亡。這是2012年的前提。
但是,如果觀眾是藏族還是有人知道誰是藏族文化和西藏問題的敏感性,人們可以認為,正義和人類沒有在導演的思想也發生了。
現場有一個足夠長一提的是發生在西藏的。事實上,最後死在那裡人類和未來的人類新的種子開始在珠穆朗瑪峰的脖子,說:「人民中國共和國」的影片調用它。或許沒有發現或電影評論家看到一提的重要的是,預言的電影虛構的故事,不僅使聲明說,西藏是完全是中國的一部分,而且是完全歪曲了西藏人民的核心文化。殺害一名西藏婦女西藏動物是禁忌,但從來沒有發生過除文革期間當一些婦女被強迫他們這樣做。殺害婦女在中國市場的雞的日常事件,而是一個藏族婦女殺雞反映了導演的文化無知,這讓電影更可笑。
而在現實生活中講道德,艾里奇先生沒有聘請藏族演員誰可以講自己的語言。所有的演員扮演藏文字元誰是華人很差冒充西藏人。藏族是100倍不如章尾的背英語或萊昂納多迪卡普里奧的斯瓦希里語(好,我可以想像!)。
以上是復制的。。。。回答人: 愛的雙重魔力∮
其實你好好在網上找一下都會有的。
C. 深圳有沒有RealD 3D電影院
今天去了金逸3號廳看阿凡達3D。據說這里的屏幕是7號剛引進的雙機巨幕3D,本來想去百老匯看RealD的可是網上說雙機的優於RealD.掙扎了好久選擇了金逸。
早上8點起床9:58點鍾到的,中心城還沒開門,等開門到了影院,已經人滿為患了,看來變態的人還是很多的。10點40終於輪到了我。這時3號廳只剩2排邊上和第一排了。糾結了半天買了2排的。觀影效果有點打折。(後悔沒選一排正中央。看3D電影會顯得屏幕變小,所以,第一排也沒覺得很近)。這里效果很不錯的,一點也不暗,字幕立體而清晰,不過缺點就是有些人會產生暈眩感,(觀看時要盡量看實景,少看虛景)。說實話,立體感沒想像的強(我這里所謂的立體感是畫面對人眼球的沖擊感,比如說:看4D電影中那種物體向人飛來的畫面比較少,只有戰爭場面有一些沖擊感。這也可能是電影本身沒那麼多沖擊性強的畫面)。整部影片都很空靈,色彩鮮艷,畫面唯美,反復置身在其中。影片情節就不介紹了。我是那種對電影情節沒什麼追求的人,想當年從電影院看無極回來都覺得很不錯。曾被很多人鄙視過!可是這部電影不得不說,看完有一種很強的失落感。感覺生活中的追求又少了一項。從電影院里走出來時,渾身感覺輕飄飄的。渾身都在發麻。老卡真是太牛了!!感覺中國電影和他至少差距30年。
7號前本來要去百老匯的。這幾天,天天上網看評論。很多報紙都做了廣告,說國內首選IMAX,次之雙機放映,再來是RealD單機,最後是普通3D。至於百老匯和金逸哪個更好,我就不知道了,請去過百老匯的朋友詳細評價一下,給大家更好的選擇。
我朋友下午去嘉禾看了,還沒回來,等回來再問她普通3D的效果
D. real是一部什麼樣的電影
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作者:祭神如神在(來自豆瓣)
來源:https://movie.douban.com/review/8730698/
人都喜歡求個答案,看完一部不太好懂的作品,我們常常會帶著懵逼臉捫心自問,編劇和導演為什麼拍這部電影?他們想表達什麼?這篇文章就是我對「《Real》這部電影想表達什麼」的主觀理解。
一、張泰英們的設定意義
《Real》有兩個主角(三個人格),都叫張泰英,都長一個樣。
一個是人格分裂泰英,記者主人格不堪痛苦而分裂出較強的boss人格進行自我保護,這是觀眾相對熟悉的題材,畢竟歐美已經拍出了不少經典的人格分裂電影。但這對人格分裂比較特別在於,這倆人沒有任何交流,別的人格/精神分裂電影里,人格之間有聊天的有吵架的,有斗爭的有合作的,而張泰英,則是一夜之間從一個人突變成了另一個,名字、年齡等基本信息認同都一樣,性格、記憶、身體機能全改了,原來那個張泰英深潛在意識深處,一門心思當自己不存在。
記者泰英
boss泰英
另一個更加奇特,痛苦的記者人格想自殺解脫,但出於倫理又不能殺掉身體中的boss人格,依據醫生的忽悠,記者泰英將自己的人格記憶託付在了一個植物人身體軀殼中,然後再殺了植物人作為「自殺」實現解脫。畢竟,每個自殺的人都是用傷害身體的方式實現物理死亡,如何讓記者泰英在保全身體的情況下實現單純的意識死亡呢?醫生的這個替身方案是讓記者泰英能夠以「一具身體一個人格」的方式有實感地確認自己的死亡,從而在心理層面離開張泰英的身體。但在記者英掐死植物人這場「自殺儀式」執行的瞬間,因為植物人的求生意志,置於死地而後生,誕生了一個新的張泰英。這個從頭到腳被撞廢的植物人重生以後整容成了張泰英的樣子,基於面部恢復期的扮相,我們叫他面膜英。
為什麼這樣設定故事的兩(三)個主角呢?
這兩(三)個「張泰英」的設定從不同角度涉及了一個自我認同的問題。人如何確認一個統一的、持續的、獨一無二的「自我」?對於正常人來說,當我們談及「我」的時候,這個「我」的概念包含了我的身體和意識,也包含了我過去的記憶和未來的預期,它們是統一在一起的。
但是對張泰英們而言,身體和意識都是相對分離的,身體好像個花盆,這邊是一棵樹分岔成了兩棵,擠在一個盆里,那邊是拔掉了原本的死樹重新栽種了一棵,奇葩的是,第二個盆里新栽的樹還是第一個盆里快要被擠死的那棵樹撒的種。Real把這三棵長得一模一樣的樹擺在觀眾面前,提出了一個問題:如果三棵樹只能活一棵,哪棵樹有資格留下?
當然,這只是個比喻,樹不會爭真假死活,但是人不一樣,人類對於「我是誰」這個問題有著很強的執著,「我」的概念是不可替代的、獨特的身份,就算是長得一模一樣的雙胞胎,也對誰是誰有著清晰的界定,絕不會混亂。
兩個泰英
現在,如果記者/Boss英和面膜英這「兩人三格」就站在你我面前,他們都主張「我才是真的」,在回答誰才是真正的張泰英之前,我們需要考慮兩個問題:
第一個問題是,怎麼定義「我」,怎麼確認昨天和今天和明天的張泰英是同一個人?這是記者/boss泰英指向的主要問題。
肉體可以用來標定自我的同一嗎?好像不能,人格分裂的案例太多了。在前女友死亡那天之前與之後,「張泰英」這個身體里承載的確實是完全是兩個不同的人,相反的性格、全新的人生記憶。用記憶和意識作為標准呢?似乎也不那麼可靠,人的記憶很容易被改變,意識也經常出現錯亂,Real里使用的毒品致幻和催眠洗腦設定,分分鍾人造一個「自我」出來。
認識到這些,對於「我是誰」這個問題就很難輕易回答了。
Boss英一直沒有懷疑過「我是誰」這個問題,直到面膜英在廁所里懟著他的臉告訴他:你其實只有三歲。對於boss英來說,「我」到底是誰呢?是「真」的張泰英嗎?
說別人三歲的面膜英自己其實才半歲
第二個問題是,怎麼定義「真」,誰有權力判斷真假?這是面膜泰英指向的主要問題。
每個人都是根據自己的經驗和信念去判斷真假的,所以說,真的存在一種客觀意義上的「真」嗎?如果自己和他人在孰真孰假這件事上出現了分歧,誰又有資格宣稱自己說的就是「真」的呢?即便全世界只有我一個人相信自己是「真」的,錯的就一定是我嗎?看看《飛越瘋人院》,或許自己才是唯一應該相信的人呢?
本片的名字就叫真實,關於這個頗為哲學的話題,《Real》,以及其他一些主題相關的電影,是怎麼討論「自我的真實性」這個復雜又讓人慾罷不能的問題的呢。
二、自我的真實性?
對人格分裂泰英來說,我們還可以稍有信心地說,當最後boss英終於回憶起和正視了自己作為記者英對痛苦的逃避,或者說記者英終於融合了boss英的勇氣去面對痛苦、不再深潛在意識里的時候,這是完整的、真正的張泰英。我們用完整的自我意識作為判斷真實自我的標准。
而對於面膜英來說,事情就有點復雜了,他並非出於利益想要奪取「張泰英」的身份,而是在自我意識上就認定自己是真的「張泰英」——無論那個意識是原生的還是被植入的。但是,除了自己花錢僱傭的律師和女演員,其他人都說他是「假的」,面膜英自己認為的自己和其他人認為的自己是不一致的。
金秀賢在《Real》的相關訪談里說,如果有一天突然所有人都用另一個名字稱呼你,那麼你就變成了另一個人。啊……是這樣嗎?「我是誰」難道不由自己的意識決定,是由外界定義的嗎?如果自我意識和外界認定出現了沖突,應該以誰的認定為「真」?這個問題聽起來很暈,但在很多科幻電影中都有過很生動的討論。
在科幻片《移魂都市》里,一群外星人抓了一群地球人做實驗,每天零點,這座城市的時間都會靜止,所有人陷入沉睡,外星人穿梭其中,把人們拖到全新的場景,布置完畢後,對著腦殼注入一針新記憶。時間恢復,人們醒來,按照自己的新身份行事,整座城市都按照劇本運行,每個人卻並非在演戲,因為他們深信於自己的角色記憶。直到男主這樣對「我究竟是誰」提出質疑的人出現。
《移魂都市》(1998年)
《移魂都市》里外星人做實驗的動機在於研究人類個體的獨特性,作為共享集體意識的物種,他們想知道,如果人的記憶和處境被隨意更換,這個人是會完全跟著新的人設走,還是會保有不變的「自我」?電影的結局裡,男主找到了已經被注入了新記憶的女主,重新與她結識,男主自己本來是誰,也終究沒有答案。那麼,在人造記憶下生活的人對自我的認定算是真的還是假的呢?雖然背景不同,面膜英的設定中的核心沖突卻是與之相通的,他是不是一個獨特的、不可替代的自我,是他選擇堅持還是放棄的根本依據。
在《Real》里,boss英的賭場被另一個黑幫老大曹源根覬覦,兩位老大有一段對話。Boss英讓曹源根麻溜兒地從自己的賭場滾開,他說,這賭場連名字siesta也是我起的。曹源根說,和名字有什麼關系,不管誰起的,我買下了,就是我的。
身份、人格和記憶是不是也可以呢,無論誰的名字,誰的人生,我放在意識里產生了相信和認同,算不算作是真的「自我」?意識是不是像一套數據一樣,輸入任何一具肉體機器里都可以運行?如果是這樣,人類和人工智慧有什麼區別?獨一無二的「真實」是否存在?我到底算個什麼東西?
對於Boss英來說,真是面臨著「內憂外患」,賭場有人搶,身份也有有人搶;而對面膜英來說,爭奪背後卻是另一種悲哀,他的悲哀與科幻電影中探討的克隆人的悲哀,或是人工智慧覺醒後的悲哀是相通的。就像電影《月球》中的主人公發現自己是一個克隆人,一樣的記憶,一樣的自我意識,活生生的人,卻永遠成不了「真」的那一個。
《月球》(2009年)
《月球》(2009年)
站在上帝視角,我們知道面膜英是用綳帶人的軀體和記者英的人格在毒品和催眠作用下「製造」出來的,但是,如果站在面膜英的立場,他的記憶和意識是否是被植入的,他的身體是否只是一具載體,他是否是真的,這些問題怎麼可能被他考慮呢?面膜英是一個在身心死而復生的痛苦和迷茫里長出的一個固執到變態的自我,他不得不那麼固執,因為正是這個固執讓他抓住了重生的繩索,成為「張泰英」是他活下去的唯一選擇。當他在廁所爆著青筋對意識不清的boss硬吼出「全部都是我的!我才是真的。」的時候,他是認真的,他沒有懷疑過自己。
然而,所有人都對他說,你不是真的。
電影《異次元駭客》給出了另一種結局,男主角最終發現自己不過是一個模擬世界中的數據而已,但是真實世界中的女主愛上了這具人造的靈魂,最終男主替代了自己賴以建模的人類原型,來到了現實世界與女主終成眷屬。
如果類比到《Real》里,這應該是面膜英期待的結局吧,《異次元駭客》中的男主面對女主的表白沮喪地說,但我甚至不是真的,女主表示對我而言你就是真的。面膜英也有類似的台詞:我是明知道你是誰還愛著你的人,對你而言,我才是真的。
《異次元駭客》(1999年)
愛情中的雙方對彼此的依戀是排他性的一對一關系,所以,愛人的認定是對一個個體的獨特存在最強有力的證明。互換身份後在車里以面膜英本人的身份與宋宥華的那一吻,大概是面膜英重生後的人生巔峰了——雖然,這一吻結束後,面膜英就開始逐漸滑向自我幻滅的深淵。
面膜英的自我意識終究還是崩塌了。如果曹源根認錯人的那一槍真的消滅了boss英,如果面膜英成為唯一的「張泰英」,如果醫生沒有告訴他自己重生的真相,如果本來就開始向他傾心的宋宥華沒有死,如果這個「午覺」不需要醒來,是不是面膜英就能帶著作為張泰英的自我意識過完一生?
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三、自我實現:What a man can be, he must be.
電影雖然以boss硬開場,但是全片對面膜英的刻畫是最完整的,從死亡到重生,從奪取再到幻滅。相較而言,人格分裂泰英的分量和刻畫相對遜色,其他幾個配角更不用說。但是,雖然電影成品有著剪輯比重分配下的遺憾,Real中卻也給出了足夠多的細節線索給感興趣的觀眾拼出其他角色的完整肖像。
想要理解boss英,需要先從主人格記者英開始,記者英是個獨立撰稿人,看起來文文弱弱,留著很挫的發型、戴著眼鏡、穿著oversize的黑色大毛衣,卻能夠和做過刑警的搭檔盧炎一起深入虎穴,進行危險的調查取材並撰稿披露。記者英在網路上的ID叫菲利普·馬洛,是錢德勒筆下的著名的硬漢偵探形象,成為像馬洛那樣的人是記者英的理想。
「如果我不強硬,我就沒法活。如果我不文雅,我也不配活。」(字幕組把前一句翻譯成「不粗暴,就無法去愛」應該是有誤的,感謝真諦歐尼的確認。)
這句馬洛在《重播》中的經典台詞,被記者英寫在了主頁的頭像和ID下面,而且作為記者英的台詞又念了一遍,這是他理想的生活理念。而仔細想來,這句台詞似乎別有所指。
記者英不夠強硬,面對女友因自己的調查而被連累致毒品中毒和被強奸,他是真的沒法活著面對這一切了,才導致了boss英人格的誕生,這前一句,說的是記者;同時,分裂人格boss英雖然足夠強硬和主見,但是卻遠非文雅,boss英的人物形象就是精力旺盛、思維簡單,永遠嚼著口香糖一副老子天下第一的表情,遇到問題就喊著「西八」用暴力解決,這後一句,扎的是boss英。
所以,記者英主人格其實在影片開始不久就表態了:本弱雞泰英確實是不想活了,但我生出來的這個粗暴泰英也並非我願。
boss英的人物形象是略顯單薄的,他是記者英為了逃避自我而產生的保護人格,是記者英身上不存在的那一部分性格的極端展現,他必須有刀槍不入甚至油鹽不進的性格,粗暴強硬同時有點兒「胸大無腦」,只有這樣才能從記者英那般痛苦的記憶里活下去,並帶著堅定的意志尋找帶紋身的仇家。而記者英想要成為的像菲利普·馬洛那樣強硬又文雅的人,是那個在經歷了種種困惑和痛苦,兩個人格終於合體後的張泰英,也就是當初的概念海報里拿著叫花雞逆光站在隧道里的帥比。
隧道場景正臉:合體泰英的神情與記者和boss都不同
如果更多地了解馬洛,對於記者英和盧炎的搭檔故事就會有更好的理解。同樣是偵探,馬洛與我們熟知的福爾摩斯境遇大不相同,馬洛是個因為忤逆檢察官而被開除的前調查員(Real中盧炎是個前刑警,為什麼是「前」,似乎已經腦補了一個衍生故事),他的偵查行動不但不受警察歡迎,甚至受到迫害,除了查案,馬洛要花很多精力與警察周旋。
還記得通過面膜英以玩笑口吻道出的記者英與盧炎搭檔查案的故事嗎?他們用劫持警方無線電搶先到達現場的方式進行工作,被抓了就脫下褲子露出提前穿好的紙尿褲,靠裝瘋賣傻逃脫。這和馬洛的處境很是相符,難怪記者英會以他為偶像了。
在記者英為數不多的鏡頭中,我們看到了一個在靠近理想人格的道路上不斷逼迫和挑戰自己直至崩潰和分裂的形象,即便是一副挫兮兮的扮相,對著鏡頭以身試毒並探索解毒辦法的記者,莫名地也有一絲帥氣。他戴著圓框眼鏡穿著大毛衣哆哆嗦嗦地在冰水裡說,「我會……戰勝自己……」,直到boss英臉上流著血從同一個浴缸的冰水裡,掙扎著從前女友死去的那段記憶中起身,他(們)才真正戰勝了自己。
記者英以身試毒的siesta研究影像
記者英以身試毒的siesta研究影像
通過記者英留下的siesta樣品和影像信息找回記憶的boss英
What a man can be, he must be. 片頭這句馬斯洛的話意思是說,人一定會去實現他所能成為的自我,在馬斯洛需求層次理論中,自我實現是一個人最高層次的需求。電影中的記者英和面膜英都在自我實現的路上陷入了自我認同危機,彼此之間進行的對「張泰英」這個ID的競爭實際上是他們內心對自己到底是誰、可以成為誰的疑問和掙扎。結局是,面膜英失去了自我,記者/boss英實現了自我,一個消失在末路,一個重新站立在堆滿虛假意識廢墟的平靜水面。
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四、其他配角的「真實」
Real的幾位配角戲份都不多,但除了推動劇情的輔助人物曹源根,醫生、宋宥華、韓藝媛也都經歷了與主角類似的關於自我的迷茫,只是在電影里沒有辦法一一表現。雖然如此,關於配角們的拼圖游戲也十分有趣。
醫生是影片中隱藏的大boss,研製出siesta並在各種人身上做實驗,在片中完全是上帝視角,知道的可能比觀眾都多。醫生喜歡兩件事:實驗、賭博。他不停地把siesta注入各種人的體內,看著人們是掙扎著死去還是畸形地活著,通過siesta,他建立了一座意識的「海底角斗場」,把一個個實驗對象扔進滿是鯊魚的角斗場,然後津津有味地觀察他們溺斃的姿勢。不玩兒人的時候,他就去賭場廢寢忘食地賭博。
象徵植物人意識被siesta殺死的場景;siesta賭場裝置也同理。
在揭露身份後,醫生說,siesta會讓人找到自己的真實,要麼死,要麼逼出真正的自我。而作為從siesta這條鯊魚的嘴下活下來的僅有的三人之一,他的自我遭受過怎樣的煎熬?他如何成功保護了「自我」?又落下了什麼病根兒?我們只能猜測了。
或許,他之所以享受著置人於絕境的實驗游戲,享受著大額賭博中的不確定性帶來的刺激,正是他對自我不確定性的投射,像《移魂都市》里行將滅亡的外星人擺弄地球人一樣,通過製造和觀看別人的掙扎和選擇來讓自己感受到存在吧。
《移魂都市》中與外星人合作、改造他人記憶的醫生
《Real》中的醫生大boss
每一個處於自我認同危機的人都是痛苦的,所以,為了逃避這種痛苦,每個人都拚命尋找解葯。兩個戲份很少的女性角色也同樣如此。
面膜英是怎樣說宋宥華的?她為什麼會愛上一個只有三歲的精神分裂人格?因為都是為了從毒品中解脫而產生的保護人格,面膜說,你可別這樣,你要戰勝自己,就像我一樣。
雖然電影沒有給出更多關於宋宥華的背景故事,但有一點是確定的,她是一個沉浸在痛苦中的人。在身體上,她有嚴重的鎮痛劑依賴;在精神上,她總是被痛苦的男人吸引,她對病人的母愛或許正是她為了遠離痛苦而產生的自我保護,她無法解決自己的痛苦,她要用對病人的愛來為自己鎮痛。而宋宥華的結局是,作為一個對鎮痛劑毒品上癮的病人,死於最令人痛苦的毒品siesta,作為一個沉醉於緩解痛苦的護士,死在了身心俱毀的面膜英懷里。在與痛苦的持續糾纏里,宋宥華救不了別人,也救不了自己。
另一位女性角色也夠慘痛,種種真與假的錯綜當中,戲份最少的韓藝媛卻是最有演員自覺的角色,她被面膜泰英僱傭模仿和扮演宋宥華,在真假泰英互換以後,她的表演合同本質上已經結束了。面對身邊意識不清念叨著「宥華」的boss泰英,她有點苦地笑了笑,說了她唯一一句作為韓藝媛本人而不是演員韓藝媛的台詞:
下一個party在哪裡?
身邊的人恍惚地重復著,party……韓藝媛作為面膜英僱傭的演員,她的生活就是作為「宋宥華的扮演者」跟隨著「張泰英的扮演者」出席一個個party社交場合,這個在面膜英的指令面前瑟瑟發抖的女人,根本不被允許擁有真實的自我。
沒有下一個party了,韓藝媛xi,你終於可以休息了。她認出了身邊這個男人,趁著他意識模糊的時候,作為真正的韓藝媛主動親吻了這個真正的張泰英,嘗到了一口真實的味道,接著,便迎來了死亡。
五、沒有答案
這部電影在韓國受到了猛烈批評,一個重要原因是難懂,確實,電影本身的時間線剪輯比較跳躍,一些包含了重要關聯信息的鏡頭一閃而過,部分人物的分量佔比太少使得刻畫不夠深入。不過,《Real》從劇本風格到鏡頭語言都不是一部處在韓國普通觀眾欣賞舒適區的電影,導演的拍攝和剪輯當然有太多可改善的空間,但在整體調性上,他是故意往「不好懂」的方向去做的,他選擇讓觀眾直接用張泰英們的視角去看他們意識里那些破碎、詭異但是絢麗的世界。
黑幫、毒品、動作、陰謀……這些看似傳統的商業元素外殼下,《Real》是一部探索意識領域的電影,布景的裝置和照明設計充斥著大量非現實元素,很多的鏡頭都是以片中角色的主觀視角去表現的,而主角們一個兩個都服用過致幻毒品,多少是有點精神問題的,如果沒有理解每個角色的情緒和動機,就很容易發懵。這樣一部主題艱深的電影,既要消化商業元素和投資期望,又要把握藝術表現的尺度平衡,確實讓人頭疼,為了幫助觀眾理解,電影特意分出了三個章節,誕生、對決和真實,替觀眾整理出劇情發展的主要脈絡。
但是,脈絡歸脈絡,其中的無數細節還是像魔方一樣,等著觀眾自己去擰,本篇也只是我自己的主觀評論,是屬於我自己配色版本的魔方。當最終章「真實」結束的時候,每個人的答案卻未必相同,畢竟,關於什麼是真實的自我,作為人類而非上帝,我們其實永遠無法知道。
同樣,《Real》這部電影也只是一次關於「真實」的提問和探討,沒有答案,答案……在你的選擇。
來自:主觀影評
E. 今年過年有哪些豆瓣分比較高的電影
《心靈奇旅》是第一部主角為非裔美國人的皮克斯動畫電影,傑米·福克斯在本片中為一名夢想在紐約成為爵士樂鋼琴家的音樂老師配音。但就在一次成功的面試後,他掉進了一個下水道,醒來後發現自己來到了一個靈魂世界,在這里人類靈魂都擁有自己的個性。自那以後事情就變得越發離奇。
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Still from Nomadland. (Credit: Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Nomadland 《無依之地》
豆瓣評分:8.7
When Fern (Frances McDormand) is widowed, she can』t afford to live in a house of her own, so she packs her few belongings into a camper van, and drives off into the Nevada desert. She soon discovers that she isn』t alone: there is a large community of senior citizens who have been forced to live on the road, supporting themselves with short-term jobs along the way. What makes Nomadland unique is that while Fern is played by an Oscar-winning actress, nearly all of the people she meets are real nomads who recount their own experiences. Written and directed by Chloe Zhao (The Rider), the film is a 「hybrid of documentary and fiction」.
費恩(弗蘭西斯·麥克多蒙德飾演)失去丈夫後,她住不起自己的房子,於是就收拾了僅有的一點個人物品放在露營車上,開車去了內華達沙漠。她很快便發現,自己不是一個人:這里居住著一大群老年人,他們被迫住在公路上,靠著沿途做點短期工作來糊口。這部電影的獨特之處在於,盡管費恩的扮演者是獲得奧斯卡獎的女演員,但費恩在路上所遇到的幾乎所有人都是真正的流浪者,他們只是在講述自己的親身經歷。這部電影由趙婷(曾執導過《騎士》)擔任編劇和導演,是一部「紀實和虛構相混合的影片」。
F. 電影《新世界》的影評
完全符合你標準的沒找到耶,只找到這兩篇,參考一下~
一、
記得安德烈·巴贊說過一句話,要更好地理解一部影片的傾向如何,最好先理解該影片是如何表現其傾向的。在第一次得到《新世界》的海報時,我就覺得這是部好片子,憑著自己的感性認知和直覺認為是,在海報的影響下我選擇地看了這部電影,看完之後有太多的感受,心情雖不是此起彼伏,但還是久久不能寧靜。
電影的景色很美,這也是能夠吸引觀眾的一個重要原因,一切都是那麼原始,那麼美麗。陽光、河流,青草,山石,女子的微笑與淳樸再加上那一個眼神的流露,則更加充滿了神秘氣息。我們不能不說法瑞爾的演技很棒,雖然有人說他表演時過冷淡,但我說,沉著和冷靜更能表現出對女子的至愛和關懷。我們始終很想回到那種世界,但真正身臨其境時會發現一切並不是你想像的那樣完美,在那裡,外人的出現讓那裡充滿了烏煙和瘴氣。
伯格曼說過,他的電影從來無意寫實,它們是鏡子,是現實的片斷,幾乎跟夢一樣。我想,如果擱到今天這必是說《新世界》無疑了,其實縱觀古今電影敘事手段,有《沉默的羔羊》壓抑的透不過氣來的電影,有《虎口脫險》讓你放鬆極致,笑觀歷史的電影,也有《晚安,好運》充分利用所有元素的電影,但沒有一部像《新世界》這樣平和無彩,卻能博得賞識。當然,這部片子並沒有開創這種敘述手法的先例,早些時候,一部叫《與狼共舞》的電影摘得奧斯卡桂冠時這種手段就立下了汗馬功勞,當然,我們並不能拿《新世界》同《與狼共舞》相比,不是相差太遠,而是各有其獨特之處。
剛才提到,影片的表述手法很平和,沒有一點波瀾起伏在其中,甚至到最後的戰爭都在情理之中,所以說,這部電影並不是只有景色能讓人津津樂道。影片的一開頭就給出了巨大的景觀,著重描寫自然生活,而並沒有任何敘事,彷彿大導演並沒有讓我們急於看到矛盾沖突的情節,到女子將主人公兩次救回時,男子的眼神都是同樣的迷離而充滿熱情。
這種電影最優之處則在於對人性的詮釋,當土著人的一次次寬容換來了數次的欺騙與傷害,他們沒有痛苦,反而和沉默,彷彿已經知錯,卻又選擇了逃避和原諒。我覺得,導演是在給我們傳達一個信息,在古代也好,在現代也好,人都應該與自然和諧相處,融為一體。人應該接近自然,靠近自然,去享受自然帶來的美好。而不是一味的陰謀、詭計來破壞自然,以及一切與原始自然有關的物質存在。
我留下腳印,讓後人來追尋。寫到這里,想起了女主角的一句話,Why dose this world have colors?
這樣一部夾雜著回憶、夢境和理念的電影,希望大家有時間可以看看。
二、
一個月沒有看電影,這還是第一次,在昨天終於把自己買的碟翻出來,隨手翻到《NEW WORLD》(新世界)。說起這部電影,真正吸引我的,還是封面及其以前看的電影介紹的片段。便猜想應該是部不錯的電影。然而當整部電影看完,才發現,這部電影與想像中的相去甚遠。
荒蠻之地的土著領土,忽來掠奪的英國侵略者。由於地域和文化的差異,引起了沖突,而英國侵略者與土著公主產生情愫……
不得不承認,這部電影的確取景非常的美麗。流水潺潺,陽光,微風及半身的雜草,讓人有無限的遐想,而女主角的淳樸和善良,又使的女子更加的充滿魅力。然而,克林法瑞爾的演技實在不敢恭維,從頭到尾飾演的SMITH船長沒有一點感情色彩在裡面,只是影片開頭見到女主角流露出來的表情讓人可以感受他所表達的意思。
影片表現的很平和,中間幾乎沒什麼起伏,取景的自然使的影片有了唯一的看點,景色另人嚮往猶如世外桃源,這也許是影片唯一可以叫賣的地方。
這部電影的配樂,也與影片格格不入,一段單板的鋼琴根本無法表露自然的美麗和兩人之間神聖並超越國界的愛情心理。
也許,在我們對這部電影作反面評價的時候,不得不讓我想起凱文.克斯特納的《與狼共舞》,完美的場景,完美的劇情,完美的演員,而更完美的是表達人與自然之間的結合,這種結合在這部早期電影里表現的無暇。
看完電影,讓我們來想想女主角說的那句話:「Why dose this world have colors?」……
G. 求一部電影「錄取通知」的影評,最好是英文的
1.What real school should be like.
I for one was very anxious to watch this movie.
Though I knew it was going to be another type of movie in the style of Revenge of the Nerds, I was still impressed.
There is plenty of truth to the fact of this type of learning and believe very strongly that it should be allowed in a "new style of schooling".
Conventional teaching methods do not always teach students what they need to know or should know or want to know.
This approach to teaching should be further sought out in true academic courses.
While there still was too much of the partying scenes, it obviously had to be thrown in there - for Hollywood's sake of making a comedy about college...even though we all know that life isn't really like that by any means.
A touch unbelievable, still funny and with a killer ending.
Awesome ending. Crucial to the entire story and very surprising.
Without the final scene, the movie would have been half as good.
I liked this movie and it didn't have to have overly amounts of swearing or nudity or gross out jokes for it to be good.
Great crew and cast, story and even the generic typecasting of the obligatory "Hampton frat members" was well done.
American Pie 1, 2 3 and American Wedding or whatever clones it makes doers not measure up to this by 1/3.
Far better than most comedies about first year College with no demeaning stupid jokes to make somebody throw up with.
I liked it, even though it was simple...it was interesting and even had heart...my only regret for watching this movie is that it wasn't longer
2.I love Kiki
Diora Baird is absolutely hot as hell in this movie. But really all the characters are amazingly fun to watch.
(MINOR SPOILERS) As per usual, the main character, B, is the sane one of the bunch. B has this crazy idea to make up his own college when he's rejected from all colleges he applies to. He's known for making fake IDs. so an acceptance letter is no problem.
Because B's dad is a hard @$$ and suspicious of this university he's never heard of, B gets his friend Sherman to design a website for the university. Sherman has been accepted to a great college and is in fear of being arrested for fraud. He's very quick with witty lines but his flaw is he wants to be accepted socially too much.
Glen, Hands, and Rory are the three stooges that follow B along. Glen got a zero on his SATs and has no thought process. He's constantly proposing battle royals, but he's very good at making smoothies, which gets him a lot of hot girls, somehow. Hands was a great football player who didn't receive the scholarship he was counting on, and turns to crafts to cover his lack of athletics. Rory was preparing to go to Yale since the 1st grade, and was not accepted. She spends her time meditating.
Uncle Ben was my favorite character. Picture Lewis Black playing himself. If you have no reason to see this movie, then see it for Lewis Black and Jonah Hill. They're amazing.
Monica is a B's love interest. As most of these stories go, she's more popular than him and doesn't even notice him until half way through the movie. Unlike many other stories though, B actually gets her and keeps her until the end. Monica is actually a good character on her own, but of course she's primarily there for B to adore.
There are more supporting students at the made-up college who are fun to watch. A.D.D.'s name is self explanatory, and funny enough he ends up in the meditation class. Kiki is a hot ex-stripper who falls head over heels for a chance to go to school and eventually gets a crush on Glen. Maurice is an ex-military idiot who got his G.I. bill and wants to study rock n' roll in college. The final guy is only known as Freaky Student, who thinks he can blow things up with his mind. Ye who have little faith in him wait until the end of the movie.
Of course the villains are the Dean of an opposing university, his university's student body president, the president's girlfriend, and their circle of friends.
Every character is lovable. I believe this movie has a good plot and is well done, despite what a lot of people say. Even thought the overall story is predictable, the characters keep you guessing and make the movie great. Go see this film.
H. !!!!急求英語電影的英語影評
簡愛
Kent
State
University's
school
of
theatre
and
dance
performed
a
rendition
of
the
classic,
Jane
Eyre
this
month.
The
show
was
a
musical
with
all
of
the
necessary
elements
to
lift
you
from
your
seat
and
submerse
youinto
a
society
in
nineteenth
century
England
from
the
time
the
cell
phone
shut-off
announcement
was
made
until
the
last
note
at
the
curtain
call.
The
recurring
arches,
darkened,
soft
lighting,
and
the
use
of
a
classic
chorus
to
go
along
with
them
alluded
that
a
sinister
underbelly
of
social
status
and
reputation
were
present
in
the
performance.
One
of
the
first
things
that
an
audience
member
noticed
was
the
grandeur
of
the
set.
It
was
composed
of
a
gothic-style
foreground
with
rustic
twigs
of
a
root-like
earthy
appearance.
There
were
grand
arches
for
windows
and
entries
as
well.
Also,
the
background
was
a
large
arch
with
the
silhouette
of
roots.
There
were
also
two
matching
greek-style
pillar
arches
on
either
side
of
the
stage.
They
added
a
lot
to
many
messages
of
the
show.
For
one,
they
were
grand
structures
that
were
barren
inside
which
is
much
like
Mr.
Rochester
himself.
He
was
a
man
of
high
social
stature
but
felt
enslaved
by
his
trick
of
a
marriage
and
his
grand
yet
incomplete
(without
a
true
love)
home.
The
arches
also
suggest
the
importance
of
reputation
with
the
same
sort
of
fundamental
grand
image
yet
emptiness.
The
way
that
people
are
enslaved
yet
scramble
to
ascertain
that
solid
image
amongst
their
peers.
The
arches
were
almost
inviting
the
audience
to
come
inside
to
reveal
their
secret,
the
thing
that
was
hidden
deep
inside
that
could
send
the
structure
crumbling
in
ruin.
I. 求經典外國電影影評---要英文版本的
珍珠港的影評
pearl harbour film review
Pearl Harbor consists of three incongruous acts, mashed together into an ungainly whole. It appears to be more interested in reprocing the success of Titanic, which also set a fictional love story amidst a tragic historical event, than it is in telling the story of the men and women who fought and died in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Titanic worked because the central characters were interesting, the story was cohesive, the historical events were handled respectfully and with the proper dramatic tone, and underneath it all was an intelligent reflection on the human failings that permitted such a tragedy in the first place.
Pearl Harbor reces the historical backdrop into a series of action set pieces. Instead of exploring ideas inherent in the events, it extracts them, recing the reason for Japan's attack to something inexplicable at best, and having utterly nothing to say about why the attack happened, how it was carried out, or how we responded. The film is dedicated to the men who died at Pearl Harbor, but what does it dedicate to them? It does not seem very interested in them except as a tool for dramatic imagery. Consider, for example, a scene in which we learn that men are trapped in a sunken ship in the harbor. We learn this to emphasize the brutality of the attack, as if such emphasis were needed. Then the film forgets this point entirely, providing the fates of those men in a narrated line just before the closing credits. Why wasn't the third act of the film about those men, instead of a rushed covering of the Doolittle raid on Tokyo, complete with overblown crash landings and an improbable engagement with Japanese soldiers?
If you want to see a real movie about Pearl Harbor or the Doolittle Raid, one that paints a deep and accurate picture of what it was like, one you can learn from, one that pays tribute to our veterans, or even just one that functions as convincing entertainment, there is no shortage of options. Tora! Tora! Tora! chronicles the events before, ring, and after the attack from both the American and Japanese sides. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is as thorough a chronicle of the Doolittle Raid as is probably possible in a feature film, while also following the personal stories of a few indivials involved (any one of which is more interesting than the personal story in Pearl Harbor). The Purple Heart, one of the most heartbreaking movies I've ever seen, tells the story of Americans captured by the Japanese after the raid.
Writing off the historical aspects of the film, I am left with the love triangle that makes up the entire first act and pervades the rest of it. It is wholly uninteresting. This same story has been told better, countless times before. Not one of the three characters is fleshed out into an indivial: they are bland stereotypes, dolled up to look pretty and given trite lines that they recite to convey the illusion of genuine emotion. It's telling that it doesn't much matter to us how the love triangle is resolved. Unless they both die, she'll get one of them, and who cares which? Neither of the men are personable, and we surely suspect early on that her decision will be based more on fate than her own volition anyway. (In plots like this, it's survival of the survivors.) And so, alas, we are denied even the most basic of all elements of storytelling, namely, characters making actual decisions
J. 英文電影影評
"Up", the Pixar creation of 2009 offers a magnificent entertainment for audiences of all ages. The minds behind this animated film were in the right places as they offered us their view of a fantastic voyage to an unknown world that only lived in the imagination of an older man, who in spite of his advanced age, decided to take the road to the unknown because he is at the end of his life and the world in which he lives is not what he once knew. With the help of a boy, he does what he could not have been able to pursue when his beloved wife was still around.
The prospect of living his last days in one of those institutions that cater to the old, the sick and the infirm, Carl Fredricksen opts for an escape. His beloved house serves as the vehicle where he will reach the Paradise Falls in South America. Unknown to him, Russell, the boy scout wanting to get another badge for assisting the elderly, comes along for a trip to the unknown. Little did he know the dangers he and Russell will have to face while at their destination, battling the egotistical explorer that once was his idol. Because of his determination, and with the help of Russell, he ends up being the real hero of the story, having escaped the indignities of the stay in the nursing home.
"Up" is an excellent film that will give pleasure to all kinds of audiences as it wants to appeal to the child quality hidden, perhaps, in all of us.