觀后：盡管片名譯為《卑賤人生》，并試圖用昏暗泛黃的色調(diào)、凄慘悲苦的故事來渲染，但整片看下來，無論是女主的命運(yùn)，還是情節(jié)的發(fā)展，其卑且賤的程度似乎遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不夠，沒辦法真正感動(dòng)人震撼人。表現(xiàn)1，女主落水下海，并沒有受到多大的屈辱和逼迫，更多地是為了自己的生計(jì)而默認(rèn)的結(jié)果；2，女主作為非法移民，雖也多次遭到親人的背叛和警察的追捕，但都沒費(fèi)多大周折就放了出來；3，女主雖生活在社會(huì)最底層，但由于生就一張漂亮臉蛋，因此不乏有人保護(hù)有人示愛；4、男主雖然剝奪了女主一切，但卻用他的生命，竭盡全力地維護(hù)她保護(hù)她幫助她給予她，這樣的人，恨得起來嗎；5，女主像極了梅婷，悲苦的外表下，掩不住楚楚動(dòng)人

淡黃色的影像將我們帶回到1921年紐約一間破爛的酒吧里，一群坦胸露乳的妓女們簇?fù)碇鳨wa走上了表演臺(tái)。這是Ewa首次登臺(tái)表演，她扮演的角色是自由女神。諷刺的是，在表演結(jié)束后的那個(gè)夜晚，Ewa的處女之身被一名嫖客奪走了。

和千千萬萬位移民一樣，懷揣著對(duì)自由和快樂的美好憧憬，Ewa帶著她的妹妹來到了美國，等待她們的卻是無盡的黑暗。

通過華金?菲尼克斯和瑪麗昂?歌迪亞的傳神演繹，詹姆士?格雷的《移民》帶給我們的，不僅是對(duì)自由的再次審視，更是對(duì)愛和恨的重新思考。影片最后一個(gè)鏡頭堪稱偉大——在那個(gè)黑暗與光明交織的時(shí)代，扭曲的不只是愛情。

1.American Dream= happiness?
In the first scene Eva and Magoda mentioned the reason they went to America: making money,meeting some money bag and getting married.The former is common as American Dream in that age,the latter is understandable as every girl's dream:settling down with good guys.
Why is such basic human needs lead to tragedy?
Maybe they misconceive happiness only as material satisfaction in the first place which makes the motivation somehow enslaved by lust.
2."I am not nothing"_____Beautiful but Unlucky.
I think Eva always believes she is something so she is bound to live a better life as she is a doll indeed.She is attractive to almost every man.But in real life,real beauty sometimes suffers more as the proverb says because they r faced with much more opportunities and choices than plain looking ones.So the risks r huge when they r making choices.They may easily put themselves in danger.
If Eva is not a doll,she won't be aimed by Bruno in the dock;she won't lose virginity to a young boy;Orlando won't fall for her and die......
Yeah,Helen of Troy.Don't blame beauty too much sometimes,they may also having a hard time.
3."I want to be happy"____But don't lose faith
In a way Eva gave up her life at the expense of Magoda.She wants to save her sister too much so she has to sell herself,In the movie,ironically, she plays Liberty Goddess.But she never has freedom in America,She is deprived of her dignity by prostitution;She is somehow kidnapped by Bruno's strong possessiveness.....But she still wants this kind of life untill Orlando reminds her to be free. Her faith is Magoda. However,shall we have faith in a faith makes us unhappy, betraying everything and who we r? Is it still a faith we have to fight for life? Shall we let others use our weakness to do evil things?
4.Who can we trust?
Sometimes the people we trust most hurt us the best,relatives,lovers,like Eva's wealthy uncle.Sometimes we have to trust the enemy rather than people close to us.
When Bruno said to Eva can u trust Orlando for knowing him few days I saw her trembling sightly,
This is very interesting.Orlando seems to be the nicest person in this movie and always brings hope to Eva,but if he wasn't be killed by Bruno,will he lead Eva to her sister and end up good with her?
I doubt about that.
5.Why we judge people?
The Polish Whore asked Eva why we r not the same while making money by the same thing in a envy tone.
People do things for different reasons,u can't judge a person by ur superficial thoughts,how can u be certain u know all her past and what she is being through only by what u c?
The end of the movie also proves it:don't judge a person by what he have done,maybe he will give u a surprise.
We'd better not judge a person,but at least we can predict something by ones' past behavior,not every bad ass will come around like Bruno eventually.
6.To be happy____Forget and Forgive
The ending is fair for this movie.Bruno let go Eva and finally helping her find Magoda. Eva let go the grievance and grudge of Bruno and the previous tough life and every sin became vain,cold pomp.
It is not a sin to survive,it is not a sin to be happy as long as u forget and forgive the past and always embrace new life.




 

        這是一個(gè)虛幻又真實(shí)的美國夢，來自波蘭、懷揣美國夢的姐妹被迫分離。姐姐艾娃被賣淫組織的布魯諾拯救，卻不得不淪為暗娼和流鶯。如此卑賤的人生，卻是擺在這些新移民面前不多的路。布魯諾的魔術(shù)師表弟的出現(xiàn)，帶來了艾娃的希望，卻可惜煙花易冷，浮生難測。三人糾結(jié)的愛恨，在那個(gè)久遠(yuǎn)的年代如何決斷，在油畫般雋永的畫面里，悲歡離合緩緩上演。

       劇情，攝影，美術(shù)指導(dǎo)，配樂，都散發(fā)著厚重迷人的年代氣息，蒼黃的畫面給那個(gè)荒涼年代的往事抹上史詩般的色彩。雖然在敘事上，過于倉促，但在藝術(shù)方面無可挑剔。

這一部由男女主角撐起大局的影片，一旦選角錯(cuò)誤，很有可能就此毀於一旦。因此由曾獲奧斯卡殊榮的影后瑪莉詠柯蒂亞(Marion Cotillard)和影帝瓦昆菲尼克斯(Joaquin Phoenix)詮釋片中波蘭籍的美麗女子，與對(duì)她伸出援手(or毒爪)的男子無非是個(gè)明智的選擇。

故事劇情非常的簡單，整部的焦點(diǎn)都放在女主角身上。追求美國夢波蘭籍姐妹遠(yuǎn)渡重洋，妹妹卻因?yàn)樯”痪辛魨u上，在行賄文化極為盛行的時(shí)刻，姐姐伊娃(瑪莉詠科蒂亞飾)必須花一大筆錢把妹妹救出來，親戚無情的拒她於門外，在無奈之下她接受陌生男子布魯諾(瓦昆費(fèi)尼克斯飾)的幫助，卻被迫做妓女賣身，但也因?yàn)樗麑?duì)她的迷戀使得一切不再單純。

20年代現(xiàn)實(shí)的美國移民背景之下，脫離不了金錢主義至上的敘事，對(duì)比之下，人之間真實(shí)的情感反而變得奢侈，男主角面對(duì)得不到的愛情，除了將摧毀與占有供為選項(xiàng)，個(gè)人生活甚至生命也將為之淪陷，甘於失去原來所擁有的，一念之間造就混亂的光景，劇情在布魯諾為愛失去理智意外殺了傑瑞米雷納(Jeremy Renner)所飾演的情敵角色到達(dá)高潮，然後為了救女主角甘願(yuàn)丟掉長久佈好的官員人脈。

全片當(dāng)中完全摒除女主角因應(yīng)情節(jié)所可能會(huì)有的裸露、性關(guān)係的畫面，擁有美貌的伊娃即使淪為妓女的身份，卻不減身為女人的氣度，反而盡可能展現(xiàn)她的信仰與堅(jiān)定，導(dǎo)演在混亂時(shí)代女性為錢賣身的老掉牙敘事當(dāng)中，如何刻意表現(xiàn)她的與眾不同，除了大量帶入柯蒂亞特寫臉部鏡頭顯現(xiàn)她的美貌，另外刻畫女性的堅(jiān)定性格，是一種屬於社會(huì)低階級(jí)角色所沒有的，但卻又美好的過於不真實(shí)，不論現(xiàn)實(shí)生活是否有這樣的女性角色，我們可以看到導(dǎo)演的理想主義中帶著對(duì)完美女性的期待，它一掃女性在社會(huì)底層所帶來晦暗、悲慘，甚至若要抵抗就必須武裝自己才“有可能”改變的命運(yùn)，女子在這裡所受的苦似乎有點(diǎn)“輕”了，或許到頭來整篇主軸也要人去想：美貌引起戰(zhàn)爭，而命運(yùn)多少是站在美麗女子這邊的！

或許在四十年前這部影片會(huì)是一部令人動(dòng)容的亂世愛情片，但在如今大片都以多線性的敘事方式呈現(xiàn)，單一的敘事方式在觀眾眼中可能就稍嫌薄弱，但無論如何，由這兩位演員來詮釋，都是替這部影片大大加分的主因，只能說選角是成功的。