一個(gè)聲名狼藉的人為了一個(gè)新的身份而寧愿被絞死的故事。

理查.基爾加朱迪.福斯特，陣容超強(qiáng)。兩人表演上無(wú)懈可擊，但這種組合注定了我的期望特別高，想想看“沉默羔羊”加“First Knight”是什么效果？帶著接受強(qiáng)刺激的期待心情來(lái)觀影，結(jié)果是如莫奈風(fēng)景畫(huà)般恬靜的一段“愛(ài)情”故事，多少有點(diǎn)失望。而且故事結(jié)構(gòu)的刻意戲劇化本身就會(huì)削弱演員的表現(xiàn)力。

當(dāng)然如果你靜下心來(lái)，還是一部不錯(cuò)的片子。Sommersby是個(gè)人名，中文按情節(jié)轉(zhuǎn)譯為“似是故人來(lái)”，非常傳神。

        唐豪里和白娜拉溫存甜蜜的生活象征著超越一切善惡、真假、是非判斷的愛(ài)情。影片中法庭審判沈澤克是真是假之時(shí)，也就是審判著愛(ài)情與婚姻孰為優(yōu)先的爭(zhēng)訟。
        詩(shī)人永在天上奮翮飛行，追求自由也追求靈感，而戀愛(ài)乃是自由之極品、靈感之火炬，哪有舍棄之理？于是，自啟蒙時(shí)代以來(lái)，人們相信“沒(méi)有愛(ài)情的婚姻是不道德的婚姻”、“愛(ài)情是婚姻的基礎(chǔ)”、“婚姻解除（離婚）的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)也應(yīng)該是感情破裂。（愛(ài)情鳥(niǎo)飛走了）”（這也是現(xiàn)行中國(guó)《婚姻法》的法定離婚標(biāo)準(zhǔn)）
        婚姻責(zé)任之產(chǎn)生乃因生活之沉重，而非因愛(ài)情。
        詩(shī)人有自己的倫理準(zhǔn)則，且往往超凡脫俗、我行我素，而法律家考慮最多的還是你我一樣的俗人。
        人有時(shí)候會(huì)激情的一塌糊涂，不僅騙了別人，連自己都騙。好笑的奇聞背后往往是揪心的悲痛。
        你若抱我，便在以后的日子里永遠(yuǎn)抱我，你若愛(ài)我，就拿出證明。我從來(lái)沒(méi)有像愛(ài)他那樣愛(ài)你。
        生命中之極美處則欲仙欲死。難道唐豪里相信其此生至美之時(shí)刻已一一實(shí)現(xiàn)，就此死了也夠本了？天底下最浪漫的激情能維持多久？激情經(jīng)不起歲月的流逝。即使他與白娜拉的激情之愛(ài)再持續(xù)十年，那十年之后呢？十年之后，物是人非，夫妻間偶有爭(zhēng)吵又重翻舊年老帳，互指不是，白娜拉是否也會(huì)覺(jué)得對(duì)不起客死多年的沈澤克呢？
        人們總是相信他們認(rèn)為會(huì)發(fā)生的事情。真實(shí)的生活往往如此，許多人以為已經(jīng)勝利的時(shí)候，問(wèn)題才剛剛開(kāi)始。他過(guò)去對(duì)不起的人不會(huì)因?yàn)樗裉鞂?duì)另外一批人施惠而原諒他。
        長(zhǎng)大了，變老了，就開(kāi)始喜歡追本搠源。時(shí)間流逝，浮生若夢(mèng)。
        《燃情歲月》中崔斯汀的男人本色是讓女人痛苦一生的男人，而sommerceby是讓女人溫柔一世的愛(ài)人。
        她仿佛是第一次戀愛(ài)的女人，第一次發(fā)現(xiàn)原來(lái)在愛(ài)里面，自己可以這樣的被人疼惜愛(ài)護(hù)和愛(ài)戀珍惜……
        有些人，可以把愛(ài)看得大于一切，不是因?yàn)橛字?，天真，只是他們明白，兩人在一起，有愉悅的?nèi)心，時(shí)常滿足于每天的日子，這樣的生活，并不是每一個(gè)人都可以擁有的。

John "Jack" Sommersby left his farm to fight in the American Civil War but has not returned home afterward, and is presumed dead. Despite the hardship of working their farm without him, his apparent widow Laurel (played by Foster) is quite content in his absence, as Jack was an unpleasant and abusive husband. She even makes remarriage plans with one of her neighbors, Orin Meacham (Pullman), who despite his own hardships (such as a wooden foot, which he wears to replace one that was lost in the war) has been helping her and her young son with the farmwork.

One day, Jack (Gere) seemingly returns with a complete change of heart. He is now kind and loving to Laurel and their young son. In the evenings, he reads to them from Homer's Iliad, which the old Jack never would have done. He claims that the book was given to him by a man he met in prison, and that "War changes you; makes you appreciate things". Jack and Laurel rekindle their intimacy and Laurel soon becomes pregnant.

Displaced from his courtship of Laurel, Meacham immediately suspects this "new" Sommersby as an impostor. The town shoemaker also finds that this man's foot is two sizes smaller than the shoe template which had been made for Sommersby before the war.

In order to revive the local economy, Sommersby suggests Burley tobacco as a cash crop. He raises the seed money by selling parts of his own farm to people who will then work the land to grow tobacco. This raises further doubts in his old neighbors who believe that the "old" Jack would not be so hasty to give away his beloved father's land, as well as resentment among Confederate veterans about the inclusion of former slaves.

One black freedman living on Sommersby's land is brutally attacked and dropped at Sommersby's door, by men proclaiming themselves the Knights of the White Camellia (one of them is Meacham, distinguished by his wooden foot). Jack is threatened in an attempt to force him to exclude Black people from the landowning but he refuses, saying that they can "own what they pay for".

Upon taking the townspeople's money, he sets off to buy the tobacco seed claiming that the crops will raise enough funds to rebuild the town church. Great suspicion and skepticism falls upon him (and by association, Laurel and their son) when he does not return at the expected time. He does, however, return. All those that bought in on the deal set to work, transforming the dull and lifeless plantation into a breeding ground of promise and prosperity. Laurel gives birth to a daughter, Rachel.

Shortly after Rachel's baptism, two U.S. Marshals appear in town to arrest Jack Sommersby. He is charged with murder, which carries the death penalty if convicted. Once the trial begins, Laurel's attempts to save her husband quickly focus on the question of his identity: whether this "Jack" is who he claims to be, or a look-a-like who met the real Sommersby whilst in prison for deserting the Confederate Army.

Laurel and Jack's lawyer agree to argue that her husband is an impostor, not the same man who left Laurel to fight in the war. This would save her husband (or supposed husband) from hanging for murder, although he would still be imprisoned for several years for fraud and desertion. Meacham devises this plan in exchange for Laurel promising to marry him upon "Sommersby's" imprisonment.

Jack fires the lawyer and sets about re-establishing himself as the real Sommersby. Several witnesses are brought up to discredit this Sommersby as a fraud, and show that he is in fact Horace Townsend, an English teacher from Virginia.

One witness says that the man currently posing as Jack defrauded his township of several thousand dollars after claiming he wanted to help rebuild the schoolhouse there. Sommersby quickly discredits the man's testimony by identifying him as one of the Klansmen who had threatened him earlier. Jack also points out that Orin Meacham was another of those men, and that this is all a set-up to try and rob the new black farmers of the land they have bought. When the black judge confronts the witness on this charge, the witness snaps, "When the Yankees have all gone you'll be back in the field where you belong!" The judge silences him and sentences him to 30 days for contempt, increased to 60 days upon the man's protest.

As the drama unfolds, Jack asks Laurel to give the reason she knows he is not the "real" Jack Sommersby; she replies (after some berating) "…because I never loved him the way I love you!" With this her charade ends and she says that she believes the Jack before her to be her real husband.

The judge calls Jack to his bench to ask whether he wishes to be tried as Jack Sommersby even if it will certainly mean death by hanging. Jack glances at the freed blacks who have been farming his land, and then he glances at his wife and his daughter, who would be respectively condemned as an adulteress and a bastard child if he claimed the identity of Horace Townsend. He calmly states that he wants to be tried as John "Jack" Sommersby.

Jack is convicted of first degree murder and is sentenced to death by hanging. While awaiting death, he is asked by Laurel to tell the truth. She asks, "Are you John Sommersby?" Laurel mentions the book on Homer's works that he holds. Jack tells her the story of how he met a man who looked like him whilst in a prison and how he gave him this book. They traveled together until his friend died. He claims that he buried him under a pile of rocks on a hill top in Virginia. Laurel asks, "You mean you buried Jack?", to which Jack replies, "I mean I buried Horace."

Just then the jailers enter to transport Jack to the gallows. He asks Laurel to be amongst the crowds as he cannot "hang alone". She says she can't watch him die. As Jack Sommersby is fastened up ready to hang, Laurel makes her way to the front of the crowd. Jack calls for her, claiming to the executioner that he "isn't ready". She then calls back and the two see each other. The hood is pulled over and a trap door can be heard opening.

The closing scenes show Laurel walking up a hill with flowers. She then kneels by the grave of "Jack Sommersby" and lays the flowers down for him. It is revealed that work is being done on the steeple of the village church, as Jack had wished.

明知道那人不是自己六年前拋棄家庭粗暴對(duì)待自己的枕邊人。明知道的。
六年的時(shí)間，多么長(zhǎng)，一個(gè)女人，獨(dú)自帶著小孩，撫養(yǎng)成人。
家里值錢的東西都給人搶走，經(jīng)歷戰(zhàn)亂，然后生活一貧如洗，只剩下空蕩蕩的屋子，和僅存的胸針……
必須獨(dú)自勞作，每天忙田里的事情。
有一個(gè)人始終默默的幫忙，那是一個(gè)退伍的軍人，裝了一只假肢，只是因?yàn)橄矚g她，多年來(lái)默默在背后幫忙，并且等待守候。
其實(shí)都知道，女人一直都知道對(duì)方對(duì)他的心意。
就是差那么一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)，就答應(yīng)了。
只差那么一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)。
六年以后，多年前去參軍的先生回來(lái)。她第一個(gè)反應(yīng)是去梳妝打扮……
緊張的樣子，就像剛談戀愛(ài)的忐忑模樣。
不是沒(méi)有感情的，她其實(shí)開(kāi)始的時(shí)候愛(ài)他的丈夫的。
以為回來(lái)的真是自己的丈夫，在黑暗的房間里，手上只有一個(gè)風(fēng)燈，淡淡的光影照在兩人的身上，他們好久沒(méi)有如此親昵的坐在一起。
我那時(shí)候其實(shí)挺愛(ài)你的……她說(shuō)。
但是，你后來(lái)的態(tài)度，你的個(gè)性，所有的這些東西……
他無(wú)語(yǔ)，誰(shuí)知道他心里的感受呢，只有他知道自己的真相。
他說(shuō)，沒(méi)有想到，你是如此的美，笑起來(lái)這樣的好看，今后，我一定讓你時(shí)常開(kāi)心的笑！
所有的人，都以為失蹤了六年的人終于回來(lái)了，煥然一新，溫文爾雅知書(shū)達(dá)禮……
只有枕邊的妻子知道他不是。
但是，有什么關(guān)系呢。
他曾經(jīng)很擔(dān)心她會(huì)看出來(lái)。
他說(shuō)，我……我都忘記了我們是怎么在一起的……
她答，有什么關(guān)系呢，這些都不重要。
是的，都不重要。
明知道這個(gè)人只是像自己的丈夫，但卻絕不可能是自己的丈夫。
卻不要緊。
她仿佛是第一次戀愛(ài)的女人，第一次發(fā)現(xiàn)原來(lái)在愛(ài)里面，自己可以這樣的被人疼惜愛(ài)護(hù)和愛(ài)戀珍惜……
是的，只要這些，就夠了。
她會(huì)愛(ài)上他，而他，也慢慢的愛(ài)上了她。
有時(shí)將錯(cuò)就錯(cuò)，不過(guò)是因?yàn)樨潙佟?br>貪戀的東西，就像她說(shuō)的。以前我們的日子很富足，但是，那時(shí)我時(shí)常覺(jué)得痛苦。現(xiàn)在，我們的日子一貧如洗，但是從來(lái)沒(méi)有這樣的快樂(lè)過(guò)。
有些人，可以把愛(ài)看得大于一切，不是因?yàn)橛字?，天真，只是他們明白，兩人在一起，有愉悅的?nèi)心，時(shí)常滿足于每天的日子，這樣的生活，并不是每一個(gè)人都可以擁有的。

   是Jack.sommerceby,不,是湯森,不，是Jack.sommerceby."你怎么知道,你怎么知道,你怎么知道,因?yàn)槲覐膩?lái)沒(méi)有向愛(ài)他那樣愛(ài)你.”
    這就是《似是故人來(lái)》，我是在一次次否定和肯定中看完了此片。到頭來(lái)，他究竟是誰(shuí)？我寧愿相信他是她所愛(ài)的人，不管你是誰(shuí)。只因我愛(ài)你，不管你做過(guò)什么，我知道我愛(ài)你。這才是愛(ài)情，只有女人愿意相信的愛(ài)情，與現(xiàn)實(shí)功利的、交易的、目的性的愛(ài)情格格不入。
    真的再一次被Richard.Gere那紳士而儒雅的風(fēng)度而折服。讓我看到了他的另一面，三次拍著桌子問(wèn)勞拉，你怎么知道，你怎么知道，你怎么知道。野性，男人的本色。而同是男人的本色，《燃情歲月》中崔斯汀的男人本色又是另一種。崔斯汀是讓女人痛苦一生的男人，而sommerceby是讓女人溫柔一世的愛(ài)人。這就是Richard.Gere詮釋的sommerceby