又是一部十分美，美到令人感動(dòng)的電影。后半段幾乎是全程哭著看完電影的。不知道為什么評(píng)分這么低，但我個(gè)人很喜歡這種真實(shí)溫暖的講述生活的電影。強(qiáng)推！

生活總是會(huì)給你驚喜。你永遠(yuǎn)不知道下一秒鐘會(huì)發(fā)生什么，遇到什么人，經(jīng)歷哪些事情。Tragedy may knock you down. But you get back up again because all the little parts of all those who came before you are inside of you, urging you to keep going. I have always wondered how people survive the tragedies in their lives. Families with lots of love do it all the time. Even best friends too. Now, I understand how the love and the memories can transcend the tragedies. Take us beyond the tragedies. And why we all must never dishonor those who have touched our hearts by forgetting about them. Because life is never forever. But it's best parts can be passed on to those you love and shared with those who loved you until the day they died. This is the power of this movie.

想到我是我父母的故事的延續(xù)，是我爺爺奶奶姥姥姥爺故事的延續(xù)，以后我的孩子還是我們家里所有人的故事的延續(xù)，我們將把愛(ài)一直延續(xù)下去，這樣看來(lái)，死亡和分離就也沒(méi)那么可怕了。

Life brings you to your knees. It brings you lower than you think you can go. But if you stand back up and move forward, if you go just a little farther, you will always find love.

“Life Itself”是2018年9月上映的愛(ài)情電影，和很好看的美劇《我們這一天》（“This Is Us”)是一個(gè)導(dǎo)演（Dan Fogelman）出品的。豆瓣和IMDB評(píng)分都是7分左右（滿分10分），我覺(jué)得這部電影被嚴(yán)重低估了。非常推薦大家觀看！

敘事方式：

運(yùn)用了倒敘和插敘。有時(shí)是現(xiàn)實(shí)，有時(shí)又是虛構(gòu)的。感覺(jué)和很多號(hào)稱是高智商電影的差不多，讓觀眾在某些瞬間有些摸不著頭腦。

電影情節(jié)：

情節(jié)跟大多數(shù)愛(ài)情電影不一樣，沒(méi)有通過(guò)sex博眼球，比較獨(dú)特細(xì)膩。三代人的愛(ài)情故事被導(dǎo)演分成了五小段。故事里埋下的一個(gè)個(gè)伏筆能看出導(dǎo)演的用心。結(jié)局也是像歐亨利式結(jié)尾或阿加莎克里斯蒂的偵探小說(shuō)一樣讓人猜不著結(jié)果。很喜歡！

演員：

演員們演技都在線。情緒表現(xiàn)得非常自然，非常接近我們平常生活，但故事又跌宕起伏，所以才讓觀眾特別感動(dòng)吧。

愛(ài)情和死亡：

Will對(duì)Abby的愛(ài)勝過(guò)世界上的一切，讓觀眾們感動(dòng)；爺爺和孫女Dylan關(guān)于死亡的對(duì)話讓人心痛。最讓我印象深刻的是媽媽Isabel在去世前對(duì)兒子說(shuō)的那段話：

“My life, my story, it will continue after I’m gone. Because you are my story. You are your father’s story. Your uncle’s. My body fails me. But you are me. So you go now. Give me a beautiful life. The most beautiful life ever.”

就算媽媽不在了，兒子也可以延續(xù)媽媽的故事，讓這個(gè)故事變得更加美好。

不可靠的敘事者：

Abby的論文寫到最可靠的敘事者就是生命本身，因?yàn)槭撬诰幙椛@個(gè)故事。但生命本身在一定程度上又不能算作可靠，因?yàn)樯旧硪矌缀醪豢赡茴A(yù)知到未來(lái)。因此生命本身是最終不可靠的敘事者。

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導(dǎo)演運(yùn)用獨(dú)特的倒敘和插敘手法穿插故事令人驚艷，而故事本身也讓人沉浸其中。

三章節(jié)中的男女主角都互相愛(ài)的深沉，當(dāng)然威爾拋下女兒和父母的做法讓人詬病，但如果他沒(méi)有自殺，撫養(yǎng)了女兒，那后面的故事又會(huì)不會(huì)發(fā)生呢？就像艾比的論文所說(shuō)的人生是無(wú)法預(yù)料的旅程，沒(méi)有人知道自己下一秒會(huì)做什么。

在我觀影時(shí)，哈維耶的做法也讓我很不認(rèn)同，但我們沒(méi)有處于過(guò)他當(dāng)時(shí)的位置，無(wú)法體會(huì)那種無(wú)力感，也許我們會(huì)做的比他更差也不盡然。盡管他離開(kāi)了isabel和羅瑞，但他一直默默關(guān)注著她們，他依然珍惜她們，這也是一種深沉的愛(ài)。

薩席翁一開(kāi)始看來(lái)是窺探別人老婆的男人，但往下看我們會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)他卻是如isabel所說(shuō)是一個(gè)好人，他只是無(wú)私奉獻(xiàn)著，盡管他經(jīng)歷悲慘的童年，但他卻沒(méi)有去成為他所厭惡的父親的樣子。最后看著他，我只認(rèn)為他是一個(gè)令人悲憐的老人。

Isabel，是我認(rèn)為本片中最具有大智慧的人，雖然她沒(méi)上過(guò)大學(xué)，一生平凡，但是她為兒子所付出的全部，包括影片中她和兒子最后的對(duì)話，人生體悟卻是讓人感觸良深。哈維耶一直叫isabel，bella，在西語(yǔ)和意語(yǔ)中bella是美人，親愛(ài)的意思，字幕翻譯成貝兒，也許這只是從她的名字中截取出來(lái)的，但我更愿意理解為西語(yǔ)的意思，因?yàn)樗档眠@個(gè)釋義。

狄倫丹西和爺爺厄文的內(nèi)心的對(duì)話是本片淚點(diǎn)的開(kāi)始，厄文為了孫女一直堅(jiān)持讓自己保持健康，他在內(nèi)心對(duì)孫女說(shuō)的話每一句都直戳我的淚點(diǎn)，而狄倫丹西則用叛逆來(lái)掩飾自己內(nèi)心的弱小無(wú)助。當(dāng)面對(duì)長(zhǎng)大之后叛逆的丹西，厄文又是一個(gè)想關(guān)心保護(hù)孫女卻再也無(wú)能為力的可憐老人。當(dāng)爺爺和孫女再一次碰杯時(shí)我的眼淚再也繃不住流下來(lái)。

人生會(huì)帶給我們精彩，人生會(huì)擊垮我們，怨天尤人或許顯得容易，即便我們深陷在那些難以開(kāi)口的挫折之中，我們得提醒自己只要站起來(lái)，只要讓故事繼續(xù)向前，只要我們走的夠遠(yuǎn)，愛(ài)就在那一頭。

我愛(ài)這部電影?。?！

Every narrator by its very definition is unreliable, because when you tell a story, there's always an essential distance between the story itself and the telling of said story, right? So therefore, every story that has ever been told has an unreliable narrator. The only truly reliable narrator would be someone hypothetically telling a story that unfolds before our very eyes which is obviously impossible. So what does that tell us? The only truly reliable narrator is life itself. But life itself is also a completely unreliable narrator because it is constantly misdirecting and misleading us and taking us on its journey where it is literally impossible to predict where it's gonna go next. No one knows where the story is going, nor who the hero in it are going to be.

You've had many ups and downs in your life, too many. And you will have more. This is life. And this is what it does. Life brings you to your knees. It brings you lower than you think you can go. But if you stand back up and move forward, if you go just a little further, you will always find love. I found love in you. And my life, my story, it will continue after I'm gone, because you are my story. You are your father's story. Your uncle's. My body fails me, but you are me. So you go now. Give me a beautiful life, the most beautiful life ever. Yeah? And if life brings us to our knees, you stand us back up. You get up, and go farther, and find us the love. Will you do that?

I'm not sure whose story I have been telling. I'm not sure if it is mine, or if it's some character's I have yet to meet. I'm not sure of anything. All I know is that, at any moment, life will surprise me. It will bring me to my knees. And when it does, I will remind myself... I will remind myself that I am my father. And I am my father's father. I am my mother. And I am my mother's mother. And while it may be easy to wallow in the tragedies that shape our lives, and while it's natural to focus on those unspeakable moments that bring us to our knees, we must remind ourselves that if we get up, if we take the story a little bit farther. If we go far enough, there's love.

最戳的是Grandpa和Dylan想象中發(fā)生的那段對(duì)話：

Grandpa: How are you feeling, kiddo?

Dylan: I feel like my whole life is gonna be marked by death and tragedy. I crave a happy life, grandpa. I have almost desperate craving for stability and happiness, the way fat people crave chocolate, or lost hikers crave rescue. I want to live a big great fantastical life, but I'm concerned that the tragedy that seems to follow me, the tragedy that burst to me will prevent that from ever happening. And I don't know if I could stand another body bullet like this.

Are you gonna die, grandpa?

Grandpa: Yes, I am, probably sooner than you'd like, kiddo. I'd be honest, I'm gonna fight like hell and stick around for you as long as possible, to prevent one more death from coming onto where's near your doorstep. I'm gonna get on the fucking treadmill, cut back on the red meat. I'm gonna do my best, it's just for your teenage years would not lose one more god damn thing. I'll gonna do it for your mother and father. I'll gonna do it for your grandma. Most of all, I'm gonna do it for you, granddaughter. I'm gonna squeeze out ten more years from this decrepit old body, for you, my girl, my angel.

飛機(jī)上看這部劇的時(shí)候就在想，跨度80年的四代人的故事在電影中沒(méi)有刻意突出年代感是多么牛逼的手法，特別是西班牙二線演員Laia在第五章的時(shí)候演技炸裂，也說(shuō)出了本年聽(tīng)過(guò)的最美臺(tái)詞，非常不理解豆瓣和IMDB的評(píng)分為何如此之低，也不明白This is us原班人馬拍出來(lái)的電影為什么就是低分，我覺(jué)得電影的受眾群體整體上年齡還是遠(yuǎn)低于電視劇的受眾，對(duì)于人生沒(méi)有沉淀下來(lái)的思考和感悟，也不感興趣，因此容易覺(jué)得無(wú)聊老套這是我爸媽的電影云云，但評(píng)分兩極分化也很清晰，看懂的人就打滿分，打低分的人就說(shuō)不好看，難怪導(dǎo)演怒懟影評(píng)家不懂電影。我覺(jué)得國(guó)內(nèi)觀眾評(píng)低分也不難理解，文化差異大，生活環(huán)境差異大，英語(yǔ)西語(yǔ)切換和臺(tái)詞情感的側(cè)重通過(guò)看字幕其實(shí)是沒(méi)有辦法完全在情感上連接起來(lái)的，比如最美的臺(tái)詞那部分一開(kāi)始大家都不知道她會(huì)說(shuō)英文，但后來(lái)居然像旁白一樣用英文說(shuō)那么動(dòng)人的臺(tái)詞，仿佛一下子把你從遠(yuǎn)處拽到面前半米處，睜大眼睛真真切切的傳達(dá)情感給你，我之前是沒(méi)見(jiàn)過(guò)這種反邏輯的臺(tái)詞創(chuàng)意，太牛逼，一下子就感覺(jué)心里被攪拌了。如果有人可以把這部劇寫出中文版本，如果還是使用類似的手法，劇情也是這樣跨越時(shí)間和空間的，我覺(jué)得可以成為經(jīng)典，中國(guó)電影劇本太弱，其實(shí)敘述方式和能力不妨多做一些自然點(diǎn)的嘗試，這方面目前看應(yīng)該還有很大的上升空間和潛力

this is us和life itself，原班編劇，只是把電視劇搬上了熒幕，然后就撲街了？不解。你們告訴我電影哪里不好吧，雞湯滿滿是劇本身的風(fēng)格，結(jié)構(gòu)章節(jié)清晰沒(méi)有電影意識(shí)，是的。so what？

人有悲歡離合，月有陰晴圓缺。一切的離別都在未來(lái)會(huì)有重逢，請(qǐng)保持心中的愿景。因?yàn)檫@份期望本身是足夠支持我們活下去活得更好的動(dòng)力。

《一生》Life itself

這部電影可以被詬病有肥皂劇式催淚彈的戲劇沖突。但溫情、輕快、動(dòng)人的內(nèi)核因?yàn)榧?xì)節(jié)嫁接地近乎完美，沒(méi)有高談闊論的雞湯感言，顯得電影敘事整體非常扎實(shí)。

編劇兼導(dǎo)演丹·福格爾曼在《一生》也同樣采用了劇集《我們這一天》獨(dú)特的插敘和倒敘雜交的敘事手法。通過(guò)線索諸如鮑勃迪倫的專輯《Time Out of Mind》和《Make You Feel My Love》，紐約追夢(mèng)等串起故事 。加之《低俗小說(shuō)》里約翰·特拉沃爾塔和烏瑪·瑟曼舞場(chǎng)裝扮、墨西哥移民美國(guó)的文化背景，整個(gè)電影的基調(diào)給觀眾親切的文化共鳴。

Time Out of Mind

8.8

Bob Dylan / 1997

Make You Feel My Love

9.4

Adele / 2008

節(jié)奏極快、信息量很大的敘事，通過(guò)精致卻不做作的New Yorker式的臺(tái)詞中呈現(xiàn)。 Abby英語(yǔ)文學(xué)畢業(yè)論文“不可靠的敘述者”和“意想不到的英雄”的寓意，讓觀眾會(huì)心一笑，這是敘述者為我們創(chuàng)造的虛構(gòu)故事，觀眾也跟著穿過(guò)歲月洪流，時(shí)代跨越了幾十年， 去感受歲月變遷對(duì)一代和下一代和下下代帶來(lái)的精神改變；而真實(shí)的故事是我們自己的生活本身，真實(shí)的生活只能過(guò)一遍，如何過(guò)好我們的生活是《一生》給我們的啟示和寓意。

章節(jié)性的故事

第一章

關(guān)于年輕人的相遇與婚姻。妻子 Abby (Olivia Wilde)的意外離開(kāi)，導(dǎo)致丈夫Will(Oscar Isaac)精神不振，體現(xiàn)的卻是用情之深。有一種《我們這一天》Jack愛(ài)Rebecca勝過(guò)世界上的一切的感覺(jué)，再次感到一種轉(zhuǎn)瞬即逝的美好和脆弱。

第二章

關(guān)于生與死、成長(zhǎng)與衰老。也許我也是正處于Dylan一樣21歲剛過(guò)的年紀(jì)，Dylan與爺爺?shù)膬上瘜?duì)白，在編劇高超的臺(tái)詞始作俑下，讓人感到在死這種終極字眼下連簡(jiǎn)單的悲傷都顯得蒼白無(wú)力 。是絕望，與不可承受的生命之輕。然后Dylan小朋友長(zhǎng)大，變成了朋克少女，看上去狂野的外殼深藏的是脆弱和創(chuàng)傷。但一切都在變與不變中，當(dāng)看到 爺孫倆干杯??，又仿佛看到了他們一如兒時(shí)的作伴。第三代與爺爺之間還能用真摯去面對(duì)，不爭(zhēng)吵，雖然不免是有年齡和對(duì)事物理解的隔閡了。因?yàn)轱@得聚如往兮。

“盡管生活多艱難，我們也要抬起頭過(guò)下去的”那種平凡又真摯的生活啟示，很難不觸及到心靈深處關(guān)于生活該怎么過(guò)的哲思。

奇葩說(shuō)是雞湯啊，我也喜歡，那個(gè)是痛苦的遺忘和扶貧。這個(gè)是看到有比你更慘的人在世界上用力掙扎得活，也給予了我們面對(duì)生活的昂揚(yáng)斗志，何況生活本身還不算艱難。

就算劇中人物 Will (Oscar Isaac), Abby (Olivia Wilde), Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening等都被命運(yùn)捉弄，卻仍然泰然處之，相處方式是超脫世俗得真摯善良——愛(ài)情可以這么專一，親情可以永遠(yuǎn)體貼。

看著他們，覺(jué)得生活很美好了。

「 Every narrator by its very definition is unreliable because when you tell a story there's always an essential distance between the story itself and the telling of said story, right? So, therefore, every story that has ever been told has an unreliable narrator. The only truly reliable narrator would be someone hypothetically telling a story that unfolds before our very eyes which is obviously very impossible. So, what does that tell us? The only truly reliable narrator is life itself. But life itself is also a completely unreliable because it is constantly misdirecting and misleading us and taking us on this journey where it is literally impossible to predict where it is going to go next. Life as the ultimate unreliable narrator.」

「You have had many ups and downs in your life. Too many. And you will have more. This is life. And this is what it does. Life brings you to your knees. It brings you lower than you think you can go. But if you stand back up and move forward, if you go just a little farther, you will always find love. I found love in you. And my life, my story, it will continue after I'm gone. Because you are my story. You are your father's story. Your uncle's. My body fails me. But you are me. So you go now. Give me a beautiful life. The most beautiful life ever. Yeah? And if life brings us to our knees, you stand us back up. You get up. And go farther. And find us the love. Will you do that?」

「I'm not sure whose story I have been telling. I'm not sure if it is mine, or if it's some character's I have yet to meet. I'm not sure of anything. All I know is that, at any moment, life will surprise me. It will bring me to my knees. And when it does, I will remind myself... I will remind myself that I am my father. And I am my father's father. I am my mother. And I am my mother's mother. And while it may be easy to wallow in the tragedies that shape our lives, and while it's natural to focus on those unspeakable moments that bring us to our knees, we must remind ourselves that if we get up, if we take the story a little bit farther... If we go far enough, there's love.」