沒有看過原著的我，對電影敘述的故事，少了很多感動。Water for Elephant 為什么會被譯成大象的眼淚，在看完影片后十分不解，既不符合原意，也不代表意義。僅就影片而言，寥寥數(shù)語即可嚴盡?；镜墓适驴蚣?，發(fā)生在大蕭條時代的美國，三方糾葛的感情故事以團圓結(jié)尾。電影確實在效果上重現(xiàn)了過去那個年代，各色的動物也給觀眾展現(xiàn)了一個活生生的巡游馬戲團。在表演上，最出色的是馬戲團的主人，而我們的男女主角都表現(xiàn)平平。還有，就是我們題目的主角：大象。這是一頭個子不大，已經(jīng)五十多歲的大象，叫蘿西。身上有著深淺不一的斑點，非常的漂亮。不知道在原著中是如何描述蘿西的，但是影片里的大象在我看來，很適合這個名字。

即便是影片本身平平，但是這應(yīng)該是一個多么不一樣的故事??！每個人小的時候都一定會看過馬戲團的表演，每個小小的腦袋里都一定幻想著自己可以成為馬戲團的一員，可以身懷絕技，跟動物交流，浪跡世界，不是嗎？當我們的主人公在心灰意冷，走在生活盡頭的時候，他跳上一趟疾馳而過的火車，就跳上了一個不一樣的人生劇場。所以我決定要看一看原著，看一看Sara Gruen筆下的馬戲團的人生，去認識一個不一樣的蘿西，去看一下文字里的馬戲表演。

整部電影都沒啥表現(xiàn)力 沒什么演員比較出彩 尤其那頭象 略丑 還沒啥靈性 看完就覺得是把小說的情節(jié)堆積起來 唯一慶幸的是沒讓我看睡著

Tony promised a surprise to me if I was able to apply for 20 new jobs within two days. While I failed to hit the goal at the end of the day, with the submission of only 15 new jobs, my sweet Mr. Hairball decided to deliver the surprise as he was convinced that I have been making a real effort in order to accomplish that difficult task.

The prize came out to be a beautiful movie called "Water for Elephants" at Scotiabank Theater, starred by Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz. It was not among the movies that could give you an easy and amusing time on a Sunday night, but belonged to the category of movies that would truly help you think and feel. The story was about a veterinary student, Jacob, abandoned his studies after his parents were killed and joined a traveling circus as their vet. There he met the girl of his dream, Marlena, who was also the wife of his boss August. They fell in love while taking care of the new star attraction of the circus: a smart baby elephant. With overwhelming love for each other and inconceivable courage toward better future, they were able to defeat the brutality of August and the cruelty of the times.

I think the movie has chosen a very good perspective to tell the story, for the reason that a circus is always a place full of ironies. It supposed to be a place that brings out the most amounts of true joys, but it was actually with tremendous hardship and tragedies underneath. It looks like a place full of intra-species love and communication, but it was actually dominated by wildness and manipulations. After all, a circus show was just another lucrative delusion of joys, a typical bloody business as many of the others in the historical period of Mid-20-century America. While Jacob, on the other hand, who served as a representative of the scarcely existed humanities during that era, has made every effort to struggle for true love and true cares. The reward for him was a girl of his dream and an immortal life story to be shared with his deeply touched audience.

I was very happy to find Tony loved the movie all the same, although I am pretty sure that he could have some unshared feelings about it from a different angle due to his previous experiences. For that, I would like to respect and protect. “What if there was a happy ending for our past tragedies?” This is always a sentimental and magical question to think about. The singularity of the chance to live and the unrepeatableness of time have left us with a limited extent of choices as well as a great legacy of many unfinished yet unable-to-be-finished stories. In my eyes, it never harms to let the stories and pities finished with the help of movies and imagine for the moment about other possibilities of our own lives.

And I have my unleashed thoughts too. “Where were you when I was seventeen?”When Marlena asked Jacob, helplessly yet hopefully, at that dancing party, I could clearly remember similar words coming out of my own mouth in the far-away past. The answer to that question was nothing about where were you exactly when I was seventeen; it was everything about what I am going to do with my already changed demand and feelings for life now. However, a big problem in the real world about that is: the true courage in striving for better future could be looking very similar to the ungrateful boldness to screw up a pretty good life. People need wisdom to tell the difference between the two, otherwise there could be a costly price to pay for simply being romantic. For example, in the movie I totally understood Jacob’s affections for Marlena and I completely caught Marlena’s internal unsatisfaction in her marriage with August, yet I pretty doubt about how would Marlena immediately feel after August’s death. August was her husband. He was the right person for her to meet when she was seventeen. He was a super evil for everyone else in the world except for her. As an audience, I feel delighted for Marlena and Jacob’s living happily ever after. But did August deserve such an applauded betrayal and demise as that?

Love is truly beautiful, but love is also selfish. There is hardly right-or-wrong answer in any love story. It is touchy as long as it is real. - Once again ironically, these words came from someone who was somehow hurt by the love story that I am enjoying right now. I am always trying to feel, what exactly did Jacob see in that 1939 picture of the Winnie Brothers’ Circus Show at the very beginning of the movie? Cherished memory of his passed wife, grateful appreciation toward his own life, mixed feelings for his long-dead friend and enemy August? Despite all the complexity and ambiguity in his feelings, interestingly, that feeling reaches the bottom of our hearts and became something that we are all yearning for at the end of the day. When Tony and I, hand-in-hand, came off as the last two persons who walked out of the cinema that night, I could not help thinking about one simple question: if there is ever any audience for our own life, would they enjoy the show as much as we just did?

Jessica
May 16 2011

我始終不明白男豬好看在哪了，到底有多少人覺得他帥，好吧這個可以不作為重點
但是劇情也拍得太。。。。。
不夠連貫，莫名其妙的男女主就火花四射了
給個前因后果嘛
愛護動物嘛，女人感性也就算了
一個有點大腦的人，在面對吃飯和寵物的時候
人性求生的欲望都是至上的
我想要另外的生命一樣活的體面
可是前提是我也可以體面的或者
在我死與他死的選擇中，選擇我死永遠是不合邏輯的（當然在大多數(shù)情況下，求死的不算）
所以男豬的愛心泛濫實在不讓人覺得他有多高尚
反倒是女豬顯得更加理智，當然可能年齡上也是比較成熟的
這部片子，敘述手法的無新意不是最大的缺點，因為倒敘雖然被很多經(jīng)典電影采用，畢竟敘事的方法不過那三種。
但是情節(jié)上的糙實在不能接受
好吧，那只是一個時代，代表一個時代，但是那個時代可以賦予更多的內(nèi)涵，而電影沒有表現(xiàn)出來