英伦四月天

刚看了my life so far. 固然片中主要是以小男孩的眼光讲述他的家庭与故事，但我看到的是，在婚姻中看上其她女人并对自己老婆不在意的男人是可耻的。但是传统以来女人与男人在婚姻关系中，女人更多的是处于依附的角色。这种传统树立的思想让女人自己把自己束缚住了，同时又由于女人天生的母爱让女人更安心与温顺的守护家庭的孩子，相比于男人的独立思考敢做敢为，女人更多的是小心翼翼，压抑自己心中真的所想，维持着家庭。这是多么的不公平, 对于女人来说，又是多么的无奈。除非女人太离经叛道，或是这个男人真的很豁达（可惜很少出现），否则女人很容易就陷进了自古中外以来的男主外女主内的角色认同中。这种角色认同的可怕之处是，由于取悦和依靠男人，或是女人身上对他人太多的牵拌，女人的独立人格与独立思考的缺失。好难。

I finally had the chance to watch this beautiful movie after hearing so much about it. It didn't disappoint my expectation, funny, touching and sweet bitter. The opening scene got me right away. My heart was hanging in the air when little Fraser took a crawling journey around on roof of this gorgeous mansion and it got back to its old spot after his worried father Edward, played by Colin, grapped him on the steep roof with a rope tied to his waist. A really curious, exploring child, and a trouble maker needless to say, hehe. Fraser's adventurous characteristic, indulged and encouraged by the same adventurous, eccentric and even childish inventor father, had never changed when he reached ten. In that summer, the arrival of his uncle's 'exotic child bride' Heloise aroused his first consciousness to the other sex, a turning point into adolescent. Unfortunately, Edward fell for Heloise too and vied with his own son for her affection. Being shut down by Edward, Fraser went to his Grandpa's attic for answers that he wanted to know, where he learnt for the first time in his life things about grown-up. Funny bits, sad bits scattered along the progress of turning mature for both Fraser and Edward. The last scene is as telling as the first one, where Edward found Fraser home alone, enjoying Jazz, cigar and brandy, enjoying his growing up, and Edward left him alone without interruption.As a Colin fan, I always say something about him. The review ends here if you don't care so brilliant an actor, but I'll go on drooling on him once again, LOL. Colin is as gorgeous as always in"My Life So Far", and as good performance as usual. You'll smile when he stuttered at Fraser's question of"temptation of flesh", laugh when he jumped over the lawn into the chilly lake water, amused by his eccentric inventions like the inflatable human-driven floater, and feel sorry for him when he turned in his infidelity by pompousness. I love the scene when Edward brooded in pajamas by the fire after he hurted his dear wife with his Heloise fascination. IMHO, Colin's profile is one of the finest in the world and it's extremely sexy silhouetted agaisnt the fire...BTW, Edward's mother in law Gamma is played by Rosemary Harris - aunt of the newest spider man, does that ring a bell? A lovely elegant old lady who I like very much.

豆瓣7.4分，看来大家对该片的评价还算客气。但说实话，看《英伦四月天》就像喝一杯温水——不烫嘴，也没啥味道。整部电影的戏剧冲突弱得像苏格兰高地的那层薄雾，风一吹就散了。科林·费尔斯的表演确实不错，他演的父亲爱德华俏皮不羁还带点天真感，但他一个人撑不起整部电影啊。观众反馈里有人说“戏剧冲突不足”，这简直是精准打击。父子同时爱上一个女人，多好的狗血题材，结果拍出来像一场礼貌的下午茶——大家端坐着，连茶杯碰撞的声音都小心翼翼。席璐思这个角色本该是点燃一切的火花，结果导演生生把她拍成了蜡烛芯，光有亮，没有热。影片从孩童视角切入，这本来是聪明的手法——孩子的眼睛可以过滤成人世界的复杂。但问题在于，费舍尔这个孩子的心理变化也太平淡了。他发现自己对席璐思有好感，然后又发现父亲也喜欢她，然后……就没有然后了。整个过程就像读一本被撕掉高潮章节的小说，你对结局充满期待，结果作者告诉你“就这样”。当然，影片也不是一无是处。我认可观众说的“家庭关系和父子情感的刻画认可度较高”，尤其是父亲教费舍尔打水漂那场戏，那种父子间的默契和温暖，确实动人。但就像一块蛋糕，只有上面那层奶油好吃，下面的蛋糕胚又干又硬。有人拿它当英伦文艺片来看，觉得舒缓的调性很舒服。但我认为，文艺片不是不温不火的遮羞布。同样是讲孩子的成长，《四百击》拍出了愤怒和自由，而《英伦四月天》只剩下“还不错”。如果你冲着科林·费尔斯的脸去，看看无妨；但如果想看一个真正有张力的故事，还是另选吧。