排行榜_當幸福來敲門英文影評

2023年12月4日發(作者：勵志前行)

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當幸福來敲門英文影評

當幸福來敲門英文影評【一】

If youve ever been poor, this movie may be hard to watch. It depicts

poverty in America in gut wrenchingly accurate ways. Ive been as poor as

Chris Gardner, and, like him, Ive been poor among very rich people in the

Bay Area while trying to work my way up.

Chris Gardner is a loving father and failing businessman. He is chon

for a competitive internship at Dean Witter, a stock brokerage. The

internship, which offers Chris a very long shot at a better life, doesnt

pay any salary. Chris has to live without a salary for six months while

risking just about everything for that long shot gamble.

Chris is really smart. He can solve a Rubriks cube in minutes. But,

hes poor. Poverty, like an octopus, keeps trying to suck him down to the

bottom, and make him stay there.

His car is towed. His wife walks out on him, leaving him with a five

year old son. He is arrested for unpaid traffic tickets. He becomes

homeless. He has to rely on a homeless shelter.

All this while, he must appear for work in the morning in a suit and

tie, and be ready to charm some of the wealthiest and most powerful people

in the Bay Area. The people take wealth so much for granted that two

of them stiff him for cab fare.

Having lived through similar experiences, I cringed throughout this

movie. My stomach hurt. I winced. I cried. I hugged my knees to my chest. The movie is very accurate, but painful to watch. I hope a lot of rich

people, who think that they understand poverty, e it.

This movie will be politically controversial. First of all, it doesnt

touch the race issue with a ten foot pole. For example, when Chris appears

to stiff a taxi driver for fare (it was really the rich white guy who failed

to pay), the taxi driver never us the "n" word. In real life, I think

he probably would have.

Is the movie afraid to talk about race, or does it not want to? I dont

know, but I know that some will protest the movies not shoving race in

the movie goers face. Im not one of tho people. The movies approach to

race -- treating it as almost incidental -- worked for me. As a poor white

person, I can tell you that poor white people face the same obstacles Chris

did.

Second, does the movie ll the message that if you work hard, you

will succeed, no matter what, and does that message tell the truth about

success in America? I think that the movie is open to interpretation. Some

will e it as an indictment of poverty in America. The scene of carefree

rich people driving past the line to get into a homeless shelter is pretty

devastating. Other people will become angry becau they believe that the

movies depiction of hard work leading to rewards, in some cas, is too

facile. I disagree, but thats what youll hear.

Third, is this movie meant to chasti black men who abandon their

children? Chris is a role model exactly becau he moves heaven and earth

to be a good father to his son. This will be debated back and forth. The movie has a big philosophical statement to make, that has been

lost on many reviewers, for example, Richard Schickel in TIME.

Chris is shown running throughout the movie. Remember the title of

the movie: "The PURSUIT of Happiness." Chris places emphasis on "pursuit."

Jefferson, when he penned the Declaration of Independence, did not promi

Americans happiness, but only the right to pursue it. Chris says, at one

point in the movie, paraphra, "I am happy right now. It is a fleeting

moment." We experience happiness in eyeblinks. The rest of the time we,

like Chris, are chasing after it.

當幸福來敲門英文影評【二】

In preparation for writing this comment, which I am compelled to write

for reasons which will become clear, I read a fair few of the major critics

to e, if on this occasion, they had en and felt what I had.

James Bernadelli suggests this film should be known as the "Pursuit

of Richness"; another column I have read suggests that the

money-will-solve-your-problems resolution is depressing and not the

message Hollywood (or art in general) should be trying to put across.

I ask mylf when the last occasion might have been that any of the

critics genuinely had to :spoiler: run, under painful, embarrassing

duress, from a cab - becau they didnt have the money; or when the forces

of life emed to conspire against them so unfairly that they broke down

in tears. Spoiler: when your wealthy boss, who you CANNOT disappoint, asks you to borrow the last five dollars in your wallet, and you know that that

money is all you have in the world - to feed your family, to pay your gas.

You go through times in life when you feel that things couldnt possibly

get wor - and then they do - and then they do again. Sometimes, (like

Chris and son at the beach towards the end of the film) you just want to

get away from it all, other times you cry. Sometimes, and this is rare,

you laugh - becau if you dont youll cry. You know that if you let it

all become too much, you will sink to the bottom of the a.

Chris Gardner (not the real one perhaps, but the one in this movie)

is my personal hero; my shining example; my inspiration - the guy that

never allows himlf to sink - even when he can feel his shoelaces trailing

on the abed.

I realid as I was watching this film that I was watching another

me, so I never once stopped rooting for Chris. When he :spoiler: fixes

the scanner in the shelter, I felt like I had fixed it.

Im still working on getting the job that earns me enough to have a

less painful life - when Chris finally achieves it, I want it for him so

badly that I feel it in the very fibre of my being.

I suppo that it doesnt matter that much that Chris wants to succeed

as much for his son as for himlf. In a way, the fact that Chris has a

son makes this movie emotionally frightening and if (and only if) our

bast fears are being toyed with by the director, it is only in exactly

the same way that we sometimes look up in to the sky and say - like Jim

Carrey in "Bruce Almighty" - is there anything el you could possibly

do to me today? In my life, God doesnt appear and explain why he keeps toying with me. The truest belief is in onelf and one must never lo

it.

I adore this movie and I couldnt be more grateful for its existence.

It comes at a time when I need it most. Its message: Keep going - never,

ever give up.

And so I come back to tho reviewers. Money certainly doesnt mean

happiness in this existence, but no money, in this cruel capitalist world,

can cost you your life. Do not be judgmental of tho who want more, it

might just be enough to pay for their son to eat, to keep a roof over his

head, to keep their dignity. This film is not about rags-to-riches as some

reviewers have said. Its not about the American dream either. It is about

dignity and integrity and how money (or lack thereof) could easily strip

you of both.

Chris Gardner never los either and for this, he is an inspiration

to us all.

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