一生

导演运用独特的倒叙和插叙手法穿插故事令人惊艳，而故事本身也让人沉浸其中。

三章节中的男女主角都互相爱的深沉，当然威尔抛下女儿和父母的做法让人诟病，但如果他没有自杀，抚养了女儿，那后面的故事又会不会发生呢？就像艾比的论文所说的人生是无法预料的旅程，没有人知道自己下一秒会做什么。

在我观影时，哈维耶的做法也让我很不认同，但我们没有处于过他当时的位置，无法体会那种无力感，也许我们会做的比他更差也不尽然。尽管他离开了isabel和罗瑞，但他一直默默关注着她们，他依然珍惜她们，这也是一种深沉的爱。

萨席翁一开始看来是窥探别人老婆的男人，但往下看我们会发现他却是如isabel所说是一个好人，他只是无私奉献着，尽管他经历悲惨的童年，但他却没有去成为他所厌恶的父亲的样子。最后看着他，我只认为他是一个令人悲怜的老人。

Isabel，是我认为本片中最具有大智慧的人，虽然她没上过大学，一生平凡，但是她为儿子所付出的全部，包括影片中她和儿子最后的对话，人生体悟却是让人感触良深。哈维耶一直叫isabel，bella，在西语和意语中bella是美人，亲爱的意思，字幕翻译成贝儿，也许这只是从她的名字中截取出来的，但我更愿意理解为西语的意思，因为她值得这个释义。

狄伦丹西和爷爷厄文的内心的对话是本片泪点的开始，厄文为了孙女一直坚持让自己保持健康，他在内心对孙女说的话每一句都直戳我的泪点，而狄伦丹西则用叛逆来掩饰自己内心的弱小无助。当面对长大之后叛逆的丹西，厄文又是一个想关心保护孙女却再也无能为力的可怜老人。当爷爷和孙女再一次碰杯时我的眼泪再也绷不住流下来。

人生会带给我们精彩，人生会击垮我们，怨天尤人或许显得容易，即便我们深陷在那些难以开口的挫折之中，我们得提醒自己只要站起来，只要让故事继续向前，只要我们走的够远，爱就在那一头。

我爱这部电影！！！

「 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 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.」

又是一部十分美，美到令人感动的电影。后半段几乎是全程哭着看完电影的。不知道为什么评分这么低，但我个人很喜欢这种真实温暖的讲述生活的电影。强推！

生活总是会给你惊喜。你永远不知道下一秒钟会发生什么，遇到什么人，经历哪些事情。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续，是我爷爷奶奶姥姥姥爷故事的延续，以后我的孩子还是我们家里所有人的故事的延续，我们将把爱一直延续下去，这样看来，死亡和分离就也没那么可怕了。

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月上映的爱情电影，和很好看的美剧《我们这一天》（“This Is Us”)是一个导演（Dan Fogelman）出品的。豆瓣和IMDB评分都是7分左右（满分10分），我觉得这部电影被严重低估了。非常推荐大家观看！

叙事方式：

运用了倒叙和插叙。有时是现实，有时又是虚构的。感觉和很多号称是高智商电影的差不多，让观众在某些瞬间有些摸不着头脑。

电影情节：

情节跟大多数爱情电影不一样，没有通过sex博眼球，比较独特细腻。三代人的爱情故事被导演分成了五小段。故事里埋下的一个个伏笔能看出导演的用心。结局也是像欧亨利式结尾或阿加莎克里斯蒂的侦探小说一样让人猜不着结果。很喜欢！

演员：

演员们演技都在线。情绪表现得非常自然，非常接近我们平常生活，但故事又跌宕起伏，所以才让观众特别感动吧。

爱情和死亡：

Will对Abby的爱胜过世界上的一切，让观众们感动；爷爷和孙女Dylan关于死亡的对话让人心痛。最让我印象深刻的是妈妈Isabel在去世前对儿子说的那段话：

“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.”

就算妈妈不在了，儿子也可以延续妈妈的故事，让这个故事变得更加美好。

不可靠的叙事者：

Abby的论文写到最可靠的叙事者就是生命本身，因为是它在编织生命这个故事。但生命本身在一定程度上又不能算作可靠，因为生命本身也几乎不可能预知到未来。因此生命本身是最终不可靠的叙事者。

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飞机上看这部剧的时候就在想，跨度80年的四代人的故事在电影中没有刻意突出年代感是多么牛逼的手法，特别是西班牙二线演员Laia在第五章的时候演技炸裂，也说出了本年听过的最美台词，非常不理解豆瓣和IMDB的评分为何如此之低，也不明白This is us原班人马拍出来的电影为什么就是低分，我觉得电影的受众群体整体上年龄还是远低于电视剧的受众，对于人生没有沉淀下来的思考和感悟，也不感兴趣，因此容易觉得无聊老套这是我爸妈的电影云云，但评分两极分化也很清晰，看懂的人就打满分，打低分的人就说不好看，难怪导演怒怼影评家不懂电影。我觉得国内观众评低分也不难理解，文化差异大，生活环境差异大，英语西语切换和台词情感的侧重通过看字幕其实是没有办法完全在情感上连接起来的，比如最美的台词那部分一开始大家都不知道她会说英文，但后来居然像旁白一样用英文说那么动人的台词，仿佛一下子把你从远处拽到面前半米处，睁大眼睛真真切切的传达情感给你，我之前是没见过这种反逻辑的台词创意，太牛逼，一下子就感觉心里被搅拌了。如果有人可以把这部剧写出中文版本，如果还是使用类似的手法，剧情也是这样跨越时间和空间的，我觉得可以成为经典，中国电影剧本太弱，其实叙述方式和能力不妨多做一些自然点的尝试，这方面目前看应该还有很大的上升空间和潜力

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想象中发生的那段对话：

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.