好久没看电影了，也好久没有给出5星了，没想到，今天一给就是两个。
很感动的片子，不是简单的励志片而已，很感动的大女儿劝爸爸的话：不是只有你有压力，我也是，都一年多了！但是得要放下！（大概的意思吧）
面对压力，除了直面之外，还要选择必要的放下！
对Franki说再见！

Time froze when Dad was throwing those balls. I put my heart and soul just want him to make it. I really thought he might got nothing and the family would lose everything. It was so depressed when I heard the 'Bang', which means that he didn't make it. We can't see the result but only listen to the sound. Great chapter. I gotta say.

Keep a hope. One can always work it out.

"Desperado"，我喜欢的歌。剧中的大女儿唱了，

美得让人侧目。电影节时看的胶片，仍记忆犹新。

虽然阳光没有眷顾这个移民之家，他们还是以自

己的方式闪避沉痛伤悲。毕竟一生四面八方，总

有着厄运埋藏，你我都一样，只有抵抗……


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krqy0JP-qEM

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You've been out riding fences for so long now
Oh, you're a hard one. I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasing you can hurt you somehow

Don' you draw the queen of diamonds, boy? She'll beat you if she's able
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet
Now it seems to me, some fine things have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can't get

Desperado, oh, you ain't getting no youger
Your pain and your hunger, they're driving you home
And freedom, oh freedom well, that's just some people talking
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Don't your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day
You're loosing all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be raining, but there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you, before it's too late...

这完全是一部欧洲人装比又蓄意贬低美国的电影。现在欧洲经济不好，每年以旅游为名混入美国的欧洲穷鬼千千万。但这些人到了美国以后又怀念欧洲的长假期，高福利等等，有意无意的不愿融入美国社会，把自己折腾的墙头草两边倒，不知如何是好的状态。从那个大女儿进入破烂公寓第一步时对小女儿说的：“你已经是美国人了？真恶心！”就能看出导演的用心。爱尔兰导演似乎很想显示爱尔兰人在美国人穷志不穷的理念，戏就开始越来越二了：已经没钱了，还全家去看电影避暑，就算没钱也要家庭欢乐的狗屁概念。这完全不现实，纽约一场电影一个人至少15刀，再加上吃冰激凌什么的，4个人100刀就没了。不过这只是装比的刚刚开始。。接着去游乐场转悠，把所有的钱都赌在一个破娃娃上，就为了所谓的欧洲爸爸的尊严。第一个奇迹发生了：跟死了的弟弟祈祷，把钱都赚回来了，女儿的娃娃也赢到了，似乎很有尊严的样子。但是想想如果都输了呢？全家住大街上，就有尊严了？接着又蹦出来一个要死的黑鬼艺术家，似乎还会点巫术，就更二了去了！！已经捉襟见肘了，又造出来一个小孩儿，还搞一破煽情：说什么孩子有问题也要生！这儿有明显是表达欧洲人尊重生命，没钱没命也要生的概念，简直纯扯淡！连自己都快养不活了，还弄出第三个孩子来，拿尊严喂呀？而且明明知道付不起医药费，还扯什么好运气。然后那个小女孩献血的时候说什么那些美国护士在笑但眼睛没笑什么的，完全是有意说美国人虚伪。你觉得爱尔兰真实，那可以回爱尔兰呀？美国没请你来呀？最后的扯淡高潮：那个黑鬼临死为死婴祈祷，满嘴巫语，然后死婴就活了，靠！然后医药费3万多刀，黑鬼也给付了。鬼信呀？难不成说多生孩子多好运气？再生一个谁给付钱呀？还靠奇迹付呀？
总之整个电影是纯扯淡，再加上中间穿插的刻薄的店主、学校里糊弄的颁奖，忘恩负义的流浪汉、冷漠的医院收银员，都是对美国人的一种鄙视和偏见。再加上宣传什么奇迹、巫术思想，完全二比！导演似乎很不情愿的挤出一个冰激凌店的黑阿姨是个好人。。。
在纽约呀，北京呀这种国际大都市里有很多这种人：想赚当地钱，又在心里不尊重当地人，满肚子都是抱怨，想靠什么奇迹、运气发迹，真是蠢到猪脑子里去了。导演还为这种人打气，更是把猪都蠢死了！二比导演，二比电影

 I have to say, after I watched the heartwarming and terrific film In America, I was deeply moved by the loving family. For a long time, I can’t get out of their struggling story. Without any glaring special effects, just through a ten-year-old girl Christine’s narration, In America beats all the American blockbuster, in my eyes.

 At the beginning of the film, the shakily photographed opening scenes gives me a deep impression, which deliberately symbolizes the uncertainty of the future. Through the camcorder, the oldest daughter Christine sees the huge and brightly colored Big Apple. No one knows what’s waiting for the family, even for us… Around by the wows of the two kids in the car, let’s forget all the pains we had, facing the brand-new world.

To escape from the sad memories of their little son Frankie’s death, the young couple with two adorable daughters move into the U.S illegally, with dreams of a better life for their family. They are so poor that have to live in the slum of Manhattan, which is populated by junkies, drag queens, and assorted low-lifes. The new house is just passable, but the family are excited, with their aborative decoration, the house is filled with warmth. This is the point that touched me a lot, no matter how bad the real condition is, they never lose the heart. So, to some extent, In America is actually an inspiring film.

However, the loss of Frankie haunts every single one of the family. There are three plots I remember clearly until now. The first one is that when the immigration officer asks how many children they have, the dad still answers 3, in fact his son has been dead. And the second: after the mum gives birth to a new baby, she cries to the dad, looking for her lost son. The last one: before Christine gives a blood transfusion to the baby in danger, she announces seriously to her father, “Don’t ‘little girl’ me, I've been carrying this family on my back for more than a year.” Through the plots above, we can see the guilt and blame plague the couple all the time, and even their young daughters bear the family’s pain and try to heal their parents. Christine has been talking to Frankie every night, recalling the happy time when the family are in together. This is a children’s world that is often ignored by the adults. The director Jim Sheridan notices it, that’s commendable.

Besides the love between the family, In America gives us a glimpse of the true friendship. On their first Halloween in the states, the two girls dare to knock on the door of “the screaming man”,a black named Motell, in their building and played “trick or treat” with him, softening the dying man’s heart. Gradually, they develop a

sincere relationship. The family pull him out of his depression at the end of his life, show him their love, and make him have the last happy time. Unexpectedly, the kids’ opening arms, the whole family’s kindness finally pay off—Motell pay their debts to hospital as the last gift. We ache for him when his end comes. God bless him.

Undoubtedly, In America is a tear jerker in terms of its theme, about memory, secrets, love, loss, wishes, dreams, families growing stronger, starting over, and America as the land of opportunity, etc. Also it is elevated by strong performances by everyone involved. Paddy Considine plays Johnny, excellently showing a father who is devoted, protective, compassionate, a little crazy and weighed down by grief. And, needless to say, Samantha Morton, the famous actress, gives a stunning performance driven by the despair in her eyes. She captured every emotion a grieving mother goes through, and her nervous breakdown in the hospital is so emotionally gripping. But the most surprise is the real-world sisters, the genuine article of child actors, Sarah and Emma Bolger. They seem completely transparent, not just simple ‘cute kids’, but leave the impression they are not acting at all. When Christine sings “Desperado” at a school talent show, I nearly weep. It haunts me all the week, tugging my heartstrings.

And finally I want to add something else in the part of the text structure and the art of narratology. There are Christine’s three wishes and the image of ET throughout the whole film. The three wishes Christine prays to Frankie form the main frame of the film. And the image of ET emerges in the film several times, at a street fair, the dad wins an ET doll for the kids; a black man who calls himself an ET befriends the sisters; and the ET passes the moon like Santa Claus at the end of the film. In my opinion, maybe the ET represents the miracles, if you believe in hope and love, your dream will come true someday.

All in all, In America gives me so many levels of human emotion, purifying my soul. If only one word to describe it, that is, bravo!


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