蹩脚英语

这大概是个女性才喜欢的影片。

没有大起大伏，没有惊涛骇浪，没有超级大美女，没有超级大帅哥。只有精准、自然、流畅、细致入微的情感刻画。

女演员不是特别漂亮，但是她对角色的把握准确极了，让我甚至怀疑真实生活中的她是不是也是这样一个敏感、不安、对爱情将信将疑却又宁愿伪装自己的女人。

有的时候看这电影的时候会产生很多共鸣，我深深的理解女主人公。所以，当我看到她终于在巴黎的地铁上找到了自己朦胧的爱情时，我克制不住地流了泪。

幸福的眼泪来之不易。

    “无论是男人还是女人，如果到了一定的年纪仍然没有稳定的爱情关系或家庭生活的话，既不是因为他们太过眷恋一个人的轻松和自在，也并非‘曾经沧海难为水’，只能说这个人在感情的处理方面，还是太过稚嫩。”

    这是美国电影《蹩脚英语》封套上的一句话，但在看了此片两遍后，仍然难以苟同这一观点，甚至觉得这是对剩男剩女的一种侮辱。每个人都有自己的命中注定，有些人可能很快找到，而有些人却需要绕一大圈才能遇到对的人。这与处理感情的方式有关，但并非绝定性因素，再科学的世界观也无法抹杀运气的成分，有神论有时比无神论更能救人于焦虑。是的，到了大龄青年这个阶段，焦虑是常态，症状为自卑、恐惧、懦弱、不敢作决定......

      诺拉已经三十五岁了，周围朋友都已经成家立业，只剩她还单身一人，并且仍无结婚对象。和大多数女人一样，她不关心地理，记不清路线，在一家宾馆工作了六年，没有什么大的目标。唯一的期待就是遇上一个好男人。“大家都有了，为什么我没有？”朋友的答复是：你会有的，只是下次别傻了。

      是的，她傻过，与住在宾馆里的一个男演员发生了关系，便以为他们在交往，口无遮拦的宣布给家人和朋友。在得知对方有女友时，还想不通到底哪里出了问题。她根本就没有想过，她和演艺圈这个世界离得太远，她遇到的是一夜情，而非爱情。这一点，她是幼稚的，现在连十岁的孩子都知道，演艺圈充满了欺骗和黑幕。被骗献身，与其相信那是爱情，还不如借潜规则上位。当然，也不会有人愚蠢到去潜规则男主角。

      或许每个女人都期待一段虚荣的爱情，被他爱上是一种荣耀。只有如此伟岸的形象，才能让人死心塌地甘心奉献。这是童年时期听多了“白马王子”故事产生的毒瘤，而王子与灰姑娘的相遇，更是让无数女人丧失了自知之明的迷失在海市蜃楼般的寻爱之旅当中，最终像美人鱼一样一夜闪耀之后，化为泡沫。这种经历是未经世事的少女的专例，没想到，这个女人到了35岁才遇到。真是让人感叹，错爱要趁早，幸福少不了。

      之后的际遇，不能再怪她幼稚。男人可以越挫越勇，但女人却是越挫越怕。对于一个感情频频失利的女人来说，她还有多少激情可以挥霍，有多少真心可以挖掘，有多少床可以去上，她内心已满是恐惧。如果一个女人还没树立游戏人生的目标，那她注定是恐惧的，因为玩不起。相亲时的麻木，约会时的倦怠，都是自我防备的一种表现形式，她需要的是有人拿着一把精准的钥匙，直接打开她的心门，她再也经不起纠结的爱情。在一次次无疾而终的相亲中，她绝望了，年龄也不允许她再“聊胜于无”，她只能找到那个可以结婚的人。

      遇到朱立安，并不抱太大希望，这是她学乖了的一点，不要动不动就讨论终身，这不是初识时用来考验感情的是非题，问问自己也是难以作答。如果没有一见钟情，那就接受先上车后买票，感情可以培养，相处需要试验，而婚姻，是前两者顺利进行的结果。果然，在短暂的相处中，她便发现她已经不懂得如何与人相处了，一个简单的遇到熟人如何介绍的问题，都让她崩溃了。是的，相爱可以是一个瞬间，相处却是一点一滴的。所以，朱利安在要回法国时，她没有勇气与他一起走，她习惯性的逃避了。这我倒认为她做对了，在有太多不确定的情况下，冲动地“私奔”才是幼稚的表现。他的经济状况如何，他的父母态度怎样，他的热情能有多久......统统都是未知数，都说了是大龄青年了，再搞那些没谱的事，非整成老黄花不可。

      如果电影按这个基调发展下去，或许能成为影评界的一大热门——一个面容气质俱佳的女人为何找不到称心的男人。但是，导演也是女人，她牺牲了永垂不朽，留存了完美想象。诺拉去到巴黎找朱立安，在公车上相遇，朱立安留她，她答应。如此通俗。

      而通俗在没有进入通俗的人那里，却似乎是一个目标，你忙忙碌碌、寻寻觅觅，其实要的只是一个通俗的结果：一个爱人，并与之厮守。而对比得讽刺的是，一直陪伴着诺拉的好朋友，五年前便进入婚姻，但如今的她，与诺拉一起喝酒、一起发泄、一起出走，因为寻找有寻找的焦躁，婚姻有婚姻的烦恼，无论处于什么阶段，殊途同归。诺拉寻找到的，还只是一个进入通俗的门槛，之后的油盐酱醋、酸甜苦辣、吵吵闹闹，还在她的下一扇门内。如果不知情况如何，建议先看看我们中国人的——《金婚》。

    貌似大部分人看这部片子都是从情场波澜、因缘际会的角度来解读，奈何我在还没看到一半的时候就毫不犹豫把它归入了中年危机系列。
    的确，不停地寻找和遭遇爱情是影片最明朗的一条线索。女主角Nora的形象定位很容易让人联想到《欲望都市》里四个唧唧喳喳的女人，都是曼哈顿的中年单身职业女性。然而不知是导演有意留下线头，还是为了烘托情节而不得不缕出一地鸡毛，总之在主线之下，我还是看到了太多欲言又止的潜台词。
    从一开片Nora在家中为了参加朋友的结婚周年庆梳妆打扮的时候起，她神经质的面孔就让坐在电脑面前的我也忍不住要嘴角抽动。Nora打开浴室镜子的门，拿起药瓶又放下；Nora在终于一次anxiety attack之后疲惫睡去，却发现Julian不知所踪，而她游荡街头看见玩具企鹅时仰起又耷下的嘴角。是的是的，她是在为找寻真爱而焦虑，但让她焦虑的绝不仅于此。感情上的挫折只是所有问题最集中的表现，是结果，不是原因。
    看看导演是怎么讲故事的吧。在被花心演员劈腿和“相亲”失败之后，上天终于在Nora精疲力竭满心创伤的时候派来了一个异国帅哥，对她一见倾心或者说早已钟情。然而午餐不是免费的，纵情饕餮之后，若想双宿双栖，得先过了自己这一关。于是Nora在悔恨、伤心和思念的交互折磨下，冒然作出辞职的决定，又路遇女巫为其指点迷津，终于痛定思痛决心飞往巴黎。可是这还不够，放弃和惭悔来得还不够彻底。于是Nora又被安排遗失电话号码，遭遇Ｎ个不同的异国好心人，听她倾诉为她鼓劲，待到终于懂得享受独处的平和与美好时，Mr. Right才肯出现。
    且不说结局的桥段有多狗血——一个收入还算小康的美国甜姐在一个人生地不熟又语言不通的国家，最后关头奔赴机场时竟是乘坐公共巴士而不是Taxi，这实在让人匪夷所思。我只想知道在那句"I know"之后，在miss out flight之后，所有的问题真的就解决了吗？
    即便爱情的港湾算是靠稳了，可是生活真相的盖子已经掀开，爱情是不足以障住双眼的。她在一个不喜欢的岗位上坚持多年，丰衣足食却内心空虚；她的焦虑或许能被白马王子的英俊浪漫暂时收归，可谁又知晓何时会出现新的导火索再将其引爆。事实上，看看Nora 的朋友Audrey的生活，就足以再拍一部Broken English II了——当Audrey在浴室里重新戴上婚戒并克制不住眼泪的时候，她妥协的并不是她老公，或者婚姻和爱情，而是低头认向又一个老掉牙了的普遍规律。说到底，无论走到哪个阶段，你都有被焦虑袭击的可能；无论当初如何选择，最后总难免面对事与愿违、期望落空、梦想蒸发、内心煎熬而又不得不隐忍和死守的局面。能大胆说不的人毕竟是少数，拍案而起之后成功的更是少数。翻过了这座山头看见的并不是海，而是又一座山。我只希望这不是人生的唯一路径，尽管它确实占据了绝大多数可能。
    最后一点题外话。受金融危机四处呼天喊地的影响，近来看到任何有关美国中产的电影或视频都免不了要挑刺。具体到此片，Audrey在进到旅馆房间后说"at least it has a bathroom"，Nora 和Audrey在街上血拼的时候说"I can't believe it's raining in Paris"等等，都不得不让我这发展中国家的国民拧起眉毛。美国人的傲慢自大，美国消费者的贪婪和强势，真是让人又爱又恨，拿不起也放不下。

 
it's the first weekend i spend one hour and half to finish this movie which i left midway several weeks ago.
very romantic. i poured myself a glass of water and began to reminisce the acquaintance i've made with Chris.
the first time i saw him was in the librabry lounge. he asked me whether i'd like a cup of coffee, and i said chocolate. that's the way we found language partners in our university. i pasted up a little affiche on the outsidewall of the Friendship Shop looking for a language partner who speaks english and should be a native speaker. once he introduced himself as a french i was surprised. anyway he's european and spoke english. i was glad to have a friend. you know university life is not always full and most of my spare time was spent with those people. i was grateful that this university offered me such opportunity to enrich my experience with a variety of people, so i tried to make use of this resource.
hey,what's your name? kendra, i know it's hard to pronounce it in french...well,no no, it's alright. (and he tried to say it in french, it still souded queer.) we talked in agreement. and soon it's lanch time. i remember it should be a saturday or sunday, for Semmiss was not busy, but still with a number of students. he bought me a sandwich and i asked for a glass of juice, so the same with him. it's the first time i took a liking for the sandwiches in Semmiss. it's very cosy cafe; most foreign students especially europeans found it similiar to that at home. he said the cheese was good and also the beef, and taught me that if i found the the two peices of bread piling up together too thick, i couldn take off one and it still tastes good. i was interested in paris, and he told me paris women were in dominant. the only thing i found was that he's very thougtful with women and chivalrous. i spent more than half a day with him, and it's the first time i realized that i can talk with a frechman with fluent english.
i went to his dorm one night. he showed me his music and the movies he liked. 2046 was the one he mentioned. anyway as he sat so close to me and habitually put his hand on my thigh i felt uneasy. shortly i said i should go. i used to complain to him that i couldn't sleep well in the dormitry, so he said i could have his key and any time i came to get a sleep he could drop away. as i fell into an embarrassed silence not knowing how to refuse, we were both at pause.
after that i never went to his dorm again, but he still called me sometimes. i scarcely helped him in Chinese. and not after long he moved off campus and rented an apartment near Price Market. he invited me to his new apartment but i always had my excuses. he knew many things about women, even the strange relationship between women and the changing gravitational force of moon and also astrology.
 i still remember once we met by conincidence at the door of the library and he held me aside and said, he'd checked on the internet and knew that next year would be a difficult year for me. he told me to be careful. the fact proved that i really had a close shave with catastrophe during the next year. then we sat outside the library and chatted about something unmeaningful. that's a most beautiful autumn day. i truly deeply impressed by his expression of "i'd like to keep sunshine in my eyes".
later we met less and even null. his name was Christopher. i suggested that if he'd like "克里斯" was a cool Chinese name, so the other day he showed me his passport. it was "克里斯" on it. i smiled.
it's really a long time before we met again. when we first made acquaintance with each other, i used to run into him three times in a day, which he said was indeed lot or luck. the last time i saw him was the spring of the next year. i came back from a korean student's home and rode on the campus. outside the football field we saw each other. i knew i was kind of avoiding him for quite a long time, but soon i realised this was the last time we met. i was graduating and he's also moving somewhere else. he said maybe he's going to Xinjiang, where there're a lot of beautiful girls. we both laughed.
he worked with Phillips. and we lost contact after that. he didn't show up at my graduation ceremony with flowers.
later i left Peking...

没有跌宕起伏的情节

没有大起大伏的脉络

连女主都没有火辣身材

只有女性感兴趣的小帅哥

细腻入微的情感刻画。



搭讪的法国男人怎么就不猥亵，反而体贴呐~~~