剧照
详细剧情
长篇影评
1 ) 生活在继续
恋爱，夫妻，子女，出轨
平平淡淡
每个人生活中都会面对这些事情
一件美好的衣服
一定要留到某一天，某一认为值得纪念的隆重日子
可自己是否能等到那一天
2 ) 《请给予》：谁说给予一定是美德
《请给予》的女主人公凯特和丈夫共同经营者一家二手家具店，因为总是以高出收购价许多倍的价钱倒卖二手家具而内疚不已。她的这种内疚在他的丈夫艾利克斯看来，显得非常可笑。也许，有的人不需要它们，而有的人需要它们，仅此而已，与欺诈无关。
不知道凯特是不是基督徒，她的强烈的内疚感让她产生了强烈的赎罪心理，通过给予的方式。她为91岁高龄的安德拉过庆祝生日，而她所送的生日礼物——一套精美的化妆品——在当晚即被安德拉从垃圾管道中丢弃。她给那个曾经从他手上收购廉价家具的男人送去陶瓷罐，甚至在她还没有走出街区的时候，已经被摔得粉碎。
凯特的给予到底出了什么问题？她到底是想得太多还是想得太少，是多此一举还是没有把事情做到位？她是不应该给安德拉送化妆品还是应该当场给安德拉展示化妆品的妙用，是根本不应该送陶瓷罐还是应该在送去陶瓷罐的同时在上面插上鲜花？
也许，这个问题可以在她女儿艾比的身上可以得到答案。我始终相信，人在认识世界之前，首先得认识自己，智者是敢于直面自己内心的人。艾比只有15岁，撇开她的粗口，至少可以看到她是一位直面自己内心的人：她因为满脸长青春痘而头顶内裤出来见客，她因为想买条心爱的牛仔裤遭到拒绝而骂自己的母亲是婊子。
相比较艾比的简单直接，凯特面对内疚的赚钱手段的方式是迂回的。她内疚着，同时，继续以高价卖二手家具。她内疚着，同时，继续以别人不需要的方式给予，却不愿意花200美元给心爱的女儿买条牛仔裤，不愿意多关心下女儿的青春痘。
在安德拉的悼念仪式上，牧师念着她的生前事迹。当听说安德拉生前曾经做过义工、给盲童读过故事时，她的孙女玛丽唇语了一句非常触动人心的话，尽管这句话并没有打在字幕上：“Is she?”
内疚不应该是给予的理由，了解才是。于是，艾比终于买到了她心爱的牛仔裤，凯特埋的单，235美元。
3 ) 来来来，一起来唱这首歌
I had No shoes, and i complained until i met a man who had no feet, That's really beat.
I had no feet, and i complained until i met a man who had no knees, that was his disease.
I had no knees, and i complained until i met a man, and you know what? he had no butt.
I had no butt, and i complanied about it all, and then i met a man, who had no balls.
I had no balls, and i complanied until i met a man, who had no guts. No balls, no butt, and now no guts.
I had no guts, and i complained until i met a man who had no heart, the most important part.
I had no heart, and i complained, i did not understand, and then i met a man who had no hands.
I had no hands, and i complained until i met a man who was a wreck, he had no neck.
I had no neck, and i complained until i met a man who had no chin, some folks lose some folks win(Ahha).
I had No chin, and i complanied until i met a man who had no nose, that really blows.
I had no nose, and i complained until i met a man who never cries, he had no eyes.
I had no eyes, and i complained until i met a man who felt no pain, he had no brain.
I had no brain, and i complained until i met a man who had no head, as good as dead.
I had no head, and i complained until i met a man who had no hair, there was nothing there.
I had no hair, and i complained until i met a man who hd no hat, picture that,(ahhh) not even a hat(ahhh).
I had no hat(had no hat?no hat?), and i complained until i met a man who had no sky, no reason why.
I had no sky(why?), and i complained until i met a man who had no stars, no Venus no Mars.
And not any stars!
I had no stars, and i complained until i met a man who had no God, that's rather odd.
I had no God, and i complained until i met a man who had no faith, Nothing just in case.
I had no faith, and i complained until i met a man who had no love, nothing to dream of.
I had no love, and i complained until i met a man who had no hope, at the end of rope.
I had no hope, and i complained until i met a man who had no luck, that really sucks.
I had no luck, and i complained that i had nothing left to lose,and then i met a man who had no shoes..(ahhh ahhh)
Lyrics by Paranoid Larry
4 ) 我所喜爱的城市浅悲怀
当然这是异数。总体来看，天性使然，女导演更加熟稔的还是聚焦于小情态，落笔细腻，节奏掌控不疾不徐，在表现家庭生活和人与人之间的情感问题上占很大的优势，同时也占有很大的比例。擅长表现都市女性情感的Nicole Holofcener这次在《Please Give》里将笔锋转向了家庭和邻里，在倾注于影片明确的道德观念基础上，抒发了一曲城市浅悲怀。
看完《请给予》，必须承认自己非常喜欢这样的城市小品，首先是影片的整体风格，没有华彩，不设技巧，不走弯路，它甚至谈不上是在讲述一个故事，而是截取生活的一小段，平铺直叙。生活的河流源自哪里又流向何方，从容舒缓。
Kate累于自己泛滥的同情心，不管带回家的流浪女还是街上等餐桌的黑人老者都让她遭遇尴尬，过度的怜悯发展到了强迫症一般的愧疚和负罪感，这难免分散了她的精力，女儿Abby的青春痘和心仪已久的牛仔裤，她没能帮女儿妥善处理，丈夫Alex的小乐子和小幽默她不再呼应，这间接导致了丈夫的出轨行为；Rebecca长期照料年迈体弱的奶奶，封闭在自己的小世界里，身边还有一个跟奶奶同样刻薄但冷血的姐姐Marry，机缘巧合，因为病人Mrs. Portman的青睐和介绍，Rebecca跟她的外孙小个子尤金正式恋爱从而告别沉闷的生活，而钟情晒黑的姐姐却一直沉溺酒精，毫无顾忌地成为Alex的炮友，她置奶奶于不管不顾，这直接导致了老人的离世，而偷窥前男友的女朋友却被人认出遭其数落。
人人都面对自己的大小问题，给予和索取，平衡与失落。生活的起承转合可能不会大起大落，也没有夹杂着大风大浪，在经历身心的波折之后总要回归本体，寻求内心的真实自我，Kate一家再次回到从前的温暖，Rebecca找到真爱，Marry在一个刻薄得令人侧目的面具背后其实承受了情感的伤害，最终卸去沉重的伪装。苦闷悲喜始终贯穿我们命运的全部，生活只是遇到了小小的浪花打了一个转儿，然后，它又继续前行。
这部典型的城市电影，有很多这一类型电影的标签，比如它的室内戏占了绝大多数，这在布景方面有更大的可操作性；它靠短促的戏剧爆发力撑起场面，比如它一定要有一场非常出彩的餐桌戏，奶奶Andra生日，姐妹二人节奏紧凑的对峙，Abby顶着内裤出场跟Marry之间令双方大呼过瘾的讨论，这在塑造每个人的角色魅力上都增添了浓重的一笔；它必须创造出鲜活生动的人物，当然这不仅在于演员各自的表演功底，也在于他们之间的配合，对白的节奏停顿拿捏得当，转接位过度自然。尤其是奶奶Ann Morgan Guilbert的演出堪称一绝，她以八十多岁的高龄出演这部电影，演绎这个九十多岁的角色，肢体动作，表情，语调都退却其次，更多的是她内心的真实超越了戏里的真实，成为这部电影最活灵活现的一个人物。除此之外，Amanda的表演也十分精彩，成功演绎了一个尖酸刻薄虚荣冷漠实际上却脆弱敏感的美容院按摩女，Catherine的戏稳中求胜，沙哑的嗓音依然如故，知性感性和无以排遣的怜悯得到了淋漓尽致的发挥！The Real Rebecca！善良而又局促感十足的诠释！与尤金的亲吻是电影最美的镜头!
值得一提的还有本片的色彩，这简直就是导演的一次色彩训练习作，尤其在这部电影当中，Kate从事的是二手家具买卖，色彩的发挥大有用武之地，并且这也非常适合表现典型的中产阶级家庭的家装，人物的衣服，墙壁，桌旗，各种大小饰物，都形成了蓝色和橙色的绝妙搭配，甚至是Rebecca给奶奶准备的小小的药片！当然最美的，是影片开头大家都提到的Rebecca跟尤金一起去看的叶子。
秋天快结束了，抓紧时间，去看最美的叶子！
5 ) [Film Review] Please Give (2010) 7.0/10
NYC, present day, Kate (Keener) and her husband Alex (Platt) run a modern furniture shop, and have bought the adjacent apartment of theirs, but can only have it after the current occupant, the cantankerous 91-year-old Andra (Guilbert) dies, considering her long-in-the-tooth age, the wait shouldn’t be too long.
Acquiring their accessions with a fairly low price from the next-of-kins of the recently deceased, and then flip them for a much higher price tag in their boutique shop, Kate has become growingly flustered by guilt germinated from their pecuniary profiteering, and to allay which, she is more than willing to dish out small cash (even a 20$ note when she is in the mood) to panhandlers in the neighborhood (sometimes it is embarrassingly backfires), and seeks out some voluntary works for those who are considerably less fortunate than her. But how does it work? scenester filmmaker Holofcener’s PLEASE GIVE, her fourth feature, wrestles with this question in a brutally honest manner that it is almost touching in the end, when Abby (Steele), Kate and Alex’s zit-afflicted teenage daughter can finally have a pair of jeans she craves for, all thanks to Kate’s lofty gesture of shelling out 200$.
While Kate’s problem is chiefly, her paternalistic attitude of rearing her daughter, and a bleeding heart disposition that undermines her philanthropic resolution (she cannot turn off the waterworks when facing with disabled children, and geriatric duty is left with a loose end), and Keener is a fathomless wellspring of naturalistic demeanor, pitch-perfect affect within a wide compass of emotion; Alex is otherwise simply lumped as a complacent husband who is not above to frolic with some low-hanging fruit, but Platt’s nigh-to-zero sex appeal fails to make the affair feel authentic.
On the other side of the spectrum, there are Mary (an acerbic Peet goes for the kill) and Rebecca (Hall, wondrously expressive in her more underplayed, emotive modus operandi), the granddaughters of Andra and her caretakers, both single and fancy-free, the former is a cold-heartedly blunt hypocrite (she will not admit her radiant tan is achieved from a sun-bed, but has no hesitation to be catty about everyone else’s peccadillos) and the latter is a self-effacing and warmhearted angel, but guess which one does Abby find as a cool role model to emulate? The sharp irony and unsentimental rumination are Holofcener’s claims to fame, and PLEASE GIVE is illuminating in alerting us to inspect our own contradictory behavior patterns, for that effect alone, Holofcener’s sensibility and intellect should be drawn onto a bigger scope to shine and dazzle.
referential entries: Holofcener’s ENOUGH SAID (2013, 6.9/10); Yaron Zilberman’s A LATE QUATET (2012, 6.7/10).
现代都市人的生活缩影，为了什么而活，我们要想明白。能挖掘得再深一层就更棒了
一直就觉得这个女导演比较无趣，而且对生活太过刻薄。而且在感情上，很多东西都没有过度和转折，完全依靠剧情的转换，所以很生硬
挺感人的
都市生活电影，剧情如果能更深一层次更好
平平淡淡，平凡的才是真实的。
一部女性电影，情节流畅，演技也不错，但总感觉缺了点什么。
是同情心泛滥还是罪恶感过甚，都只为了寻觅内心的宁静。
感觉很温暖
非常棒 完全超越了当年好评一片的《鱿鱼和鲸》，还有就是导演的音乐品味非常出色
生活就是一记闷拳，无论多漂亮的脸蛋也都得挨完了继续，要么继续笑，要么继续哭。
可以
请给予生活还要继续
生活就是如此，总是能从影片中找到一写共鸣
15岁时你开始沙沙比比在意自己穿什么以为谁会系的看你一眼，35岁你把钱给别人买衣服以为人家会感激，75岁你不舍得穿新衣服非要留到特殊场合以为还会有那一天，人这一生，so sad
不太喜欢女导演的作品，拍出来的故事都太温了，看着入不了戏。
我觉得一般，剧情不是很给力
又是那种温馨的小东西，算不上沉闷，可以拿来放松。
充滿了十足的紐約氛圍，但和「電子情書」編導諾拉艾芙蓉那種充滿浪漫情懷的手法不同，霍洛夫仙納不斷以犀利的對話和情節，呈現她觀察之下的紐約人。片中的每個角色都各自在自己的生命中給予或學會給予的真諦，其實給予就是一種獲得的方式，但獲得的並不是物質上的虛無，而是心靈中的滿足。
很温情
很有感触，就在身边人的故事，真实的很无奈