一开始会看这部电影，完全是冲着lisa kudrew去的（同样也出演另外一部电影的cox就很对不起了，无论如何我不打算再一个人看恐怖片了……），但是中途就被另一个女演员maggie和billy joel吸引跑了……lisa是不错啦，可是，看见phoebe人到中年满脸皱纹，还是很难适应。(另外不是phoebe的lisa看起来真的很像新白娘子里面的小青，joey像周润发……)
 
剪接和旁白字幕都很有趣，故事的发展也一样。其实在看见片名的时候，就隐隐知道，到达这样题目之前，大概有很长很曲折的路要走吧。的确是。有时候我会想，简简单单几行字，就可以总结一个人的一生，他或她恋爱，被骗，失恋，或者死去，那么漫长的一生，在旁人看来不过几行字。那些“这是他死前所约会的倒数第二个女孩”之类的话，有那么几行字就可以满足我们的好奇心，那些漫长的日子里他或她所经历的，其实我们并不感兴趣。我们已经有我们的烦恼了，感谢上帝，请只给我们最精彩最概括的部分吧。
生活中什么都可能发生，什么事都在发生。“他们在一起六年”，那其中他们有没有谈到永远呢？
 
maggie确实自己唱了里面的歌，我想导演可能是billy joel的fan，用了他的两首歌——honesty和just the way you are。这两首我都很喜欢，另外一首估计是专门写给电影的how lucky am i也非常棒，maggie的声音很好听。不过听billy joel精选的时候我并没注意到后面那首just the way you are……大概当时也不够专心吧……

        Maggie Gyllenhaal，是冲着她来看这部片子的，第一次看到她独特的笑容，是在《蒙娜丽莎的微笑》里，那个敢爱、敢承认的女孩，觉得她的气质有些像莫文蔚，她的笑容最为特别，让人过目不忘。

       三段故事里的人物相互串联，理不出清晰的头绪，但却不会成为困扰，最后的Happy ending，让人觉得很舒服。

       其实生活本身也是这样的吧，生活在一个不大不小的城市，我们总是会和周围的人产生这样那样的链接，某一天，你总会发现，之前出现在你生命离扮演过或轻或重角色的人，又会以另一个身份重新站在你面前，可笑的就是像是一出戏。
       
       经常会有人把生活本身和戏做比较，孰真孰假，并不重要，觉得要以看戏的态度生活才最重要吧，开心就好，不用去衡量，判断，定义，用真实的感情体会真实的生活，悲伤也是一种珍贵的体验，总会有一个Happy ending……

Honesty is such a lonely word

"Happy Endings weaves multiple stories to create a witty look at love, family and the sheer unpredictablity of life itself."

It's a comedy, sort of. For the sake of Lisa Kudrow I picked this movie, then I realized it was far more than a simple comedy, instead it's a great lifestory. I spent 2 hours of my "Bachelor's night". And it's worth the time.

Happy Endings begins with an unhappy ending, it then goes on with three stories of 10 major roles.

Some mid-age woman gave up abortion, gave birth to her son and then gave up the baby to adoption. Twenty years later a stranger came to her and said..."well I know about your son.", although he was trying to blackmailing her. He was dishonest, only telling part of the truth.
Some Mexican immigrant, a masseur and also a sex-worker who provided special services with fingers only. He was also dishonest. He married a woman to get the green card.
Some lesbian couple raising a kid, while their gay friend wondering whether they used his sperm but lied about it...
Some lonely father and gay son...happy ending that the father finally took his son as "just the way he is".
Some young talented girl who intoxicated me with her beautiful songs, she'd been through romantic relationship, which she thought would lead her to marriage, but gave up the fetus in her and left with grief.

...and these people are all connected, in one way or another. you see the stories moving on, sometimes depressingly. The narrative method is unique but familiar: using text captions for 'forecasting".

影片开始就讲这部影片可以看作是喜剧，是啊，同性恋、堕胎、乱伦，等等等等揉杂在一起，本来就很幽默，不是么。这个社会的容纳度开始变得越来越大，喜剧？悲剧？不管怎样，只是一出戏剧罢了。

不知道片中那个非常非常像诺拉琼斯的声音是谁的，很喜欢。

我觉得这里的“happy endings”是一个相对的说法。

我现在越来越觉得，如果你在生活，那么经验主义也会带你进入歧途。简单的比喻-快乐和痛苦对每一个活人轮番攻击，每一次鲜同，所以每一次都要全新地去认识，我想我们才能获取更多。也许大家把它归结在“生活的规律”里面，而规律我觉得，在生活中，不能把它当作数学公式。

Happy endings,never endings ,unless you're already a dead.
Happy endings-越过了当前的痛苦，下意识或者说不可抗拒的等待着未来的更高一级的痛苦。

希望每个人许许多多的“happy ending”.

[最后]电影的屏幕分割方式，给观众带来很多轻松的心情：）

The movie exactly depicts what life is: happiness always waltz sadness.

You never know what is going to happen in the next minute, always, life is more dramatic than the movie itself.

When soaked up in the melody "I just love the way you are" at the end of the movie, I could not help but wonder: yes, I just love the way that life presents.

No matter what life is like, a box of chocolate or a box of shit, just flow with the current and enjoy what life brings to you.