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2011-02-23 08:03:40
You don』t live just because you should
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我也想要那樣一個男人, 已婚無所謂, 有小孩無所謂。
生活直至遇見他之後才有色彩，才知道自己原來身處一潭死水。
我也希望有那樣一段經歷，才知道，生活需要自己來掙，長久保持愛好也是。
故事情節固然俗套，換個角度可能會被看成是中年大叔猥瑣未成年少女的低級故事，又或者是無知少女迷途知返拚搏向上的勵志情節。
可是電影立場無比端正，讓你忘記區分對錯，忘記同情或者痛恨。它讓觀眾有機會像Jenny一樣從頭到尾冷靜自知。
If I get to University, I am going to read what I want, and listen to what I want, and I am going to look at paintings, and watch French films， and I am gonna talk to people who know lots about lots. 這是來自一個16歲少女對大學的全部見解。不難讓我們從反面看出，在她的生活里，讀的聽的欣賞的看的內容全部被控制被篩選，這個可憐女孩被父母精心培養要上牛津的全部意義在於要嫁得其所。
要撇一眼另一個世界，要一隻腳踏進污泥，不然不會知道自己一直過的對的生活可能偏頗，另外一種活法也未必出錯。
她對生活對教育充滿質疑，沒有人能夠給她一個讓她乖乖按部就班過的說法。No convincing answer could make her live a life that has been set up by her parents, who want her to get an Oxford education only for marrying a decent man, and her educators, who just love this bright girl for her smartness and maybe high scores too much to let her go the opposite way.
即使在打算退學跟校長談話的時候，Jenny還在質疑教育意義，她的關於教育意義的連聲發問甚至讓校長用蹩腳的「國民服務」來搪塞。
它用平靜緩慢的敘事步驟告訴你，一切都可以選擇。在爵士、舞會、巴黎和刻板無聊的學習生活產生矛盾時，你當然可以選擇自由生活，如果那就是你對自由生活的定義。不過，生活一向都跟賭博有關，下了注你就要做好準備承擔輸的結果。
呵呵，life is a joke. 她是個孩子，遇見他一夜長大。
初夜時，她平靜地說：「David, if tomorrow night does happen, it』d only and ever going to happen once, because the first time can only ever happen once. So no baby talk, no Minnie, just treat me like a grown-up.」
巴黎過後，她跟老師說, 「If we are going to die the moment we graduate, isn』t it what we do before that counts ? 」
David求婚時，她沒有即刻應允。
她回家質疑父母, 「what if I got married instead of going into the college? This is what you are supposed to say, what about Oxford? All that Latin? All those essays? What was the point? Why don』t you just send me to night clubs? It would cause less of trouble, and I would likely have more fun.」
老師看到戒指後在校長室裡，她說，nobody does anything worth doing with a degree. No women anyway. Boring, studying is hard and boring, teaching is hard and boring, so what you are telling me is to be bored, and then bored, and finally bored again but this time for the rest of my life. This whole stupid country is bored. There is no life in here, or color, or fun. It’s probably as well as Russians just throw us a nuclear bomb any day now. So my choice is to do something hard and boring, or to marry my Jew, and go to Paris, and Rome, and listen to Jazz, and read, and eat good food in nice restaurants, and have fun. It is not enough to educate us any more. You gotta tell us why you are doing it?
After her bubble world fully filled with fancy dreams was broken, she moved on. 就像小孩子在無人看到的情況下摔倒了就會不哭不鬧地自己爬起來一樣，她開始重新生活。沒有自怨自艾自暴自棄，她帶著一顆破碎心重新來過。(原諒我熱愛「重新」這兩個字。)
原來長大的捷徑，叫愛情。
（我想要寫這麼一大串來全部正面歌頌該片的，可是唯一讓我困擾的是，沒有讓我看到任何份量重到可以被稱為the point of the school的說法。電影在Jenny希望重回學校和校長以及老師談話的時候情節處理地特別弱。如果因為沒有找到教育意義而棄學去結婚，那麼同樣在不知教育為何的情況下有什麼理由讓她重新去讀Oxford ? ）
生活直至遇見他之後才有色彩，才知道自己原來身處一潭死水。
我也希望有那樣一段經歷，才知道，生活需要自己來掙，長久保持愛好也是。
故事情節固然俗套，換個角度可能會被看成是中年大叔猥瑣未成年少女的低級故事，又或者是無知少女迷途知返拚搏向上的勵志情節。
可是電影立場無比端正，讓你忘記區分對錯，忘記同情或者痛恨。它讓觀眾有機會像Jenny一樣從頭到尾冷靜自知。
If I get to University, I am going to read what I want, and listen to what I want, and I am going to look at paintings, and watch French films， and I am gonna talk to people who know lots about lots. 這是來自一個16歲少女對大學的全部見解。不難讓我們從反面看出，在她的生活里，讀的聽的欣賞的看的內容全部被控制被篩選，這個可憐女孩被父母精心培養要上牛津的全部意義在於要嫁得其所。
要撇一眼另一個世界，要一隻腳踏進污泥，不然不會知道自己一直過的對的生活可能偏頗，另外一種活法也未必出錯。
她對生活對教育充滿質疑，沒有人能夠給她一個讓她乖乖按部就班過的說法。No convincing answer could make her live a life that has been set up by her parents, who want her to get an Oxford education only for marrying a decent man, and her educators, who just love this bright girl for her smartness and maybe high scores too much to let her go the opposite way.
即使在打算退學跟校長談話的時候，Jenny還在質疑教育意義，她的關於教育意義的連聲發問甚至讓校長用蹩腳的「國民服務」來搪塞。
它用平靜緩慢的敘事步驟告訴你，一切都可以選擇。在爵士、舞會、巴黎和刻板無聊的學習生活產生矛盾時，你當然可以選擇自由生活，如果那就是你對自由生活的定義。不過，生活一向都跟賭博有關，下了注你就要做好準備承擔輸的結果。
呵呵，life is a joke. 她是個孩子，遇見他一夜長大。
初夜時，她平靜地說：「David, if tomorrow night does happen, it』d only and ever going to happen once, because the first time can only ever happen once. So no baby talk, no Minnie, just treat me like a grown-up.」
巴黎過後，她跟老師說, 「If we are going to die the moment we graduate, isn』t it what we do before that counts ? 」
David求婚時，她沒有即刻應允。
她回家質疑父母, 「what if I got married instead of going into the college? This is what you are supposed to say, what about Oxford? All that Latin? All those essays? What was the point? Why don』t you just send me to night clubs? It would cause less of trouble, and I would likely have more fun.」
老師看到戒指後在校長室裡，她說，nobody does anything worth doing with a degree. No women anyway. Boring, studying is hard and boring, teaching is hard and boring, so what you are telling me is to be bored, and then bored, and finally bored again but this time for the rest of my life. This whole stupid country is bored. There is no life in here, or color, or fun. It’s probably as well as Russians just throw us a nuclear bomb any day now. So my choice is to do something hard and boring, or to marry my Jew, and go to Paris, and Rome, and listen to Jazz, and read, and eat good food in nice restaurants, and have fun. It is not enough to educate us any more. You gotta tell us why you are doing it?
After her bubble world fully filled with fancy dreams was broken, she moved on. 就像小孩子在無人看到的情況下摔倒了就會不哭不鬧地自己爬起來一樣，她開始重新生活。沒有自怨自艾自暴自棄，她帶著一顆破碎心重新來過。(原諒我熱愛「重新」這兩個字。)
原來長大的捷徑，叫愛情。
（我想要寫這麼一大串來全部正面歌頌該片的，可是唯一讓我困擾的是，沒有讓我看到任何份量重到可以被稱為the point of the school的說法。電影在Jenny希望重回學校和校長以及老師談話的時候情節處理地特別弱。如果因為沒有找到教育意義而棄學去結婚，那麼同樣在不知教育為何的情況下有什麼理由讓她重新去讀Oxford ? ）
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