貝松的童年經歷和選擇製作電影的最初原因

攝影很好，音樂不錯，表演也很好，劇情比較狗血，沒有女權意識。拋開很美的形式，內容卻貧瘠蒼白。如果當作動作片來看就是「還行」了。

導演本人的經歷應該可以說明為什麼會有這個評價：

Besson was born in Paris to parents who were both Club Med scuba diving instructors. This had a profound influence on his childhood as Besson planned on becoming a marine biologist. He spent much of his youth traveling with his parents to tourist resorts in Italy, Yugoslavia and Greece. The family returned to France when Besson was 10. His parents promptly divorced and were remarried to other people. "Here there is two families, and I am the only bad souvenir of something that doesn't work," he said in the International Herald Tribune. "And if I disappear, then everything is perfect. The rage to exist comes from here. I have to do something! Otherwise I am going to die."

貝松生於巴黎，他的父母都是地中海度假俱樂部的自攜式水中呼吸器潛水的教練。這對他的童年有很深的影響，他曾經想稱為一名海洋生物學家。他年少時和他的父母一起去過義大利，南斯拉夫和希臘的很多旅遊勝地。貝松10歲時他的一家返回巴黎。之後他的父母很快就離婚並各自再婚重建家庭。「現在這有兩個家庭，而我只是那段不能繼續的婚姻的糟糕的紀念品，」 貝松在《國際先驅論壇導報》的訪談中說：「如果我消失了，一切都會很完美。生存的激情就是來源於此。我必須做點什麼！否則我就會死掉。」

At the age of 17, Besson had a diving accident that left him unable to dive.

17歲時，貝松因為一次潛水事故使他不能再潛水。

"I was 17 and I wondered what I was going to do. ... So I took a piece of paper and on the left I put everything I could do, or had skills for, and all the things I couldn't do. The first line was shorter and I could see that I loved writing, I loved images, I was taking a lot of pictures. So I thought maybe movies would be good. But I thought that to really know I should go to a set. And a friend of mine knew a guy whose brother was a third assistant on a short film. It's true," he said in a 2000 interview with The Guardian.

貝松在2000年《衛報》對他的訪談中說：「我那時17歲，我對自己以後要做什麼很迷茫... 然後我就找了一張紙左邊我寫下所有我可以做的事情，或者有技能從事的，以及所有我不能做的事情。第一行很簡短，我看到我喜歡寫作，喜歡圖像，我拍過很多照片，於是我想也許製作電影也許很好。但是我想到我應該去加入某個劇組才能知道這是不是個好主意。我的一個朋友認識一個人他的哥哥時一個短片的第三助理。這是真的，」

"So, I said: 'OK, let's go on the set.' So I went on the set...The day after I went back to see my mum and told her that I was going to make films and stop school and 'bye. And I did it! Very soon after I made a short film and it was very, very bad. I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one."

「於是，我說：『很好，讓我去這個劇組吧。』 我就去了這個劇組.... 那天我回來去看我媽媽告訴她我要去拍電影，不再去學校，再見了。我真的那麼做了。很快我製作了一部短片，非常非常糟糕的一部。我就是想要證明我可以作點什麼，我做出一部短片。事實上我最在意的就是，能夠展示我能做出一樣東西。」

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童年的陰影就是不那麼容易走出來，
但是如果能完全走出來，劇本應該會有更深刻的內容吧。

ps.
我最不喜歡的一個鏡頭就是Mathilda被警察放開後又啐了那人。
她始終都是一個依靠別人的力量自己才能強悍的人，而且，又不能意識到這一點。真糟糕。

我也很奇怪為什麼會有很多人把Leon和Mathilda之間的感情理解為愛情。而且愛情也不是兩個失意的人的彼此娛樂相互取暖，愛情是兩個獨立堅強的人的彼此鼓勵和互相昇華不好嗎。