城市岛屿

17:35 2010/10/25

淡淡的悲凉，却又不紧不慢的旋律，时不时地跟随着剧情被哼起。
每个人都有自己的秘密，不说是因为考虑到身边人的心理接受程度，所以每个人都沉重的，谎言没有计划生育，越是穷途陌路，就又会有新的谎言诞生。
可是事实上是没有人放弃生活，即便也谈不上热爱。
争吵就在这样一个又一个的不经意间此起彼伏，交错相替。
最后，Pppp.. .. ..谈不拢，散了吧。
至少，We are still a family,I love my family.
生活没有什么大不了：
小儿子只是喜欢Big Beautiful Womon，
女儿只是因为吸了大麻被学校停学取消奖学金，兼职脱衣舞女郎也只是为了赚新学期的学费；
妈妈只是有出轨倾向；
老爸也只是有个想要实现的梦想--当演员；
外加一比老爸在很多年前留下的青春帐--私生子Tony.
隔阂总会造成猜忌，掩饰也总会导致更严重的战争。
其实在彼此心里，对对方的容忍度事实上有如此之大，彼此等待的只是坦白从宽。
“God he has a way of busting you when you most need it,and he has a way of giving you a second chance,to attend for your screw ups”
But if you can get your second chance?
Nothing can stop you defending your Happiesness,you know it.

P.S

绝对值的多看几篇的温情片，很多只可意会不可言传的笑点，着实让人欲罢不能。
每个剧中人的思维逻辑都如此的真实--小市民，It's the life.

City Island这词听起来很有点文艺调调，其实是纽约市的郊区，中下层老百姓聚居的岛屿。开始时，我就因为片名以为它是部文艺气息浓厚的独立电影，后来才发现影片其实是家庭喜剧。主角文斯的家庭结构和《阳光小美女》中的怪胎家族有一拼：老婆感到生活空虚，厌烦家务；女儿因为学校取消了奖学金偷偷当起了脱衣舞娘；小儿子疯狂迷恋胖妞；文斯某天忽然发现监狱里一个帅小伙竟然是自己当年抛弃的儿子，而他自己身为狱警却梦想着成为演员……影片沿着文斯偷偷学表演和大儿子与文斯家人的种种误会两条线索展开：所谓热爱表演，其实正是文斯在现实生活中难以真实的一种象征。演员安迪•加西亚低调闷骚，偶露神经质的演绎让角色活灵活现，看起来非常过瘾。另一条家庭线索无非还是产生误解、矛盾，各种冲突大爆发，然后亲情闪现，一家人最终由打打闹闹回归欢欢笑笑那一套。情节有趣归有趣，路数还是太老套了点。抛开一些剧情上的牵强不说（文斯的罪犯儿子也太正直单纯了点），《城市岛屿》够好看，够温馨，够励志，当道电影甜点吃吃还真不错。

What's the secret of all my secrets?
男主角看似平静的生活，其实一团糟。
喜欢演戏，但不敢告诉老婆，谎称去打扑克。
和老婆都喜欢抽烟，不敢互相承认，都是躲着抽。
儿子喜欢看fattie porn，女儿被开除，为了赚钱去做了stripper。
看了开头，what a holly mess family!
然后又找到了失散的儿子，竟然在监狱里。
不过，当他把儿子带回家，一连串的巧合后，所有纷繁复杂的结都打开了。
坦诚，原谅，重新开始。
想想自己，外人看似美好的处境下，依然向电影中的家庭一样。
感触深刻，我自己心里的 secret of all my secrets又是什么呢。。。

每个繁华的大城市背后，都有一个小岛来平衡它。

它是安静的，沉默的；它是害羞的；它是无名的。有一个波浪摇摆起伏的地方，小屋对着大海，白帆点点。

是个像家一样的地方，是永远可以敞开怀抱接纳你的地方。

每个人的心中，也有这么一个小岛。

在这里，一切矛盾都可以迎刃而解，一切包袱都可以放下不提。

City Island，是个离纽约不远的小离岛。岛上有个狱警，叫做Vens。这个家庭有着一切家庭有的矛盾：欺骗、夫妻交流、抽烟、色情、脱衣舞……矛盾到你无法想象他们还能称为一家人。

这一切，在Vens发现监狱里有个年轻犯人是他20多年前的私生子之后发生了变化。

他把这个英俊的年轻人带回了家，打破了本来就摇摇欲坠的平衡。

所有的矛盾都终于爆发：不满的妻子、叛逆期的小儿子、想追求梦想的丈夫、被学校开除的女儿……

每个人的秘密都被曝光了出来，所有的冲突和误会终于达到顶点。“小岛”就是这个秘密的中心，城市的小岛——city island，每个人心中的小岛——家庭，终于让故事有了一个圆满的结局。

编剧好功力，多线索叙事最珍贵的就是不乱不蔓，巧合真实，故事说圆。更难得的是在这样一个家庭矛盾小故事上，还加上了反讽与搞笑并存的幽默色彩，演员的卖力表演更是把故事表达得充分深刻。小儿子憋着坏笑的一脸表情，每次都让我忍俊不禁。

除了当妈演员的太年轻之外，俩儿子一个女儿都是俊男美女，眉目如画，笔笔中锋，显然是遗传了父亲的好基因。

冲着Andy Garcia看这片子，没想到里面还有Julianna Margulies和Emily Mortimer，更没想到这片子还挺好看，虽然前半段你也许还没感觉出来。
夫妻二人工作稳定，一双儿女踏实学习，即便一个有些来历的小伙子猛然闯入，貌似也不会影响大局。生活就是如此，大多数时候表面看起来平静得很，可内里却早已埋下危机之柴，一点即燃。
冷不丁带回家一个二十多岁的大儿子是不太好说，可告诉妻子自己在外面上表演课真有那么难吗？大麻的“毒品身份”在美国一直有争议，因为一点大麻被留校察看就宁愿做脱衣舞女也不跟家里说？人各有所好，喜欢胖妞不是罪过，可故意装作不喜欢你就不难受吗？丈夫是有点鬼鬼祟祟，但毕竟是二十年的夫妻，你宁肯用和小伙子玩儿车震来报复，也不问问丈夫是否真的出轨？
想来这一家子是有点不正常，可我们的现实生活的确总会出现这样的鬼打墙：你知道这样做不对，可又没勇气照着对的去做，然后就越陷越深，除非有外界刺激将你推离轨迹，否则这辈子就这样了。好在片中的一家得到了救赎，可最有效的刺激不是忽然冒出来的大儿子，而是男主人文森对于表演的喜爱。看着他一排一排地向后走，惊恐不安地站到试镜队尾时，真有些感动——除了生活所迫，恐怕只有爱好才能让人忍受这样的排队。由于表演，文森还认识了茉莉，聪明透顶的女人，帮了文森一个大忙，又从文森一家那里收获良多，回身寻找属于自己的幸福。
看这片子，需要耐心，相信演技派们的表演不会令你中途走神。待到结局脱出，你会发现近乎完美。记住，说真话没有那么难。

Lucky day: I picked up a movie which has been lying in my computer hard drive for almost two years—the City Island, a story which is about the key words that I came up with: lie, secret, truth and finally, relief.

Like Chinese, some words are really paradoxically synonymous with each other. Everyone would LIE to keep their SECRETS which are most often TRUTHS; when they are told, it is a big RELIEF.

Vince: a correctional officer i.e. a prison guard by our knowledge, who has most deep and personal secrets:
1. He pretended to quit smoking, already.
2. He found his out-law son (Tony) in prison and brought him home for his release.
3. His biggest secret is that he had been dreaming to be an actor so he took an acting class for a long time while had been telling lies to his wife he had been playing poker games—he thought his wife would think his secret dream is stupid, absurd…a huge shame.

Joyce: his wife. She also had secrets. She kept smoking (probably pot), too. She pretended to believe her husband had been heading for poker games while she did believe he had an affair.

Shelley: his daughter. A future college graduate in her parents’ eyes while she was a stripper to earn his tuition for next semester—she lost the scholarship because she had been caught for pot-smoking.

Tony: the unexpected result from a psyche hooker mother and young Vince, had an urge on Joyce and found Shelley was a stripper but he neither did the thing with Joyce nor got a hand on Shelley—he even tried pull Shelley out of from the strip club while she was in thin dress.

…

When all these things add up, the full picture can make up to fulfill the so-called movie category: comedy.

Yet, it is not that hilarious, actually. Real wise comes from laughter, maybe. It brings me two “in” sayings—something like that.
1.Don’t judge so quickly.
2.Not everything is as it seems. —my most remembered lines from Prison Break. While the Chinese version might be a little real hilarious: 事情不是你想的那样。

Sadly, everyone, almost, has to tell lies in real life because we all have secrets: something we have to hide, we want it to pass, we do not want to hurt someone else, we do not want to share to expose our weakness… we do not want to look like a loser. At least, I do.

However, things might be a lot easier by simply doing the simple thing: tell him/her:
I have an illegitimate son.
I still smoke.
I want to be an actor.
I dance in a strip class to make money.
…
Whether these “covert truths” are sweet or not, telling them gives you a big relief.

Don’t hide things too deep if they make our life already a mess.