大象的眼泪（粤语版）

我始终不明白男猪好看在哪了，到底有多少人觉得他帅，好吧这个可以不作为重点
但是剧情也拍得太。。。。。
不够连贯，莫名其妙的男女主就火花四射了
给个前因后果嘛
爱护动物嘛，女人感性也就算了
一个有点大脑的人，在面对吃饭和宠物的时候
人性求生的欲望都是至上的
我想要另外的生命一样活的体面
可是前提是我也可以体面的或者
在我死与他死的选择中，选择我死永远是不合逻辑的（当然在大多数情况下，求死的不算）
所以男猪的爱心泛滥实在不让人觉得他有多高尚
反倒是女猪显得更加理智，当然可能年龄上也是比较成熟的
这部片子，叙述手法的无新意不是最大的缺点，因为倒叙虽然被很多经典电影采用，毕竟叙事的方法不过那三种。
但是情节上的糙实在不能接受
好吧，那只是一个时代，代表一个时代，但是那个时代可以赋予更多的内涵，而电影没有表现出来

Tony promised a surprise to me if I was able to apply for 20 new jobs within two days. While I failed to hit the goal at the end of the day, with the submission of only 15 new jobs, my sweet Mr. Hairball decided to deliver the surprise as he was convinced that I have been making a real effort in order to accomplish that difficult task.

The prize came out to be a beautiful movie called "Water for Elephants" at Scotiabank Theater, starred by Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz. It was not among the movies that could give you an easy and amusing time on a Sunday night, but belonged to the category of movies that would truly help you think and feel. The story was about a veterinary student, Jacob, abandoned his studies after his parents were killed and joined a traveling circus as their vet. There he met the girl of his dream, Marlena, who was also the wife of his boss August. They fell in love while taking care of the new star attraction of the circus: a smart baby elephant. With overwhelming love for each other and inconceivable courage toward better future, they were able to defeat the brutality of August and the cruelty of the times.

I think the movie has chosen a very good perspective to tell the story, for the reason that a circus is always a place full of ironies. It supposed to be a place that brings out the most amounts of true joys, but it was actually with tremendous hardship and tragedies underneath. It looks like a place full of intra-species love and communication, but it was actually dominated by wildness and manipulations. After all, a circus show was just another lucrative delusion of joys, a typical bloody business as many of the others in the historical period of Mid-20-century America. While Jacob, on the other hand, who served as a representative of the scarcely existed humanities during that era, has made every effort to struggle for true love and true cares. The reward for him was a girl of his dream and an immortal life story to be shared with his deeply touched audience.

I was very happy to find Tony loved the movie all the same, although I am pretty sure that he could have some unshared feelings about it from a different angle due to his previous experiences. For that, I would like to respect and protect. “What if there was a happy ending for our past tragedies?” This is always a sentimental and magical question to think about. The singularity of the chance to live and the unrepeatableness of time have left us with a limited extent of choices as well as a great legacy of many unfinished yet unable-to-be-finished stories. In my eyes, it never harms to let the stories and pities finished with the help of movies and imagine for the moment about other possibilities of our own lives.

And I have my unleashed thoughts too. “Where were you when I was seventeen?”When Marlena asked Jacob, helplessly yet hopefully, at that dancing party, I could clearly remember similar words coming out of my own mouth in the far-away past. The answer to that question was nothing about where were you exactly when I was seventeen; it was everything about what I am going to do with my already changed demand and feelings for life now. However, a big problem in the real world about that is: the true courage in striving for better future could be looking very similar to the ungrateful boldness to screw up a pretty good life. People need wisdom to tell the difference between the two, otherwise there could be a costly price to pay for simply being romantic. For example, in the movie I totally understood Jacob’s affections for Marlena and I completely caught Marlena’s internal unsatisfaction in her marriage with August, yet I pretty doubt about how would Marlena immediately feel after August’s death. August was her husband. He was the right person for her to meet when she was seventeen. He was a super evil for everyone else in the world except for her. As an audience, I feel delighted for Marlena and Jacob’s living happily ever after. But did August deserve such an applauded betrayal and demise as that?

Love is truly beautiful, but love is also selfish. There is hardly right-or-wrong answer in any love story. It is touchy as long as it is real. - Once again ironically, these words came from someone who was somehow hurt by the love story that I am enjoying right now. I am always trying to feel, what exactly did Jacob see in that 1939 picture of the Winnie Brothers’ Circus Show at the very beginning of the movie? Cherished memory of his passed wife, grateful appreciation toward his own life, mixed feelings for his long-dead friend and enemy August? Despite all the complexity and ambiguity in his feelings, interestingly, that feeling reaches the bottom of our hearts and became something that we are all yearning for at the end of the day. When Tony and I, hand-in-hand, came off as the last two persons who walked out of the cinema that night, I could not help thinking about one simple question: if there is ever any audience for our own life, would they enjoy the show as much as we just did?

Jessica
May 16 2011

觉得牵强是因为，对于August那样possessive的人，发觉妻子和Jacob的隐情后绝对会把妻子关起来照看，防止Jacob回来再找到她的。而且肯定会惩罚她，就像他当年惩罚大象rosie一样，对不起我的人，不给点颜色看看，心里怎么平衡，怎么能弥补他那严重受损的自尊心？Marlena在大伙儿庆祝Jacob入伙时贴在他耳边说话的举动也太牵强，不是等于在所有人面前将隐情公之与众了么。

整部片子里面，我想大家都能感觉到，Jacob和Marlena从一开始就很一致：由于他们都有对动物的爱，August相反却像个第三者。所以我想August应该很早就能感觉到，而且对Jacob有所防备，恩威并施，也就不会有那场欢迎仪式了。占有欲、嫉妒心强的老板，打压年轻但是有威胁的员工很正常。唯一的解释是：Jacob训练好了大象为他带来了巨大的收益，让他昏了头。

但是我仍然很喜欢这部大团圆结局的片子，因为很纯粹的爱情和感情。爱情当然属于男女主角， 感情属于男女主角和大象之间的。

那只大象是一个亮点，她是一个很重要的角色。她会表达爱，也会痛苦，她调皮，温顺，偶尔耍脾气，喜欢喝威士忌，有情有义。她是连接男女主角的纽带。给我印象最深的情节，好多是关于她的：她把固定自己的铁桩拔出来好去喝水，她在一切结束之后慢慢跟在男女主角的后面。她也是一个纯粹的生灵，谁爱她，谁不爱她，她都知道。听说大象是很聪明的、会记仇的动物。所以我认为，她最后杀死August，不仅仅因为他要掐死Marlena，更因为August当年那样残忍地打过她。所以，August第一次在Jacob指导下命令她时，没说“请”她根本就不动；她在表演中把August的帽子扔掉塌在地上的时候，心里肯定很暗爽吧！所以，我觉得她其实非常聪明，看起来温顺，知道隐忍，然后关键时刻爆发。这也是我很喜欢这部片子的原因：那些觉得动物低人一等的人们该醒醒了。

August这个角色其实是好过男女主角的，很有张力。在我看来，他是一个还不错的领导者。对刚来的Jacob一直按兵不动直到他杀死银色马后才亮出底线、Benzini brothers特有的欢迎仪式、对动物的管理方式、甚至直接把人扔掉的残忍行为。在大萧条时期，要保证尽可能有人存活下来，把弱者扔掉是无奈的必须，我相信一个要养活所有老弱病残的马戏团肯定会早早倒闭。只是，这种方式必须由他来决定，太过残忍，几乎没有人性，也必然会引起所有员工内心的愤怒和抵抗。他最后确实被扳倒了，但是光辉灿烂的benzini brothers再也不复存在了。他有他的绝对原则和法治，但是也会为他需要的人破例，比如Jacob，只是吓吓他而已；他也非常聪明、观察力惊人，他说：“一个无罪的女人是不会跪下的”。只是，他太迷信鞭子的威力，以至于事实证明他的方法不适用于现在的rosie（尽管rosie听懂外语做动作的能力当年也肯定是象叉打出来的）；他占有欲实在太强，以至于我一直感觉不出来，他到底是爱Marlena呢，还是需要她为马戏团带来收益，还是享受拥有的感觉。像他这样一个大男子主义者，为marlena带来了她想要的一切，除了：爱情。我指的是那种能让双方都感觉被点燃的爱情。他的眼神里，总有一种一直在嗅钱的气息的感觉。演员把握得很好。

再说Marlena。有人说她不好看，但我觉得这正是美国导演选择女演员强过中国大陆的地方---并非只是大眼睛瓜子脸一脸无辜符合大众正点审美就能当主角，像童嘉倩海藻还有爱情公寓的女主角之流，看到那空洞的表演我就像吃了烂花生一样难受。Marlena不高贵，但很有气质，像个平民窟里长出来的公主，对于爱情，她敢于主动追求。在August的高压下，她又很孤独，没有朋友。她的美都在舞台上，在她的表演里，一举一动里。而不是仅仅看着一张脸就能去评价。

Jacob我以为是最平淡的一个角色，没有演出性格的复杂来，就是一个阳光大男孩，而承受了丧亲之痛看到了饿死人的残忍仍然还能保持阳光，也许是性格使然吧。他做得挺好的一点是：他和marlena之间，能感觉出来是纯粹的感情和尊重在联系，他们俩走在一起，你不会觉得谁主宰谁顺从，觉得他们是一个整体，而August和Marlena之间就不一样。这是marlena内心选择他的原因之一。当然Robert功力还需要修炼。

另外，很多人会觉得这是一段卑鄙的婚外情，其实我以为，我们大家从小所受的教育使我们非常集体主义，把考虑别人的想法、无私作为自己行动的标准、道德的标准，自己承受了痛苦，也以此为道德荆条去抽打别人。我也曾经是这样，而且非常讨厌那些“自私”的人。然而，如果稍微个人主义一点，承认自己内心真正的需求，把那些看起来有恩的“别人”压在你神上的责任卸掉，并不是那么不道德的。传统认为婚姻是“神圣”的，但并不是把它教条化，绝对化。以这“神圣”的名义道德绑架个人的幸福，是一件很愚蠢的事情。估计如果这部电影中国人来拍，August就不是反派了，也不会死了---怎么能鼓励婚外情胜利呢。我以为，从这一点也可以看出，西方文化和东方文化在人本主义这一点上完全不同的价值观。

P.S 外国男人会在年老的时候当着生人的面，看到自己的亡妻年轻时候的照片眼里噙满泪花，这是我多么喜欢而中国人没有的表达方式啊。

电影作为一个整体来讲，摄影和剪辑上并没有什么不满意。
男主女主实在是雷的⋯⋯
一个cornel毕业的男一考毕业考试之前父母出车祸挂了
这位亲灰心丧气对生活失去意义所以毕业考也不考了，准备去城里找工作
（时逢美国depression）然后半路随便地上了一辆火车，发现是一个马戏团
于是觉得马戏团也挺好，抱着兽医未完的学位开始在马戏团里面整理粪便
自然就遇到了马戏团团长丰艳美丽的老婆，就是我们的女一。
最初让女一对男一改变印象的是，马戏团里面的主要表演马匹腿受伤了，马戏团长认为它还可以再跑个表演，男主以一句“he's suffering”的理由，拿枪把马给枪.毙了，由此给女一一个“你好善良哟亲”的印象。
枪阿！别人拿来当命根子的马阿！！一火车人的生机都靠它的马阿！！！就这么毙了阿！毙完以后还一副百莲花样子阿！
好吧你爱动物你是好兽医，后来马戏团没有主要表演，缺钱只能把成员扔下火车。
男主那个愤恨哟那个圣母哟怎么能不养你的成员哟??TMD是谁把赚钱的马给枪毙了阿！
马没了马戏团长就去买了个大象，为此欠了一屁股债。
团长让男主去训练大象，男主就走到大象面前“你走把亲”“亲你动动吧哟亲”。。。
马戏团长就拿起训练动物的棍子打了大象几下大象才走了，女一立马就拿愤怒地眼神看着她老公
它自己不走你劝劝他阿亲！多疏通疏通它就听话了阿亲！聊天是跟马戏团动物沟通的重要条件阿亲！不能打阿！给差评阿！
然后又热爱跟动物聊天又唯唯诺诺连喂动物都不会的男主，形象在女一心目中就高大起来了有木有！
两个人就搞到一起了阿，趁着马戏团长请客的时候去拿香槟的功夫就搞上了阿！
事后女主一副“当作神马都没有发生”的样子拍拍屁股就去跟马戏团长滚床单了阿！宝贝儿我不怪你打大象了我原谅你了阿！
后来又经过一段训练大象赚钱马戏团发展蒸蒸日上后，马戏团长终于发现自己老婆跟兽医有暧昧了阿
他就把兽医打了一顿阿，不行阿！兽医打不得阿！打了就得跑阿咱不负担这个责任继续待了！
跑之前还把女一带走了阿！带走得当晚还在马戏团长的势力范围，俩人不管不顾阿！就H了一晚上阿！
睡觉到天亮马戏团长就找到了阿，把男主又打了一顿把自己明媒正娶的老婆带走了阿！
男主的金手指就开了阿！主角光环就闪亮了阿！他徒步追上了火车又爬上去了没有人看到阿！！！！
最后在一场马戏团表演期间男主的基友们把动物们都放出来了阿！表演的和观看的都给踩了扑了阿！
但是这些都不重要阿，重要的是男主得把女主从她老公的魔掌里面救出来阿于是他就英勇地指使大象，把马戏团长瀑头了阿！
从此姧夫和淫妇过上了美好而幸福的生活哟！还生了五个孩子阿！！！！！
谁来告诉我这个三观是正确的世界是美好的只是我太瀑躁T口T！