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NYC, present day, Kate (Keener) and her husband Alex (Platt) run a modern furniture shop, and have bought the adjacent apartment of theirs, but can only have it after the current occupant, the cantankerous 91-year-old Andra (Guilbert) dies, considering her long-in-the-tooth age, the wait shouldn’t be too long.
Acquiring their accessions with a fairly low price from the next-of-kins of the recently deceased, and then flip them for a much higher price tag in their boutique shop, Kate has become growingly flustered by guilt germinated from their pecuniary profiteering, and to allay which, she is more than willing to dish out small cash (even a 20$ note when she is in the mood) to panhandlers in the neighborhood (sometimes it is embarrassingly backfires), and seeks out some voluntary works for those who are considerably less fortunate than her. But how does it work? scenester filmmaker Holofcener’s PLEASE GIVE, her fourth feature, wrestles with this question in a brutally honest manner that it is almost touching in the end, when Abby (Steele), Kate and Alex’s zit-afflicted teenage daughter can finally have a pair of jeans she craves for, all thanks to Kate’s lofty gesture of shelling out 200$.
While Kate’s problem is chiefly, her paternalistic attitude of rearing her daughter, and a bleeding heart disposition that undermines her philanthropic resolution (she cannot turn off the waterworks when facing with disabled children, and geriatric duty is left with a loose end), and Keener is a fathomless wellspring of naturalistic demeanor, pitch-perfect affect within a wide compass of emotion; Alex is otherwise simply lumped as a complacent husband who is not above to frolic with some low-hanging fruit, but Platt’s nigh-to-zero sex appeal fails to make the affair feel authentic.
On the other side of the spectrum, there are Mary (an acerbic Peet goes for the kill) and Rebecca (Hall, wondrously expressive in her more underplayed, emotive modus operandi), the granddaughters of Andra and her caretakers, both single and fancy-free, the former is a cold-heartedly blunt hypocrite (she will not admit her radiant tan is achieved from a sun-bed, but has no hesitation to be catty about everyone else’s peccadillos) and the latter is a self-effacing and warmhearted angel, but guess which one does Abby find as a cool role model to emulate? The sharp irony and unsentimental rumination are Holofcener’s claims to fame, and PLEASE GIVE is illuminating in alerting us to inspect our own contradictory behavior patterns, for that effect alone, Holofcener’s sensibility and intellect should be drawn onto a bigger scope to shine and dazzle.
referential entries: Holofcener’s ENOUGH SAID (2013, 6.9/10); Yaron Zilberman’s A LATE QUATET (2012, 6.7/10).
生活就是如此,总是能从影片中找到一写共鸣
现代都市人的生活缩影,为了什么而活,我们要想明白。能挖掘得再深一层就更棒了
请给予生活还要继续
感觉很温暖
一直就觉得这个女导演比较无趣,而且对生活太过刻薄。而且在感情上,很多东西都没有过度和转折,完全依靠剧情的转换,所以很生硬
很有感触,就在身边人的故事,真实的很无奈
15岁时你开始沙沙比比在意自己穿什么以为谁会系的看你一眼,35岁你把钱给别人买衣服以为人家会感激,75岁你不舍得穿新衣服非要留到特殊场合以为还会有那一天,人这一生,so sad
充滿了十足的紐約氛圍,但和「電子情書」編導諾拉艾芙蓉那種充滿浪漫情懷的手法不同,霍洛夫仙納不斷以犀利的對話和情節,呈現她觀察之下的紐約人。片中的每個角色都各自在自己的生命中給予或學會給予的真諦,其實給予就是一種獲得的方式,但獲得的並不是物質上的虛無,而是心靈中的滿足。
是同情心泛滥还是罪恶感过甚,都只为了寻觅内心的宁静。
很温情
一部女性电影,情节流畅,演技也不错,但总感觉缺了点什么。
挺感人的
平平淡淡,平凡的才是真实的。
非常棒 完全超越了当年好评一片的《鱿鱼和鲸》,还有就是导演的音乐品味非常出色
可以
我觉得一般,剧情不是很给力
生活就是一记闷拳,无论多漂亮的脸蛋也都得挨完了继续,要么继续笑,要么继续哭。
都市生活电影,剧情如果能更深一层次更好
不太喜欢女导演的作品,拍出来的故事都太温了,看着入不了戏。
又是那种温馨的小东西,算不上沉闷,可以拿来放松。