当幸福来敲门的影评,英文的

当幸福来敲门的影评,英文的
当幸福来敲门的影评,英文的

当幸福来敲门的影评,英文的
影评一
If you've ever been poor, this movie may be hard to watch. It depicts poverty in America in gut wrenchingly accurate ways. I've been as poor as Chris Gardner, and, like him, I've been poor among very rich people in the Bay Area while trying to work my way up.
Chris Gardner is a loving father and failing businessman. He is chosen for a competitive internship at Dean Witter, a stock brokerage. The internship, which offers Chris a very long shot at a better life, doesn't pay any salary. Chris has to live without a salary for six months while risking just about everything for that long shot gamble.
Chris is really smart. He can solve a Rubrik's cube in minutes. But, he's poor. Poverty, like an octopus, keeps trying to suck him down to the bottom, and make him stay there.
His car is towed. His wife walks out on him, leaving him with a five year old son. He is arrested for unpaid traffic tickets. He becomes homeless. He has to rely on a homeless shelter.
All this while, he must appear for work in the morning in a suit and tie, and be ready to charm some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the Bay Area. These people take wealth so much for granted that two of them stiff him for cab fare.
Having lived through similar experiences, I cringed throughout this movie. My stomach hurt. I winced. I cried. I hugged my knees to my chest.
The movie is very accurate, but painful to watch. I hope a lot of rich people, who think that they understand poverty, see it.
This movie will be politically controversial. First of all, it doesn't touch the race issue with a ten foot pole. For example, when Chris appears to stiff a taxi driver for fare (it was really the rich white guy who failed to pay), the taxi driver never uses the "n" word. In real life, I think he probably would have.
Is the movie afraid to talk about race, or does it not want to? I don't know, but I know that some will protest the movie's not shoving race in the movie goer's face. I'm not one of those people. The movie's approach to race -- treating it as almost incidental -- worked for me. As a poor white person, I can tell you that poor white people face the same obstacles Chris did.
Second, does the movie sell the message that if you work hard, you will succeed, no matter what, and does that message tell the truth about success in America? I think that the movie is open to interpretation. Some will see it as an indictment of poverty in America. The scene of carefree rich people driving past the line to get into a homeless shelter is pretty devastating. Other people will become angry because they believe that the movie's depiction of hard work leading to rewards, in some cases, is too facile. I disagree, but that's what you'll hear.
Third, is this movie meant to chastise black men who abandon their children? Chris is a role model exactly because he moves heaven and earth to be a good father to his son. This will be debated back and forth.
The movie has a big philosophical statement to make, that has been lost on many reviewers, for example, Richard Schickel in TIME.
Chris is shown running throughout the movie. Remember the title of the movie: "The PURSUIT of Happiness." Chris places emphasis on "pursuit." Jefferson, when he penned the Declaration of Independence, did not promise Americans happiness, but only the right to pursue it. Chris says, at one point in the movie, paraphrase, "I am happy right now. It is a fleeting moment." We experience happiness in eyeblinks. The rest of the time we, like Chris, are chasing after it.
影评二
In preparation for writing this comment, which I am compelled to write for reasons which will become clear, I read a fair few of the major critics to see, if on this occasion, they had seen and felt what I had.
James Bernadelli suggests this film should be known as the "Pursuit of Richness"; another column I have read suggests that the money-will-solve-your-problems resolution is depressing and not the message Hollywood (or art in general) should be trying to put across.
I ask myself when the last occasion might have been that any of these critics genuinely had to :spoiler: run, under painful, embarrassing duress, from a cab - because they didn't have the money; or when the forces of life seemed to conspire against them so unfairly that they broke down in tears. Spoiler: when your wealthy boss, who you CANNOT disappoint, asks you to borrow the last five dollars in your wallet, and you know that that money is all you have in the world - to feed your family, to pay your gas.
You go through times in life when you feel that things couldn't possibly get worse - and then they do - and then they do again. Sometimes, (like Chris and son at the beach towards the end of the film) you just want to get away from it all, other times you cry. Sometimes, and this is rare, you laugh - because if you don't you'll cry. You know that if you let it all become too much, you will sink to the bottom of the sea.
Chris Gardner (not the real one perhaps, but the one in this movie) is my personal hero; my shining example; my inspiration - the guy that never allows himself to sink - even when he can feel his shoelaces trailing on the seabed.
I realised as I was watching this film that I was watching another me, so I never once stopped rooting for Chris. When he :spoiler: fixes the scanner in the shelter, I felt like I had fixed it.
I'm still working on getting the job that earns me enough to have a less painful life - when Chris finally achieves it, I want it for him so badly that I feel it in the very fibre of my being.
I suppose that it doesn't matter that much that Chris wants to succeed as much for his son as for himself. In a way, the fact that Chris has a son makes this movie emotionally frightening and if (and only if) our basest fears are being toyed with by the director, it is only in exactly the same way that we sometimes look up in to the sky and say - like Jim Carrey in "Bruce Almighty" - is there anything else you could possibly do to me today? In my life, God doesn't appear and explain why he keeps toying with me. The truest belief is in oneself and one must never lose it.
I adore this movie and I couldn't be more grateful for its existence. It comes at a time when I need it most. Its message: Keep going - never, ever give up.
And so I come back to those reviewers. Money certainly doesn't mean happiness in this existence, but no money, in this cruel capitalist world, can cost you your life. Do not be judgmental of those who want more, it might just be enough to pay for their son to eat, to keep a roof over his head, to keep their dignity. This film is not about rags-to-riches as some reviewers have said. It's not about the American dream either. It is about dignity and integrity and how money (or lack thereof) could easily strip you of both.
Chris Gardner never loses either and for this, he is an inspiration to us all.
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The Pursuit of Happiness, is a good film about how a seller becomes a successful bill broker. After appreciating it, you will benefit much from it.
The protagonist Chris Gardner was a seller of bo...

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The Pursuit of Happiness, is a good film about how a seller becomes a successful bill broker. After appreciating it, you will benefit much from it.
The protagonist Chris Gardner was a seller of bone density scanner who performed not so good, which leads to his difficult situation: being dunned for the rent, tax and ticket, his son’s being sent to a bad kindergarten, his wife’s swamping him with complaints. The life was on the move.
When he told his wife about his application for the job as an intern in WeiTe stock, his wife mocked: Why not an astronaut? But he insists on doing the job, which cause his wife’s leaving him when she couldn’t bear the life anymore.
I don’t know what encourages Chris Gardner to take the challenge as an intern. He should support his son and pay the rent, while it’s an intern of a period of 6 months unpaid and selecting only one among the twenty candidates at the end of the 6 month. Maybe it’s his responsibility to his son or his longing for a happy life. He taught his son: Don’t let others tell you that you can’t do something; you want something, go and get it. Gardner completes tasks which would be finished by others in 9 hours everyday in 6 hours; he directly dialed the next telephone number instead of holding it up to save time; he didn’t drink water to avoid going to the bathroom. On the night being turned out by the landlord, he and his son bunked over at a bathroom, where they laid toilet paper as carpet. He took his son in his arms in tears. Under such despairing conditions, he didn’t give up, because he should be responsible for his son and his dream.
At last, he succeeded. A man graduated from a senior high school stood out in the competitors holding advanced academic degrees. It’s his endurance, his dream and his conviction of searching after happiness that made him a success.
I don’t know whether I could persist in my dream when in despair. It’s good to seek for happiness, but how many people will not give up dreams when it seems to be impossible?
Don’t ask the god that where’s the happiness? When you believe that the happiness is just round the corner, you walk forward and don’t give up, and then you will get it.

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参考资料的地址是收录在维基百科的影评，百度不让贴地址，我只能贴google搜索结果，第一条便是。

给你4篇地道外国人写的英文影评，参考的很好资料。
http://www.veryabc.cn/movie/new/article/2007/0801/article_824.html
http://www.veryabc.cn/movie/new/article/2007/0801/article_825.html
http://www.veryabc.cn/movie/n...

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给你4篇地道外国人写的英文影评，参考的很好资料。
http://www.veryabc.cn/movie/new/article/2007/0801/article_824.html
http://www.veryabc.cn/movie/new/article/2007/0801/article_825.html
http://www.veryabc.cn/movie/new/article/2007/0801/article_826.html
http://www.veryabc.cn/movie/new/article/2007/0801/article_827.html

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