弦动我心

这是Meryl Streep的15次奥斯卡提名之一，看之前有点奇怪为啥有影后提名的片子imdb才6.5分。看后明白了，这虽是一部由真人真事改编的影片，但整部影片过于平淡，矛盾、痛苦、爱和领悟的表现都少了点儿力度。
Meryl饰演的女主角Roberta Guaspari被丈夫抛弃，独自一人抚养两个儿子。为了生活，她到黑人聚集的哈林区做小提琴教师。小提琴是出了名难学的乐器，学校的不少家长也对孩子们学小提琴没啥兴趣额，可就是凭着Roberta十年的坚持，小提琴课成了学校里最受欢迎的课程之一。但教育局的一纸通知打破了快乐的教学，为了让课程保留下来，Roberta在多位知名音乐家的支持下，和学生共同在卡耐基音乐厅举行了一场演出，最终达到了继续课程的目的。
看上去挺感人的故事，听说还拍了纪录片，但拍成电影就有些平庸了，可能是跟故事原型在世改编受限的缘故吧，想想《梅兰芳》被拍成啥样就明白了。值得一提的是Meryl Streep为出演这部戏学了四个月的小提琴，怪不得电影里拉起琴来有模有样。想起她说拍《妈妈咪呀》之前在家关起门来把一首歌练上一百多遍，不难想象为练小提琴付出了多大努力。不过这也可以说是演员这个职业的好玩儿之处，为了拍戏，有时间也有条件学一些很新鲜的玩意儿，不会拉琴可以学拉琴，不会骑马可以学骑马，不会打牌可以学打牌，还能到处体验生活，看各种小说，学各种语言……而且都是以工作的名义，当然还能因此挣钱……羡慕啊~~

确实够套路，典型的主旋律影片，时间一跳10年，中间女主作为单亲妈妈和public school teacher 的boring、穷困、difficulties都没有显示，十年后仍然在同一个地方做着同一份工作，住着宽敞的house，两个儿子一个cello，一个piano，都很出色，所有遇到的问题都能迎刃而解，太完美了，太ideal了，真实生活应该不是这样吧。另外音乐对于孩子的真正改变没有体现出来，估计这个很难拍吧。

两个想法：
1.音乐教育对于一个人的全面发展很重要：自己没有机会接受这样的教育，但是会为下一代创造条件来接受全面的艺术教育。

2. 如果不是她丈夫离开了她，她也没办法在一个地方安定下来，去被迫应聘老师的工作，然后教出这么多令她有成就感的学生。也许你眼前遇到困难，也许你像河流一样走了很多弯路，但是当你过一段时间之后回看，才会明白上帝对你的安排，我们是猜不透的，只有把一颗心交给God, 相信然后坦然面对all difficulties.

“You shouldn’t quit something just cause it is hard”
“Standing strong doesn’t mean just using your legs, you can stand strong on the inside,”
It is what the teacher told the little girl who was disabled when the girl decide to quit.

I am fascinating with music these days, so when I first saw the caption of the movie ”Music of The Heart”, I know it must be the movie I would like.
It is indeed not a movie for commercial means. Movies targeting to make profits are generally worthless. Actually, all meaningful movies are expressions of the thoughts and emotion, or providing innovative perspectives to explore human society. This movie can be classified as a documentary, and also a meaningful one.

A woman, a navy wife, a violin teacher and a mother all these are the roles the actress in the movie has to play in life, and also generally the main social roles of a normal person. The movie reveals several universal issues concerning the social statues of women, divorce, the racial divergence. and more significantly and profoundly, this movie

Music is the language of human inside. ‘When he plays music, his whole face lights up’ when I am listening to music, it can light me up, inspire me and refill my strength. It is also a effective way to relax myself. I thought that music was useless; art is nothing but the debouchments of emotion of some other sensitive person and I don’t need to know what other think about the world. After I experience all these odds and difficulties, I gradually find the value of art. It is magic, and it is the prettiest pieces of work fell down form the heaven besides the nature beauty. I doubt that any talented artiest dare to claim that all the masterpieces are the frution of their hard working. Talent is something endowed by god, and the great pieces of art are also the gifts of god which can make the mundane world a better place. A man cannot appreciate the beauty of art is a great lose. Life without the decoration of art is much less fascinating. I confess I am a boor, and I regret that I cannot find beauty in life. I am a doomed technician and my life destined to relate with coding and calculation, impassive repetitions.

“Nicky is in trouble and you need to deal with it” Imagine if you are the mother and you hear this about you son., What will you think of it? Disappointment, penance , all kind of emotion merges together to anguish you. For a single mother, nothing means more than his sons, the only reliance and the real heart. And nothing is more desperate than a negative son. She can treat herself bad, but she cannot bring any tiny slight injure to her son and also she cannot tolerant the disturbance form the outside to spoil her son.

When I saw that the lieutenant（husband of the violin teacher）deserted his family, his wife and two lovely boys. And saw the grief the family suffered. I was irritated. What a selfish man. That kind of man could never find true love as well as inner satisfaction. I will never do that to my wife especially when she has children to rear, I will never give away my family. For me, it is my essential responsibility to bring them happy. I could never grieve anyone for the sake of my own happiness. And the real happiness is the mental and moral complacent and self appreciation. Though I may not have the chance to flirt with beautiful young ladies, or have some romantic love experience, I will feel satisfied when I have the ability to realize my obligation and actually fulfill my obligation.

There are always being something to light you up, music , children, friends, family. So never lose faith, never give up. Everything matters to me, everyone make sense, I can never lost myself merely because I failed once or someone left me. I have a flexible and abundant life.

Witticisms like“If you have some needs that I don’t meet, you would go and have them met by somebody else”are the sparkles dispersed throughout the movie which are sensible. It points out the essence of relationships between couples. No one can perfectly meet the needs of others, whether you will go to somebody else determines whether you are a man will a sense of responsibility. Love and commitment are interdependent issues. She is so feared to be dumped again, and should we be cautious to begin a new relationship?

“I can take care of myself, and I can take care of you.” It is easier said than done, particularly for a woman. Struggle is the perpetual rhythm of life. One has to strive to achieve some goals or just accept the reality and be indifferent to the losses. However, you have to make change, you have to say no to destine. I believe fate, but I think that sometime fate is just kidding you, and you submit to fate at first hand, you lost the chance to play more. Perhaps if you persist for a while and things will be different. Admittedly, struggle could never be easy, but who knows what you may lose if you give up and just let it be. Therefore, the best strategy is to fight back the predestined fate.

Admittedly, this movie is not perfect. One of the deficiencies is that it brings in too many topic hence none of them can be thoroughly and profoundly anglicized. In this sense, “Crash” is a better movie, it discusses racial discrimination in a more comprehensive way.

This is a movie can broaden your vision, and probably change your mind.

这是梅丽尔·斯特里普主演的一部励志电影，据说女主角原定的是麦当娜，但是后来换成了梅丽尔·斯特里普，这部电影有中文配音，是我喜欢的乔榛和丁建华，还有童自荣，这部电影我看过至少8次，中文英文都看过，配音配得相当好，梅丽尔·斯特里普不是那种很漂亮的演员，但是她是那种越看越有味道的演员，片子将一个单亲妈妈的那种坚强和渴望表现的很好，她渴望稳定的爱情，但是丈夫爱上了第三者。她对小提琴和两个儿子的爱，也经历了一波三折，在关键的时刻，总有很多好心人愿意来帮她，而她紧闭的心扉也在卡耐基音乐厅演出的那一瞬得以开启，很小的事业，但是具有巨大的价值，虽然只是小提琴的一个基层传播者，但是让更多不曾了解小提琴的孩子包括他们的家长了解音乐的足音，拨动心弦，乔榛和丁建华的国语配音为本片锦上添花，值得一提的是，安吉拉-贝塞特饰演的干练的女校长，葛洛丽娅-伊斯特芬(Gloria Estefan）的演出和演唱，为本片增添了一抹亮色。值得一看，这就是我对此片的评价。谢谢。