乌云背后的幸福线

What is normal? Behave like everyone else? Talk in a way that makes sense to the person you're talking to? What if the other party is too normal to make sense with?

I think this film comes from the wool carpet laying on the bottom of David O'Russell's heart, the director. Somehow he, as a father of a bi-polar son in real life, I assume may be the semi-bi-polar father played by De Niro in the film, trying so hard to "make sense"/normalize his son by throwing his very own way of thinking directly at him, wishing he could just swallow it and become healthy again like taking medicines, effective swiftly and immediately. He, personally, must have experienced that phrase, yelling desperately to have his ill son make sense to him until he ends up tired. It is those little threads whistling in the film that inspire me of the conclusion above.

I love the scene where Tiffany made a dramatic scene on the street with Pat after storming out of the diner having been pissed by Pat's accusation of her sluttishness. At that moment, among the noise and finger-pointers, she came to him and amazingly tuned down the provocative song in his mind to a stop. SHE JUST MAKES SO MUCH SENSE TO HIM, and that's amazing. Who are we that define what is normal or what is not? And how do we do that, by quantity? Like 10 of us here, if one behaves differently from the rest 9, that makes him/her abnormal?Have you ever wondered if there's something wrong with yourself that makes you impossible to fit in a certain group or circumstance? If yes, that scene might be your scenario, but do believe there's a Tiffany in there or elsewhere hanging as well.

Truth be told, I've been dying to see this film for months ever since a bird sending good words about it from the Cannes film festival where it was debuted to the world. So, as you may have guessed following the trend, it turns out not as high as my damn expectations. Those hilarious parts have mostly been revealed in trailers, and the storyline as a whole doesn't really give me much a vibe - I was looking, staring, ready to be amazed yet I was also wondering the whole time, not being turned on most of the time. In other words, I was not as excited. BUT, tears were coming down spontaneously towards he end and it's warm-hearted.

Performance, by the two leading actors but not limited to, is really great, for sure being the brightest lining of this film. I'd say Bradley Cooper surprises me even more since he's always been in my mind the pothead who looks incredibly good. God, he still looks good consistently in this film but managed to convince me of the role with his performance. Jennifer Lawrence, known for her exceptional beyond-age maturity, has claimed her name again in the battle confronting the veteran De Niro. So, in my assumption, this Silver Linings Playbook would pin down most of its nominations into awards in the performance categories just like its predecessor The Fighter yet without the Best Picture trophy. Genuinely, I'd give it a 3.5 rating based entirely on the output but rounded it up to 4 given to my own hard work in expecting to see it so long.

Among the Best Picture nominees of the Academy Awards I've personally checked so far, 5 titles (Life of Pi, Amour, Argo, Djangle Unchained, and Silver Linings Playbook) with another 4 to complete the list (Lincoln, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Zero Dark Thirty, and Les Miserables), I'd go between Life of Pi and Argo, the later of which is a sophisticated and surprisingly funny thriller that reaches up to my contentment. I'd lean onto Pi a bit more given specially the spiritual reason, but I bet the academy would chop it down for as traditions they just simply hate high-tech package (references are Avatar and Inception).

Anyway, to Jennifer Lawrence, good luck to your second nominations in the Academy and hopefully a much-deserved Oscar.

 

分了三次才艰难地看完。就算没看过原著小说，这都不能算是一部好电影；看了小说再看电影，我想说：total crap! 且不说Jennifer Lawrence演女主这个寡妇是否合适，就凭那蓬乱的大妈盘发和张牙舞爪的肢体语言就想狠扇她两耳光（何况我以前完全不讨厌她）。而且为什么电影里的几个人物都变得如此nice：女主没有私心没有诱骗男主一步步上当；男配成了慈父；女配没和男配闹脾气；男主病情好转太快，煽情处明白得太早；前妻在结尾前还送来祝福……倒是男主的兄弟成了bitch，还加了个费力不讨好的警察角色，也不知道意义何在。最有意思的可能就是看小胡子Bradley Cooper跳舞了。总之，这部言情片能得奥斯卡简直没天理。。。

1.有个叫Neil Pasricha的家伙被老婆甩了，大抑郁，想出一招，每天想三件很棒的事让自己开心，后来他的The 3 A's of awesome理念串红网络。这电影不是他的传记，但我猜他会喜欢，我的偶像tal估计也会喜欢。我当然也喜欢。

2.the Accidental Tourist里丧子的威廉赫特被没文化、穿着夸张但性格爽朗的泼辣女人吉娜戴维斯拯救，戴维斯当年毫无悬念得了奖，不过她报的是女配。

BC的角色是历史老师，讲起和老婆的关系一大串形容词文邹邹很唬人；最后表白不直说要先写信。警察的老婆听得一愣一愣，她不会这些花活，她直接得一点也不含蓄一点不拐弯抹角。偏偏大老粗女人们就吃这一套，怎么办！文化差异大的两口子只在电影里才比翼双飞。电影里都未必，伍迪艾伦来拍好不了几天又大吵大闹肯定得分，这样的两个人哪里有共同语言呢？哪里能长久啊？

所以说一件事，积极心理的人看到的是互补，悲观主义者看到的是有缘无分。

拜托，他都已经疯了，还管什么门当户对，有个女人喜欢他不错了。方德和苗翠花不也恩爱一辈子？

3.大方向就对了。像去年的the beginner,硬生生把正常人拍成抑郁症了。真要拍疯子戏，必须是喜剧，必须《读者》路线，必须肤浅，才够好看。所以，他妈的海明威，扔掉！他妈的蝇王，扔掉！

当然，要拍“深沉”的大师戏，要让观众进入严重亚健康状态是导演的创作自由，只不过那种俺就不奉陪了。

故事是看不到半小时就知道结局，所以看点就在于怎么拍。还是斗士的老路子，群戏好。老两口萌死人，就连那个妻管严死党，也是一开口笑翻天。

德尼罗真是老树发新芽，老爷子哭的那场戏，估计全场观众都融化。

4.斗士里我最感动的一段是艾米亚当斯说，我曾经把我的人生搅得乱七八糟，现在我要重新开始。这台词几乎照搬给劳伦斯了，DOR应该也是喜欢强悍女人的吧。劳伦斯未必比艾米演得好，亮点还是小姑娘小小年纪扮老不怯场。

20年前要有这部戏，应该是薇诺娜瑞德吧，香港人翻拍的话，阿sa吗？

JL这丫头要么是智商高要么是经纪人太优秀，真是会挑角色。

5.跳舞比赛那场戏直接穿越周防正行。笑得很开心。

6.这片最感动的倒不是情情爱爱，是兄弟重逢，2货哥哥说了一堆炫耀的2b话，弟弟什么也没说，躁狂没发作，反倒过去抱着哥来句我爱你。啥叫正能量，这就是。

7.最后搜了下简历,24岁欲望城市打酱油，26岁双面女间谍男2号（当时就觉得这俊脸比男1号美），30岁终于在婚礼傲客里露脸，34岁总算遇到担大梁的宿醉，36岁在limitless才名正言顺男主角，德尼罗老爷子助阵。

37岁，第1个奥斯卡提名。摩羯男的人生，缓慢前进，但一直目标坚定啊。

8.这片怎么看都像夏季档，怎么也不像颁奖季啊。

歇斯底里症（hysteria），又被称为癔病，是一种较常见的精神疾病。其表现为在一定精神状况或存在外部诱因的情况下，病人由于恐惧而无法控制自己的行为。发病年龄多数在16至30岁之间，女性远多于男性.
情感爆發：病人在精神因素作用下突然失常，哭叫、打人、毀物等，發作时有輕度的意識狀態，發作後部分遺忘. (correct me if I'm wrong)

Bipolar: 躁狂抑郁症. 患者介乎于狂躁, 正常, 抑郁, 正常 … 的循环


我不介意看 Chick Flicks. 因为无一例外的都有 绝对帅哥美女的主角, 插科打诨的搞笑配角, 感人的剧情高潮, 以及Happy Ending. 但看多了又确实疲劳 完全预料之中的剧情，矫情的对白, 唯美但却老套的摄影.

就像 Fighters 制造出黑暗的运动励志片, Siver Linning 产生了歇斯底里的Chick Flicks.
与经典Chick Flicks不同之处： 1. 运动的手持镜头以及Stedi-cam 2. 犀利睿智的台词 3. 深入肌肤的表演 4. 置身其中的声效剪辑运用.（特别说一点关于摄影, 大部分主观或者带有主观色彩"motivated"镜头都是手持, 然后很多转折, 或者重头戏, 运用的是快速运动的Stedi-cam, smooth 但又不象Crane那样的平直. Fighter的开头也有见到）

片子一开场 Pat就是出现在精神病院里, 后来慢慢透露出他是 Undiagnosed Bipolar. (两极症) 容易失去控制.
而他自己认为他的一切所作所为是他对妻子的爱以及对婚姻的忠贞不渝. 他相信Happy Ending，他相信乌云背后总有幸福线, （风雨之后见彩虹?）他相信EXCELSIOR.
他的几次疯狂表现, 一次在心理医生的等候室, 因为听到他的wedding song. 失控了. 然后马上克制住自己.
然后是凌晨四点看完海明威的书, 到父母的房间把作家批判l一番.
最严重的一次是半夜在楼顶找自己的结婚录像带, 找不到而后和父母大闹, 打伤了父母, 并招来了警察.
之后不太犯病了(是开始吃药了)
几次发疯无论电影本身的设置，还是演员的表演， 都很真实，令人恐惧但又深表遗憾, 我觉得相比 “傻子”角色，这类表演更加震撼, 几乎就是身边的同龄人，自己也经历过的情形.


可以判断Tiffany的精神紊乱是她丈夫Tommy的死后产生的. 相对Pat对他老婆的念叨叨, Tiff很刻意的不想提到她老公. 也可以说是有意识的想忘记.
有一点很迷惑的是, 我们几乎可以肯定Pat的 Movtivation一直是为了见到他老婆(前妻), 但Tiffany最开始的动机是什么呢？这一点又影响到之后她为什么跟着他跑步, 为什么要和他“约会”， 以及为什么要和他练习舞蹈. 最源头她姐姐姐夫让她过来吃饭又是什么目的？(想要撮合他们？给他们hook-up的机会？ 介绍他们作为病友认识？还是Tiffany对Pat好奇主动找的？)
第一次见面:
PAT: Tiffany and…Tommy? RONNIE: Yeah. Just Tiffany. PAT: What happened to Tommy? RONNIE: He died.
PAT: Tommy died? RONNIE: Cops die. PAT: How’d he die? RONNIE: Please, don’t bring it up. PAT: No, how did he die?
TIFFANY: How did who die?
PAT LOOKS UP TO SEE VERONICA’S SISTER TIFFANY ENTER: THEY LOCK EYES IMMEDIATELY. SHE IS TALL, STRIKING, INTENSE. She walks to Ronnie and Pat, who is unsure how to behave.
RONNIE: Hey, Tiffany! This is Pat. Pat, my sister-in-law Tiffany.
PAT: You look nice. TIFFANY: Thank you. PAT: I’m not flirting with you. TIFFANY: Oh, I didn’t think you were.
PAT:I just see that you made an effort and I’m gonna be better with my wife, I’m working on that. I wanna acknowledge her beauty. I never used to do that. I do that now. ‘Cause we’re gonna be better than ever … Nikki. Just practicing. How’d Tommy die?
TIFFANY IS STUNNED. RONNIE CAN’T BELIEVE WHAT PAT JUST SAID.
PAT (CONT’D): What about your job?
TIFFANY: I just got fired, actually. PAT: Oh, really? How? PAT (CONT’D): I mean, I’m sorry. How’d that happen?
TIFFANY Does it really matter?
 
跳舞的出现
VERONICA: "You know, Tiffany's been doing this dance thing for years and she’s real good at it. She's gonna be competing at the Ben Franklin Hotel."
 

要他送
TIFFANY: I said I’m tired. (to Pat) Are you gonna walk me home or what? PAT: You mean me?
TIFFANY: Yeah, you. Are you gonna walk me home? PAT: You have poor social skills. You have a problem.
TIFFANY: I have a problem? You say more inappropriate things than appropriate things. You scare people.
PAT: I tell the truth. But you’re mean. TIFFANY: What? I’m not telling the truth?

到家门口
TIFFANY: Listen, I haven't dated since before my marriage so I don't really remember how this works.
PAT: How what works?
TIFFANY: I saw the way you were looking at me, Pat. You felt it, I felt it, don't lie. We're not liars like they are. I live in the addition around back, which is completely separate from my parents' house, so there's no chance of them walking in on us. I hate the fact that you wore a football jersey to dinner because I hate football, but you can fuck me if you turn the lights off, okay?
 

Tiff之后就是跟踪他跑步
TIFFANY: I was a big slut, but I'm not anymore. There’s always gonna be a part of me that’s sloppy and dirty, but I like that, with all the other parts of myself. Can you say the same about yourself, fucker?! Can you forgive? Are you any good at that?
 


Tif 最Hysterical的表现又以下几点, 跟着她跑步. Halloween要Pat带她去吃饭, 结果他们去了个Diner. 她坚持认为这是一个Date, Pat坚持不是. 之后的经典对话
TIFFANY: I’d have to be careful. I'm already on thin ice with my family, you should hear how I lost my job.
PAT: How did you lose your job? TIFFANY: By...having sex with everybody in the office. PAT: Everybody?
TIFFANY: I was very depressed after Tommy died. It was a lot of people.
PAT: We don't have to talk about it. TIFFANY: Thanks.
PAT: How many were there? TIFFANY: Eleven. PAT: Wow. TIFFANY: I know.
PAT: I’m not gonna talk about it anymore. TIFFANY: Okay.
PAT: Can I ask you one more question? Were there any women? TIFFANY: Yes. PAT: Really? TIFFANY: Yes.
PAT: What was that like? TIFFANY: Hot. PAT: Jesus Christ. Was it like…older women, a sexy teacher who wants to seduce you
TIFFANY: Made me sit on her lap and do things? Yeah.
PAT: What? You sat on her lap? TIFFANY: Mm-hmm.
PAT: She told you what to do? TIFFANY: Mm-hmm.
 
她觉得自己被judge了, 一怒之下摔盘子走人.
之后在电影院门口又发疯说她被Pat非礼, 警察一来又说没事.
OFFICER KEOGH: You're Tommy's widow, right?
TIFFANY: Yes, I'm Tommy's crazy whore widow, minus the whore thing for the most part.
OFFICER KEOGH: You’re a funny girl. You wanna get a drink sometime?
TIFFANY TURNS AND WALKS AWAY.
OFFICER KEOGH (CONT’D): What’d I say?
PAT: She doesn’t, she doesn’t do that anymore.
 



Somehow, 从他们开始练舞以后, 她就变正常了, 女人的魅力慢慢显现出来.


必须要插一句, Pat在球场遇到冲突那一段完全就是Fighter的复制.
Silver: 哥哥为了民族矛盾打群架, 弟弟因为有probation在身, 旁边人劝他不能打. 观众揪心知道他不能打, 他自己也知道不能参与在旁边纠结. 最后时刻他不忍眼睁睁看着哥哥被人欺负就上去打了, 一上去打警察就来了…
Figher: 哥哥拒捕与警察打群架, 弟弟因为比赛在即, 旁边警局朋友劝他不要去. 观众揪心知道他不能去, 他自己也知道不能参与在旁边纠结. 最后时刻他不忍眼睁睁看着哥哥被人欺负就上去打了, 一上去打警察就来了…



老头子很Superstitious. (believes in "Juju") ， 总是有Meet the Fockers 里的角色的影子
Pat Sr.: Have Ernest Hemingway call us and apologize to us, too.
老妈很像 Everybody Loves Raymond那样爱唠叨 瞎操心.

Chris Tucker演的Danny这是个搅屎棍, 每次都毫无压力的从精神病院溜号出来, 医院来抓他, 他又乖乖回去. (他是真的飞跃疯人院了), 而且喋喋不休，没人知道他在说什么.
关键是他指导的舞蹈动作很难看, 不协调而且音乐古怪. 要不是他瞎教Pat和Tif应该拿更高分.

Randy 这个老流氓， 我一直觉得就不该出现在他们家. 作为一个铁杆球迷, 怎么会每次都让对手球迷到家里来蹭吃蹭喝？ 赌赢了老头子的钱不说, 还不断说风凉话落井下石. 关键是怎么从来没人赶他走？

片子对比赛的描述非常写实. 不是刻意捏造比分为了迎合剧情, 而是真实依照Eagles 在NFL赛季的表现以及故事时间轴. 老头子好像一直都在看Eagles(橄榄球)，但不知道为什么Tiffany要顺便报Phillies(棒球)的比分. (作为充分不必要证据吧) 08年 Phillies拿了World Series冠军. Eagles也进了半决赛.

这段对话发生在输掉比赛当晚
(11/09/2008) Eagles 31-36 Giants

TIFFANY
“The first night that Pat and I met at my sister's, the Eagles beat the Forty Niners handily, forty to twenty-six. ”
(10/12/2008) Eagles 40-26 49ers
“The second time we got together we went for a run and the Phillies beat the Dodgers seven to five in the NLCS.”
(10/14/2008) Phillies 7-5 Dodgers
“The next time we went for a run the Eagles beat the Falcons, twenty- seven to fourteen.”
(10/26/2008) Eagles 27-14 Falcons
"The third time we got together we had Raisin Bran in the diner and the Phillies dominated Tampa Bay in the fourth game of the World Series, ten to two."
(10/26/2008) Phillies 10-2 Rays
"Well, why don’t you think about when the Eagles beat the Seahawks, fourteen to seven."
 (11/02/2008) Eagles 26-7 Seahawks

大结局的比赛是
12/28/2008 Eagles 44-6 Cowboys



 (相反我认为跳舞最终他们刚好拿到5.0的平局分太"Happy Ending"了)


那个拿DV想拍采访的小孩, 他在电影里的作用到底是什么？ 黄金龙套吗？ 谁帮我解读一下.


Brilliant Qoutes from Matthew Quick.

“I will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books. And if he were still alive, I would write him a letter right now and threaten to strangle him dead with my bare hands just for being so glum. No wonder he put a gun to his head, like it says in the introductory essay.”

“Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.”

“I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.”

“Do you like foreign films?”
“With subtitles?”
“Yes.”
“I hate those types of films.”
“Me too,” Cliff says. “Mostly because - “
“No happy endings.”

前路那么远，幸福那么长。

    应该是需要在寒冷的冬夜去看这样一个片子，然后会觉得被治愈，觉得正能量十足。然而我在一个阳光灿烂的春日下午邂逅它，也没有觉得很遗憾，看完以后我竟然被感动得一塌糊涂，眼里还矫情的流了两滴泪，特别想要找一个人分享我内心的感受，于是给李同学发了短信说你去看《乌云背后的幸福线》吧。

    并不是很精彩的故影片，也就是讲两个疯子在一起互相帮助走出阴影最后成功在一起的俗套爱情故事，穿插了友情亲情，把普通美国人的生活展现在观众眼前，且狗血的剧情也不少：比如跳舞比赛得分的那一段，和《阳光小美女》有异曲同工之妙，然而又显得太刻意太俗套，比如回信的情节，观众大概都早就知道那是蒂凡尼写的，只是为了不让自己心爱的帕特伤心罢了。还有两个赌注硬生生的把赌球和跳舞绑在了一起，于是让亲情和爱情两条线缠绕到了一块，让剧情显得有那么一点尴尬生硬。但是怎么办呢，即便这个片子有各种各样的硬伤，即便很多人都觉得它不过如此，然而我还是很喜欢它啊，我很喜欢它带给我的感动，很喜欢它所营造的浪漫氛围，大概是因为我骨子里也觉得自己是与这个世界有着那么一丝不同的人吧，觉着能够在有生之年遇到与自己相似的那一个人并且还能够一起欢笑一起跳舞是多么让人欣慰的事情，于是我便这么热泪盈眶了。

    最令我感动的情节有两个，一是帕特与哥哥相见，2货一样的哥哥一直在夸夸其谈自己过得有多好而且还貌似无意的提及弟弟有多惨，然而动不动就狂躁的帕特竟然压抑住自己的情绪，说了一句特别煽情的话：“即便我一无所有，但我爱你，兄弟。”然后我莫名其妙的回忆起这二十几年来和妹妹相处的点滴，我发现我并未做好一个做姐姐的职责，相反一直是她在照顾我。周四她来给我做了晚饭，然后帮我刷了碗又赶回学校去上课，然后我发现还是那个时候她给我洗了碗，我的洗碗盆里已经堆满了一座小山，于是我给我妈打了个电话说真希望老妹这时候来看我，我那堆碗就有人洗了。我妈一个劲在电话里骂我懒得无可救药，然后我辩解我只是讨厌洗碗而已。（不好意思扯远了。）回忆汹涌，想起这些年来与家人聚少离多的日子，再看看电影里对于家庭关系的解读，不被感动是不可能的，尤其是帕特老爸（老戏骨德尼罗）对着他流泪的那一段估计又秒杀了不少影迷。

    第二个情节自然是最后蒂芙尼读信的那一段，狗血的桥段，但是够浪漫，我骨子里还是很小女人情节的，觉得这样的爱情才打动人心，经历跌跌撞撞最后相爱的人不负众望的在一起，因为曾经有过争吵有过互相支持最后慢慢磨合，这样的感情才历久弥坚。于是眼泪就那么无法控制的流了出来，就好像很多个看电影或者看书的时刻，被一些或矫情或狗血的桥段打动泪腺充沛得就像热带雨林一样。

    影片最动人的地方应该是其传达出来的理念，那就是帕特所说的那句话：“生活已经够残酷了，为什么不给他来个快快乐乐的结局。”即便是走在人生最低谷，也应该相信前面还有希望，乌云背后努力透出来的那一缕光线就是指路的明灯，光线必定经过了艰难才拨开层层乌云，那么人生也并非一直是一帆风顺的吧，经历过艰难之后又是不一样的风景。

    所以我爱这个片子，是因为它有浪漫的爱情故事，是因为它是一部值得谈一谈的励志片，是 因为它涉及到最真实的生活，普通人的生活，是因为它带给我正能量。

    而我处在一个情绪并不是那么高昂的时期。

2013/3/3

所谓的半面，就是一面乌云，一面幸福。我们关注的并不是乌云，而是更关心乌云背后的幸福。如果乌云一面能得到很好的护理和温暖，再遇见另一半的乌云，我们会奇迹的发现一条幸福线，这就是爱的结果，这就是相逢何必曾相识，就是我们的互补互爱人生。 男主人公常常度过一个有一个黑暗的夜，是怎样的折磨，我们都无从认识，更不必说他承受的过去和未来。因为我们没法进去一个抑郁症患者的灵魂里去体会的痛。狂风里的暴雨，灯光下的孤单，无端的暴躁，这正是男主角经历的。所幸的是，我们的男主人公被家人爱着，被亲密治疗着，也许就是温暖希望的温床，当拥有半面的男主人公遇见同样拥有半面人生的女主人公，他们的幸福线，开落在幽谷里的花最香，美丽相遇的朝露最有光。寄与爱和一切希望，温暖，明朗，坚固而蓬勃。 人生最美好的事情在于对的时间遇见对的人，只有两个对的人在一起才会得到快乐。当一个人在 自己的人生最低谷的时候，这时真的需要一些人发自真心的帮助，也许，拉一把就上来了，不拉这一把可能永远的就再见了，真是这样的。尤其对有抑郁症的人，更需要家人朋友的时刻关心和谈话，稍不耐心，可能就会永远的离开我们。所以，用你的爱融化身边有抑郁症的孩子，他们很不容易，需要你的关心。主角配角全面精彩，导演用新的方式给我们讲述一个温暖的故事。 电影有很多的共鸣，很温情的电影。不落俗套，强大的镜头控制力，情感的内敛最为出色。配乐也非常赞。