一生 Life Itself(2018)
简介：
- 奥斯卡·伊萨克将出演新片《一生》(Life Itself，暂译)，导演丹·福格尔曼负责编剧、执导，2017年春天开始制作。背景在纽约的西班牙郊区，奥斯卡·伊萨克饰演的角色将串联起几代人的爱情故事。
演员：
影评：
this is us和life itself，原班编剧，只是把电视剧搬上了荧幕，然后就扑街了？不解。你们告诉我电影哪里不好吧，鸡汤满满是剧本身的风格，结构章节清晰没有电影意识，是的。so what？
人有悲欢离合，月有阴晴圆缺。一切的离别都在未来会有重逢，请保持心中的愿景。因为这份期望本身是足够支持我们活下去活得更好的动力。
《一生》Life itself
这部电影可以被诟病有肥皂剧式催泪弹的戏剧冲突。但温情、轻快、动人的内核因为细节嫁接地近乎完美，没有高谈阔论的鸡汤感言，显得电影叙事整体非常扎实。
编剧兼导演丹·福格尔曼在《一生》也同样采用了剧集《我们这一天》独特的插叙和倒叙杂交的叙事手法。通过线索诸如鲍勃迪伦的专辑《Time Out of Mind》和《Make You Feel My Love》，纽约追梦等串起故事 。加之《低俗小说》里约翰·特拉沃尔塔和乌玛·瑟曼舞场装扮、墨西哥移民美国的文化背景，整个电影的基调给观众亲切的文化共鸣。
节奏极快、信息量很大的叙事，通过精致却不做作的New Yorker式的台词中呈现。 Abby英语文学毕业论文“不可靠的叙述者”和“意想不到的英雄”的寓意，让观众会心一笑，这是叙述者为我们创造的虚构故事，观众也跟着穿过岁月洪流，时代跨越了几十年， 去感受岁月变迁对一代和下一代和下下代带来的精神改变；而真实的故事是我们自己的生活本身，真实的生活只能过一遍，如何过好我们的生活是《一生》给我们的启示和寓意。
章节性的故事
第一章
关于年轻人的相遇与婚姻。妻子 Abby (Olivia Wilde)的意外离开，导致丈夫Will(Oscar Isaac)精神不振，体现的却是用情之深。有一种《我们这一天》Jack爱Rebecca胜过世界上的一切的感觉，再次感到一种转瞬即逝的美好和脆弱。
第二章
关于生与死、成长与衰老。也许我也是正处于Dylan一样21岁刚过的年纪，Dylan与爷爷的两席对白，在编剧高超的台词始作俑下，让人感到在死这种终极字眼下连简单的悲伤都显得苍白无力 。是绝望，与不可承受的生命之轻。然后Dylan小朋友长大，变成了朋克少女，看上去狂野的外壳深藏的是脆弱和创伤。但一切都在变与不变中，当看到 爷孙俩干杯?，又仿佛看到了他们一如儿时的作伴。第三代与爷爷之间还能用真挚去面对，不争吵，虽然不免是有年龄和对事物理解的隔阂了。因为显得聚如往兮。
“尽管生活多艰难，我们也要抬起头过下去的”那种平凡又真挚的生活启示，很难不触及到心灵深处关于生活该怎么过的哲思。
奇葩说是鸡汤啊，我也喜欢，那个是痛苦的遗忘和扶贫。这个是看到有比你更惨的人在世界上用力挣扎得活，也给予了我们面对生活的昂扬斗志，何况生活本身还不算艰难。
就算剧中人物 Will (Oscar Isaac), Abby (Olivia Wilde), Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening等都被命运捉弄，却仍然泰然处之，相处方式是超脱世俗得真挚善良——爱情可以这么专一，亲情可以永远体贴。
看着他们，觉得生活很美好了。
「 Every narrator by its very definition is unreliable because when you tell a story there's always an essential distance between the story itself and the telling of said story, right? So, therefore, every story that has ever been told has an unreliable narrator. The only truly reliable narrator would be someone hypothetically telling a story that unfolds before our very eyes which is obviously very impossible. So, what does that tell us? The only truly reliable narrator is life itself. But life itself is also a completely unreliable because it is constantly misdirecting and misleading us and taking us on this journey where it is literally impossible to predict where it is going to go next. Life as the ultimate unreliable narrator.」
「You have had many ups and downs in your life. Too many. And you will have more. This is life. And this is what it does. Life brings you to your knees. It brings you lower than you think you can go. But if you stand back up and move forward, if you go just a little farther, you will always find love. I found love in you. And my life, my story, it will continue after I'm gone. Because you are my story. You are your father's story. Your uncle's. My body fails me. But you are me. So you go now. Give me a beautiful life. The most beautiful life ever. Yeah? And if life brings us to our knees, you stand us back up. You get up. And go farther. And find us the love. Will you do that?」
「I'm not sure whose story I have been telling. I'm not sure if it is mine, or if it's some character's I have yet to meet. I'm not sure of anything. All I know is that, at any moment, life will surprise me. It will bring me to my knees. And when it does, I will remind myself... I will remind myself that I am my father. And I am my father's father. I am my mother. And I am my mother's mother. And while it may be easy to wallow in the tragedies that shape our lives, and while it's natural to focus on those unspeakable moments that bring us to our knees, we must remind ourselves that if we get up, if we take the story a little bit farther... If we go far enough, there's love.」
又是一部十分美，美到令人感动的电影。后半段几乎是全程哭着看完电影的。不知道为什么评分这么低，但我个人很喜欢这种真实温暖的讲述生活的电影。强推！
生活总是会给你惊喜。你永远不知道下一秒钟会发生什么，遇到什么人，经历哪些事情。Tragedy may knock you down. But you get back up again because all the little parts of all those who came before you are inside of you, urging you to keep going. I have always wondered how people survive the tragedies in their lives. Families with lots of love do it all the time. Even best friends too. Now, I understand how the love and the memories can transcend the tragedies. Take us beyond the tragedies. And why we all must never dishonor those who have touched our hearts by forgetting about them. Because life is never forever. But it's best parts can be passed on to those you love and shared with those who loved you until the day they died. This is the power of this movie.
想到我是我父母的故事的延续，是我爷爷奶奶姥姥姥爷故事的延续，以后我的孩子还是我们家里所有人的故事的延续，我们将把爱一直延续下去，这样看来，死亡和分离就也没那么可怕了。
Life brings you to your knees. It brings you lower than you think you can go. But if you stand back up and move forward, if you go just a little farther, you will always find love.
导演运用独特的倒叙和插叙手法穿插故事令人惊艳，而故事本身也让人沉浸其中。
三章节中的男女主角都互相爱的深沉，当然威尔抛下女儿和父母的做法让人诟病，但如果他没有自杀，抚养了女儿，那后面的故事又会不会发生呢？就像艾比的论文所说的人生是无法预料的旅程，没有人知道自己下一秒会做什么。
在我观影时，哈维耶的做法也让我很不认同，但我们没有处于过他当时的位置，无法体会那种无力感，也许我们会做的比他更差也不尽然。尽管他离开了isabel和罗瑞，但他一直默默关注着她们，他依然珍惜她们，这也是一种深沉的爱。
萨席翁一开始看来是窥探别人老婆的男人，但往下看我们会发现他却是如isabel所说是一个好人，他只是无私奉献着，尽管他经历悲惨的童年，但他却没有去成为他所厌恶的父亲的样子。最后看着他，我只认为他是一个令人悲怜的老人。
Isabel，是我认为本片中最具有大智慧的人，虽然她没上过大学，一生平凡，但是她为儿子所付出的全部，包括影片中她和儿子最后的对话，人生体悟却是让人感触良深。哈维耶一直叫isabel，bella，在西语和意语中bella是美人，亲爱的意思，字幕翻译成贝儿，也许这只是从她的名字中截取出来的，但我更愿意理解为西语的意思，因为她值得这个释义。
狄伦丹西和爷爷厄文的内心的对话是本片泪点的开始，厄文为了孙女一直坚持让自己保持健康，他在内心对孙女说的话每一句都直戳我的泪点，而狄伦丹西则用叛逆来掩饰自己内心的弱小无助。当面对长大之后叛逆的丹西，厄文又是一个想关心保护孙女却再也无能为力的可怜老人。当爷爷和孙女再一次碰杯时我的眼泪再也绷不住流下来。
人生会带给我们精彩，人生会击垮我们，怨天尤人或许显得容易，即便我们深陷在那些难以开口的挫折之中，我们得提醒自己只要站起来，只要让故事继续向前，只要我们走的够远，爱就在那一头。
我爱这部电影！！！