缘分真的天注定?一个普通、忙乱的圣诞夜,乔纳森(约翰•库萨克 John Cusack 饰)和萨拉(凯特•贝金赛尔 Kate Beckinsale 饰)相遇了。认识的短短几个小时,他们就不可救药地爱上了对方。虽然,他们各自都有自己的生活圈子,自己伴侣。当他们幸福地在曼哈顿的街头漫步了一整个晚上后,黎明来临,他们不得不面对现实。萨拉拒绝了乔纳森互留号码的请求,并决定一切由老天决定。
很早的片子,但最近才才买来DVD看.一个是<Con Air>中干练帅气的探员,一个是在<Underworld>里酷得不行的性感吸血鬼,是我喜欢的组合.其实这部影片的很多桥段都可以在<Sleepless in seattle>,<You've got a mali>等同类型的爱情片中寻得,<向左走,向右走>中也有类似擦间而过的缘分。尽管拍得很媚俗,但也能带来充分的愉悦感.谁不喜欢浪漫温馨的故事呢?即使编剧很刻意的制造浪漫. 爱情的部分不需多言,印象最深刻的台词是死党为男主角写的“悼言”,实则为本片主题的精髓所在。中文字幕翻译得恰到好处:
Dean: Jonathan Trager, prominent television producer for ESPN, died last night from complications of losing his soul mate and his fiance. He was thirty-five years old. Soft-spoken and obsessive, Trager never looked the part of a hopeless romantic. But in the final days of his life, he revealed an unknown side of his psyche. This hidden quasi-Jungian persona surfaced during the Agatha Christie-like pursuit for his long, reputed soul mate; a woman whom he only spent a few precious hours with. Sadly, the protracted search ended late Saturday night in complete and utter failure. Yet even in certain defeat, the courageous Trager secretly clung to the belief that life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or coincidences. Uh-uh. But rather, it is a tapestry of events that culminate into an exquisite, sublime plan. Ask about the loss of his dear friend, Dean Kansky, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and executive editor of New York Times, described Jonathan as a changed man in the last days of his life. Things were clearer for him, Kansky noted. Ultimately, Jonathan concluded that if we are to live life in harmony with the universe we must all possess a powerful faith, of what the ancients used to call fatum; what we currently refer to as destiny. 乔纳森卓加,有线体育台优秀监制,即失红颜,复破婚盟,肝肠寸断,遂于昨宵撒手尘寰,享年三十有五,壮君文质彬彬,公尔忘私,平素言行,绝无痴态,孰料,阳寿将尽之际......流露鲜为人知的浪漫,刹那惊绝,化作萦回梦魂,遍觅芳踪,历尽一波三折,本性情怀,浮现无遗,呜呼,踏破铁鞋......方觉一番心事付东流,语云:匹夫可以夺其爱,不可夺其志,壮君依然坚信......人生际遇绝非偶然,冥冥中,上苍早已安排周详,丝毫不爽,其友文坛巨掰,时报主笔甸恩谓......壮君晚年脱胎换骨,有所顿悟,一以蔽之......欲臻天人合一,须信一字,此字古已有之,于今亦然,唯“缘”而已。
美国人似乎很热中于炮制这样的浪漫爱情.包括西雅图不眠夜,电子情书,before the sunset,before the sunrise,恋爱假期等等.剧中的主人公是彻头彻尾的浪漫主义,为爱疯狂,痴迷,完全不顾现实。为爱到处跑不说了,还放弃现实中的爱人,只为那一个SOULMATE。西方人很讲这个.灵魂伴侣,听起来多么美妙啊。所谓真正的爱情,不正是两个人灵魂的相吸吗?而现实中那些恋爱结婚的人,又有多少真正把爱情放在第一呢?曾经以为只要有爱情就有全世界的信念是不是在现实面前也软弱无力呢?我只想说的是,爱是一种信仰,而我们,不能让信仰倒塌。相信爱情,便是相信生活的美好。