Stupid Or not? -- （影评：阿甘正传）

子衿

也是6年前的冷饭，嘻嘻～～～还好存在电脑里的文件还没丢


Stupid Or not?
─Film Review on Forrest Gump



The director of the film adopts a new angle that the remarkable film begins with a reverse narration.  Sitting in a bench at a bus station, Forrest Gump told of his reminiscence over the past: his true love for Jenny life-long and his painful experience in Vietnam War.  Note that the hero Gump is semi-stupid and only has very low IQ, but astonishingly he luckily becomes a football star, a war-hero and a millionare.  What a man can expect in his life--both honor and fortune--he gets, seemingly effortlessly.  

It is an impact to those who burn with ambition, Gump doesn't deliberately pursue honor or fortune (he even doesn't know what's the value of that), but he gets everything.  He doesn't know how to please a woman, but Jenny is moved by his sincere love.  All those mentioned above are funny enough.  But keep in mind that all those reflects an old Chinese proverb: Good man will have good repay.  Gump becomes a football star because he recovered his physical disability and didn't care of other's mock.  Gump got White House honor because of his bravery to rescue his comrade-in-arms.  Gump becomes a shrimp tycoon not because he has such an ambition to make money, but he keeps the promise with Babba Blue.  He desperately saved Lt.Dan Taylor but never wants his gratitude, as he thinks it's his duty to rescue all his comrades.  He gains Jenny's love at last because he didn't care of Jenny's demoralization at a time.

In my opinion, all that Gump has unconsciously done will be rewarded.  And that reward is: honor, fortune and love.  I appreciate Gump's philosophy of life.

Gump's experience is typical of an American legend.  That is, an 'idiot' becomes upstart over night with less effort.  I think the film is so acclaimed in America mainly because of its theme─Don't care about the results and leave the ambitions aside, just do it!  Gump is not stupid at all, he is sort of those men who are being stamped out in our life.

gzqml

只是个人意见。


阿甘正传简单的理解为“傻”人有“傻福"，崇尚真诚，善良的价值，偶觉得还不够。

偶觉得阿甘其实是美国保守主义价值观的再现。
而与此对比的就是珍妮所追求的自由主义。

保守主义者的生活多是枯燥，而自由主义者的结果多是悲戚的。

珍妮最后也向阿甘妥协了，但这并不能简单理解为阿甘的胜利。
因为阿甘爱着珍妮。

这部片子要表现的东西太多多，偶对影片的理解有局限性，觉得最大的障碍在于自己不熟悉美国文化及生活方式。 这对欣赏影片就打了折扣，同样的情况比如美国丽人。

楼主的英文很棒啊，偶学习了。

子衿

Originally posted by gzqml at 2005-2-26 18:26:
偶觉得阿甘其实是美国保守主义价值观的再现。
而与此对比的就是珍妮所追求的自由主义。

保守主义者的生活多是枯燥，而自由主义者的结果多是悲戚的。

呵呵，说的是。

上文是我6年前的大学作业而已，一字未改贴上来的，那个时候语言，思维都很受局限，英文水平也不够所以并没有很透彻的理解这部电影。片子是好片子，应该重温一下。

娃娃妈

看到楼主不少英文错误,
那个电影我怎么没什么印象?
好象只看到一半就睡了
我太愚钝,无法理解深奥的哲理性的片子