“當幸福來敲門”的觀後感
只要今天夠努力，幸福明天就會來臨。
這是一個根據黑人投資專家Chris Gardner的傳記性圖書《The pursuit of happyness》這一真實的故事改編的電影主人公克里斯·加德納的成長過程並沒有父親的陪伴，28歲才第一次見到父親。於是當他也做了父親的時候，他發誓要做一個稱職的好爸爸。然而天不遂願，這位單身父親屢遇不順，遭遇失業等不幸，和年幼的兒子相依爲命、流離失所。爲了兒子的幸福，加德納咬緊牙關重新振作，處處向機會敲門，並毛遂自薦進入一家證券公司工作，從最底層的員工做起。終於皇天不負苦心人，他最後成爲知名的.金融投資家。之後，他慷慨解囊，熱心捐助公益活動，成爲全美知名的慈善人物。而過程中支持他咬緊牙關的最大動力，除了寶貝兒子外，就是他始終相信：只要今天夠努力，幸福明天就會來臨。
幸福從那裏來?當一個人屢屢遇到不幸的時候，你是否堅持了你的夢想，你是否爲了幸福而堅持不懈了呢?
影片開始時克里斯·加德納在人潮涌動大街上迷失在一張張笑臉中茫然地佇立“爲什麼人人都快樂，我卻不能這樣呢”。片尾當克里斯·加德納通過試用再次來到那裏時，他爲自己鼓掌振臂。
你要幸福 那就去追求
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Review on Alice In Wonderland
So here we are again, back down the rabbit hole with the ever-resourceful Alice courtesy of another movie studio. Ever wonder why they bother? Perhaps it's the fact that up until the last 50 years there was a dearth of decent young female protagonists in literature, but one thing's for sure, there's no sign of filmmakers getting tired of reinterpreting her picaresque adventures in Wonderland.
This time up, Tim Burton is at the tiller, so you might expect a gothic twist in the tale. What you are unlikely to predict is the sheer mediocrity of this enterprise; there is more that is wandering than wonderful here. In an attempt to give Alice a touch of the Noughties - and presumably to attract that all-important teenage demographic - she is now 19 years old. Plagued her whole life by nightmares of falling, which no doubt account for the fact that actreMia Wasikowska looks like a sallow, underfed version of Gwyneth Paltrow, she is about to be railroaded into marriage. Dashing off from the imminent proposal, she trips on a tree that appears to be a refugee from Sleepy Hollow and tumbles down the rabbit hole. After the traditional shenanigans with glass-topped table, key, 'drink me' juice and 'eat me' cake she manages to unlock and pathrough a small door, but those who have brought her here fear they have "the wrong Alice".
They must have the right one, you see, because it has been declared that she will become the White Queen's champion, slay the fearsome Jabberwock and thereby vanquish the evil Red Queen. Somehow the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) becomes muddled up in all this, along with Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Matt Lucas doing the vocal honours), The Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry, who else?), the White Rabbit (who is so twitchy and red-eyed he looks like he's an hour late for his fix) and the Dormouse (Barbara Windsor on feisty form).
This sort of quest story - both external and internal - should be as easy as falling off a log for Disney, but Alice's travels are so randomly strung together that all tension is lost. It's as though the script meeting was held at the Mad Hatter's tea party, with all the ideas put in teacups and thrown against the wall - all of them seem to have stuck but in no particular order. The actors don't help either. Anne Hathaway is attempting to be the second coming of Glinda The Good Witch, Crispin Glover plays the creepy character he always plays, only this time hampered by dicey CGI, and Johnny Depp uses the role of the Mad Hatter to practice both his posh English and Glaswegian accents, switching between the two for no discernible reason and with no obvious effect on the laughter quotient.
Burton has always been known for arresting visuals, but audiences have been spoiled of late, with films like Avatar, A Christmas Carol and Up proving just how immersive 3D can be. Here it is little more than a gimmick. Occasionally a cup is thrown at us but there is nothing to draw us in, to make us feel like a part of the dreamscape. Wonderland? I'm afraid this Alice has gone for a Burton.
