以前帮一个在美国的学生写的影评作业，主要是回答了美国老师提出的3个提示性问题，写的比较简单，但据说给了她灵感，最后作业的分数还不错～～其实这部电影给我印象最深的是Ricky拍摄的那个塑料袋。在看了导评后我觉得导演想要表达的东西并不是太多，但他总想不断重复以加深观众的印象，所以在剧本已经不能再附加太多东西时，他就只能寄希望于镜头了，这也导致了本片和其他很多有野心的作品一样的通病——某些镜头语言过于晦涩，当然，从另一个角度，也能看出他临场处理镜头的功力，而这界限就在于观众是否能理解他要表达的，或者说，对于像我这样理解力有时比较迟钝的人，听他在导评里解释某个镜头后，是否认同他的那种表达。
这是老师的问题：
American Beauty prompts and questions
We invent the places we see.
What do you think about the boy with the camera? How does he invent what he sees? How does Lester(Jane's father) invent what he sees, and what changes does he make to evidence this? What do you think about how the other characters invent their lives(the mom, Jane Jane's friend, the boy with camera again,his parents)?
We carry our sense of home inside us.
What do you think about how Jane and her boyfriend will respond to moving to New York? What about Lester? His death even? Do you think he was able to fully escape, in the few days before he died, his pitiful life?
All of the significant movement we ever take is internal.
Do you think, from your own experience and from talking with others, that external change is the key to change for the better, or do you think that internal change is what matters? How do the chatacters in the film show the different types of change? Do internal and external changes balance each other out? Give examples from you own life, and from the stories and film and pictures that I've assigned.
下面是我的回答：
We invent what we see based on our memory, but sometimes our memory could cheat us. Ricky(the boy with a camera) recorded everything that he thought is beautiful, and the video he took is what the fact is, then he invent what he sees with his imagination. So to some extent, his view is more objective than the other characters in the film or even us. Lester invent what he sees with his fantasy, and he started to work out in the garage or jog with neighbours to evidence his fantasy.
Jane and Ricky(Jane's boyfriend) know each other very well, and they choose to live together. they will start to live in their own way for the first time in their life, no matter what the result could be. Lester was not escaping his pitiful life in the few days before he died. He was trying to make a change, but no one understands his behaviour or even pays any attention to that. The tragedy came while he was changing, so his death is just a part of his pitiful life.
It is hard to tell which is more important between external change and internal change, that depends on different personality. Most of the chatacters in the film show external change to us, because no one could read other's mind, and we don't know what their internal change is, except themselves. Internal and external changes could balance each other out, but it takes time. So in my opinion, there is no need to talk about myself if there is no change in the end.
这是老师的问题：
American Beauty prompts and questions
We invent the places we see.
What do you think about the boy with the camera? How does he invent what he sees? How does Lester(Jane's father) invent what he sees, and what changes does he make to evidence this? What do you think about how the other characters invent their lives(the mom, Jane Jane's friend, the boy with camera again,his parents)?
We carry our sense of home inside us.
What do you think about how Jane and her boyfriend will respond to moving to New York? What about Lester? His death even? Do you think he was able to fully escape, in the few days before he died, his pitiful life?
All of the significant movement we ever take is internal.
Do you think, from your own experience and from talking with others, that external change is the key to change for the better, or do you think that internal change is what matters? How do the chatacters in the film show the different types of change? Do internal and external changes balance each other out? Give examples from you own life, and from the stories and film and pictures that I've assigned.
下面是我的回答：
We invent what we see based on our memory, but sometimes our memory could cheat us. Ricky(the boy with a camera) recorded everything that he thought is beautiful, and the video he took is what the fact is, then he invent what he sees with his imagination. So to some extent, his view is more objective than the other characters in the film or even us. Lester invent what he sees with his fantasy, and he started to work out in the garage or jog with neighbours to evidence his fantasy.
Jane and Ricky(Jane's boyfriend) know each other very well, and they choose to live together. they will start to live in their own way for the first time in their life, no matter what the result could be. Lester was not escaping his pitiful life in the few days before he died. He was trying to make a change, but no one understands his behaviour or even pays any attention to that. The tragedy came while he was changing, so his death is just a part of his pitiful life.
It is hard to tell which is more important between external change and internal change, that depends on different personality. Most of the chatacters in the film show external change to us, because no one could read other's mind, and we don't know what their internal change is, except themselves. Internal and external changes could balance each other out, but it takes time. So in my opinion, there is no need to talk about myself if there is no change in the end.
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