希望沟壑

这本就不是一段势均力敌的关系。就像男主说的，他们俩从相遇时就错把对方想象成另一个人。女主是强势的，她有着丰富的内心生活，独立，锋利，有想法，有些控制欲，有些高姿态，有些自我，有些不尊重他人，有些咄咄逼人，应该也有些不安全感。她应该是一个懂得如何精彩而丰盈的生活着的人。而男主是怯懦的，他对她的怯懦已经到了是不经思索的本能。在他离开以后，他们再次在律师办公室里见面，她再次挑起争端，他要离去，她呵斥他站住时，他几乎是身体本能的僵在那里不敢动弹。他爱上了其他女子，可在日常生活中依旧对妻子百般顺从，任她差遣。他的沉默，是源于他从不敢说出自己的真实想法。我想在他的沉默之前，他一定已经试着表达。可惜他们的能量相差太远，他没有办法与她抗衡，他们也因此无法一起成长。

他最终选择了一个愿意为他默默沏茶的女子，一个能让他感受到尊重和爱的女子。哪怕那个女子平庸无趣。至少他终于找到了自己。

而她，值得一个更精彩的男人。一个能真正和她较量，能彼此成长的男人。

最开始对这位强势的妻子很反感，觉得是自作自受。看到最后，却是敬佩。29年的爱情大梦被最爱的人硬生生砸醒，毫不留情。29年的时光，29年的信念，29年的爱人，统统烟消云散。想过死吧应该。但还是蹒跚的一步一步在时间里熬出来。

她最终还是那个强势的女人。她没有因为这个巨大的打击而发生任何变化。她背负着这一切过往和痛苦继续在自己的人生路上独行。

她儿子最后的念白我真的很喜欢。受了巨大创伤的母亲选择坚强乐观的继续自我人生路，懦弱犹疑的父亲终于为了爱情为自己做出了选择。人生的选择题不会因为你年老就停止出现，父母即使已经老去也要给出答案。父母们在人生的道路上永远走在孩子的面前，他们面对人生境遇变化而做出的选择，会不断影响他的一生。真的很感动。最后的念白摘抄如下：

” I begin by thinking I could save you but in the end all I can do is honour you.

My mother, first among women, my warmth and my comfort,

My safety, my pride, you are the one I want to please.

You are the one I want to applaud me

My father, first among men, my teacher and my judge. The man,

I know I will become

You grow older now

You’ll still ahead of me as you’ll always be, forever

Further down the road

Forgive me for needing you to be strong forever

Forgive me for fearing your unhappiness

As you suffer, so I shall suffer

As you endure, as I shall endure

Hold my hand and walk the old walk one last time

Then let me go“

「You're a non-completer. → Oh, am I? → Are you a completer? → Up to a point. Can one complete anything up to a point? I don't think so.」

「Whatever you're going through, someone's been through it before you, put it into words.」

「Just because there's no blood, don't think it's not a murder. He's murdering a marriage. Marriages don't bleed, but it's still murder. → Marriages break down. It happens all the time. Nobody wants it to happen but it does, and we have to live with it.」

「After all, suppose it was a cancer and you were in unbearable pain and dying only too slowly, Then I'd say end it now wouldn't I? Out of my love for you. So if your life hurts you so much that you want to end it, I won't stop you. out of my love for you, only just tell me. Don't let it be a surprise. Give me time to say goodbye. I can't ask you to live for me. But we each have to carry our own burden. You're like the explorer. You're further down the road. You've gone on ahead. So if after a while you don't go on anymore, then I'll know that the road is too hard and for too long. I'll know that in the end, the unhappiness wins. But if you do go on and bear it, terrible as it is, then I'll know that however bad it gets, I can last it out because you did before me.」

「Sudden Light By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I have been here before,

But when or how I cannot tell:

I know the grass beyond the door,

The sweet keen smell,

The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

You have been mine before,—

How long ago I may not know:

But just when at that swallow's soar

Your neck turn'd so,

Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore.

Has this been thus before?

And shall not thus time's eddying flight

Still with our lives our love restore

In death's despite,

And day and night yield one delight once more?」

「Say not the struggle nought availeth. The labor and the wounds are vain. The enemy faints not nor faileth. And as things have been, they remain. For while, the tired waves vainly breaking seem here no painful inch gain far back through creeks and inlets making come silent flooding in the main. And not by eastern windows only when daylight comes, comes in the light. In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly. But westward look, the land is bright.」

「I began by thinking I could save you, but in the end, all I can do is honor you. My mother, first among women, my warmth and my comfort, my safety, my pride, you're the one I want to please. You're the one I want to applaud me. My father, first among men, my teacher and myjudge. The man I know I will become. You grow older now. You'll still ahead of me as you'll always be. Forever further down the road. Forgive me for needing you to be strong forever. Forgive me for fearing your unhappiness. As you suffer, so I shall suffer. As you endure, so I shall endure. Hold my hands and walk the old walk one last time then let me go.」

很好的剧本，很妙的用诗歌和二战故事铺陈着情绪讲述着生活中不断重复着的现实。 对我情绪触动很大的一个是在Edward离开后 女主在冰箱茶杯各个他能她能想到的他还在时可能触碰的地方都放上I love u的纸条，另外也在儿子和女主hope gap散步时，关于自杀的对话；也很希望女主的诗选以及她浪漫又充满希望的概念“I’ve been here before” 。

摘電影裡提及的詩中我最喜歡的兩首

Sudden Light 明灭之间

BY Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I have been here before,

But when or how I cannot tell:

I know the grass beyond the door,

The sweet keen smell,

The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

我曾来过这里，

但是说不清是何时何故：

我记得门外的野草

和他们那清甜的味道，

海潮的叹息和岸边的灯火。

You have been mine before,—

How long ago I may not know:

But just when at that swallow's soar

Your neck turn'd so,

Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore.

你曾经属于我，

是多久之前我已记不得：

但就在燕子腾空的一刹那，

你回头看见了我，

面纱也随之垂落——但那已经是很久以前的事了。

Has this been thus before?

And shall not thus time's eddying flight

Still with our lives our love restore

In death's despite,

And day and night yield one delight once more?

是早已如此？

还是因为经历了时间的漩涡，

我们的爱随着生活的过往开始修复。

就算置生死于不顾，

还能否在日夜的更替间再寻得一丝欢愉？

The Old Walk

像往常一样的散步

by William Nicholson (writer/director)

I began by thinking I could save you,

but in the end all I can do is honor you.

My mother, first among women,

my warmth and my comfort, my safety, my pride.

You are the one I want to please,

you are the one I want to applaud me.

开始我以为能拯救你，

但最后只能赞颂你。

我的母亲，我最爱的女人，我的温暖和安逸，安全和自豪。

我只想取悦你，

我只想让你为我骄傲。

My father first among men,

my teacher and my judge,

the man I know I will become.

You grow older now,

you are still ahead of me as you will always be, forever further down the road.

我的父亲，我最爱的男人，

我的老师，我的裁判，

是我以后会成为的那个人。

虽然你已经不再年轻，

但你还是一如往常地走在我的前面，走在比我远的路上。

Forgive me for needing you to be strong forever.

Forgive me for fearing your unhappiness.

As you suffer so I shall suffer.

As you endure I shall endure.

Hold my hands and walk the old walk one last time, then let me go.

原谅我对你的需要，需要你永远坚强。

原谅我对你的担心，担心你的不快乐。

因为你痛苦我就痛苦

你难受我就难受

请握着我的手

最后一次

像往常一样去散步

然后让我走。

最初对这部感兴趣是因为看剧情简介，联想到很喜欢的那部《45周年》，难得的是，两部电影都是类似的主题，同样殿堂级的戏骨，但各有各的好。这部里面，三位主演的演技炸裂。三个角色都有各自的演绎难度，父母双方的角色要让观众信服他们各自就是这样的人（母亲就是这样强势到让观众都不舒服，父亲就是已经在这段婚姻中到达多忍一天不如去死的地步），儿子的角色难在要在两位老戏骨的演技夹缝中依然不逊色。不得不说，乔什·奥康纳再一次把角色塑造得极好，全片最引发泪水的两处，一处是他坐在草地上吃着朋友给的甜甜圈，念台词的时候眼泪不由自主又让观众极其信服地流下来；一处是他劝说妈妈不要自杀的片段，台词念得令人动容，以及非常轻巧地，让观众在动容的同时非常轻易地相信了他内心深处疲惫不堪、同样想结束生命的状态。这片子也容易让人想到《帕特森》，同样都是充满对诗歌的热爱，但这部让人感觉更舒服，也更有力量。最后那段在诗歌网站输入“希望”弹出的母亲最喜欢的诗歌，让观众忽然明白了，为什么母亲对于婚姻的变故保持了那么强烈的、不断尝试修复的欲望和努力。母亲在全片透露出来的咄咄逼人的性格也似乎得到了解答。儿子说，这是他母亲最喜欢的一首诗，这首诗表达着，无论再怎么困难，只要拼搏反击，就会有希望。这就是片名想要表达的吧，就如同儿子劝母亲不要自杀时那样：只要你活着，就是在向我表达，无论人生的前路有多难，你能走过去，就代表我也可以。

有意思的一点是，当父亲向儿子描述他与母亲的第一次相遇时，他说母亲当时用了一首诗歌里的一段，精准地形容了他内心的感受。回顾这段相遇的时候，父亲用的最多的形容词是“错误”，在错误的火车上，他错误地理解了母亲，母亲也错误地理解了他（以至于他在之后的几十年婚姻中不得不扮演母亲心中那个理想的角色）。可是随着片子进入尾声，母亲的诗歌集被做成网站，取名叫“I've been there”，登陆网站的人们通过母亲的诗歌（这些诗歌仿佛是她用来洞悉世界的眼睛）找到被看到和被理解的感受，这不禁让人想象，或许打从一开始，母亲就是真的能够理解父亲，看到真实的他的，这大概也是为什么在片子的结尾，她依然还爱着父亲。

婚姻关系、亲子关系抓得很准，细节满满，最后儿子对父母说的话很感人“Forgive me for needing you to be strong forever. Forgive me for fearing your unhappiness. As you suffer, I shall suffer. Hold my hands and walk the old walk one last time, then let me go.”