乡下人的悲歌

需要说明的是，我并没有读过原著，所以以下文字我不确定是在单纯地写这部影片，还是包含了其原著。

不得不说，这是一部真实的电影，也是一部平庸的作品。

真实，是因为即便这是个美国故事，我们依然能从中体会到所谓“穷人”的挣扎，JD所经历的每一个令人沮丧的瞬间都能够引起共鸣（或者说，能一眼看透编剧或导演的意图）。

同时，这可能也是一部非常平庸的作品，因为前述的每一个瞬间，导演或编剧都通过非常直白的方式让观众体会JD所处的泥沼，比如：不会用刀叉、信用卡刷爆、因原生家庭的自卑等。毋庸置疑，这些细节可以直接体现JD的困境，但我还是忍不住想问，这样的处理方式是不是过于偷懒。

作为一个非常具有代表性的身份，既【美国乡村穷白人】，仅从我有限的想象力出发，这是一个“比上不足比下又有余”的尴尬身份，可讲的故事应该不应止于【贫穷所带来的痛苦】。尽管导演或编剧在片中背景体现了美国的工业落寞、青年出走、阶级等问题，但都是被一笔带过。不知道是出于什么样的原因，整部电影沦为了JD个人的成长故事，其成长非常“迅速”且表面。说来也是奇怪，在整个观看过程中，情感戏部分虽然真实，但处处体现着刻板和敷衍。

唯一一场令人动容的戏，是JD在motel拉着母亲的手说，“我不能留在这里”，随后母亲便慢慢放开JD的手，整场戏虽然简洁，却充分体现了一个穷白人家庭为了实现阶级跨越所要付出的代价。

　　最感动的一段是JD拿着考试第一的卷子给外婆看，当时鼻子酸了。相比于JD突如其来的上耶鲁大学法律系，这一段更真实，直接从一个孩子身上看到了希望。 　　和原著不同的是，电影太过单薄更注重戏剧效果，把原著里的几个关键点单摘出来呈现给观众，显得支离破碎，就像这个家庭一样不完整，只是从一个个片段里感受这个原生家庭的混乱、挣扎。JD因外婆的庇护，免于堕落最终完成美国梦。外婆当然对于JD的成功至关重要，客观的说她只是使JD一直走在正确的路上，有成功的可能性。表姐建议当兵才是至关重要的，JD服完兵役后有重新审视自己人生的机会，并且获得了改变命运的的力量。这些是电影所没展现出来的，正是这本书最有分量的地方。穷苦没什么好说的，世界上多半人都是贫困户，没有必要再向他们展示贫困的多样性，JD成功的原因才是人们所关心的。JD说的没错，他属于不应该成功的人，并不是每个人的关键时刻都有价值千金的建议，回头看JD当兵的选择对于整个人生的分量，怎么形容都不过分。努力，天分当然还有那么一点运气，这就是生活。

When I was proved so naive to reckon the appointment of therapy might’ve soothed my predicament, which turned out to be not even helpful for sleeping, I read the book. Maybe I’m just right in this period this spot which is a bit late for myself to be matured enough to think more thoroughly about my life though, I learned that even in thousands kilometers away, across the continent, people shares similarities in their childhood, their growth, their child raising, even though they may have overcome totally different situations. I dont know, I might have been used to summarize too much, used to be emotional, which maybe anoying, but I do miss my “babies” so much. Ahhhhh, I hate this.

根据真实回忆录改编的美国“穷忙族”的艰辛史，看似简单的闪回叙事里巧妙融合了美国社会发展的诸多缩影，游侠精神与成为父母的垮掉一代带来的个人主义泛滥通过母亲的形象展现的淋漓尽致，输出稳定的朗·霍华德凭实力保证了本片可以被任何群体读懂接受，但美国主流影评人可以为看起来艺术的《无依之地》大唱赞歌，也可以为表达移民精神的《米纳里》颁发勋章，却对美国人写、美国人拍、抨击到美国价值观阴暗面的本土表达给出集体差评，尽管结尾刻意上扬并回归希望也不能挽救，毕竟自由高于一切，巨婴怎么可能错呢？ 重要台词 1或许有人会对我们的信仰嗤之以鼻，我们也要坚守信仰，不仅是相信上帝，更要相信我们自己，相信我们的品格，我们能够崛起，能够飞翔，就算这次腾飞需要几代人铸就，就算它迟迟未到约束了我们的信念，让那信念永远不灭。1. “不管我的外公外婆在23号公路上追逐的是哪种美好生活，他们都彻底失败了” 2. “那家伙说，客观并不存在，而法律解释是主观的”“没错，那是什么意思，我们没法相信司法系统吗？” 3. “如果你想要干净的尿液，就别再自甘堕落，自己去尿干净的” 4. “不然他能去哪？从2007年起他一直没工作” 5. “你总是有理由，永远都是别人的错，总有一天你得自己负起责任” 6. “他一无所有的来到这里，他必须自己找出路”

What wrenched my heart is that because he eventually made it that his story can be known to people. If he didn’t, that would be a whole new story for him, but the same old story for people who share similar background with him and who is probably repeating their parents’, their great-parents’, their great-great-parents’ way of life. He could become one of them if his grandma did not buy the calculator for him; if he stuck with the clan of teenager who did nothing but misbehavior and vandalism; if he did not have his grandma on his back. A slight deflection could do him wrong and will never pull him back. The gravity in a place as small as Hillbilly, in a family as messy as his is just too heavy to escape from. If you successfully escaped from them, you’re lucky and gifted; if you can’t, no blame can be placed on you because no one would blame on the gravity for gainsaying our possibility to fly.

I can absolutely resonate with him because we share similar background even though we are from different side of the world. I got very emotional seeing him being helpless when he didn’t know the right order of forks and knives on the dinner table so he has to turn to his girlfriend for help. Being one of the best students in the class, not being able to let ourselves to lose control, having parents who attach importance to our education, we are one of the luckiest among our peers. Some of them already deflected from the normal path and stumbled into debauchery or hellish life, while we’re still lucky enough to see a bigger world, or at least have the chance to see to bigger world.

You could say it’s a typical American style chicken soup story. A happy ending probably already has enough to say about its inherently chicken-soupish style, I still gladly take this chicken soup as a special treat tailored for me and people like me or him, JD Vance.

Hopefully for everyone alike, for everyone who is currently struggling, this will turn out to be a eulogy in the end.

所以那些说电影为啥不表现男主个人努力摆脱家庭影响的，人家根本就没打算拍这个啊。一开始耶鲁实习晚宴上合伙人也是这么认为的，结果不是被男主喷了么？

电影（以及原著）想要表达的是，乡下人虽然有各种各样的问题，但是一家人就是要整整齐齐，相互扶持。男主在原著里说自己能上耶鲁完全是运气，其他人只是不知道有这条路可以走而已。本来原著就不是多么抓马的一本书，改成电影当然要加点戏剧冲突，所以才被误认为是一个美国梦的故事。

主要看点就是Amy Adams和Glenn Close飙戏。尽管我吸毒精神病早当妈但我是个好妈妈/好外婆，红脖子的保守价值代代相传，这样。老话说幸福的家庭大致相似，不幸的家庭各有不同。去工业化导致的贫困不会放过任何肤色的底层，但是美国的政治现实不管左右都在往身份政治方向引，更深层的经济社会政治问题只能是视而不见。

锈带的房屋虽然破破烂烂，但草还是很绿的呀！