鳄鱼波鞋走天涯

【08:39】
DEXTER
They ended up giving me two pints of blood. I guess that‘s a lot for a baby.

ERIK
My grandmother says you’re going to hell. She says you'll suffer eternal torture from a billion flames hotter than the center of the sun.

DEXTER
Then she must be some kind of genius.

ERIK
What?

DEXTER
Well, my doctor is really smart. And he says he has no idea what happens to people after they die. If your grandmother knows, she must be a genius.

ERIK
She's a clerk at K-Mart.

DEXTER
Maybe she's just an under-achiever.

ERIK
No, she's an idiot.

DEXTER
So maybe I won't go to hell after all.




【16:10】
ERIK
Hey, what about your little brother, huh?

BOY #1
What about him?

ERIK
When he fell off the jungle gym at school. They had to take him to the hospital. He could have caught something then.

BOY #2
Yeah, but he didn't.

ERIK
But he could've. Then everybody'd be calling him faggot and queer! And he d get sick and die! And they'd write "homo" on his headstone! Then when your mother went to bring him flowers she'd see little "Eddie Horner Homo"! And you know what the worst part about it would be? Probably before he died a bunch of assholes like you who ain't sick thought it might be fun to just beat the shit out of him!

BOY #3
C'mon Allen, let s beat it.

BOY #1
Sorry your sick.

DEXTER
Thanks.



【23:45】
ERIK
Uh, are you gonna finish that?

DEXTER
Oh...um...

DEXTER'S MOTHER
Uh, well, the doctors say it's completely safe, Erik, but when it comes to other people's children, we've decided, um, not to take any chances.

ERIK
Forgot. I've got a plan. Just as soon as they find a cure, we re heading out to Baskin Robbins and order one of those monster sundaes where everybody just digs right in!

DEXTER'S MOTHER
That's a good plan. Excuse me.

ERIK
What is it?

DEXTER
She's afraid that they might not find a cure in time.



【27:18】
ERIK
Let's try Butterfinger combined with Bubblicious.

DEXTER
I'm not so sure I understand why you can try all of this stuff, too.

ERIK
Don't you know anything about scientific method?

DEXTER
A little.

ERIK
Well, you have to have a control group, so you can see if the results are uniform.

DEXTER
Are you the control group?

ERIK
Yep.



【29:23】
DEXTER
I'm wondering about something. Where do bugs go to the bathroom?

ERIK
It's not on leaves.

DEXTER
 How can you be sure?

ERIK
Because bugs eat leaves. Not even bugs are stupid enough to shit on their own food. Well, what do you say?





【30:06】
DEXTER
Hmm...Oh...Tastes like crap!

ERIK
No shit. Don't you know where bugs go to the bathroom?

(Erik adds sugar to the medicine ).

DEXTER
Sweetened crap.





【43:05】

DEXTER
(In a letter to his mother)
"Dear Mom, I've gone with Erik. But I've brought along my medicine so there's no reason to worry. We plan to be careful and sensible. Whatever you do, remember to tape Starwars, eight p.m., channel five. I love you very much. Sincerely, Dexter."


【两个人坐着轮胎扎的划艇顺水而下的一段太美了><】

【53:26】
DEXTER
What's your name?

ANGEL
Angel.

DEXTER
You misspelled your tattoo. It doesn't say Angel it says Angle.

ANGEL
Uh, I m aware of that now.



【57:06】
ERIK
Were you having a nightmare or something?

DEXTER
No.

ERIK
What's the matter?

DEXTER
It happens sometimes. When I wake up and it s dark. Astronomers believe that the universe is 18 billion light years across.

ERIK
So?

DEXTER
Suppose you kept going another 18 billion light years. What if there's nothing out there? Suppose you kept going another trillion times further. So far out you see nothing. Because the light from the universe would be fainter than the faintest star. Infinitely cold. Infinitely black. Sometimes, if I wake up, and it's dark, I get really scared. Like I'm out there. And I'm never coming back.

ERIK
Here

(gives Dexter his shoe)
                   
Hold on to this while you sleep. And if you wake up and you're scared, you'll say, Wait a minute. I m holding Erik's shoe. Why the hell would I be holding some smelly basketball shoe a trillion light years from the universe? I must be here on earth safe in my sleeping bag, and Erik must be close by.

DEXTER
Guess it s worth a try.




【01:09:24】
ERIK
You cold?
(Checks to see if Dexter has a fever).

DEXTER
No.

ERIK
What's the matter?

DEXTER
My blood is poison.

ERIK
You have a virus, Dex. You're gonna be exactly like everyone else as long as someone finds the cure.



【01:04:48】

ERIK
(Crying)
I was just talking to him and he stopped....he's dead.
                        
NURSE #1
I'm sorry honey. I guess we all knew this was coming.

ERIK
No!

(Dexter wakes up and screams, scaring the nurses.)

NURSE #2
Not funny! Not even a little bit!

DEXTER
Guess we all knew this was coming.




【01:06:51】

ERIK
He knows he's dying.

DR. JENSEN
What?

ERIK
We tricked the nurses into thinking that he was dead and Nurse Murphy said that everyone knew it was coming.

DR. JENSEN
So you tricked 'em?

ERIK
Well, we pretended that Dexter stopped breathing and he jumped up and screamed and scared them.

DR. JENSEN
She must have hit the roof.

ERIK
Yeah! Dexter laughed his ass off!

DR. JENSEN
Well, that s what happened to it. I thought he was just on a diet here. Listen, history is full of very sick people who suddenly, for no reason at all, get better. And when it happens we call it a miracle. From the moment I met you I knew that you are special and that you might be one of those people. Yeah. You know I'm telling you the truth, don't you? You can feel that inside, can't you? Just don't let me down, okay? I m counting on you to make me famous!

                           

【01:18:47】
(Dr. Jensen yells at the nurse.)

NURSE
Well the young boy was upset.

DR. JENSEN
Well don't you ever, ever, assume that one of my patients is going to die!





【01:26:31】
ERIK
I'm sorry, too. I should've tried harder.

DEXTER'S MOTHER
Tried what?

ERIK
To find the cure.

DEXTER'S MOTHER
Oh honey. Come here sweetie. You did. You did! Everything that was sad in Dexter's life...you made it go away. Dexter was so happy to have you as his friend. He was so happy.




【01:29:08】

DEXTER'S MOTHER
I want to tell you two things. The first is Erik's best friend died today and he is going to the funeral. And the second is if you ever lay a hand on that boy again I will kill you! Understand?

作为一个电影迷，我不得不承认我是一个冷血而做作的人，极少有电影能让我第一次观看就感动得落泪。想当年陪我妈在电影院看《唐山大地震》，整个剧场哭得稀里哗啦。当走出剧场时，貌似就我一个淡定自若、毫不动容，搞得我妈脸上的液体已分辨不出是泪水还是汗水了。当然这并不代表我真的是一个情感冷淡的观众，实际上，对于我真心喜欢的影片，我是向来不吝惜泪水的，只能说，我对所谓“动情”电影的眼光略显挑剔耳。
迄今为止，在我的印象中，只有两部影片在初次欣赏就深刻地打动了我，一部是在我心中永远奉为“经典中的经典”的《这个杀手不太冷》（Leon），另一部，就是今天刚刚看完的这部《真情世界》（The Cure）。
对于这样一部毫无名气、毫无商业价值的小成本故事片，我们当然不能奢求它有什么辉煌的场景、炫目的特技、靓丽的明星与精湛的演技，它只是一个故事。影片导演所要做的，就是把这个故事讲的自然、讲得动容、讲得让所有人都能接受，那就没什么可以挑剔的了。显然，《真情世界》就是这样一部近乎完美的影片，或者更确切地说，一个完美的故事。
《The Cure》所讲的故事，估计很多学生朋友都有所耳闻，因为我记得在小学的时候，就有一本蛮有名的语文课外读物上，刊登了相关的一篇文字，当时即令我印象深刻。一直到今天，这个相同的故事以影片的形式更直观地呈现在我眼前，不禁又一次打开了我的心扉——
Erik 与Dexter，两个年龄相仿的男孩，同为单身母亲的独子、同样寂寞孤独的心灵、同样渴望自由的梦想，因一座白色的栅栏的分隔，反倒成为了最好的一对朋友。不同的是，Erik高大健康、而Dexter却因为一次输血而罹患艾滋病。天真善良的Erik决定为自己的朋友找到治病的药方，于是异想天开地在河岸边各种野生奇花异草上采集树叶、并煞费苦心地搭配、熬成“药汤”给Dexter尝试，结果惹是生非。尽管身体虚弱，但Dexter仍然喜欢跟着Erik一起去野外冒险，甚至最后Erik带着Dexter离家出走去造访传说中的名医，但一切梦想都随着孩子的单纯而愚昧的努力而事与愿违。
故事的最后就是那个曾经感动无数人的结局：Dexter最终没有逃过病魔的征服，他与Erik计划在医院里两次装死戏耍医生的游戏成功后，第三次终于永远的闭上了眼睛。追悼会后，悲痛、怅惘而又调皮不改的Erik悄悄地在Dexter的双手中间夹了自己的一只破球鞋，因为生前的一个约定：Dexter，当你感到冷的时候，就抱着我的破球鞋，因为只要这只臭脚在，Erik就永远在你身边......
忽然想起了一句充满诗意的歌词："some say love,it is a river, that drowns the tender reed...I say love ,it is a flower, and you its only seed." (From <The Rose>)有的时候，会有一种感觉，你无法用言语去解释，但却感到无比的温暖与幸福，这也许就是最真挚的爱。
还记得Erik奋力推进承载着Dexler的手推车惊险地躲过了街头小混混的穷追与卡车的阻拦，那种奋不顾身保护朋友的勇气令人钦佩；还记得两人坐在大型救生圈漂流在宽广的 MISSISSIPPI、拿着仅有的162美圆搭船追梦的同舟共济；还记得夜宿帐篷时，Erik为流汗不止的Dexter披上自己宽大的衣服御寒的相依为命；还记得半路面对讨钱的恶徒，Dexler毫不犹豫地划开自己的手，任其染有艾滋病毒的血流淌不止而为朋友脱身的坚决......也许外面的世界充满矛盾与阴暗，但Erik与Dexler却用最纯真的友情，缔造了一个单纯而完美的“真情世界”。
不得不说，影片的结局是一个法国式的悲剧：Dexler平静地飞向了天堂。但谁又敢说，Dexler最终没有得到The Cure（药方）呢？Erik的真情为他们带来了无尽的快乐，至少，有Erik的臭球鞋在，Dexler的心灵就不会再有遗憾。
这个Cure究竟是什么？也许就是伟大的爱吧。
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snow
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
In the spring becomes a rose.
如果这就是爱......

电影的片名翻译成《真情世界》，显然不太合适，从字面翻译来说cure可以翻译成治愈或者解药，后者则更多的让人联想起了鲁讯老先生的小说《药》。
影片的第一个镜头是从一双converse帆布鞋开始的，甚至到了第二个场景主角的镜头还是先从帆布鞋开始，这双帆布鞋也贯穿了全片，从鞋子开始，到鞋子结束。事实上这个牌子的帆布鞋的价格相对低廉，而且十分耐穿，所以许多的学生族都可以买得起 ，固converse帆布鞋在一定程度上代表了美国年轻人的精神，其实这就有点类似当时流行全国的回力牌球鞋。影片将这双鞋子赋予了叙说故事的功能，在一定程度上也暗示出这是一部美国式风格的儿童影片。
故事是以一对十多岁的儿童为线索展开的，德克斯特是一个因为受伤输血时以外感染艾滋病的孩子，他不去学校，别的孩子都因为艾滋病而歧视他，但事实上他们对艾滋病却一点也不了解，德克斯特也不与其他的孩子一起玩耍，尽管他希望能够结交同龄的朋友，但他却只能在自家后院那高高的篱笆墙所围成的天空下与特种部队玩具大兵“享受”自己的孤独。
而故事的另外一名主角艾里克也是一个性格比较孤独的孩子，在学校里也被许多伙伴所排斥，还因为他与艾滋病人为邻而羞辱他。
接下来俩邻居就顺理成章的成为了要好的朋友，艾里克带者德克斯特玩各种游戏，进行各种冒险，艾里克并不歧视艾滋病，反而他却积极的寻找艾滋病的治疗办法，于是他便带着德克斯特如同李时珍般在山中采集花草，并且让其亲身尝试，每次试验后的效果都纪录在册，那股认真劲仿佛就是真的李时珍在写《本草纲目》一般，这一段给人的感觉相当温馨。因为一次试验药草的时候，德克斯特中了某种植物的毒，使得德克斯特被送入了医院，这个时候艾里克的母亲也严厉的呵斥艾里克，但主要原因并非艾里克使别人的孩子中毒，而最主要的是她认为艾里克和德克斯特相处容易得艾滋病，这是一个荒谬的想法，而这也恰恰就是当前社会上大多数人的想法，正因为如此德克斯特无法和正常孩子一样去学校，无法得到周围邻居的尊重，等等等等。
随后艾里克带着德克斯特划船到其父亲住的地方，希望可以找到更好的医生来治疗，这让我联想起了马克·吐温的经典代表作品《汤姆·索亚历险记》，旅行中他们遇到了许多的事物，例如他们第一次阅读《花花公子》，第一次看到成熟女性的身体等等，但这种情节的设置，总让人感觉有点不那么自然，因为本片在没有特别细腻的描写出青少年日渐成熟的心理状态，很久以前有一部片叫《情定落日桥》（little romance)，讲述的就是14,15岁的一对小恋人，整部片对少年的内心的成长刻画得相当出色，而本片却忽视了重要的心里成熟这个过程，这一点上让我比较不太满意，因为如果一部电影要能给观众留下深刻的印象，就需要使观众在片中的人物里找到自己的影子，例如《站台》，《阳光灿烂的日子》，《菊次郎的夏天》……相信大部分观众是因为多多少少可以在片中找到自己的影子才喜欢这些电影的。而片中的少年经历了如此多的事情，却不见到多少成熟的迹象，实在说不过去。
 经历了一连串的冒险后，他们最后还是回到了家，而德克斯特则因为病情加重而住进了医院中，在医院里，他们和医生开起了“狼来了”的玩笑，其中一位护士被骗后十分生气的说出了“你迟早会死”诸如此类的话，一切美好的期望都被这句现实的话打破了，他们俩似乎都知道了最后不可抗拒的结果。在最后一次“狼来了”的玩笑中，德克斯特再也没有醒过来，一个十分戏剧化的结局，没有什么急救场面，没有死前过分的煽情或者交不完的党费，就这样，德克斯特在游戏中离开了这个世界。
可惜这部片是像冲过很多次的茶水一般，味道是有些许，但却一点也不能让人回味。

看了两遍真情世界，眼泪开始模糊视线，心里也难受极了。
好早以前就听说过这个电影。那是在听小风直播室的时候，叶沙最喜欢的电影。但因为叶沙把电影名字说错了，害的我到了如今才真正看了这部电影。
电影里，一个平日里缺乏关爱，被同学讥讽的男孩和一个身患艾滋病孤独无助的男孩偶然相识。起初只是相隔后院的围墙，后来双方通过彼此交流打开了屏障，成了最最要好的朋友。大男孩带着小男孩采药，买糖，甚至擅作主张得去远方寻找药方。
最最感人的是，当德科斯特在半夜里醒来时，说自己害怕那空洞的黑暗，仿佛来到了宇宙之外的某个阴冷的地方，再也不会回来时，艾瑞克递给他一只自己的脏兮兮的匡威鞋，说“想想我都捧着艾瑞克臭烘烘的脏鞋了，肯定不会去很远的地方，艾瑞克肯定在我身边。”
后来，德科斯特死了，艾瑞克并没有伤心的大哭，他只是平静的面对着一切，并在最后脱下了自己的一只鞋子，留在德科斯特身旁，而自己偷偷拿走了德科斯特的鞋子，来到他们最长玩耍的地方，任鞋子随着水流飘向远方。 艾瑞克笑了，那么的美丽，他一定觉得“这下你小子就不用老带在医院里啦，你可以去看看世界是什么样的。”
看完电影总觉得有点伤感！ 我一再问自己，为什么在我的生活里没有想艾瑞克一样的朋友。我是那么的羡慕德科斯特，即使他有艾滋病，因为他有一个那么好的朋友，带着自己玩耍，冒险，一起做这辈子本是奢望却做不到的事情。我真的只宁愿有这么一位朋友，一个就已足够了。但我的生活里没有这样的人出现。
真的是越长大，人心越混沌，就越把自己的内心世界包裹起来，不让别人看到。我想现在已经很少有人能够心对心的与彼此交流了，就连无比向往的我都做不到。 我希望有一天我能有这样的一位朋友。一定会有的，只要彼此敞开心扉。
最后说说Brad Renfro吧，这么美丽，这么精致的男孩，想不到日后会死在毒品的魔爪里，太可惜了。