现在是北京时间的晚上9点一刻。我还坐在办公室里,看着华灯初上的北京,星星点点,万家灯火。 好几年前,我在北京的大学读书。记得很清楚,路过一个办信用卡的小摊子,一群中年大妈围在那里办卡,其实他们需要办信用卡,都是想要信用卡的赠品,色彩鲜艳却是免费的小垫子。那时侯我才17岁,敏感的纯洁的少女的心,咯噔一下被刺痛,自己写在日记里说,我永远都不要变成那样的人。那时侯的我,自尊姿态看的比什么都重要。 It's Been Rough On Her Age。 是的,在我那个年纪来说去理解这个世界的确有点难。 电影里,每个人都是那么难。 两姐妹,互相掐架,互相斗气,互相不肯对彼此态度温柔一点。姐姐漂亮性感,總是惡言相向,說話毫不客氣。卻也偷跑去別人的店裡,看看那個女人是怎麼贏得喜歡的人的心。妹妹木訥不動社交,年紀漸漸長大卻從沒約會過。試過一次,卻因為頭髮顏色和別人爭執。對祖母卻盡心盡力,只是因為她覺得那是唯一不多的親人。 中年男人形容和自己生活在一起10几年的妻子时,只是用partner。睡觉的伙伴,生活的伙伴,生意工作的伙伴,抚养孩子的伙伴。早就没有爱的存在。他后来形容自己的出轨说道,也许这是对的,对我的婚姻有帮助。生活对他来说不是有多糟糕,只是总是个什么时候他觉得很难。 中年女人对自己的职业感到羞耻,她无法忍受廉价收购过世人的遗物,用高昂的价格转手卖给客人。并且形容自己的店,是有品味的精選古董傢具店。她對處在叛逆期的女兒不知道如何相處和愛,卻願意對街邊那些流浪的貧窮人兒施捨金錢。換得一點點的安慰和自我釋放。 15歲的女兒,說話完全沒有禮貌。也許我從那個年齡過來,我更明白青春期也許只是想要一次任性,一次無法無天,一次無理取鬧,一次不負責任。可是,敏感的小女兒看到父親出軌,卻不想拆穿,把心事放在心底,默默轉過身去。 生活好像在每個階段都是有點難。 我以為高中畢業,我可以離開那些冷漠的老師,開始我喜歡的自由自在的大學生活。卻不知道後面有甚麼在等我。 我以為大學畢業,我有能力獨立自主去尋找我的夢想做我喜歡的事情了,卻不知道原來現實其實並不如次美麗。 我看到小女兒和媽媽吵架,兩個人互相傷害。我們或許想要的只是一次任性的機會。不要講道理,不要問原因,讓我們任性一次。 任性的傷害別人,傷害自己。不顧及自尊面子,和母親一樣在廁所哭泣,和中年男人一樣出軌一次,和姐姐一樣固執的看個究竟,和妹妹一樣有一個吻,和小女兒一樣在媽媽的懷裡哭一次。 Please give, give us a chance being ridiculous, being silly, beiing unreasonable, being weak, all the reason I wanna you to see is because I am not afraid being those me in front of you, because we are close, we are special, because we love each other.
NYC, present day, Kate (Keener) and her husband Alex (Platt) run a modern furniture shop, and have bought the adjacent apartment of theirs, but can only have it after the current occupant, the cantankerous 91-year-old Andra (Guilbert) dies, considering her long-in-the-tooth age, the wait shouldn’t be too long.
Acquiring their accessions with a fairly low price from the next-of-kins of the recently deceased, and then flip them for a much higher price tag in their boutique shop, Kate has become growingly flustered by guilt germinated from their pecuniary profiteering, and to allay which, she is more than willing to dish out small cash (even a 20$ note when she is in the mood) to panhandlers in the neighborhood (sometimes it is embarrassingly backfires), and seeks out some voluntary works for those who are considerably less fortunate than her. But how does it work? scenester filmmaker Holofcener’s PLEASE GIVE, her fourth feature, wrestles with this question in a brutally honest manner that it is almost touching in the end, when Abby (Steele), Kate and Alex’s zit-afflicted teenage daughter can finally have a pair of jeans she craves for, all thanks to Kate’s lofty gesture of shelling out 200$.
While Kate’s problem is chiefly, her paternalistic attitude of rearing her daughter, and a bleeding heart disposition that undermines her philanthropic resolution (she cannot turn off the waterworks when facing with disabled children, and geriatric duty is left with a loose end), and Keener is a fathomless wellspring of naturalistic demeanor, pitch-perfect affect within a wide compass of emotion; Alex is otherwise simply lumped as a complacent husband who is not above to frolic with some low-hanging fruit, but Platt’s nigh-to-zero sex appeal fails to make the affair feel authentic.
On the other side of the spectrum, there are Mary (an acerbic Peet goes for the kill) and Rebecca (Hall, wondrously expressive in her more underplayed, emotive modus operandi), the granddaughters of Andra and her caretakers, both single and fancy-free, the former is a cold-heartedly blunt hypocrite (she will not admit her radiant tan is achieved from a sun-bed, but has no hesitation to be catty about everyone else’s peccadillos) and the latter is a self-effacing and warmhearted angel, but guess which one does Abby find as a cool role model to emulate? The sharp irony and unsentimental rumination are Holofcener’s claims to fame, and PLEASE GIVE is illuminating in alerting us to inspect our own contradictory behavior patterns, for that effect alone, Holofcener’s sensibility and intellect should be drawn onto a bigger scope to shine and dazzle.
referential entries: Holofcener’s ENOUGH SAID (2013, 6.9/10); Yaron Zilberman’s A LATE QUATET (2012, 6.7/10).
生活就是如此,总是能从影片中找到一写共鸣
挺感人的
不太喜欢女导演的作品,拍出来的故事都太温了,看着入不了戏。
15岁时你开始沙沙比比在意自己穿什么以为谁会系的看你一眼,35岁你把钱给别人买衣服以为人家会感激,75岁你不舍得穿新衣服非要留到特殊场合以为还会有那一天,人这一生,so sad
我觉得一般,剧情不是很给力
是同情心泛滥还是罪恶感过甚,都只为了寻觅内心的宁静。
又是那种温馨的小东西,算不上沉闷,可以拿来放松。
充滿了十足的紐約氛圍,但和「電子情書」編導諾拉艾芙蓉那種充滿浪漫情懷的手法不同,霍洛夫仙納不斷以犀利的對話和情節,呈現她觀察之下的紐約人。片中的每個角色都各自在自己的生命中給予或學會給予的真諦,其實給予就是一種獲得的方式,但獲得的並不是物質上的虛無,而是心靈中的滿足。
请给予生活还要继续
很温情
都市生活电影,剧情如果能更深一层次更好
生活就是一记闷拳,无论多漂亮的脸蛋也都得挨完了继续,要么继续笑,要么继续哭。
平平淡淡,平凡的才是真实的。
一直就觉得这个女导演比较无趣,而且对生活太过刻薄。而且在感情上,很多东西都没有过度和转折,完全依靠剧情的转换,所以很生硬
非常棒 完全超越了当年好评一片的《鱿鱼和鲸》,还有就是导演的音乐品味非常出色
可以
一部女性电影,情节流畅,演技也不错,但总感觉缺了点什么。
感觉很温暖
现代都市人的生活缩影,为了什么而活,我们要想明白。能挖掘得再深一层就更棒了
很有感触,就在身边人的故事,真实的很无奈