大象的眼泪（粤语版）

电影作为一个整体来讲，摄影和剪辑上并没有什么不满意。
男主女主实在是雷的⋯⋯
一个cornel毕业的男一考毕业考试之前父母出车祸挂了
这位亲灰心丧气对生活失去意义所以毕业考也不考了，准备去城里找工作
（时逢美国depression）然后半路随便地上了一辆火车，发现是一个马戏团
于是觉得马戏团也挺好，抱着兽医未完的学位开始在马戏团里面整理粪便
自然就遇到了马戏团团长丰艳美丽的老婆，就是我们的女一。
最初让女一对男一改变印象的是，马戏团里面的主要表演马匹腿受伤了，马戏团长认为它还可以再跑个表演，男主以一句“he's suffering”的理由，拿枪把马给枪.毙了，由此给女一一个“你好善良哟亲”的印象。
枪阿！别人拿来当命根子的马阿！！一火车人的生机都靠它的马阿！！！就这么毙了阿！毙完以后还一副百莲花样子阿！
好吧你爱动物你是好兽医，后来马戏团没有主要表演，缺钱只能把成员扔下火车。
男主那个愤恨哟那个圣母哟怎么能不养你的成员哟??TMD是谁把赚钱的马给枪毙了阿！
马没了马戏团长就去买了个大象，为此欠了一屁股债。
团长让男主去训练大象，男主就走到大象面前“你走把亲”“亲你动动吧哟亲”。。。
马戏团长就拿起训练动物的棍子打了大象几下大象才走了，女一立马就拿愤怒地眼神看着她老公
它自己不走你劝劝他阿亲！多疏通疏通它就听话了阿亲！聊天是跟马戏团动物沟通的重要条件阿亲！不能打阿！给差评阿！
然后又热爱跟动物聊天又唯唯诺诺连喂动物都不会的男主，形象在女一心目中就高大起来了有木有！
两个人就搞到一起了阿，趁着马戏团长请客的时候去拿香槟的功夫就搞上了阿！
事后女主一副“当作神马都没有发生”的样子拍拍屁股就去跟马戏团长滚床单了阿！宝贝儿我不怪你打大象了我原谅你了阿！
后来又经过一段训练大象赚钱马戏团发展蒸蒸日上后，马戏团长终于发现自己老婆跟兽医有暧昧了阿
他就把兽医打了一顿阿，不行阿！兽医打不得阿！打了就得跑阿咱不负担这个责任继续待了！
跑之前还把女一带走了阿！带走得当晚还在马戏团长的势力范围，俩人不管不顾阿！就H了一晚上阿！
睡觉到天亮马戏团长就找到了阿，把男主又打了一顿把自己明媒正娶的老婆带走了阿！
男主的金手指就开了阿！主角光环就闪亮了阿！他徒步追上了火车又爬上去了没有人看到阿！！！！
最后在一场马戏团表演期间男主的基友们把动物们都放出来了阿！表演的和观看的都给踩了扑了阿！
但是这些都不重要阿，重要的是男主得把女主从她老公的魔掌里面救出来阿于是他就英勇地指使大象，把马戏团长瀑头了阿！
从此姧夫和淫妇过上了美好而幸福的生活哟！还生了五个孩子阿！！！！！
谁来告诉我这个三观是正确的世界是美好的只是我太瀑躁T口T！

Tony promised a surprise to me if I was able to apply for 20 new jobs within two days. While I failed to hit the goal at the end of the day, with the submission of only 15 new jobs, my sweet Mr. Hairball decided to deliver the surprise as he was convinced that I have been making a real effort in order to accomplish that difficult task.

The prize came out to be a beautiful movie called "Water for Elephants" at Scotiabank Theater, starred by Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz. It was not among the movies that could give you an easy and amusing time on a Sunday night, but belonged to the category of movies that would truly help you think and feel. The story was about a veterinary student, Jacob, abandoned his studies after his parents were killed and joined a traveling circus as their vet. There he met the girl of his dream, Marlena, who was also the wife of his boss August. They fell in love while taking care of the new star attraction of the circus: a smart baby elephant. With overwhelming love for each other and inconceivable courage toward better future, they were able to defeat the brutality of August and the cruelty of the times.

I think the movie has chosen a very good perspective to tell the story, for the reason that a circus is always a place full of ironies. It supposed to be a place that brings out the most amounts of true joys, but it was actually with tremendous hardship and tragedies underneath. It looks like a place full of intra-species love and communication, but it was actually dominated by wildness and manipulations. After all, a circus show was just another lucrative delusion of joys, a typical bloody business as many of the others in the historical period of Mid-20-century America. While Jacob, on the other hand, who served as a representative of the scarcely existed humanities during that era, has made every effort to struggle for true love and true cares. The reward for him was a girl of his dream and an immortal life story to be shared with his deeply touched audience.

I was very happy to find Tony loved the movie all the same, although I am pretty sure that he could have some unshared feelings about it from a different angle due to his previous experiences. For that, I would like to respect and protect. “What if there was a happy ending for our past tragedies?” This is always a sentimental and magical question to think about. The singularity of the chance to live and the unrepeatableness of time have left us with a limited extent of choices as well as a great legacy of many unfinished yet unable-to-be-finished stories. In my eyes, it never harms to let the stories and pities finished with the help of movies and imagine for the moment about other possibilities of our own lives.

And I have my unleashed thoughts too. “Where were you when I was seventeen?”When Marlena asked Jacob, helplessly yet hopefully, at that dancing party, I could clearly remember similar words coming out of my own mouth in the far-away past. The answer to that question was nothing about where were you exactly when I was seventeen; it was everything about what I am going to do with my already changed demand and feelings for life now. However, a big problem in the real world about that is: the true courage in striving for better future could be looking very similar to the ungrateful boldness to screw up a pretty good life. People need wisdom to tell the difference between the two, otherwise there could be a costly price to pay for simply being romantic. For example, in the movie I totally understood Jacob’s affections for Marlena and I completely caught Marlena’s internal unsatisfaction in her marriage with August, yet I pretty doubt about how would Marlena immediately feel after August’s death. August was her husband. He was the right person for her to meet when she was seventeen. He was a super evil for everyone else in the world except for her. As an audience, I feel delighted for Marlena and Jacob’s living happily ever after. But did August deserve such an applauded betrayal and demise as that?

Love is truly beautiful, but love is also selfish. There is hardly right-or-wrong answer in any love story. It is touchy as long as it is real. - Once again ironically, these words came from someone who was somehow hurt by the love story that I am enjoying right now. I am always trying to feel, what exactly did Jacob see in that 1939 picture of the Winnie Brothers’ Circus Show at the very beginning of the movie? Cherished memory of his passed wife, grateful appreciation toward his own life, mixed feelings for his long-dead friend and enemy August? Despite all the complexity and ambiguity in his feelings, interestingly, that feeling reaches the bottom of our hearts and became something that we are all yearning for at the end of the day. When Tony and I, hand-in-hand, came off as the last two persons who walked out of the cinema that night, I could not help thinking about one simple question: if there is ever any audience for our own life, would they enjoy the show as much as we just did?

Jessica
May 16 2011

       大象的眼泪是看完战马之后才看的第二个有关动物的电影。我一直以为自己把动物看成是有生命的东西，而和人类一样，如果你和他不亲的话没法跟她交流或产生感情，我不会像其他人似的人家抱自己的孩子的时候觉得可爱而去摸摸那个孩子，也不会像其他人似的看到流浪狗就把她带回家，我会觉得流浪这就是他的天命。
    但是最近看这些电影，真的不得不佩服这些导演，是这些导演能够唤起我对动物的爱，或许在未来我不会因为觉得可爱而去养他们、宠他们，但是我以后看到他们就会尊重，我会认同有些动物骄傲的有些人没有资格把它像宠物似的对待。
    就像《大象的眼泪》的大象的骄傲是天生的、并不是像有些人类似的当他拥有物质财富之前在他人面前什么都做什么都抛弃，当有一天他有了一定的财富之后突然意识到高贵这个问题，之后才以高贵来伪装自己。这就像是马戏团的总监奥古斯丁（August），虽然他是这些动物的主人，但当大象抬脚的时候他还是说了“请你抬腿”。
   有些动物的骄傲、高贵就在这里，而这些东西是天生的，有些人有些物就不值得拥有这些，他们伪装的高贵面对真正的高贵的时候显得可笑而又卑鄙。。
   

我始终不明白男猪好看在哪了，到底有多少人觉得他帅，好吧这个可以不作为重点
但是剧情也拍得太。。。。。
不够连贯，莫名其妙的男女主就火花四射了
给个前因后果嘛
爱护动物嘛，女人感性也就算了
一个有点大脑的人，在面对吃饭和宠物的时候
人性求生的欲望都是至上的
我想要另外的生命一样活的体面
可是前提是我也可以体面的或者
在我死与他死的选择中，选择我死永远是不合逻辑的（当然在大多数情况下，求死的不算）
所以男猪的爱心泛滥实在不让人觉得他有多高尚
反倒是女猪显得更加理智，当然可能年龄上也是比较成熟的
这部片子，叙述手法的无新意不是最大的缺点，因为倒叙虽然被很多经典电影采用，毕竟叙事的方法不过那三种。
但是情节上的糙实在不能接受
好吧，那只是一个时代，代表一个时代，但是那个时代可以赋予更多的内涵，而电影没有表现出来

某一個休假的日子，因為無戲可看就選了這部片子打發時間，可是非常悲劇的是，這片子的劇情從一開始就毫無懸念，好像教科書式的平鋪直敘，難怪影評中有人要求退還票錢。

劇情的中規中矩是本戲的重大硬傷，如果說十幾年前的觀眾可能對馬戲團的獅子大象還充滿新奇，那麼現在的觀眾早就不會為這些景象而震撼了。人與動物的感情，男女主角的愛情也毫無特別之處，甚至是有不少漏洞的，於是基本沒有一處是叫人看得感動的。此刻加上偏偏男女主角演技也平平，吸血鬼的氣質完全沒有改變，依舊是喜怒哀樂一個表情。實在是很難忍耐的一個多小時，甚至光聽老者講故事也許還有趣過看影片本身，憑感覺也應該是小說本身更有看頭。

固然因為時限，電影只能在兩小時內說完一個人的人生，但是刪減的雖多，卻不應該使得感情也被刪節。記得以前拍片有人給我意見，說電影的魅力就在於觀眾一直感覺有事要發生但是卻一直沒有發生，通過各種技巧吊住觀眾的胃口，那麼到最後大家才會覺得這個故事有趣。當然這個看法也不儘然，但是如果再一開始就讓人猜到了大致走向和結局，那麼即使畫面再華麗觀眾依然會在電影院昏昏欲睡。

故事本事好故事，只可惜講故事的方式太過老套，使得本來該有的觸動人心都成了枯燥無味。

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