触礁2020

说来就来的中年危机——《触礁》

今天聊聊电影《触礁》。

片名On the Rocks(2020)，别名岩石上。

世上的爸爸都疼爱女儿，一直都将自己的女儿当做小公主看待，而且都希望一直这么宠爱下去。替孩子吃苦、替孩子趟雷更是义不容辞不在话下，毕竟这都是写在基因里的祖传本能。

《触礁》里就有这样一位老爹，哪怕自己已是白发苍苍，也要以身作则，把自己当年犯过的错趟过的雷都传授给女儿，防止孩子吃亏受骗。

故事里的劳拉是一名家庭主妇兼作家，每天在家带着两个娃上学，还要向出版社供稿小说。

劳拉的老公迪恩是一名事业刚刚起步的商务人士，每天职场奔波疲惫不堪，但在仅有的休息时间内对家庭还是很上心。

劳拉的老爹费利克斯是一名退休富商，退休后闲来无事，开始找小棉袄唠嗑逛街玩。

费利克斯本人是一位风流成性、四处留情的纨绔子弟，年轻时丝毫不避讳自己的出轨事迹，还为自己到处沾花惹草找了不少理由。

资深出轨专业户费利克斯嗅到女儿有一点儿不开心，于是以己度人，开始向女儿灌输丈夫出轨的思想。

费利克斯打着大男子主义旗号，将自己出轨上升到物种起源、种族延续的高度，同时又极度双标，将疑似出轨的女婿钉在耻辱柱上，私家侦探、亲自盯梢无所不用。

原本十分爱丈夫的劳拉，在老爹亲身示范下开始动摇，渐渐相信了费利克斯的歪理邪说。毕竟男人最懂男人，尤其是一个满脑子骚操作的资深出轨者。

劳拉在老爹的怂恿和陪伴下，开始了私家侦探一般的生活。两人试图通过蛛丝马迹抓到迪恩的把柄。

在这场闹剧中，夹杂了男人、女人都存在的中年危机。女方因为长期生活在家庭和学校之间，渐渐感觉失去了对生活、对丈夫的掌控。男方则忙于事业，疏于与妻子交心交流。两人还要共同面对来自方方面面的生活压力，喘口气都觉得很难。

就这样，中年危机的人们在一点点想象中的缺口中看到了改变的机会。仿佛一夜之间，出轨成了打破平静生活的奇点。一场看似啼笑皆非的闹剧就此上演。

故事最终如何收场留给观众自行观看。

总体来说，《触礁》故事比较普通。影片采取了一个较为温情的方式讨论了父女关系、夫妻关系。伴随着戏剧性冲突，当事人找到了一种比较合适的解决方案。劳拉个人意志还不够坚定，又有点儿得陇望蜀，被老爹忽悠忽悠就上了说走就走的贼船。

影片用大量笔墨描绘劳拉的心理过程，如果观众能够感同身受的话，那么大概率也遇到过类似问题。内心的焦躁不安根源还是对生活充满了恐惧和无力，仿佛一切都在失控边缘。《触礁》给出了一个颇为积极的解决方案，放心大胆的相信对方，相互提供一个港湾，结局总会很美好。

就演员们的表现来看，《触礁》是依靠比尔·默瑞撑起来的一部影片。他一出场就自带笑果，举手投足之间尽显渣男本色。

并不讨喜的角色费利克斯经过比尔·默瑞的演绎，反而变得招人喜欢，甚至他那些胡说八道的歪理邪说，观众们也能不由得点头赞同。这就是演员本身的魅力。

片中有一段一段小插曲十分有趣，果真是老美社会的真实写照。

白人父女在街头闯红灯被警察拦下，老油条父亲靠着套套近乎就能让美国膝下有黄金的警察化身人民警察，帮忙推车，招收送行。

想象一下，如果是黑人开着汽车被拦下，《触礁》的故事基本就是另一个样子了。

说来就来的中年危机，

说走就走的抓包之旅。

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Are we returning to another inane plotline of a picture-perfect bourgeois family (in NYC, which elevates the notion to its own standard) safe sailing through a marital misunderstanding? And the WOMAN has to apologize for her suspicion to save the marriage? I thought Sofia could do better and offer something deeper than just the young, affluent couple in their Soho apartment with their beautiful caramel-colored kids. The characters all felt a bit forced and cliched, which ultimately leads to their untrustworthy presence and our failed sympathy for the marriage's potential imploding. I felt so silly for even thinking that there would be a milestone in mending the father-daughter relationship. The proof that Dean has not been cheating is enough proof for Laura to bark back at her dad for putting ideas in her head? Please, her guts tell her the same, at least own the truth and ask your husband

1) Why did you give me fancy cookware as a birthday gift (even if it is part of a joke)?

2) Why do you keep asking how's the writing going as if you would like a progress report?

Here is some food for thought - If Dean has been perfectly innocent and such a model husband to provide for the family, then why did he delete all of Fiona's texts?

1、作为一个特别喜欢《迷失东京》的影迷，我对索菲亚·科波拉的新片《触礁》非常失望。也许是观影前期待过高，影片结束时我一脸震惊，“这就完了！？”

2、尽管这部影片远谈不上优秀，却也不算难看，起码把故事讲明白了，且不乏一些有趣的段落。然而，因为本片的编导是索菲亚，所以对于我来说，这部电影和它的片名一样，触礁了。

3、《迷失东京》探讨了年轻人对爱情、婚姻和人生的迷茫，情感细腻、真诚，非常动人。而《触礁》呢，无趣、浅薄、庸俗，它最大的问题就是缺乏真诚，缺乏直面真正的生活和人生的勇气。对一个真正的电影人而言，这是致命的。

4、幸好还有比尔·莫瑞，他风趣幽默的个人魅力以及出神入化的演技拯救了这部电影。 唉，失望！

First thing first, let me finally get it off my chest, what has on earth happened to Oscar-nominated director Sofia Coppola’s once-rosy career? After contentiously copping Venice’s Golden Lion with SOMEWHERE (2010), a film many finds meritless of such honor, her subsequent offers are met with muted reception at best, even Cannes’ BEST DIRECTOR trophy for THE BEGUILED (2017) doesn’t amount to nothing. Now her seventh feature ON THE ROCKS arrives, reunited with Bill Murray, and further surveys the “father issue” extended from SOMEWHERE, does that bode well?

Unfortunately, the movie will not alter much of her stagnated status quo, it is well-shot (those landscape and cityscape shots are too enthralling for the movie's tepid story), but the whole fuss about a woman’s suspicion of her husband’s infidelity unfolds without any modicum of novelty. Rashida Jones plays Laura Keane, wife of Dean (Wayans), an entrepreneurial upstart, they have two young girls and Laura is cornily stuck in a writer’s block, as her time is chiefly allotted to child-rearing, while Dean frequently hops on business trips as the high-flying breadwinner.

Reaching 40, Laura becomes insecure of her sex appeal and suspects Dean is having an affair with his younger, voluptuous co-worker Fiona (Henwick), unwisely, instead of leveling with her significant other of her sixth sense-driven conjuncture (that would end the movie in 2 minutes), she resorts to the counsel from her father Felix (Murray), a hardened playboy, who left her mother years ago and cast unsolved scars in its aftermath. So the initial cutesy father-daughter binding episodes soon devolve into the dual play of Felix’s faintly haughty mansplaining and Laura’s incessant self-denial with a mild protestation of vexation, which will tediously run out of stream down the line.

The rub is, neither Laura or Felix is an interesting character to begin with, which comes quite a shock to Yours Truly, because Coppola used to be rather adroit in molding her characters with nuances and niceties. But here, all three chief players are showered in the pervasive uppity New York chic, which cannot abate the triteness derived from the facts that they are so clichéd and oblivious from the rest of the world, for instance, Laura cannot even sustain small talk with an elderly woman in a posh party she attends with Felix, and can barely bear with a fellow quibbling mother (Slate).

When Laura finally gives Felix a piece of her mind, Jones acts more like a galled baby than a disaffected, long-suffered sophisticate Laura is designed to be, she is fighting a losing battle before she can finish her sentences, and Murray’s resigned response “why aren’t you funny anymore?” is even more grating, paternalism dies hard, to Felix, a daughter’s paramount asset is fun-inducing, and Murray is in excellent form, unfazed, debonair, persistently gets his own way, though his grand deportment is critically undercut by Felix's repugnant characterization.

Laura never stands a chance to better herself as an independent individual, in the end, she is just passed from one man to another, with the symbolic watch switch, that message doesn’t quite swim with our current tide of woman-empowerment. Sofia, being a female and a member of the Coppola Dynasty, has been wearing a Teflon armor for too long, and the “father issue” she tries to come to terms with is more personal and regressive than we can give its credits for. Since many other budding women directors are finally thick on the ground, perhaps it is high time that we look elsewhere for the next auteur-to-be from the distaff side.

referential entries: Coppola’s SOMEWHERE (2010, 6.6/10); LOST IN TRANSLATION (2003, 8.8/10).

不管电影的结局如何编排，我认为迪恩出轨了。

劳拉是一位作家，她写作，出过书，正在为另一本竭尽心力。劳拉说自己之所以怀疑迪恩是因为写不出东西状态不好，说的这么卑微真让人心疼，状态不好难道不是因为老公疑似出轨导致的吗？

在父亲眼里，劳拉是一个有着独立人格的女人，他为她感到骄傲，不忍看她受困，觉得她应该掌握主动，自己决定自己的命运。在寻找真相的过程中，两人度过了很愉快的时光。

可以对比一下父女两吃饭时场景和夫妻两吃饭时的场景，前者我想看他们继续聊下去，后者……如果迪恩不是每次都借故闪人，我也差不多得按快进了。

迪恩不是傻子，但每次面对妻子虽未明说但却是在怀疑的时候都表现出天真和懵懂，好像他把不忠及其周边通通避屏在了思虑之外。

虽然迪恩不擅长处理尴尬，但他一定看见了妻子的怀疑，而他有大把的时间，在银幕看不到的地方安排“反转”，于是，就有了度假村突然回家的桥段。

劳拉愧疚无比，两人进行了一次很有效率的交心，确认了彼此的感情依然在对方身上。

明明夫妻二人的隔阂已经触碰到了尴尬的边缘，他竟然还说，他只是想让劳拉刮目相看，想配的上劳拉，想当个好爸爸！

“如果听起来可疑就举手！”

老父亲举起了手。

从那天起，劳拉睡觉安稳了，吃饭香了，写作也如流水一般的顺利了。

一切怀疑都解释了嘛，实在不行还有量子力学呢。总之，关系得到了肯定，又可以安心独立自主了。

结尾处，劳拉脱下了父亲送她的表，带上了迪恩的卡迪娅。

父亲送的表是父亲做成第一比生意后买下的纪念，卡迪娅的表应该挺漂亮的。

劳拉吹熄那个具体是哪天看样子已经不重要的生日的生日蜡烛，电影结束。

“许愿吧！”老父亲看不下去了。

Laura是一位中产的家庭主妇，她有两个可爱的女儿，事业蒸蒸日上的丈夫Dean。Laura的父亲Felix是一位知名画商，早年因为出轨而离开家庭，但这并未疏远他和儿女的关系。Felix有一套基于进化论的出轨理论，时刻准备来为自己辩护。 本片是一部轻松风趣的电影，有着轻快动听的音乐，明亮鲜艳的画面，高楼林立的城市景观以及风景怡人的岛屿风情。 电影具体的情节，如果放到其他影视作品中，可能会相当的狗血，一个父亲怂恿女儿抓奸的故事。然而得益于两位主演的表现，以及故事的编排，使得本片呈现出了一种十分自然清新的面貌。通过父女间的接触，将本片的焦点，从跟踪调查Dean，延伸到了对婚姻家庭人生的讨论。个体如何应对不随己意的变故，是直面还是迂回，是利己还是顺受。当年父亲的做法让所有人都经历了一段痛苦的人生，而Laura和Dean对乌龙抓奸的处理，应该是电影给出的答案了。 个人觉得本片一大亮点，拉什达琼斯饰演的女主角。一开场给会你一种非常普通的观感。人近中年，衣着随意，妆容寡淡，随着电影的进程，角色魅力会慢慢的散发出来，正如电影的中那句台词“女人不论在那个年龄都是美丽的”。电影结尾，你会发现Laura已经萃变为一个内在美与外在美双重爆发的角色，两者相通互依，值得所有人为之着迷。