观《百万英镑》有感

——浅谈我的金钱观

首先《百万英镑》这部电影讲述的是美国人亨利·亚当斯，因为一次意外而变得身无分文，贫困潦倒。但却因为偶然的机遇，从一对富翁兄弟那里得到了一张价值100万英镑的支票。而当主人公有了这张支票后，人们的态度和他的生活也因此发生改变，一个拥有一张价值百万支票的人被人们如同神一样巴结讨好相信着。而当后来人们开始怀疑这张支票的真实存在的时候，曾经的绅士淑女便纷纷要与他划清界限将他打倒，直到最后，一个月结束了，一切归于平静。当虚荣与功力褪去后并不是一无所剩，亨利·亚当斯得到了一份真挚的爱情，一个不为金钱名利与他在一起的女人。

可以说，在看完这部电影后，人们对金钱的狂热和崇拜使我震惊，影片中的人们可以听信一个毫不了解的陌生人，只因为他有一张价值百万的支票我不禁自问，金钱真的有那么重要么？我的回答是否定的，纵使金钱的重要性是我们无法否认的，但是幸福，健康，爱情，家人等更为重要的这些在我心里，是金钱难以比拟的。我认为我们不应该为了金钱尔虞我诈，趋炎附势，也不能将金钱看作是万能的而羁绊住自己，要懂得取舍，有舍有得，和自己爱的人过着自己喜欢的生活，即使简单却也幸福，不是么？就像影片的最后，亨利放下一切，却收获了真爱，过上了简单且美满的生活。

 

第二篇：百万英镑 英文读后感 绝对原创

My Impressions after Reading” The Million Pound Note”

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This time I want to talk about a very famous short story written by Mark Twain---------“The Million Pound Note”. Referring to Mark Twain, you must feel familiar, because we must have read his works before. I still remember the article “ The Bite Events on the Train” in our textbook when I’m in the middle school. What touched me most at that time were his ironic words. Yes, he is a great humorist, novelist, writer and orator in America in nineteenth century. During his 40 years’ writing career, he created dozens of short or long stories, among which “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is of the most popularity, which was praised by Hemingway as “the first real American literature”. But today I am introducing his another work------ The Million Pound Note.

This story tells about a poor but honest American Adam Henry. When he was wandering in the street of London, he was given by two billionaires a letter, in which he surprisedly found a ￡1,000,000 pound bank-note. Later he got to know that the two billionaires who were brothers had made a bet about the results after he got a one million-pound note at once. One of them thought the note wound count for nothing to the poor man because he could not prove that the money was his own while the other considered just as the opposite.

Dramatically, the plot went just out of my expectation. Herry went to a restaurant to have dinner first. The manager was mean to him at the beginning but his attitude changed quickly when Herry took out the note and asked for change. Faced with a millionaire, the manager apologized again and again and obsequiously told Herry that he didn’t need to pay for the bill right now. So Herry managed to have a free dinner. Then similarly, Herry went to a clothing shop and got a suit of clothes costing him nothing.

Like the plot above, people are curious of such a rich man and tried every means to cozy up to him, from free food， free clothes to free accommodation. At the same time, his social status was becoming higher and higher and finally higher than most dukes. Apart from that, he later got a beautiful wife and 200,000 pounds of bank interest. I can imagine a bright future was waiting for him.

The writing style of this story is so humorous. Mark Twain used hyperbole describing how our hero defeated snobbishness repeatedly. What I appreciate most is the detailed description of different people’s ridiculous actions before one million pounds, vivid, funny, ironic and humorous, which forms a Caricature.

In terms of the theme, it is apparent that the author wanted to denounce the overflowing mammonism in the society. Even now it gives us an impressive lesson. Yes, I cannot deny the importance of money to a person who wants to survive. We won’t live without money, with which we get food, clothes, house and many other

necessities. But we must know that there are many things which can’t be bought with money such as love or friendship. So in my opinion, money may be important to us, but not the most important. We need to build up the correct sense of money.

Another point I want to emphasize is honesty. From the plot, we can see that there were so many people the brothers could choose, so why just Herry? I think it was because he was honest. When he got the note, what he did wasn’t use it right now but return it to the brothers. Without a kind and honest heart, Herry couldn’t have been such a successful man. There are various of tempertation alluring us in our life, Only by keeping honesty and consciousness inside can we manage to resist them.

To sum up, this story is a really good work of Mark Twain. The lesson I’ve learnt from it makes me want to be an honest man sincerely and lets me not to worship money too much. I begin to regret not reading it earlier.