A Tale of Two Cities

As everyone around me know that I am a movie fun ,especially English movies . I see films at least once a week , l love movies ,so I choose this course . every Saturday I saw English movies at class with my roommates ,which took great happiness to me . some films excited me and some moved me .the film 《A Tale of Two Cities》is one of films I loved ,.Before I saw it ,I have heard that it was a tale about one replaced the other to die . I did not know the reason and was full of curiosity about plot , two weeks ago ,I finally watched it and it gave me deep impression . therefore ,I want to talk about it .

The story is set in London and Paris at the time of the great French Revolution. It shows the causes of revolution and its effects on people's day-to-day lives. Before the revolution, the King and the aristocracy treated their people cruelly in France. The common people were extremely poor and miserable. The crops in the fields were poor as if even the land shared the misery of the people. And there were so heavy taxes that all the villagers had nothing to hand over at last. On the other hand, the aristocracy made their will as the law by using money and gold. There were no justice, no equality and no fairness. Just as what happened to Dr Manette, he wrote to the Minister to show the crime what Marquis Evremonde had done, resulting in himself being arrested and sent to the prison Bastille without any reason.

Then this situation of darkness needed to be changed. As people such as the Defarges prepared and arranged, at length the Revolution came to break out. When the Bastille was captured and the King as well as many other aristocrats was tried and put to death, things didn't go on as what they had been expected. The situation stayed the same, or even worse. The prisoners from the Bastille were set free while more prisons were filled with people who had done no wrong. People who once lived on the bottom of society charge world now and their heart had been full of evil and enmity. The only thing they wanted to do was to retaliate. And these so-called "patriots" would like to see more and more innocent prisoners going to the guillotine and that's their joy. In everything they did were merciless, for they had been hardened in the fires of suffering and the touch of pity could make no mark on them.

Equality and fairness was what people seek, which led to the French Revolution. As a consequence, neither equality nor fairness was got after the revolution.

However ,the film moved me most is not revolution .nor do equality and fairness but is love, including the love between father and daughter, the love between husband and wife, the love among friends and so on. In short, only if you have love in your heart, the life is meaningful. At the same time, the revenge will run away with you, freedom and happiness will be around you. I never expected that Sydney Carton insteading another person to die is for love, which is the tragedy of the love history. I was heavyhearted when hearing what Sydney Carton said before death and burst into tears finally. Sydney Carton never said “I love you” to the girl ,but he use action to prove his love, he can do everything for the girl ,even to die , which moved all audiences ,including me .

 

第二篇：《天堂的孩子》影评

《天堂的孩子》影评

即使是放到现在，我也不得不说这是一部不可多得的佳作。平实的拍摄手法加上朴实的人文关怀，凸显出伊朗电影质朴内敛的创作底板，也使得这部影片宛如神来之笔，深深印在每一个观影人的心中，它就是19xx年由伊朗导演马基德·马基迪（Majid Majidi）拍摄的剧情片《小鞋子》（外文名《The Children Of Heaven》，又译《天堂的孩子》）。

该片获得19xx年奥斯卡最佳外语片提名，是伊朗电影史上首次入围奥斯卡最佳外语片（提名）的电影。此片还参加了伦敦，纽约，香港等18个国家和地区的国际电影节，并囊括了11项国际大奖，亦被美国《时代》杂志评为年度十大影片之一。

影片之所以能获得成功，和本片的导演——演员出身的马基德·马基迪的把握是分不开的。马基德·马基迪是伊朗第三代导演当中出类拔萃的人物，其影片特点非常突出，以儿童题材为主，表现伊朗的民族文化，并从底层人物的生活中发掘出苦难中的乐观精神；镜头语言写实却又不乏诗意，质朴内敛且不显做作。

但一部电影想要获得类似《小鞋子》这样的空前成功，光是导演有灵感是不够的，电影也需要相当的内涵，才能达到打动观众，弘扬文化的目的。

《小鞋子》以家境贫困的阿里在外出采买时不慎丢失了妹妹的鞋子，为了不受父母惩罚，同时不再给贫穷的家里添加不必要的负担，阿里和妹妹隐瞒此事，并穿同一双运动鞋交换上课为主线；穿插阿里帮妹妹找鞋，因为让妹妹先穿鞋上学而迟到，父亲与阿里做园丁，妹妹恰巧看见自己丢失的鞋等小故事。凸显阿里对妹妹的关怀，父亲背负家庭的责任感，阿里与妹妹对同是穷人家的女孩的同情，阿里作为长男对家庭的考虑以及兄妹俩对一双新鞋的渴望。

影片以补鞋人修补一双粉色女式旧童鞋开场，采用镜头特写的手法，将主题画面定格在唯一一双暖色调的鞋上，先入为主的给人以强烈的画面感；并运用联想法加深了观影者在审美过程中的联想，深刻了画面的意境。同时导演也通过这个场景开门见山的交代了故事发生的背景——一个不富裕的家庭。

影片第二个给人以深刻印象的片段是阿里在菜店选购马铃薯的场景。导演马基德仅仅通过店主阿巴一句台词“别碰那些，你捡下面的”。就毫不夸张的表现了这个社会的现实与残酷。阿里回头望着店主，无奈又将袋子里面的马铃薯放了回去。阿里挑完马铃薯，说要赊账，我本以为店主会连地下那些小小的马铃薯也舍不得赊给他们，但是店主阿巴只是说“你们已经欠了不少钱，叫你妈妈起码先还一部分”就放过了这个孩子。现实虽然残酷，但可见，社会还保留有一丝温情和人性。

除此之外，令人感动，深有感触的片段不胜枚举，就不一一赘述了。接下来谈谈影片的结尾。

有一个长跑比赛将要进行，阿里因耻于自己脚下的破球鞋而没有报名。但跑步比赛季军能得到一双新球鞋的奖励，阿里想给妹妹这样一双新鞋，“让我参赛，我保证一定会赢，求求你，让我参赛，我可以跑第一”阿里求着体育老师，带着哭腔的声音让我心痛。

比赛开始了，这是影片的落幕，也是影片的高潮。在比赛的最后，导演马基德运用了慢镜头的手法，这也是电影中首次使用特殊手法给我们展现的画面。阿里一路狂奔，眼前闪现的是妹妹穿着破球鞋回来路上狂奔的身影，耳中回荡的是自己对妹妹的承诺。很长一段慢镜头，无声而缓慢，唯有急急的喘息声揪着观众心里的一丝期待。他是第一，却故意让两人超越了自己，身后的一个孩子将他拉倒，他站起来继续狂奔，一路追逐，恍惚中他却是第一个撞线。“我是季军吗？”没有缓过气的阿里却是问了这样一句话，他是冠军，但是他怎么也高兴不起来，拍照的时候他依旧是一副伤心的样子，依旧是那双大大的闪现着忧郁的眼睛，我也为他心酸。

而影片的最后，父亲推车回家，车后筐里赫然有两双新鞋。阿里回到家一言不发，妹

妹看了也没有说什么。阿里的鞋底已经跑烂了，脚上满是水泡，他把脚泡在天井里，红色的鲤鱼围在他的脚边轻啄着他的双脚，似乎在给与他安慰。影片在此戛然而止，意犹未尽的同时，也给我们无限遐想的空间。这也是导演马基德最高超的一笔，电影的神奇迷幻手法。构织出童话般的画面，在奇幻的情境中表现现实。这种具有浓郁浪漫主义色彩的表现手法，极富感染力，给人以特殊的审美感受，也满足了部分喜好奇异多变的审美情趣的观影者的要求。其实这是部分鱼类吞吃人体皮肤死皮的一种表现，但是艺术就是来源生活，你能把生活中的某些事情通过蒙太奇手法表现的不一样，从而带给人不同于以往的审美感受，就是艺术。

经常有人把它当作一部儿童电影来误读，让一个幼小的心灵去承受一个并不奢侈的渴望的沉重折磨，这已经不是以童趣为主要特征的儿童电影所能承受的主题了，从影片中寻回童真和善良，感受现实和质朴的人文关怀，才是影片想要为我们展示的。

和现在的某些所谓“大片”相比，《小鞋子》真是太纯洁也太优秀了，不知道为什么随着经济的发达，国产电影越来越偏离电影的轨道，暴露，色情这些内容充斥在国产电影里面。你也许看的时候觉得很爽，但是看完过后仔细一回味却发现这片子经不起推敲，不值得琢磨，典型的快餐文化。

韩国电影《黄海》我前后看了三遍，第一遍爽快，第二遍迷惑，第三遍恍然大悟。这才是真正还看得有价值的电影。同样，我认为好的影评就是没看过这部电影的人看了你的话会想看这部电影，看过这部电影的人看了你的话会有所感悟，甚至是再看一遍。

这就是电影《小鞋子》——一个来自伊朗的献给成人的童话，同时也是我对电影的理解。