Hector (Simon Pegg) is flying one of those old World War II biplanes. His dog is in the backseat and they are happy. Hector does a loop and the dog falls out. Hector realizes and starts screaming. A comic book type villain pops up from the rear of the plane and they begin to fight. Hector wakes up.Hector and his girlfriend Clara (Rosamund Pike) live a neat and tidy life of habit and order. He is a successful psychiatrist. His rates haven't changed for years and neither has Hector. She works for a drug company and has launched a new pill called Tranqualine.One nigh, Hector and Clara go to a restaurant to celebrate the success of Tranqualine. Clara's boss is happy that Clara never left them for a maternity leave and is totally devoted to the company without the interference of children.The owner of the restaurant notices that Hector isn't as boorish as the others. He tells her that he doesn't work for the company. He's a psychiatrist. She tells him she wants happiness, but because of her accent it sounds like wants a penis. Hector and Clara have a laugh about a penis, but truth be told, the conversation makes Hector start questioning his own happiness.His ordered life now feels like a drag. He begins to lose patience for his patients and eventually snaps. Eventually Hector snaps.He tells Clara that he needs to go on a journey to research happiness. While Clara packs for Hector she finds an old photo in his sock drawer of a younger Hector with another man and a woman. She doesn't say anything about it. Hector asks if shell still be there when he returns. She asks how long hell be gone. He doesn't know. Neither does she.Hector flies business class to China. He sits next to a cranky business man named Edward (Stellan Skarsgard). He finds that Clara has packed him a notebook to log his journey and to doodle. She also included the photograph she found in his sock drawer. Edward complains that things are better in first class. Hector notes:1. Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.Hector wants to order from the duty free store on the plane, but needs to fill out paperwork. He cant find a pen. Edward lets him borrow his, but tells him that it costs more than his car and he had better return it.At the airport, Hector fumbles with his map and realizes he still has Edwards pen. He runs to return it and Edward decides to show Hector what his happiness is. He takes him to a nice hotel and a nicer meal. Hector asks Edward what his happiness is. Edward says he works too much to think about it. Happiness is supposed to be retirement and enjoying life. But the only way to enjoy retirement is to not retire. But because Edward works so hard and makes so much money he is able to enjoy the most lavish or luxuries. Hector notes:2. A lot of people think happiness is being rich or important.Edward takes Hector to a very exclusive nightclub in Shanghai full of women. Hector meets Ying Li (Ming Zhao) and instantly falls for her hard. He notes:3. Many people see happiness only in their future.He also notes after having spent a non-sexual night in bed with a naked Ying Li:4. Happiness could be the freedom to love more than one woman at the same time.He takes her out to lunch. There are a group of poor women sitting on the street eating together and having a great time. They're surrounded by a sea of grim businessman, not completely unlike Edward. Hector asks what makes them so happy. Hector asks Ying Li to go with him to the mountains and together they can meet her family. She cant go because its shameful how she makes a living. On cue, we meet her pimp. Ying Li isn't a student. Ying Li is a prostitute. The previous night was a gift from Edward. Hector notes:5. Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.Hector goes up the mountains and visits some monks. He asks one how he can be happy even though hes suffered so much in life. The monk explains and Hector notes:6. Avoiding unhappiness is not the road to happiness.Hector helps the monks set up their dish network and hes able to Skype Clara. She asks how Shanghai was. Neither can help but to notice how evasive Hector is at answering that question. The wind blows down the radar dish and the signal is lost. The monks dance beneath many colored flags which dance in the wind. They find happiness where Hector is finding grief. Next, he goes to Africa.Hector flies on a terrifying plane. One of the African women tries to comfort him by noting how old the plane is. That means its never crashed. If they land safely he should meet her family for Sweet Potato Stew. He notes:7. Does the person you're with bring you predominately A): Up or B): Down?Hector meets his old friend Michael (Barry Atsma) from the photograph in the sock drawer. He and his bodyguard Marcel take Hector to his hotel. Its a dive. In the bar he meets a drug lord named Diego Baresco (Jean Reno). Diego is upset and quick tempered. He doesn't believe in happiness because his wife is unhappy in spite of taking medication to make her happy. Hector offers to look at her prescriptions. He finds out there may be some harmful interactions between pills and directs Diego to a colleague who may be able to help. He has to borrow Diego's pen though, because he's given Edward's pen back.Michael sees Hector talking to Diego and explains that Diego is a criminal and should be avoided. Hector still has his pen. He spends a week helping out at Michael's clinic and notes:8. Happiness is answering your calling.At the end of the week he finds out that Marcel is more than Michael's bodyguard. Hes his lover. And they're happy. Hector notes:9. Happiness is being loved for who you are.Hector meets the lady from the plane and has Sweet Potato Stew with her family. He notes:10. Sweet Potato Stew!On the way back to his hotel his vehicle is carjacked and he is kidnapped and locked in a rat infested cell. He notes:11. Fear is an impediment to happiness.The kidnappers are about to kill him. Hector says he's friends with Diego, but cant prove it. A gun is pointed at his head, but Hector asks if he can make one final note in his book about what brings his captors happiness. He pulls out his pen to write, its Diego's gold and engraved pen. He is able to prove that he knows Diego. The kidnappers let him go. He notes:12. Happiness is feeling completely alive.The previously stuffy Hector would never dance. The reborn Hector celebrates and dances with the woman from the planes family. He notes:13. Happiness is knowing how to celebrate.He Skypes Clara, who is getting dressed in a fancy gown. He explains that he was kidnapped. She's disinterested. She has plans of her own and has to go.Hector flies First Class to Los Angeles. On the plane, he attends to a woman with a brain tumor. The pressure from the altitude is causing her extreme pain. She just needs to get to her sister to say goodbye. The pilot clears the plane for flying lower. When they land, everyone cheers. Hector tells the paramedics not to take her to the hospital, but to see her sister instead. She tells him he's very good at what he does. He explains he's not actually that kind of doctor. She clarifies that she means he's very good at listening. He notes.14. Listening is loving.Hector goes to the beach in Santa Monica where the photo was taking with him, Michael and Agnes (Toni Collette). She's pregnant and has two other kids. Agnes, Hectors one who got away, is happily married. He calls Clara to tell her he's in Los Angeles. She says she knew this whole trip was about rekindling an old flame. He explains that she's married and has kids. Hector tells Clara that smothering is mothering with an S. They break up.Agnes and Hector are going to meet with Professor Coreman (Christopher Plummer) who has written a book on and is studying the effects of happiness on the brain. On the way there, Agnes tells Hector that its unfair and insulting that he put her on a pedestal because she's better than his fantasy because she's real. She did love Hector at one time, but now she loves her husband and her family. He notes:15. Nostalgia is not what it used to be.During Coreman's lecture, he points out that people shouldn't be concerned with the pursuit of happiness, but with the happiness of pursuit. Afterwards, Agnes and Hector go to Coreman's lab and check out a project he's working on that will visually show, in real time, the brain and how it reacts to different emotions.Agnes is instructed to go into a room and think about three things, times when she was happy, sad and scared. She does and through his brain scanning technology, Coreman was able to tell which order she thought about the three emotions. Hector is next.He thinks about Clara marrying someone else. He thinks about his time being kidnapped and about Ying Li. His emotions are very blocked. Its hard to get a reading. Clara calls and Hector asks that Coreman give him a moment. His brain is still being monitored through the phone conversation.Clara tells Hector she wants to be a mother, not just his mother. Hector says he's sorry for not explaining his trip and tells her that he learned a lot and the most unhappy thing he could imagine would be to lose her and the happiest thing possible would be to become the man she would want to spend the rest of her life with.Hectors brain is no longer blocked, all the colors start firing because that's what happiness is. It's everything. We flash to the colored flags the monks were dancing around. They're just like the colors flashing in Hector's head.Hector rushes home and marries Clara.
拥有大多数平凡人所期望的生活的赫克托,在这样的生活里不断的重复着自己的人生,一遍又一遍,一遍又一遍。
而恰好和我们大多数人的人生相仿的事情是,我们同样的一遍又一遍,一遍又一遍的去重复自己的生活。
他是一个精神病医生,会见许多形形色色的病人,他拥有所有平凡人所努力追寻的一切,拥有大多人想要的完美人生。
然而当他有一天遇见一名客人,一个十分神经质,与其他病人不同的人。
其他的病人只是正襟危坐的坐在那儿倾诉自己,而这一位却是更爱谈他多一些。
这位很像灵媒的女子,自己更愿意将她看为人们在自己的生命里难以预见的触发点,就仿佛忽然有一天,有一个人或者一件事,让你开始自己问自己,这一切到底为了什么,如果是幸福,那么它又在哪。
于是赫克托愁眉苦脸的开始质疑自己的人生,他开始愤怒,开始失态,终于他开始了蜕变。
去做一件以前从未想去做过的事,去遥远的地方旅行,去寻找幸福的含义。
而正是在飞机上各式各样的小失态令他结识的第一个人,带他看见了财富下的幸福。
一个行为简单失常但保持着高素质的精神病医生在研究幸福,大概只有这样才能合理的吸引到银行家。
第一步,金钱从这里整部电影进入了正题,他开始被银行家带领着尝试美食,尝试性爱,满足味蕾,满足欲望。
在那一刻,他觉得自己十分的满足,似乎拥有了幸福。
却是第二天便发现那不过是银行家用钱替他找来的,深觉被骗。
在这样纸醉金迷的日子里,欲望闹闹的掌控了他的脑子。
第二步,单纯他上了西藏,想要在那找准幸福的含义。
而老人是早已看透了一切的人,他不停的向着为自己开门的人说道自己,直到最后终于表达了自己在寻找幸福后才被老人请进。
在大多外国人的电影里,似乎去到西藏,尼泊尔找到得道高人都得在那门前展现出自己的毅力。
这部片子大概也不例外,但一部轻松的喜剧自然不需要把主角写的在门前跪上了几天几夜。
而这位看透了一切的老人,唯一叫他看过的东西,是在阳光下风吹起的风马旗并且在那下面开怀大笑。
何时自己能一般单纯的面对简单的阳光,充满笑容时,自己大概就幸福了。
第三步,苦难非洲似乎是最容易表达着一点的地方,毒贩,医院,红薯炖汤。
电影想要表达的面太多,但表达的越多,就越难表达好。
电影里的非洲似乎一切都与家庭有关,毒贩不幸福是因为妻子,小男孩躺在病床上想要照顾妹妹,而红薯炖汤之所以美味更多的是因为一大家人聚在了一起。
在被绑架的日子里,生命的威胁令他不断的回顾自己的人生,而孤独的牢房确保了这一点的进行。
他不断的回顾人生,终于是找到了从前的自己。
而在一片苦难的地方,人们也有幸福。
第四步,做自己。
脱离了险境的他狂喜,决定去到最后一站,旧情人所处的地方。
在飞机上他倾听了别人对自己美好的回顾,也为后来在成为现在的自己打下了基础。
昔日情人已不是他记忆里的模样,但他始终未忘记自己的目标,寻找到幸福。
每一步,每一个地点,每一个阶段,他都认为自己找到了幸福。
1.Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.总是喜欢做比较的人感受不到快乐。
2.A lot of people think happiness means being richer or more important.很多人以为有钱有名就是快乐。
3.Many people only see happiness in the future.许多人认为快乐只在未来。
4.Happiness could be the freedom to love more than one woman at the same time.快乐也许是可以同时爱上两个女人。
5.Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.快乐有时来自于欺骗。
6.Avoiding unhappiness...is not the way to happiness.逃避不幸并不意味着快乐。
7.Does this person bring you predominantly A) up or B) down?这个人通常带给你的是快乐?
还是痛苦?
8.Happiness is answering your call.快乐就是忠于天职。
9.Happiness is being loved for who you are.快乐是因为有人爱上了真实的你。
10. Sweet potato stew!吃上一大锅炖土豆!
11. Fear is an impediment to happiness.恐惧把快乐挡在了门外。
12. Happiness is feeling completely alive.快乐就是能活着。
13. Happiness is knowing how to celebrate.快乐就是懂得尽情狂欢。
14.Listening is loving.倾听就是爱。
15.Nostalgia is not what it used to be.怀旧不代表回到过去。
最终在教授的幸福机器里,他回想了所经历的一切。
从前的自己在表达出自己对妻子的爱时,终于成为了现在的自己。
幸福出现在每一个角落,每一个地方,一路旅程,你可以看到各式各样的幸福,前提是你在找幸福。
一路的旅程,他找到了许久以前的自己,在不断回想经历里成为了现在的自己。
他要把在那个旧爱里拥有的快乐带到现在来,而可以与他完成这一切的人触手可及。
从此生活被加入了爱这样的存在,所谓爱,我会把我曾拥有的快乐带给你,而我也会和你一起去创造快乐。
不论贫穷与否,不论苦难与否。
电影从未具体的说什么是幸福,不断的变化着,但是毫无意外的事情是,幸福几乎到处都能看见。
PS:电影想表达的主题很大,描述的细节太多,以至于最后剧情变的松散,故事逻辑感变弱了。
用喜剧去表达带有深度的东西,从来都是极难。
而自己所认为的幸福最重要的是,做自己。
所谓的做自己。
第一便是了解自己,知道自己到底想要什么。
如同赫克托一般,他接触到幸福前的最后一步是去找到自己内心一直以来都期盼的人,从前的旧爱,藏在抽屉里的照片说明了一切。
倘若他不想,便早可告诉妻子那张照片,将其做成相框,说那是朋友。
之所以藏,必然是想。
第二便是找到自己,赫克托找到自己前,找到了过去的自己。
过去的余念带着他来到了旧爱面前,而在幸福机器的回顾里,他找到了自己。
第三,做自己。
在他表达出自己的情感对自己的克拉拉时,他成功的表达出了自己的情感,成功的成为了自己。
我们在意父母,但没有几个人会说一句我爱你,也没有几个人会给一个拥抱,不是那些礼仪,而是那些怀抱感情的表达带着句子,带着动作。
所谓的幸福,就是我爱你,然后我满怀情感的告诉了你,我爱你。
You know? Sometimes the mind can hurt as much as the body, or even worse. How can we take care of my mind? Perhaps this is more important than taking care of our body. What technique can we use to heal the mind?Besides religion, family, and friends, perhaps psychiatrist is another option. They just need to simply listen, then it would help. However, there is only one person can take care of your mind. That is just yourself.Take care your mind, my friend.
男主刚开始的生活里没有什么波澜,每天过的都一样,好像他与自己之前的女朋友分手了之后,生活里就没有了激情,对什么事情都毫不在乎,没有真情,是一个很无聊的人,一点都不有趣。
这样循规蹈矩的日子被他的一个病人,还有女朋友的神经质给打破了,当生活发生了一些变化之后,他开始去旅行,寻找幸福是什么?
他去的第一站是亚洲的中国,第二站是非洲,第三站是洛杉矶,第四站是回家。
在第一站中国的时候,他去了两个地方,第一个地方是上海,这个地方他体验到的是有钱人的生活是怎么样的?
体会了纸醉金迷的生活,美酒美女的相伴之后他去了中国的西藏,在这里他体会到了修行者的生活。
接着他去非洲,在这里体会到了救济,帮助他人的人的生活。
另一件事是体验到非洲人民在庆祝一件事情的时候,大家在一起,家庭之间在一起吃饭的快乐,以及很多人聚在一起跳舞,这样的一个经历。
体会到庆祝可以得到幸福。
在这里他还遭受了绑架事件,让他面临了死亡时刻,在这个死亡时刻的体验中,他知道了什么对自己是很重要的,并且体会到了,活着是一件特别好的事情。
他要让自己活着的每一天都是精彩的,不留遗憾的之后,他去了洛杉矶,解开自己多年以来的心结。
在去洛杉矶的途中,他又遇到了病人,这时他知道了倾听是一种爱,要对说话者保持自己的真情真诚。
到洛杉矶看到自己的前女友之后,她体会到婚姻家庭,孩子给人带来的幸福。
在这里他面临了一次可怕的通话,这个通话让他跟自己的女朋友敞开心扉,向她表白,他是多么的爱她,这个时候他开悟了,正是因为这个电话的刺激,让他开悟。
一路上的经历,结合着这一次的通话,他开悟了,紧接着他迫不及待地想要回到自己爱人的身边,从此他的生活也发生了改变,不再对生活没有热情,不再对自己的工作没有热情,而是对生活充满了热爱,并且活出了儿时的那种快乐感,敢于去追自己的梦,在业余时间的时候,他坐了他的飞机模型,而不是像一开始的时候忘了去做梦,消耗自己的时间,在自己不太喜欢的事情上(钓鱼)。
这一趟旅程让他从最开始对生活漠不关心,冷淡百无聊赖,浪费生命,浪费时间,到最后他对生活充满热情,对自己的工作也充满热情,对于自己的梦想也充满热情,敢于去追梦。
我的思考是幸福不在于追寻幸福的过程,而是对自己现在的生活工作充满热情,热爱生命,对人保持真诚和兴趣,活的不假装,活出自己,对梦想保持纯粹,用于追梦,活出自己的精彩。
珍惜当下,每一天都竭尽全力的去活。
这部电影没有用人生的大起大落来诠释一个道理,而是通过主人公自己主动去打破外在束缚自己的壳,通过旅行经历一些事情让自己去得到答案。
我认为电影诠释的这个方法是对我们每个人都很积极意义的,我们可以用到自己的生活中。
电影通过旅行过程中所去的地方诠释了几个场景的设定,金钱权势名利修行救济帮助他人朋友聚在一起独处时内在反思倾听真诚待人婚姻家庭孩子这六个方面都是我们觉得可以得到幸福的六个方面,主人公在不同的国家都经历了一遍,一路走来他顿悟了,所以为了让自己也能得到他那样的顿悟,我们可以给自己安排一些这样的场景,自己去经历一下,也许能和主人公一样,可以得到幸福的顿悟。
今天无意中搜到这部电影,然后认真看完了它。
好久没有认真看过电影了,这部电影不说制作的有多好,内容有多充实,但是我确实从这里面明白了很多…… 幸福是什么?
幸福如何得到?
你幸福吗?
这些无伤大雅的问题可能真的不好回答。
影片接近尾声的时候,Simon和前女友去听教授讲课的那个片段,教授所说的话是我觉得这部影片真正的核心所在。
你是否还能清楚的回忆起孩童时代的快乐,无忧无虑的时光,眼睛里充满了希望,如此的美好。
随着时间的增长,这个世界得到的越来越多,可成人们的幸福度却越来越低。
人们要追求的不是幸福的过程,而是幸福本身。
Simon去非洲的时候,曾经的老友变为一名同志,他说幸福就是有人爱真实的自己。
对呀,在这个浮躁的社会,我们穿了太多层衣服,尽管身心疲惫却还是不脱下累赘,那么你是否能保证那个现在爱你的人在你卸下虚伪的面具之后还能义无反顾的爱你接受你吗?
对于身边发生的很多事我可能都没办法想通,但,做真正的自己吧,爱生活,爱家人,爱工作!
“这是一部鸡汤电影”的影迷真的太棒了,电影给你灌了各种成功之道,让你在敲击键盘的时候更加流畅,完全不用大脑思考。
幸福也不是钻牛角尖,还被大多数人同意,自我感觉良好!
这部电影只有6.9分的原因有一半是认为这电影辱华,有西藏的僧侣。
另一半则是强行不好看的人。
整部电影的元素内核很多,即使只有两个小时的时间,但我感觉自己看了很多部电影,大概是自己大脑的疯狂的幻想吧。
这部电影的主题是最后赫克托与藏僧说的那句,每个人都有义务寻找自己的幸福。
这句话鸡汤吗?
我没觉得这是鸡汤,我认为的鸡汤是告诉你该如何去做,才能取得像灌你鸡汤的人一样成功。
刻板印象这东西谁都会有,毕竟谁也不是白莲花,一切平等。
中国的电影拍国外的场景是真的还原国外的现状?
不见得吧。
嗷,外国提到了中国,自己就不爽了?
看个电影,能让一群愤青群起而攻之。
太可怕了。
啊?
为什么偏远地区的乡下人会说英语?
我建议你这个城里人好好学习,不要觉得自己不行,其他人一定不行。
这种牛角尖有什么意义呢?
嗷,这个电影有中国片段,那这个片段必须说中文!
傻不傻?
最后我给这部电影五星是因为笑点足,西蒙全身都是笑点,有英国的黑色幽默。
电影本身深度很深,耐人寻味。
告诉了很多人对幸福的看法,所以我们自己也得需要自己独一无二的幸福!
下是男主在旅途中总结的关于快乐的真理。
1.Making comparisons can spoil your happiness. 总是喜欢做比较的人感受不到快乐。
2.A lot of people think happiness means being richer or more important. 很多人以为有钱有名就是快乐。
3.Many people only see happiness in the future. 许多人认为快乐只在未来。
4.Happiness could be the freedom to love more than one woman at the same time. 快乐也许是可以同时爱上两个女人。
(后来被他划掉了)5.Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story. 快乐有时来自于欺骗。
6.Avoiding unhappiness...is not the way to happiness. 逃避不幸并不意味着快乐。
7.Does this person bring you predominantly A) up or B) down? 这个人通常带给你的是快乐?
还是痛苦?
8.Happiness is answering your call. 快乐就是忠于天职。
9.Happiness is being loved for who you are. 快乐是因为有人爱上了真实的你。
10. Sweet potato stew! 吃上一大锅炖土豆!
11. Fear is an impediment to happiness. 恐惧把快乐挡在了门外。
12. Happiness is feeling completely alive. 快乐就是能活着。
13. Happiness is knowing how to celebrate. 快乐就是懂得尽情狂欢。
14.Listening is loving. 倾听就是爱。
15.Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 怀旧不代表回到过去。
我总觉得人类伟大的作品,内容更加重要,艺术不是以精确为评审标准,而且所谓精准也是以人类的经验为参照,而人们总是明知故犯的错误之一就是不断确信自己眼下的经验。
所以,我当然知道影片的形式只能说可爱,甚至会遭到有些人的厌烦,大概因为涉及到了对中国社会的简陋“揣测”。
但是我非常喜欢这部电影,因为它想探讨的主题很有意义,它的观点,也显得很智慧。
所有对自己的生活感到复杂而厌烦的人,所有对影片感到粗糙不现实的各位(如同那看似无病找痛的主人公赫克托一样),请静下来思考一些影片给我们的建议。
我们无法感到幸福因为你没有生命安全与健康的保证,没有金钱,没有爱人,生活总是不能那么简单规律,总是遇到令人厌烦的意外。
这是影片给我们的表述之一,我想很多人都是感同身受的,所有人都有对生活的强迫症,都恐惧生活中的意外,问题总让我们精疲力尽,我们却不得不坚持,因为不能成为失败者,那样你可能丧失你的社会地位甚至你的健康与生命。
这是我们已经习惯的观念,影片也在叙述这样的观念,战乱的国家,金钱的社会,很多不健康的病人。
甚至是我们“无病呻吟”的主人公。
因为玩具也会想要大发雷霆。
这就是事实。
如同中国成为了发达社会追逐金钱的代表国家,我觉得并不为过,我们非常恐惧没有金钱,因为很少有国家像我们经历过那残酷的近代史,而现在又有机会去获得所有的虚荣。
恐惧,是影片最后表述情感的其中一种,不幸福的人都非常恐惧,我们追逐的只是安全感,可没有不易破碎的安全感制品,生活总是意外不断。
所以,这部电影的主要时长,看似滑稽,却不是鸡汤,就是在表述一件件生活中的意外。
这些不幸福的源泉。
如何解决这个问题,想象,不放弃希望的人,会把希望寄托于自己的幻想,一种努力营造的,自欺欺人的完美无瑕的生活。
一个遥远的“心中挚爱”。
这是影片中给我们的第二个表述,当我们不得不承认生活中的意外带给我们的不幸福之后,我们往往选择一种精神上的寄托,如同告诉自己,是的,我现在的生活无法感到幸福,但是,我曾经距离幸福非常接近,我曾经幸福过,真正的幸福,我是可能拥抱的,以此聊以自慰。
但是,赫克托的初恋女友,拒绝了赫克托,即便算是赫克托的幻想。
影片的这里太精彩了,她拒绝成为赫克托的幻想,因为这样的男人不负责任而且幼稚。
我还没想清楚她这么做是出于自爱还是对主人公的爱。
总之她拒绝了,而且情绪发泄的非常精彩,过往的回忆总是美好的,但是可惜了,那就是泡泡,那个你怀恋的人,也是会和现实连接的,你所遇到的,她都会遇到,影片里的打击就是直白地告诉赫克托,他早已不是初恋的挚爱了。
我们生活中还有另一种可能,两个人一起爱上了幻想的对方。
但,总之,这不是一个好的解决方式,影片是这么阐述的。
我还是要感叹,这太精彩了。
最后,影片究竟要不要给我们一个结论?
它做了,非常有勇气,也许形式并不够漂亮,严谨,但是观点非常智慧。
那就是过程中所遇到的意外,打破规律的事件,你要学会去接受它,真正的接受,影片的结论,快乐是义务,丰富地阐述,可能是这样的:把事件带来的恐惧或者悲伤转化为幸福感,是一种成熟个人必须掌握的能力。
这个也解释了影片中所谓不现实的成分,开篇,主人公赫克托稳定工作,漂亮女友,生活看似规律,却仍然会为了幸福踏上旅程。
那时的他像是把自己保护起来的小孩,他选择的是不相信生活的意外,努力营造看似没有意外的生活,结果呢,不得不踏上旅程。
行事看似浮夸的主人公与西藏僧侣,幸福的秘诀从他们嘴中说出来或者践行出来,简直令观众难以置信,这碗鸡汤难以下咽。
或许是因为它是真的解决之道,而不只是精神安慰。
我,是相信赫克托的成长与老僧人的智慧的,如醍醐灌顶。
我们非常无知又无能,既不能预测所有的问题,又不能避免或者解决所有的问题。
但是,幸福不是不被打破的规律,这太简陋了,对于人而言,如果我们可以把幸福当作必须一样去维持自己的态度,去经历这样的过程,那么虽然颜色不会有纯粹的快乐,但是那杂糅的情感世界或许会归于美好的色彩。
如同影片最后,“长大”的赫克托,学会了真诚,学会了面对,学会了对意外报以微笑的态度,学会了和爱人共享喜悦。
幸福当然可能更严肃而深刻,但是影片所给我们的建议,确实是极好的,如果你有勇气去尝试,我觉得至少你会成长。
当时听闻Simon为了拍摄《 Hector and the Search for Happiness》到了上海,我毅然带着《Nerd do Well》乘十几个小时的火车赴沪,辗转两天,偏偏Simon到了上海前两天什么消息都没有,也没被人扑到,我跑遍了一切可能的地方,最后迫于学校有考试,想到不得不无功而返的时候内心百感交集,只记得最后站在浦东的滨江大道失望的吹着江风,繁华的都市更衬托自己的悲凉...回来后,我却凭借一手消息帮助一个上海本地机油在老街一个很不起眼的巷子里找到了拍戏的Simon,那天,现场的粉丝很少,她们就在那看了很久的活生生的Simon,Simon还走近她们与她们交流甚至拥抱...而我最终仅仅收到了一份签名..图戳→http://www.douban.com/photos/photo/2181127937/ 签名是那位在我帮助下找到Simon的机油帮忙要的,她对Simon说了我寻找他却扑空的故事,她能做到这么多已经很不容易了,可能相对很多人来说,有一份签名已经十分宝贵了,但是如果我能在上海多留几天,就能和她们一样见到Simon,想到这点,依然遗憾之至。
两年半过去了,直到现在才敢看这部电影,直到现在才敢正视这份遗憾。
就电影本身来说,这样一部正能量题材的电影本身就是我的菜,画面也十分纯净和唯美,一路上遇到很多人和事,越到后面越多的煽情桥段、越会触碰人们心底的东西,让我在观影时也在思考什么样的东西才是我最珍贵的,什么样的东西才是我快乐的源泉。
最后,Simon的笑真心治愈,是对快乐最好的诠释。
这个世界上又有各式各样的低谷,你的低谷他的低谷,她的低谷。
由于经验背景不同,在经历低谷时带给人们不同的情绪与感受。
这部电影中借男主很俗气的“寻找幸福之旅”,为人们展示了幸福的不同形态。
最后男主深入自己内心深处,挖掘内心的阴影,最后走出阴霾。
这种类型的温情电影并不适合每一个人。
当你的生活已经如鱼得水,或许这部电影只是茶余饭后的小点心。
但是当你真的快乐不起来的时候,前提是你确实想变得快乐。
(心理医生也治不了不想变好的你)那么这部电影就是你的救星。
男主很抑郁,但电影基调又没那么抑郁,满满铺开的阳光风景中穿插着隐喻、伏笔与不同人理解的不同的幸福。
另外,男主在中国被高级妓女伤了心后,去往西藏,沿途的配乐非常棒!!!!
这部电影的配乐由Dan Mangan和Jesse Zubot完成。
非常喜欢Dan Mangan的曲子!!!
他的声音可以忧郁又不缺阳光,沙哑得恰到好处。
我对于电影的音乐总是特别感兴趣,只要听到喜欢的就会收藏!
总之,很适合正在走出低谷的我。
还会再看一遍。
劇情鬆散的命題雞湯風景片
没什么意思,看不进去。完全不觉得有趣。
看到中国部分完非洲部分开始时硬生生被我掐了。。。
UK CCAV 版“你幸福吗?”,老外眼中的中国美女真是另类。
幸福就是有电影看
太不喜欢西蒙被睡了,艾米你趁早杀了他吧。
三星半,有所失亦有所得,罗萨姐去年真忙,四处奔波扮演各类好情人,各版本都成为了“好人妻”呢!!!
心 灵 鸡 汤
教科书一样的鸡汤本 男神瘦瘦来魔都拍外景没看到 伐开心 瘦瘦的初恋是阳光小美女的麻麻么?好奇特的审美……
简直是尽一切意淫能事乱来一壶例汤。
不该着西蒙演男主,他长着一张适合任何地方的脸。旅行对他来说一点也不难。上海真美。
主线简单情节苍白逻辑可怕,一星给西蒙的喜感。
前面的环游世界特别好,欧美和亚非的文化碰撞是经久不息的话题。但是结尾的主题升华实在是太令人尴尬了……
有了白日梦想家,这个就显得鸡肋了
一大碗鸡汤
仅仅不到十年前,中国还是被猎奇、猎艳的国家。很开心这一点已经改变。丑就是丑,不用跪着穷尽理由。
最喜欢那句“有时快乐是难得糊涂。” 果然,没有什么比爱情更使人幸福的了。
Simon Pegg 越来越不好笑了。
我们都有快乐的权利,我们都有快乐的义务。
心灵鸡汤片,无奈这样拍太无聊了,一路走一路感悟的形式拍成纪录片也许观感好一些?西蒙又贡献哭戏,可爱耶。不过不留胡子的西蒙在我心里的形象已经固定成热血警探了,所以看的时候特别出戏。