讓人眼前一亮的作品，非常抓人。雖然是翻拍，但是影片的社會背景、人物設定都非常本土，沒有二次加工的痕跡。用高度戲劇化的手段表達女主角的無力感和內心世界的複雜性，節奏、鏡頭、情節和表演都非常精準，一部出色的黑色電影所應具備的陰暗面、驚悚感和技術處理在本片中都能看到。如果是Brian De Palma或者Paul Verhoeven拍的話可能會更加驚悚。原作是2014年一部以色列電影，導演Nadav Lapid最新作是《同義詞》，看完本片讓我更加期待今年的金熊獲獎片了。
香港辛丹斯電影節。一位天才少年的流失。結尾一句「I have a poem」應該是全片最恐怖的一句話了吧！！！論如何用錯愛才的方式，女主角如果不是選擇這樣的方式或許這個小男孩還有救……小男孩Jimmy作的每首詩簡直言簡意賅又能深刻地觸動人心！Maggie Gyllenhal真的美麗爆了！！！！！Gael García Bernal真的太可愛太帥了媽呀 (๑•́ ₃•̀๑)！！！！！！！（沒想到兩人還有親熱戲我草…… ）[9.23]
聯想到智力過人的理科《天才少女》，原以為會是詩詞天賦過人的文科版《天才少男》，然而故事的主要聚焦點終究還是《幼兒園教師》。—— Anna is beautiful. Beautiful enough for me. The sun hits her yellow house. It's almost like a sign from God. —— The Bull. The Bull stood alone in the backyard. So dark. I opened the door and stepped out. Wind in the branches. He watch me. Blue eyes. He kept breathing to stay alive. I didn't want him. I was just a boy. Say yes. Say yes, anyway.
這個幼兒園的老師作為一個家庭中的媽媽和妻子、也是一個學前教育工作者，在這種環境下，她產生了一些錯誤的心理投射：1、她混淆了家庭教育和社會（學校）教育的功用，她在家庭教育當中試圖使用學校教育的模式，但是沒有孩子會把媽媽當成老師。相應的，在學校中對天才小男孩施以家庭式教育。而這兩者在她這麼做的情況下，扭曲程度也越來越大，越來越一發不可收拾，產生更加嚴重的錯誤投射。2、她在個人心理上將親子之間的愛和情人之間的愛混淆。也就是她把情愛、性愛、慈愛混為一談，模糊不清。最後她把她缺少的愛的獲得聚集在一起，選擇了這個集三者於一體的這個有才華的、別人家的、男孩。但是殊不知就必然走向毀滅，小孩子最後說I have a poem.或許再也沒人聽了，和這個女性的命運是完完全全一樣的。這句台詞和她的命運是互文本關係。
節奏、畫面、劇情都很棒！一路順下來竟然沒有走神的地方。女主珍惜男主的才華也不知道有幾分是因為她喜歡被人關注的感覺？她在詩歌班讀男主詩的時候很自豪她女兒說她是UN文化大使的時候也很開心的樣子。同時女主家人對她的理想（？）也不是很了解，女主老公就表示過對女主倍加讚譽的那首詩的不理解，女主女兒也說過類似於「你這麼嫌棄我怎麼不回去讀你的大學blabla」。我到最後的時候好像有點能get為什么女主會支持男主報警了。但是男主最後說的那兩句「I have a poem」，真是讓人心酸，以後再沒人這麼關注他的天賦了呀。
本來看到資源網站上只有5的評分，感覺不太符合馬吉大姐的選片風格。遂下載看看，竟然很驚喜。才華究竟是什麼？Lisa愛上了詩歌作為現實的逃避，詩歌老師是愛欲的實體化，Jim是愛欲的靈體化，保護才華其實也就是Lisa在保護心中的寄託。最後那一段很有趣，警車裡Jim說」I have a poem」但是沒有人理會他。這或許暗示Lisa的逃避終歸失敗了，被桎梏住。
This world is going to erase you. There is not a place in the world for you, for people like you. Couple of years, you are gonna be just a shodow, just like me.——這是Lisa對自己的宣判，也是對Jimmy的宣判。當片子最後Jimmy說出I have a peom卻無人回應時，宣判也就真正變成了天才的喪鐘。影片很平淡，甚至平淡的有些乏味，而天才正是淹沒在這種普通的日常、乏味的平淡中。
At first, I thought Lisa was gone too far... But the last scene makes everything reasonable and solidifies exactly why Lisa did what she has done. She saw the talent of Jimmy, which she doesn't have it any more, valued and wanna protected such gift. Indeed, the materialistic worlds are erasing arts.
Anna, get up. Remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world. Here's the room with everyone in it. Your dead friends passing through you. Like wind through wind chime. Don't be afraid Anna. The end of the road is so far ahead. It is already behind us.
There's a fine line between "fixation on the kid himself" and "fixation on his talent", and perhaps in some instances the latter could merge with the former. Well at the very least one can say this film displays a delicate sensibility...
The American Neflix remake of the 2014 Israeli movie of the same name. The incredible aspect of this film is a morally ambiguous character: Lisa has all the complexities, when she treasures talent, when she steals his poems, when she kidnaps, and in the end when she gives up and you feel sad that she did. It's such a difficult film to watch in the end too, especially given the real-world lesson that feels like a pinch on the heart.
這是當代教育的警示錄，亦是文藝青年的毒雞湯。偉大的藝術總是讓人捉摸不透，沒有天賦的人對其再親近也只能是個善於品鑑的愛好者，在真正的藝術家眼裡同樣是個不入流的庸人，而天賦異稟的人對於創作就像天選之子一樣俯首即拾。然而我們的教育正在摧毀這些天賦，物質的價值取向讓教育變得狹隘而無聊。片中老師對孩子着魔一般的呵護與督促是對藝術激情和瘋狂迷戀，而世俗對孩子自以為是的保護則是對神性的忽視和扼殺。影片結尾處孩子被關在警察中如夢囈般的一句「I have a poem」是全片最讓人心碎的一句話了吧！
Anna is beautiful. Beautiful enough for me. The sun hits her yellow house. It's almost like a sign from God. —— The Bull. The Bull stood alone in the backyard. So dark. I opened the door and stepped out. Wind in the branches. He watch me. Blue eyes. He kept breathing to stay alive. I didn't want him. I was just a boy. Say yes. Say yes, anyway.
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