国外大学毕业回国解读：电影《英伦四月天》
国外大学毕业回国解读：电影《英伦四月天》
费舍尔（Robert Norman 饰）出生于一个非常传统的苏格兰家庭之中，家风十分严谨，这令费舍尔的整个童年都是在压抑之中度过的。幸运的是，费舍尔的父亲爱德华（科林·费尔斯 Colin Firth 饰）俏皮不羁，母亲玛利亚温婉善良（玛丽·伊丽莎白·马斯特兰托尼奥 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio 饰），他们两人的存在是费舍尔灰暗童年里的唯一一抹亮色。
这一天，村里来了一位名叫席璐思（伊莲娜·雅各布 Irène Jacob 饰）的女子，个性奔放的席璐思很快就吸引了费舍尔的注意，与此同时，父子连心，敏锐的费舍尔很快就意识到，自己的父亲亦对席璐思非常的感兴趣。父子两人竟然对同一个女人产生了感情，故事开始变得有趣起来。
I finally had the chance to watch this beautiful movie after hearing so much about it. It didn't disappoint my expectation, funny, touching and sweet bitter.
The opening scene got me right away. My heart was hanging in the air when little Fraser took a crawling journey around on roof of this gorgeous mansion and it got back to its old spot after his worried father Edward, played by Colin, grapped him on the steep roof with a rope tied to his waist. A really curious, exploring child, and a trouble maker needless to say, hehe. Fraser's adventurous characteristic, indulged and encouraged by the same adventurous, eccentric and even childish inventor father, had never changed when he reached ten. In that summer, the arrival of his uncle's 'exotic child bride' Heloise aroused his first consciousness to the other sex, a turning point into adolescent. Unfortunately, Edward fell for Heloise too and vied with his own son for her affection. Being shut down by Edward, Fraser went to his Grandpa's attic for answers that he wanted to know, where he learnt for the first time in his life things about grown-up. Funny bits, sad bits scattered along the progress of turning mature for both Fraser and Edward. The last scene is as telling as the first one, where Edward found Fraser home alone, enjoying Jazz, cigar and brandy, enjoying his growing up, and Edward left him alone without interruption.
As a Colin fan, I always say something about him. The review ends here if you don't care so brilliant an actor, but I'll go on drooling on him once again, LOL. Colin is as gorgeous as always in "My Life So Far", and as good performance as usual. You'll smile when he stuttered at Fraser's question of "temptation of flesh", laugh when he jumped over the lawn into the chilly lake water, amused by his eccentric inventions like the inflatable human-driven floater, and feel sorry for him when he turned in his infidelity by pompousness. I love the scene when Edward brooded in pajamas by the fire after he hurted his dear wife with his Heloise fascination. IMHO, Colin's profile is one of the finest in the world and it's extremely sexy silhouetted agaisnt the fire...
BTW, Edward's mother in law Gamma is played by Rosemary Harris - aunt of the newest spider man, does that ring a bell? A lovely elegant old lady who I like very much.
