布拉德·皮特主演的《返老還童》中,本杰明·巴頓充滿傳奇的一生讓人感慨萬(wàn)千,他生命中路過(guò)的那些人留下的哲言,是生活中最寶貴的財(cái)富。
Some people, were born to sit by a river.
無(wú)論什么膚色,什么體型,人們都是孤獨(dú)的。但可怕的不是孤獨(dú),而是懼怕孤獨(dú)。其實(shí)孤獨(dú)沒(méi)什么不好,真的。
NGUNDA OTI: Plenty times you be alone. You different like us, it's gonna be that way. But I tell you a little secret. Fat people, skinny people, tall people, white people... they just as alone as us... But they scared shitless... Not a thing wrong with being alone... no sir...
Some get struck by lightning.
當(dāng)我瞎了一個(gè)眼睛,幾乎聽(tīng)不見(jiàn)晨間喧囂,動(dòng)不動(dòng)就抽搐,總是丟三落四,上帝卻依然扔下閃電來(lái)提醒我,能夠活著已經(jīng)是樁幸運(yùn)的事了。
MR. DAWS: I'm blind in the one eye...I can't hardly hear...I get twitches and shakes out of nowhere... I lose my line of thought... but you know what... God keeps reminding me I'm lucky to be alive...
Some have an ear for music.
無(wú)所謂你彈奏得怎樣,重要的是你彈琴時(shí)的感受……我們命中注定要失去我們所愛(ài)之人,不然我們?cè)趺粗浪麄冊(cè)谖覀兩杏卸嘀匾?/FONT>
THE WOMAN: It isn't how well you play, it's how you feel about what you're playing... We're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us.
Some are artists.
有時(shí)事與愿違,你大可以像瘋狗一樣咆哮,怨天尤人,詛咒命運(yùn),悔不當(dāng)初……但走到最后一刻,還是不得不安靜地放手歸去……
CAPT. MIKE: You can be mad as a mad dawg at the way things wents... You can swear, curse the fates, regret every'ting you ever dids... but when it comes to the end... You have to lets go...
Some swim.
我一直等著,等著自己的狀況變好,但我自己從未做過(guò)什么,人生就這么平白無(wú)辜地浪費(fèi)了。
ELIZABETH ABBOTT: I kept waiting, thinking I would do something to change my circumstance... Do something... But I never did... It's an awful waste, you can never get it back... wasted time... If we're going to have an affair, you're never to look at me during the day, we must always part by sunrise, and we can never say "I And when it is over I will send you a card that will simply say goodbye... Those are the rules...