现实与梦想
生活像一面镜子。现实与梦想是镜子的两面，看似背道而驰却又相互依存。
年少轻狂的我们扬言要实现心中梦想，不枉岁月一场。可是现实往往又会击碎我们的梦想，嘘声梦想根本触不可及，渐渐人麻木了，心变冷了。屈身于深渊泥潭里叹息：梦想之所以叫梦想，不过是自欺欺人的想象，对着现实的镜子顾影自怜而已。
Life is like a mirror. Reality and dreams are two sides of the mirror, seemingly opposite but interdependent.
In our wild adolescence, we loudly proclaim that we will realize the dreams in our hearts, and to never let our time go to waste. But reality often shatters our dreams, hissing that dreams are simply out of reach, gradually people become numb, and their hearts become cold. Cowering in the abyss, trapped in the mire, only to sigh : Dreams are called dreams, because they are only self-deceiving fancies, as they look into the mirror of reality with self-pity.
就像很早以前我就想写这一篇影评，可是因为种种原因拖了又拖，就连昨天把电影重看一遍时都被数次打断。可能有人看了这番话会觉得我是在找借口，倒也确实是有找借口的嫌疑，但这也是现实，我承认，但我不认输，这不就打碎现实，回到书桌上打出本文来了？
It’s like how I had wanted to write this movie review a long while ago, but for various reasons, it kept getting delayed. Even yesterday as I was re-watching this movie I was interrupted several times. Some people may think that I’m making excuses, and indeed I might be rightly suspected for doing so, so I admit this is also reality, but I won’t lose to it. See how I have shattered reality, and returned to the desk to type out this post?
今天这篇影评是要致敬我心目中非常优秀的一部影片《阿甘正传》。我想尝试从“现实与梦想”的角度来剖析这部影片，并对这部上映于1994年的电影为何能在人们心中成为经典作品发表一些自己小小的看法。
Today’s movie review is a tribute to what I feel is an excellent film < Forrest Gump >. I would like to try to analyze the film from a “reality and dreams” perspective and share some thoughts on why this 1994 film became a classic.
电影是第一重梦想。演员终日在片场等光、等雨、等恰好的落日时分，在现实场景里用数小时乃至数天的等待只为演绎荧幕上的一个瞬间；观众在某个周末跳脱出家庭的琐事、工作的繁芜开启一段电影时光，走进武侠的刀光剑影或是赫本的罗马假日。以身外身做梦中梦，一直以来电影似乎承载着我们的梦想。现实如此残酷，梦想依旧遥不可及，一部优秀的影片梦幻般地拉近了梦想与现实的距离，给予我们抬头面对生活的动力，并在追梦的路上乐此不疲。
The movie is in itself, the first level of dreams. Actors spend all their time, hours or even days waiting for light, rain, the golden hour, for the right conditions on set, to perform a single moment on the screen; The audience breaks away from work and family chores on a particular weekend to start a movie, to walk into the world of light and shadows of swordsmen or into Hepburn’s Roman holiday. Vicariously, movies have always been channels for our hopes and dreams. Reality can be so cruel, dreams are far out of reach, a good film dreamily closes the distance between dreams and reality, gives us the motivation to face life head-on, to have fun in our pursuit of dreams.
阿甘是第二重梦想。影片的开始通过长镜头展现一片随风飘舞的羽毛把我们缓缓地带入阿甘的梦境中。羽毛飘落到阿甘那双破旧的鞋子边，他没有扬长而去或是扔掉那片羽毛，而是弯腰拾起，悉心夹在自己的笔记本中……从拾起羽毛打开箱子再到小心翼翼地放入笔记本夹层这个细节，我们不难看出他是喜欢将生活中难忘点滴收入在一件件收藏的物品之中，热爱生活才会珍惜生活中的吉光片羽。当每一个陌生人坐在他的身边，他分享了自己的巧克力和妈妈的话“生活就如同一盒巧克力，你永远不会知道你将得到什么。”虽然这句话已经成为影片经典台词之一，但在阿甘的心里仅仅只是妈妈的话，从他的角度仅仅是把自己的收获与爱分享给陌生人，这微行善举其实就足够伟大。
Forrest Gump is the second layer of the dream. The film begins with a long shot of a feather fluttering in the wind slowly leading us into Forrest Gump’s land of dreams. As the feather landed by Forrest’s old and beaten shoes, he did not get up to walk away and he did not toss it away, but he bent over to pick it up and carefully kept it in his book…. from the entire sequence of picking up the feather, opening his suitcase and taking the utmost care to put the feather away, it is easy to see that he likes to include everything in his daily life in a collection of keepsakes and loves life so much by appreciating every small fragment of each moment. As each stranger sat next to him, he shared his chocolates and his mother’s words, “Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” Although this sentence has become one of the film’s classic lines, but in Forrest Gump’s heart these are simply his mother’s words, from his point of view just to share his gains and love to these strangers, and these little acts of kindness are actually great enough.
如果阿甘的故事在电影中承载的是“梦想”，那他周围亲近的人却是承受了“现实”并守护了梦。妈妈为了让智力偏低的阿甘能顺利入学而不得不选择“度假”。接着在校车上阿甘被几乎所有人拒绝之后，遇见了像天使一般的女主角。阿甘之所以能够拥有奔跑的能力是源自于年少时一直被人鄙夷和霸凌，而女主的一声声“阿甘！跑！”给了他奔跑的勇气。一个人的天赋，往往从他的苦难中长出枝桠。阿甘之所以能活成一束光也是因为他伟大的母亲和小天使温暖、陪伴了他的童年。
If the story of Forrest Gump is about how ‘dreams’ came to bear , the people close to him have protected these dreams by enduring the reality. Mom had to say that her husband is on “vacation” in order for Forrest, whose IQ was below average, to successfully get into public school. Later on the school bus, Forrest was rejected by almost everyone, until he met the female protagonist who was like an angel to him. Forrest Gump’s ability to run comes from being despised and bullied all the time when he was young, and the voice of the female lead’s “Run, Forrest! Run!” gave him the strength and courage to keep running. A person’s gift often sprouts from suffering. Forrest Gump was able to live brightly because of his great mother and warmth from his little angel, who accompanied him in his childhood.
电影中的人物都有自己的梦想。女主的梦想是有一天能够站在舞台上成为万众瞩目的焦点，阿甘最好朋友布巴的梦想是拥有一艘捕虾船，而泰勒中尉的梦想是能够为国捐躯，然而却是始终没有表达梦想的阿甘实现了所有。不光是梦想，女主说你根本不懂爱是什么，其实这个问题如果问大家，你们懂得爱是什么吗？也许看似不懂爱的阿甘却更懂得如何去爱，我觉得这是来源于妈妈给过他充足的安全感和充足的爱。爱是一种持之以恒的陪伴，爱不仅是互相凝视而是可以望向相同的远方。
All the characters in the movie have their own dreams. The female lead’s dream is to one day be famous, in the spotlight on a stage, Forrest’s best friend Bubba’s dream is to own a shrimp boat, Lt. Taylor’s dream was to die for his country, but Forrest who had never expressed any dreams in particular, has seemingly achieved everything. Not just dreams, the female lead had told him that he don’t know what love is. But as a matter of fact, if you ask everyone this question, do you know what love is? Forrest who may not seem to know what love is, but he is one who knows how to love. I think it comes from his mother who have provided him with a sense of security and abundant love. Love is a kind of a persevering companionship. Love is not just gazing at each other but to be looking into the same distance.
当女主问他，你还记得我们曾经祈祷的是什么？我们曾经祈祷变成一只鸟让我能飞得远远的。在阿甘身上，我们看到了梦想，就像女主为什么一直觉得她想要离开阿甘，因为他能做到我们都做不到的事情——就是保持善良，保持单纯——看似很简单，但当你做不到时候你可能会感到羞愧而想离开，这就是为什么珍妮会想离开阿甘，因为他太美好了，美好到透明。对于事物的坚持不懈，对爱情的从一而终，对友人的信守承诺，对生活的执着才能书写人生的独特可能。他也许并不懂得为什么要这么做，他只是忠诚善意地对待身边每一个人，只是专注努力地做好答应过的每一件事，仅此而已，可若要用一生去坚持，扪心自问几人能成？
When the female lead asked him, you remember that time we prayed? We prayed for God to turn me into a bird so I could fly far, far away. In Forrest, we saw dreams, just like how the female lead always felt that she wanted to leave Forrest, because he can do what we all can’t –which is to retain a kindness, retain a pureness — it may look very simple, but when you can’t do it you may feel ashamed and want to leave, that is why Jenny wants to leave Forrest, because he is too good, good and clear like glass. He perseveres in everything he does, his faithfulness to love, keeping his promises to his friends, his persistence towards living was what wrote the extraordinary life of possibilities that he had. He may not understand why things were the way they were, but he is loyal and kind to everyone around him; he just focused on every promise made, that was all. But if you want to spend your entire life persisting, ask yourself how many people can achieve that?
其实当我一次又一次观看这部影片时，心中的苦楚不断翻腾。这部影片虽然激励了很多人，但它的内核却是极其悲伤的。阿甘从出生的那一刻被断定为智力低下，妈妈为了他入学而吞下的委屈，他最爱的女生在追寻梦想的途中尊严不断被践踏，最好的兄弟命丧他乡，敬佩的长官也曾长时间记恨于他……身边的亲人一个个离他而去，他只能不断地向前奔跑。假设这是一个爱情故事，那这爱情里一定充满着悲伤，好似一个男人不懂得如何去爱一个女子，他只像孩子一般单纯，女人不幸的童年加上成长之路的满身伤痕使她不自觉地躲避那个活得像光的男人。我有一个浪漫又悲哀的想法，他一次又一次的努力与坚持只是为了能够站在更高的地方让她能在人群中注意到他的存在。一次不足够那就再一次、再一次，或许下一次她就不会离开。
To be honest, as I watched the film again and again, my heart ached constantly. Although the film has inspired many people, its core is extremely sad. Forrest Gump had been determined to have low intelligence from the moment he was born. His mother had to endure exploitation in order for him to go to school. The love of his life was trampled upon endlessly in the pursuit of her dream. His best buddy died in a foreign land, even the officer he had utmost respect for hated him for a long time…..Every loved one left him one by one, and all he could do was keep running forward. If this was a love story, then it must a love full of sadness, as the man did not know how to love a woman, but was as simple as a child; a woman’s unfortunate childhood and the scars of growing up made her unconsciously avoid the man who lived like a shining light. I have a romantic and melancholic view, that he had strived and persevered and kept trying to stand ever higher just so that she can notice his existence in the crowd. If one time is not enough, then again, and again, maybe the next time she won’t leave.
现实是第三重梦想。之前我更喜欢用“理想”这个词，看上去更理智客观一点，但“梦想”给了我们在冷酷现实面前做梦的权利、保留疯狂的本能。也许在某些时刻我们也如阿甘一样，不知道为什么要奔跑，奔跑的目的地在哪儿，也不知道生活的含义到底是什么，但一定不要停止奔跑，或许只有坚持奔跑、漫无目的地一直奔跑才能寻找到方向。也只有坚强的活下去，被命运夺走的才会以另一种方式回赠于你，好比中尉的“双腿”。引用梅长苏的话“既然我活了下来，就不能白白地活着”。
Reality is the third layer of the dream. I used to prefer the word “ideal” to seem more rational and objective, but “dreams” gives us the right to dream in the face of cold reality and to retain our crazy instincts. Maybe at different points in time, like Forrest Gump, we don’t know why we must run, where to run to, or what life really means, but we must not stop running; maybe only by persistently running, without a clear direction, can we find our way. Only if you live with strength, what destiny had taken away may be returned in some other ways, like the “legs” of Lieutenant Dan. To quote Mei Changsu, “Since I have survived, I cannot live in vain.”
《阿甘正传》整部影片没有大开大合的剧情或激烈的声嘶力竭的宣泄争吵，只是在温柔中流淌着悲伤，现实中沉浸着梦想，像再次登上校车的 Forrest Gump，如结尾再度飞扬起的羽毛随风飘落在人们的心间，重燃心中的信念。
In the entire < Forrest Gump > film there is no extreme ups and downs in the plot, no intense and hoarse venting or quarrels, there is just a sorrow that flows gently, dreams steeped in reality, just as the Forrest Gump who gets onto the school bus again, the feather takes flight once more and lands in the hearts of the audience, reigniting the faith that burns within.
现实与梦想依旧彼此量子纠缠着，我们还是原来的我们，仰望星光便不会失去方向。
Reality and dreams still entangles at a quantum level, we are still who we used to be, and we won’t lose our way if we keep looking up at the stars.
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
（配图来源于网络）
Zhang Zhehan’s previous post was published on Aug 12; 100 + 3 days ago, from his latest post.
Really happy that he has been keeping very busy, looking happier and healthier.
Wishing him nothing but the very best, and hope that whatever ‘destiny’ or in his case, ‘corrupted forces’ had taken away from him, will be returned to him, with interest, very soon.
Zhang Zhehan 