非洲
走出非洲 (1985) IMDb 豆瓣 TMDB
Out of Africa
8.2 (221 个评分) 导演: 西德尼·波拉克 演员: 梅丽尔·斯特里普 / 罗伯特·雷德福
其它标题: Out of Africa / 非洲之旅(港)
凯伦(梅丽尔·斯特里普 Meryl Streep 饰)是一个爱慕虚荣的富家女,为了得到一个男爵夫人的称号她离开故土丹麦远嫁东非肯尼亚,然而男爵夫人的称号并没有给凯伦带来美满的婚姻生活。幸运的是在那片广袤的土地上,凯伦可以经常外出打猎、探险,她渐渐的爱上了这片神奇的土地。 在一次打猎遇险时,凯伦邂逅了年青的英国贵族邓尼斯(罗伯特·雷德福 Robert Redford 饰)。在遭遇婚姻的破裂和丈夫出走之后,凯伦独立承担起经营庄园的任务,在劳动的过程中,凯伦渐渐的与种植园里的仆人们产生了深厚友谊,而她与邓尼斯的关系似乎也有了进展。然尔命运之神并没有从此让凯伦一帆风顺,一次大火让她不得不出卖庄园从而缓解经济的拮据,后来邓尼斯驾机意外身亡又一次给了她沉重的打击。在经历了生命的磨炼之后,凯伦最终告别了那片她洒下青春和热情的土地……
该片在1986年的第58届奥斯卡上荣获了包括最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳改编剧本在内7项大奖。
卢旺达饭店 (2004) IMDb Eggplant.place 豆瓣 TMDB
Hotel Rwanda
8.6 (609 个评分) 导演: 特里·乔治 演员: 唐·钱德尔 / 索菲·奥科内多
其它标题: 호텔 르완다 / ホテル・ルワンダ
  影片来源于一个真实的故事。1962年,卢旺达宣布独立后,胡图族与图西族两部族之间矛盾重重,多次发生冲突,战事持续不断。 1994年4月6日,一架载着卢旺达胡图族总统朱韦纳尔·哈比亚利马纳和布隆迪总统西普里安·恩塔里亚米拉的座机在卢旺达首都基加利上空被火箭击落,两国元首同时罹难。4月7日,空难在卢旺达国内引发了胡图族与图西族两族的互相猜疑,从而爆发了一场规模空前的武装冲突和种族大屠杀,令世界震惊的人间惨剧拉开了帷幕。被胡图族种族主义者控制的广播电台也为大屠杀的行为煽风助阵,他们叫嚣着“让一切的郁积都爆发出来吧。在这样一个时刻,鲜血将滚滚而出”,失控的人群在媒体的号召下四处搜寻和杀死图西族人,空气中弥漫着血腥的味道。 当一个国家陷入了疯狂,世界也闭上了双眼时,有一个名叫保罗·卢斯赛伯吉纳(唐·钱德尔 饰)的饭店经理却敞开了温暖的怀抱,他经营着当地一家云集着欧洲游客和军界政要的米勒·科林斯饭店,八面玲珑地运用着一切关系尽心地呵护着饭店的顾客们。保罗是胡图族人,而他的妻子塔莎娜(苏菲·奥康尼多 饰)却是图西族的,对他而言,在动荡的时局中,保护他的图西族的亲戚与朋友成为了一生中面临的最大使命与挑战。联合国维和部队的无所作为和与世界媒体的隔绝使得保罗夫妇二人和在饭店中避难的1268名当地居民更加坚定了活下去的信心与勇气,“我们一定让全世界都无地自容地去采取应有的行动”。事态越来越严重,百日之内竟有约100万人死于非命,但米勒·科林斯饭店却成为了嗜血荒漠中的一片生命绿洲。
2005年11月22日 看过
2005年11月22日 评论 The Abyss - Nowadays, gory scenes that depicted a battle or a human tragedy in Hollywood have become as trendy as the obnoxious white wires sticking out of ipod user’s ears on a San Francisco bus. Started with Saving Private Ryan, directors competing to win the most realistic and most horrifying visual affect of physical human beings being destroyed. We were literarily in disbelief when we saw a movie that didn’t show any blood gushing scenes that froze audiences cold in their seats, teeth chattering. Especially in a movie that seemed to have all the permission to use it, Hotel Rwanda. Judging by New York Times review, there are certainly audiences who demanded to see such scenes. I, am not one of them. Neither, it seemed, are my friends who saw it with me. We were all grateful of their absence. Sometimes, trusting an audiences imagination is respect. The absence of cruelty in visual elements didn’t diminish the movie’s powerful emotional message in any way. We were still left frozen cold in our seats, teeth chattering, tears pouring, ashamed of what had happened in Rwanda, ashamed of the rest of the world’s inaction, indifference, and cowardice. It reminded me of The Pianist, because it presented the same drastic contrast of the most beautiful of human being side by side with the most cruel and senseless of the same species. The blinding contrast blew me away. Left me stunned with incomprehension and sadness. Instead of Chopin’s immensely pretty piano concerto resounding above the ruins of Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw, we saw the beautiful Tutsi girls dancing their traditional dance in the middle of the massacre. Their heads roll in that lovely curves, the radiant smiles on their face as if shone from the sky like sunlight, so lyrical and so full of joy amidst of all the chaos happening around them. The only thing separate that joy and the savage death occurring a few yards outside the hotel wall was one man’s courage and wit. At that moment, I felt the same way as when I was watching the Pianist. I wanted to will that beauty away, diminish it, hoping it is not so stunningly pure and happy. Because in the back of my mind, I wondered that if human beings is not capable of producing such beauty, maybe they wouldn’t be able to produce such cruelty either. We often used the word “savage” or “animal-like” to describe human cruelty. But I haven’t heard one kind of animal out there would not stop once their enemy admitted defeat and left their sight. What animals out there would go for genocide, over and over again? What animals have such crazed appetite for blood and destruction, except us humans? I also liked the fact that the script showed how Paul didn’t start out as a saint and savior. At the beginning, all he wanted was to save his own family. No more, no less. But the environment, and all the events led up to the final rescue forced him into his position. Somehow that reminded me of Johe Irving’s Owen Meany, where the talk of “being God’s instrument” played an dominate role. I was also grateful the director left God out of these. Hotel Rwanda remained a movie about humans. Human behavior, human characters, and human psychology. In the middle of the ever more darkened landscape, the characters remained ordinarily human. That alone seemed extraordinary. I remember when I first saw Schindler’s List some twelve years ago, I said everyone should see that movie once in his/her lifetime. I would say the same for Hotel Rwanda.
人性 杀戮 非洲