《Waitress》,这不是一个教做甜点派的电影,虽然里面穿插着很多的甜点派,而且看完这个电影,真的很想去做或者吃一个可口暖心的甜点派。
影片开始,棕色的巧克力豆自上而下滚落到做派的模子里;汁水饱满的水蜜桃,在刀下被切成一片片了;紫色浓郁的厚厚果酱汁淹没了白色的香蕉;橙黄色的面糊填满了模子,细密而温暖;伴随着简单优美舒缓的钢琴,一个个美丽的甜点派做好了。镜头最终拉出,做这些美丽甜点派的女主人,她身穿蓝色制服,用铲子搅动着巧克力浆,平静沉醉和愉悦,如同这些甜点派,色彩艳丽,味道绝美。
可这不过是她生活的唯一亮点了,珍娜(Jenna),是美国中部一个不起眼高速路边的咖啡甜点店里面的服务员。她的丈夫是个自私的专治的人,她下班后所有的小费和工资都要被丈夫没收,有时还动手打人。他一心想着让珍娜只爱他一个人,用提供给她住处和生活来要挟珍娜永远不能离开他,因此都不买车给珍娜,让她或者做公共汽车,或者他亲自来接她。珍娜不爱她的丈夫,一心偷偷的存些钱,要逃跑。可却发现怀了孩子。这个孩子来得那么不及时,珍娜在等测孕显示结果是,不停焦灼的企盼,“我不要孩子,我只要做甜点派。”
生活永远是不按期望走的。她去医院检查,医生说:“恭喜你。” 她立刻说:“别说这些恭喜的话,我可不像其他母亲那些这样热切盼望这个孩子的,我只是要生个孩子,仅此而已。” 而且后来,她和这个有些奇怪的但是温柔的已婚妇科医生坠入了爱河。他们一边在心里拒绝着这种不道德的关系,一边疯狂接吻。
珍娜对这场突然的外遇,开始时有些惊慌焦虑,顾虑重重的。可她太需要这份爱了,挣扎过后。她放任了自己。此时影片有段她脸上放射出发自内心的灿烂微笑,每天都像公主一样,在嘈杂吵闹的餐厅穿行,沉浸在爱河当中,哪怕这爱是那么不光明的没有未来。 珍娜和很多女人一样,她心软也不勇敢,即使她的婚姻已经如此糟糕,可她由于经济问题,由于这个将要出生的孩子,她摇摆不定的矛盾着。她不知离开丈夫的生活会怎样。可她没有一天不在想离开。她收拾好了自己的小皮箱,打算去参加甜点派的竞赛,如果得到冠军可以有一大笔奖金,她这样算计着。可那天清晨,当她拎着皮箱去汽车站等车,又被老公抓了回来,让她不要走。
珍娜在无奈的生活中挣扎,她会闭着眼睛,发明她的新甜点派。她所有的派都有名字,有“我不想要Earl的孩子派(I Don't Want Earl's Baby Pie)” 和 “怀孕痛苦自我怜悯派(Pregnant Miserable Self-Pitying Loser Pie” 及“该死的孩子派(Bad Baby)”。当然每种派都有不同的陷料搭配,味道也都不同,但材料和味道会多少反映出她做派时的心情。当丈夫不给她钱她去参加“烘烤派大赛”或是阻止她逃跑的时候,她又会做出“我恨我丈夫派(I Hate My Husband)”。当她爱上了妇产科医生,并背着丈夫与其约会时,她则创造出“坠入爱河派(Falling in Love Pie)”和“淘气小楠瓜派(Naughty Pumpkin Pie)”,当然还有 “丈夫会因我有外遇而杀了我派(Earl Murders Me Because I'm Having an Affair Pie)。
影片中间有一段对话,她满眼泪水问自己店里的老板,“你开心快乐吗?你自称自己是快乐的人,可你真从心里这样觉得吗?“她老板是这样回答她的,”你问的这么严肃,那我就认真回答你。我足够快乐。我是说,我要得不多,得到的也不多,给出去得也不多,我一般会顺其自然享受已经有的。所以,对这个问题的回答是,我足够快乐了。“
而店里,那个古怪孤僻不近人情翻看报纸念星座预测,看着老公被抢走的妇女要自杀写求救信而哈哈大笑的老头,也是很多家店的包括这家店的主人乔,把珍娜的挣扎犹豫也都看在眼里。他在另一个女招待的婚礼上对珍娜说:”我从来没遇到过你这样的女孩,你目前还是没有了解自己的潜能。“ 他说他自己的一生都在每个选择的关口走错了路,就象一只无头小鸡。”可是你不同,这样的生活会毁了你,你要重新开始。“ 珍娜说,”我没钱,而且马上就要有这个孩子了。“ 老头说,”我只是替你梦想一下,你要知道对于我来说,所有的梦想已经没有了。可你却还来得及。“
如果生活对于大家来说都是不那么理想充满矛盾的,(又有几个宠儿真的是对生活样样满意呢?)我们该怎么办呢?是象店老板那样,随波逐流随遇而安,还是应该如乔所说,趁着年轻重新开始?
珍娜终于要临产分娩了。她对着医生说,”给我用大量麻醉剂,能用多少用多少。”说这话的时候,她显然还是对这个即将诞生的婴儿没有任何感情的。影片前面还有一段,她店里的那两个服务员送她本妈妈日记一类的礼物。她说谢谢,可还是说不喜欢,而且说,假如自己赢不了派的比赛要是把孩子卖了能换钱就好了,毕竟这是她目前所拥有的最大的资产了。她狠心的想法那两个女招待目瞪口呆,她们中一个马上说:“快收回这个念头。”另一个则小心翼翼的问:“难道你对这个孩子真的一点感情都没有?” 珍娜斩钉截铁的回答:“没有,而且不能说明我就是个坏人,也许我的爱早被那个男人弄没有了。”
可最后珍娜,抱着自己婴儿的那一刹那,她立刻被这个娇嫩纯真的婴儿唤醒了很多东西,她再也不是单纯的自己了。她升腾的母爱,给了她从来没有的勇敢和坚定,她感到她有责任给孩子一个美好的生活。她于是立刻对边上的丈夫说,“离婚。” 她那一刻抱着孩子,脸上有着异常的光彩。而且,她决绝地告别了妇科医生,不想再纠缠下去一段没有未来的感情。当然为了给主人公一个美满的未来,影片设计了乔,那个做了手术再没有醒过来的老人,给了她一张支票,刚好用来开了自己的甜点派店。
这个电影很是温馨,回味隽永。看似平淡,却于细微处传递真实,小人物的喜怒哀乐,生活的无奈和希望,幽默地缓缓道来。没有一般喜剧的俗气和过分的聪明,就是一部关于生活的电影,关于女人的电影。也象那一只只烤好的甜点派,不如海鲜那般鲜活刺激,却也是直暖肺腑,滋味无穷。
值得一提的是这个剧的导演和编剧,她是Adrienne Shelly,还在剧中扮演了另一个女招待。她却已经因凶杀而死。事情的起因是她楼下的人装修房间,太过吵闹她下去和他理论,很快演变了剧烈争吵。结果火爆的邻居拿锤子砸了她,她要报警,这个移民怕自己被驱逐出境,就干脆杀了她。
这大概就是真实的生活和电影的区别。Shelly,她可以给她的珍娜设计出一个美丽甜蜜充满希望的结局,自己却躲不开楼下移民的头脑发热的一击。也许是天妒英才吧,我只好这么想。也许上帝不想让我们太有智慧,或者过多的琢磨人生生活的问题。生活到底还是活出来的,不管是随遇而安,还是重新开始,怎样快乐怎样过吧,最好学会烤馅饼,不会至少也知道能去哪里吃到,我是这样认为的。
这个电影中,有个很感人的主题曲,是Baby don't you cry。歌词这样写道:
Baby don't you cry
gonna make a pie
gonna make pie with a heart in the middle
Baby don't be blue
gonna make for you
gonna make pie with a heart in the middle
Gonna be a pie from heaven above
Gonna be filled with strawberry-love
Baby don't you cry
gonna make a pie hold youforever in the middle of the heart
脆弱的我们是多么需要母亲啊,一个能用心来烤派,并在里面放满了爱的母亲。
精彩对白:
Jenna: Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that's all they do. They don't pull away. They don't look at your face. They don't try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms without an ounce of selfishness in it.
Jenna: I don't want you to save me. I don't need to be saved.
Earl: Hey. You remember what I said - don't you go lovin' that baby too much.
Jenna: I don't love you, Earl. I haven't loved you for years. I want a divorce.
Earl: [
laughs] Well, that's not a funny joke. You got this new baby here, you shouldn't be making jokes like that...
Jenna: I want you the hell out of my life. You are never to touch me, ever again; I am done with you. If you ever come within six yards of me, I will flatten your sorry ass and I'll enjoy doin' it.
Jenna: Dr. Pomatter?
Dr. Pomatter: Yes, Jenna?
Jenna: I just want to make sure we're clear about one thing.
Dr. Pomatter: What's that, Jenna?
Jenna: I want drugs. I want massive amounts of drugs. I want the maximum legal limit of drugs.
Dr. Pomatter: Noted and understood.
Old Joe: [
after reading a news column about a woman contemplating suicide] Oh I love living vicariously through the pain of others.
Jenna: Cal, are you happy? I mean, when you call yourself a happy man, do you really mean it?
Cal: You ask a serious question, I'll give you a serious answer: Happy enough. I don't expect much. I don't get much, I don't give much. I generally enjoy whatever comes along. That's my answer for you, summed up for your feminine consideration. I'm happy enough.
Old Joe: Are you with child?
Jenna: Shush!
Old Joe: I saw that look on a woman's face before. Her name was Annette. I made sweet sweet love to her all through the summer of 1948, and she had that look on her face all through the fall.
Jenna: Cal, I'm pregnant.
Cal: Yeah. I knew that. I thought everyone knew.
Jenna: You're not mad?
Cal: Hell, as long as you can carry a pie tray and bus a table I don't care if you give birth while doing it.
Jenna: Baby don't you cry, gonna make a pie, gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle. Baby don't be blue, gonna make for you, gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle. Gonna make a pie from heaven above, gonna be filled with strawberry love. Baby don't you cry, gonna make a pie, and hold you forever in the middle of my heart.
Dr. Pomatter: I want to talk to you, somewhere outside of here. Maybe we can have a coffee or something?
Jenna: I can't have coffee, it's on the bad food list you gave to me. What kind of doctor are you?
Dr. Pomatter: So, what seems to be the problem?
Jenna: I seem to be pregnant
Dr. Pomatter: Congratulations!
Jenna: Thanks, but I'm not so happy about it like everybody else might be. I'm having the baby and that's that.
Dr. Pomatter: Un-congratulations, you're definitely having a baby.
Jenna: Un-thank you.
Dr. Pomatter: I could find the whole meaning of life in those sad eyes
Jenna: Wow...
[
she looks up at him in wonder before giving in to a romantic kiss]
Jenna: I Hate My Husband Pie... You take bittersweet chocolate and don't sweeten it. You make it into a pudding and drown it in caramel
Jenna: Earl Murders Me Because I'm Having An Affair Pie... You smash blackberries and raspberries into a chocolate crust
Jenna: I Can't Have No Affair Because It's Wrong And I Don't Want Earl To Kill Me Pie... Vanilla custard with banana. Hold the banana.
Jenna: Pregnant Miserable Self Pitying Loser Pie... Lumpy oatmeal with fruitcake mashed in. Flambé of course
Earl: [
while having sex] Say something sexy, baby, something nasty.
Jenna: [
deadpan] What do you want me to say?
[
he climaxes]
Ogie: [
to Dawn] . If I had a penny for everything I love about you, I would have many pennies.
Becky: If you havent noticed, my right boob is way up here in Maine and my left boob is danglin' down here in Florida.
pagegreen6.好久不见,新年好。:)
杜马,鸵鸟其实就是随遇而安的态度,自己高兴就好的。你出去玩回来了?新年快乐!
风娉,谢谢你夸奖,新年快乐!
我可以选择当驼鸟或笨伯吗..:)
新年好明亮!
有你这个好影评,马上就去找电影来看吧..谢谢
橄榄树,的确是,这番话刨析的准确。
阿贝,你还是亲自去看看吧,我写的没电影有神韵啊。我也不想上班。正最后阵痛呢。:)
牛男牛女,孤草的意思大概是人工授精吧。要不我们早自己copy 自己啦。:)
探长,既然你也同意,那你就去学烤pie吧,烤好了我来吃。:)))
孤草,你的问题只有你心神一闪就解决啦。加油吧。:)
sweet girl,sweet movie,sweet song, sweet article.
sweet happy new year!
生活到底还是活出来的,但怎样快乐呢? 最好有点爱好用来排遣压力,可以是烤馅饼或任何; 一定要有个目标,让人有对自己狠一点的勇气,可以是一个母亲的责任或其他.
新年快乐!
唉,明天要开始上班了。
我也是这样认为的:))
这个电影一定找来看看。
Mousa,是啊,等2号再去上班了。这个假期过得真舒服,也过得真很快。时间嗖嗖的就没了。:)
大家新年快乐!