果岭剑客

A River Runs Through It / 大河之恋 / 一条奔腾而过的河流

导演：Robert Redford 罗伯特．雷德福

主演：Robert Redford (旁白) 　　　Craig Sheffer (克莱格谢菲) 　　　Brad Pitt (布拉德彼特) 　　　Tom Skerritt 　　　Brenda Blethyn 　　　Emily Lloyd 年份：1992

Brief introduction from Amazon.com

A lyrical and nostalgic film from director Robert Redford, based on the popular autobiographical novel by Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through It shows the best that modern filmmaking has to offer. The film chronicles two brothers coming of age in early-20th-century Missoula, Montana, under the stern tutelage of their minister father, played by Tom Skerritt. Their father instills in them a love of fly fishing, which for one brother Paul (Brad Pitt) becomes a lifelong passion even as he sets out to become a newspaperman and struggles with his addiction to gambling. The other brother, Norman (Craig Sheffer), dreams of exploring the world outside of Missoula as he falls in love with a local girl (Emily Lloyd) who also dreams of broader horizons. Soon one brother must discover the true meaning of family loyalty when the other finds himself in deeper trouble than ever before. Redford, who also narrates the film, does a masterful job in re-creating the period and in drawing out affecting performances from his young cast. An Oscar winner for Philippe Rousselot"s luminescent cinematography, this is a poignant andspecial film.

Honestly speaking, execpt for the lush mountains and rivers in Montana and the handsome young Brad Pitt and the musicthat attract me, it"s a rather dull film. It"s all about the two brothers and the big river and fly fishing and don"t expect exciting twists and turns of the story. After all, it"s a literary film, suitable for serene and patient minds. What impressed me most is the ending, Paul"s death.

Indirectly though Paul was always presented in my father"s thoughts. I remember the last sermon he had given not long before his own death.

"......We can love completely without complete understanding."

Now nearly all those i loved and did not understand in my youth are dead, even Jessy. But i still reach out to them.

Of course now i am too old to be much a fisherman, and now i usually fish at the big waters alone, although some friends think i shouldn"t.

But when i"m alone and half lie of the camp, all existences seem to fade to be in with my soul and memories, and the sounds of the big river and the four-count rhythm and the whole big-fish arrivals.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and the river runs through it.

The river was cut by the world"s grace flood, and runs over rocks from the basement of time, and some of the rocks are timeless rain drops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.

I am haunted by waters.

We can never fully understand a person, even our parents, but that doesn"t bother us to love each other. Love is the most treasurable quality of human beings and the best gift we can offer to others.