幸福结局

一开始会看这部电影，完全是冲着lisa kudrew去的（同样也出演另外一部电影的cox就很对不起了，无论如何我不打算再一个人看恐怖片了……），但是中途就被另一个女演员maggie和billy joel吸引跑了……lisa是不错啦，可是，看见phoebe人到中年满脸皱纹，还是很难适应。(另外不是phoebe的lisa看起来真的很像新白娘子里面的小青，joey像周润发……)
 
剪接和旁白字幕都很有趣，故事的发展也一样。其实在看见片名的时候，就隐隐知道，到达这样题目之前，大概有很长很曲折的路要走吧。的确是。有时候我会想，简简单单几行字，就可以总结一个人的一生，他或她恋爱，被骗，失恋，或者死去，那么漫长的一生，在旁人看来不过几行字。那些“这是他死前所约会的倒数第二个女孩”之类的话，有那么几行字就可以满足我们的好奇心，那些漫长的日子里他或她所经历的，其实我们并不感兴趣。我们已经有我们的烦恼了，感谢上帝，请只给我们最精彩最概括的部分吧。
生活中什么都可能发生，什么事都在发生。“他们在一起六年”，那其中他们有没有谈到永远呢？
 
maggie确实自己唱了里面的歌，我想导演可能是billy joel的fan，用了他的两首歌——honesty和just the way you are。这两首我都很喜欢，另外一首估计是专门写给电影的how lucky am i也非常棒，maggie的声音很好听。不过听billy joel精选的时候我并没注意到后面那首just the way you are……大概当时也不够专心吧……

他們在離開那導演家的時候在車上 說的話....不錯不錯
..開始時候的一個3層鏡頭，我很喜歡
但是對於 海報 總覺得怪怪的
那個 奥蒂斯 的老爸說 ：別讓xx洗床單，她就像你媽媽一樣！``哈哈


想進afi不容易啊...相比現在國内上映的電影...還是推薦它好一點吧
再一點，裏面的配樂很喜歡...

狗屁藝術家..都是壞人！`

影片开始就讲这部影片可以看作是喜剧，是啊，同性恋、堕胎、乱伦，等等等等揉杂在一起，本来就很幽默，不是么。这个社会的容纳度开始变得越来越大，喜剧？悲剧？不管怎样，只是一出戏剧罢了。

不知道片中那个非常非常像诺拉琼斯的声音是谁的，很喜欢。

昨天看了Happy Endings，奇怪之前留言的是哪位高人，电影不像我以为美国片，不过很好看，简言之就是fz，老公夸我竟让能把这么fz的电影看懂，有长足的进步。Lisa太老了，不过还是我喜欢的口气。那个Jude确实演得挺好的，但是我不喜欢这样的角色，我太幼稚了，只会用爱憎去评价人。其实这电影在数码伴侣里不知道呆了多久了，就是昨天没事想找部片子看，想起来这两个演员是两个理由让我把它看掉，推荐！

Honesty is such a lonely word

"Happy Endings weaves multiple stories to create a witty look at love, family and the sheer unpredictablity of life itself."

It's a comedy, sort of. For the sake of Lisa Kudrow I picked this movie, then I realized it was far more than a simple comedy, instead it's a great lifestory. I spent 2 hours of my "Bachelor's night". And it's worth the time.

Happy Endings begins with an unhappy ending, it then goes on with three stories of 10 major roles.

Some mid-age woman gave up abortion, gave birth to her son and then gave up the baby to adoption. Twenty years later a stranger came to her and said..."well I know about your son.", although he was trying to blackmailing her. He was dishonest, only telling part of the truth.
Some Mexican immigrant, a masseur and also a sex-worker who provided special services with fingers only. He was also dishonest. He married a woman to get the green card.
Some lesbian couple raising a kid, while their gay friend wondering whether they used his sperm but lied about it...
Some lonely father and gay son...happy ending that the father finally took his son as "just the way he is".
Some young talented girl who intoxicated me with her beautiful songs, she'd been through romantic relationship, which she thought would lead her to marriage, but gave up the fetus in her and left with grief.

...and these people are all connected, in one way or another. you see the stories moving on, sometimes depressingly. The narrative method is unique but familiar: using text captions for 'forecasting".

This film to me is about redeeming qualities of however flawed personalities. There is no evil here, and in this sense it is not very American, in a more puritan, Manichean sense. We are led to believe that the wrongfulness of people's behavior has more to do with unthoughtfulness or carelessness, than plain wicked nature or ingrained vice. Very refreshing.
　　
Yet, precisely for this reason, the film would have been stronger if the plot strains credibility a bit less. It is a comedy about the reality of human conditions, if you will, therefore it must present a illusion of some sort of reality. The writer/director, hoever, indulges in too many caricatures and cartoonish turns of events to stay close to that illusionof reality. Too bad.

The film could have been enlightening; now it is only entertaining.