Magnolia (1999)
8/10
四个场景，四段故事，用两个字贯穿–原谅。觉得汤同学只是花瓶的就应该看看这部电影。
最后引用那个警察的话
“A lot of people think this is just a job that you go to. Take a lunch hour… job’s over. Something like that. But it’s a 24-hour deal. No two ways about it. And what most people don’t see… is just how hard it is to do the right thing. People think if I make a judgment call… that’s a judgment on them, but that is not what I do. And that’s not what should be done. I have to take everything… and play it as it lays. Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes they need to go to jail. And that is a very tricky thing on my part… making that call. I mean, the law is the law. And heck if I’m gonna break it. You can forgive someone. Well, that’s the tough part. What can we forgive? Tough part of the job. Tough part of walking down the street.”
Face/Off (1997)
8/10
多年前的大片，两个男主角超棒，Cage的哈雷路亚响动云霄。悬疑很不错，整部片子没有空白点，勾引你一直看下去。很多镜头很经典，比如子弹+白鸽在教堂里飞来飞去，传说中的暴力美学。另外两个人隔着镜子互相指着那段也很经典。医学解释真的不重要，子弹打来打去打不着也无所谓。有些不爽的地方就是情节方面比较教科书，比如Troy在Sean家里的时候还烛光晚餐，还教育他的女儿，这个以他平时的性格是在太离谱鸟。
The Thin Red Line (1998)
8/10
史诗级战争电影，和同年的大兵瑞恩比较，最大的不同是多了一分和谐，少了一根线。人与自然的和谐，哪怕仅仅是思想深处的映像，被导演认真的勾勒出来，虽然是一部战争电影，但前半个小时基本上连枪都没有出现过，一直在绿色的自然之中剖析战争的缘由和人心的劣根。这种反衬很容易使后来残酷的战争令人反感。少的一根线是一份悬念，大兵瑞恩好像一直有个东西在牵着你向前，到底是死是活的问题，而看这部影片你完全没有到底能不能打赢这场战役这种悬念，以至于你对战争的反感已经远远高过了其本身到底怎样，也许这也正是导演的成功之处吧。虽然作为奥斯卡历史上有名的获奖悲剧，但它达到的深度绝对比当时的宠儿莎士比亚要深远。虽然战争大场面没法和斯皮尔伯格那部相比，但颗粒无收也的确是很遗憾哈。