《长兄如父》,这是老师影评得标题。兄弟间的这种感情深深打动着我。长兄沉稳,弟弟灵动,多少次,诺曼用忧虑又宠溺的目光注视着保罗。火车站送行那里,保罗冲过去追上诺曼只为再一次握手,多年后诺曼归乡来到保罗工作的报社,“Brother!”“Look at you!”温馨得像是醇香的咖啡☕。我想起最好的男性朋友曾给我看他姐姐写给他的信,真的让我好生羡慕。
然后是经典台词的摘录:
My brother stood before us, not on a bank of the Big Blackfoot River...but suspended above the earth...free from all its laws, like a work of art. And I knew just as surely and just as clearly...that life is not a work of art...and that the moment could not last.
"Maybe all I really know about Paul...is that he was a fine fisherman."
也许我真正了解的PAUL就是一个出色的渔夫,仅此而已。
"You know more than that", my father said. "He was beautiful."
“不仅仅如此”,我父亲说。“他是那样的美好。”
Each one of us here today will, at one time in our lives...look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question. "We are willing to help, Lord...but what, if anything is needed?"
It is true we can seldom help those closest to us.
事实上我们很少对我们所怜惜的人施以援助之手。
Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give... or more often than not,
the part we have to give...is not wanted.
也不知道该给予他们些什么,或者我们能给予的往往不是他们真正需要的。
And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us...but we can still love them.
这就是那些与我们靠近却又逃避着我们的人啊……但是我们仍然可以爱他们。
We can love completely...without complete understanding.
不顾一切地爱他们。
Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand in my youth are dead. Even Jessie.
现在青年时代那些我所珍爱但又无法理解的伙伴都相继离我而去了。包括Jessie。
But I still reach out to them.
但我仍然可以跟他们交心。
Of course, now I'm too old to be much of a fisherman.
当然,风烛残年的我,已经无法成为一个出色蝇钓者了。
And now I usually fish the big waters alone...although some friends think I shouldn't.
很多朋友认为我不该呆在大河边钓鱼,但是我依然如故。
But when I am alone in the half-light of the canyon...all existence seems to fade to a being with my soul and memories... and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot