[中评] 《费城故事/Philadelphia 》: 爱与救赎

费城故事，不仅应该算是我看的第一部有关同性恋题材的电影，同时也是第一部让我感到震撼的电影。同为Tom Hanks演的电影，阿甘正传多了一份对人生梦想的探讨与对现实的戏谑，反而少了一份深沉的对人性的关怀。

This is the essence of discrimination: formulating opinions about others not based on their individual merits, but rather on their membership in a group with assumed characteristics.

这是歧视的本质：对他人的评价不是建立在个人的品性之上，而是建立在他们所属的群体所假定的特性之上。

力透纸背的一段话。永远不会忘记。时至今日，在《费城故事》上映17年之后，在Tom Hanks流着泪捧起奥斯卡小金人时泪流满面的感激宽容与爱的精神17年之后。歧视与偏见依然存在。爱与宽容依旧是有待时日来散播的人性之本。可是费城故事留给我们的那来自心底最深处的震撼，越永远不会随着时间的消逝而退散，反而愈久弥香，在我经历了人生的成长之后，越觉得弥足珍贵。

在这样一个感动泛滥，但是直指心灵最深处的震撼如此稀缺的年代。再一次重温《费城故事》，不禁泪流满面。永远无法忘怀Tom Hanks手握吊瓶支架，被疾病折磨的苍白的脸庞，陶醉在歌剧那绚烂的韵律之中时泛起的红晕。

Andrew Beckett: Do you like opera?

Joe Miller: I'm not that familiar with opera.

Andrew Beckett: This is my favorite aria. This is Maria Callas. This is "Andrea Chenier", Umberto Giordano. This is Madeleine. She's saying how during the French Revolution, a mob set fire to her house, and her mother died... saving her. "Look, the place that cradled me is burning." Can you hear the heartache in her voice? Can you feel it, Joe? In come the strings, and it changes everything. The music fills with a hope, and that'll change again. Listen... listen..."I bring sorrow to those who love me." Oh, that single cello! "It was during this sorrow that love came to me." A voice filled with harmony. It says, "Live still, I am life. Heaven is in your eyes. Is everything around you just the blood and mud? I am divine. I am oblivion. I am the god... that comes down from the heavens, and makes of the Earth a heaven. I am love!... I am love."

它说，活下去，我就是生命。天堂就在你的眼中。在你周围全部都是血和泥吗？我是圣洁的，我是救赎，我是上帝……从天而降，要让大地变成天堂。我就是爱！我就是爱。

我就是爱。我爱这世界。就像你们一样的爱着这个世界。我就是爱。我爱着那些深深爱着我的人。和你们一样。我就是爱。我也爱着你们。是这种爱让我活下去。有尊严的活下去。直到真相大白的那一刻。直到你们知道，我的爱，与你们同在。我的爱，和你们的爱一样，是上帝所赐，也终有一日献祭给上帝。

Andrew在得知自己最终有尊严的赢了。大家依次走到他的床前到晚安。直到见到自己心爱的人，Andrew拔下氧气面罩，充满爱意的眼神再次坚定：I am ready.

I am ready. Andrew留给这个世界的最后一句话。 I am ready, for the glory of humanities.

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