影视导读:今天给大家推荐一部好莱坞经典喜剧剧情片《来自边缘的明信片》(Postcards from the Edge)。本片1990年由喜剧泰斗迈克·尼科尔斯执导,梅丽尔·斯特里普与安吉莉卡·休斯顿联袂出演。影片讲述当红女星苏珊·维尔在片场因药物过量被送进戒毒所,出院后不得不与控制欲极强的明星母亲德洛斯同住一个屋檐下,两代人之间的情感纠葛由此展开。影片以幽默讽刺的笔触探讨成名代价、成瘾困境与母女情仇,极具观赏价值。强烈推荐作为英语学习素材,中英对照剧本精读不容错过!
• "You are the only person who knows how to save me from saving myself."
(你是唯一一个知道如何把我从自我拯救中拉出来的人。)
• "I'm not going to be one of those actresses who peaked at twenty-two and then spent the rest of her life trying to prove she still had it."
(我才不要成为那种二十二岁就达到巅峰、然后用余生来证明自己还有魅力的女演员。)
• "The thing about being an actress is that you spend your whole life pretending to be something you're not, until eventually you forget who you really are."
(当女演员最可怕的地方在于,你要穷尽一生假装成别人,久而久之你就忘了真正的自己。)
• "Every family has its dysfunction. The trick is to find the beauty in the dysfunction."
(每个家庭都有各自的问题,关键在于如何在混乱中找到美。)
• "I'm not a role model. I'm just a woman who makes bad choices and worse movies."
(我不是什么榜样。我只是个不断做出糟糕选择、拍出更糟糕电影的女人。)