十七岁的边缘

这是美国为数不多的具有现实主义和令人共鸣的角色的青少年电影之一，它可以引发许多有意义的父母和孩子关于成长的对话。我真的很喜欢这部电影，但不喜欢结局。***剧透警告***在最后，主角——17岁的少女纳丁弥补了她的错误，成倍地成熟。然而，不知为何，这部电影让人觉得纳丁是唯一一个有问题的人，并没有从天文学上解决这个问题:她那有毒的母亲可能只是纳丁难缠的主要原因之一。1.纳丁的妈妈似乎对女儿没有基本的同理心。在她告诉纳丁，纳丁已故的父亲(4年前去世)会对纳丁的未来感到非常失望之后，她从未道歉，也从未表现出任何遗憾。对一个显然还在为父亲的死而悲伤的青少年说这样的话，在情感上是一种虐待。2.纳丁的母亲在情感上非常不成熟，她把很多父母的责任都推给了孩子(亲子教育)。当纳丁因为妈妈说的话而变得心烦意乱，失去控制，开着妈妈的车走了(纳丁还没有驾照)时，妈妈并没有担心女儿的安全，而是抱怨纳丁让她在老板面前多么尴尬。 And when she complaint to her teenage son about what a horrible daughter Nadine was, it was at night and had been likely more than 8 hours that she hadn't heard from Nadine. Instead of trying to find Nadine and making sure Nadine didn’t do anything dangerous because of Nadine's volatile emotional state, the mom just called her teenage son to deal with it. While all she was doing was trying to throw her daughter's things out to release her anger. She then fell asleep later, when her son was out there trying to find his younger sister. The mom didn’t even wake up to check if her daughter came back home safely or not. Mind you, Nadine was almost raped that night. In contrast, even in horrible and confusing situation like this, Nadine somehow pulled it through, realized and started to amend for her mistakes that night. Nadine can be very difficult, but I can't see what's so awful about her that her mother made her out to be. She is just a rather normal struggling teenager. She never bullied people for fun or exhibited any behavior that's truly difficult to tangle. Besides, Nadine has solid reasons to be difficult, and to be unable to figure out so quickly How Not to be Difficult (seeing her father die in front of her in an accident; feeling not good enough compared to her brother in all aspects; feeling that she is losing her only friend to her brother who she hates, and who is not at all nice to her; being constantly labelled by her mother as difficult and lesser than her brother; having to counselling mom's constant "guy problem" like a "little parent" right after her mother shut her up when she tried to ask for emotional support, etc). Considering all these, without a good and safe adult role model to teach her how to cope, it is only normal that Nadine was difficult. The ending of this movie left a rather nasty aftertaste, a feeling that a struggling and isolated teenage girl (possibly with serious mental problems) is not allowed to struggle and be awful before she finds her way out, and that her mother, supposedly the role model, was not hold to the same standard (while her daughter apologized and changed, she never really did). Losing a husband and raising two kids is extremely difficult, but Nadine also lost her dad, she is only 17, and she needs a loving and supportive mother.

看到这么多尴尬，我感到非常满足。也许是因为虽然我有点畏缩，但感觉都很真实。紧凑的剧本和对角色有深刻理解的演员造就了一部令人愉快的电影。这是可预测的感伤催泪片海洋中的一颗宝石。哈里森说出来的话是无法预测的。他似乎在整部电影中玩得最开心。这部充满希望的电影陷入了焦虑、悲伤、自我厌恶、压抑的愤怒和爱的泥潭。