【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 magnetism and mystery if she39。s given a great deal to do(that was the case in an earlier film called Stay As You Are).But here, makes perfect use of of a driving force, she bees an echo of the land and the society around her, more passive than Hardy39。s Tess but linked just as unmistakably with natural Kinski39。s Tess has no inner life to speak makes her surroundings so expressive that her placidity and reserve work very at its nearly threehour running time, 39。s Tess cannot hope for anything approaching the range of the the deletions have been made wisely, and though the story loses some of its resonance it maintains its are episodes—like one involving Tess39。s shabby boots and Mercy Chant, the more respectable girl who expects to marry Angel—that don39。t make the sense they should, and the action is fragmented at 39。s a small price to pay for the movie39。s essential rightness, for its congruence with the mood and manner of the had to go to Normandy and rebuild Stonehenge to stage his last scene, according to this same is the case throughout his Tess, the results were worth the Pursuit of Happiness（當(dāng)幸福來(lái)敲門(mén)）2006 With a title like The Pursuit of Happiness, you expect the characters to get to the promised do, but if the journey matters more than the destination, this is a movie to Pursuit of Happyness is long, dull, and expands into two hours a story that could have been told more effectively in is not the feelgood movie of the season unless you believe that a few moments of good cheer can redeem 110 minutes of through The Pursuit of Happiness is a movies aren39。t inherently bad(in fact, many are powerful), but this one provides artificial characters in contrived is it that movies “inspired by a real story” often feel more fake than those fully embedded in the realm of fiction? Will Smith has generated Oscar buzz for his portrayal of Chris Gardner, the reallife guy whose ragstoriches story forms the basis of the movie.(Impoverished guy bees capitalist poster boy.)While it39。s fair to say that this is one of the best straight performances of Smith39。s career, it didn39。t blow me and of itself, the acting, while effective, is not Best Actor material, but it wouldn39。t surprise me if the movie39。s prestige factor and Smith39。s popularity earn him a , his female costar, Thandie Newton, isn39。t going to be considered for any spends about 90% of her screen time doing an impersonation of a harpy: screeching, bitching, and contorting her face into unpleasant 39。s son, Jaden, is okay as the movie39。s child protagonist。it39。s unclear whether his occasional deficiencies are the result of his acting, Steven Conrad39。s writing, or Gabriele Muccino39。s direction, but there39。s not much personality behind the cute features and curly Gardner(Will Smith)is down on his 39。s 1981 San Francisco and his selfemployed business of selling portable bone density scanners isn39。t doing wife, Linda(Thandie Newton), does nothing but yell at him and give him a cold shoulder, and the lack of domestic harmony is impacting the disposition of his beloved son, Christopher(Jaden Christopher Syre Smith).That39。s when Chris39。 life turns into a country wife is evicted from his goes to jail, neither passing GO nor collecting a muchneeded $ gets hit by a is makes his son alienates a friend over $ gets to spend a night in the cleanest public restroom in the history of public there39。s a bright spot, although you need a darkadapted eye to find having no experience, Chris applies to enter an internship program at Dean would appear to have no chance to get in until he amazes the head of the program(Brian Howe)by solving the Rubik39。s Cube puzzle in the back of a taxi 39。s a blessing that the movie doesn39。t use a stock villain to impede Chris39。 herkyjerky trip to the top, because that would have tipped the movie into the empire of the , the lack of a strong conflict makes the twohour running length seem very , there39。s also not much in the way of overt melodrama, but that could be a byproduct of having characters who are not deeply realized and have narrow emotional 39。s tough to connect with Chris and his they are played by a reallife father and son, there39。s no chemistry between 39。re constantly told how desperately Chris loves Christopher, but it takes a long time before we begin to buy of the time, Christopher seems like an annoying piece of baggage that Chris drops off at daycare when he has other things to film39。s most pelling scenes are those that show Chris struggling to enter the rat , this is no Glengarry Glen Ross, but it shows the pressure these salesmen are under and how important the contact lists the overall scheme of things, however, these sequences are background are neither plentiful nor movie spends more time following Chris on his futile sales rounds for the bone density scanner than it does acpanying him during his broker moral of the story is as trite as they e: don39。t let anyone convince you to give up on your animated films have been doing this better for Pursuit of Happyness concludes with a caption that tells us what happens to Chris after the end of the movie。it promises a better story than the one we have just film is also marred by a persistent(although not verbose)voiceover that adds nothing to the story while frequently jerking us out of the experience of watching don39。t need Will Smith telling me: “This part of the story is called 39。riding the bus.39。” This is the Englishlanguage debut of Gabriele Muccino, who has made a name for himself in Italian Pursuit of Happiness has the kind of slow, drab tone one occasionally associates with a director raised outside of the Hollywood can be an asset in some circumstances is a detriment in this Pursuit of Happiness isn39。t enjoyable, and its meager pleasures, including the eventual “payoff,” aren39。t enough to justify the unrelenting Pursuit of Happiness is petently made and gets lots of the details right, but when it es to the emotional core of the story, it lose