电影刮痧英文观后感（一）

Gua Sha is a movie about the differences between American and Chinese culture. Xu datong is a video games designer in St. Louis. When his father visits from China, he performs Gua Sha （a Chinese traditional treatment） on his grandson, which leaves bright red marks on the skin and causes a lawsuit of child abuse. In the court, Datong loses his mind so that finally he loses custody of his son. I think this scene is shocking and thought-provoking to most of the Chinese audiences. But the most impressing scene to me is the ending. Datong wants to see his son in Christmas eve, he has to climb a pipe to the ninth floor which his son lives. I think the pipe is not only a pipe, but also a gap, a deep gap between American and 5000-year Chinese culture. He wants to climb over the gap and he will never succeed, perhaps no Chinese people really could succeed.

It’s about assimilation into American culture, and not assimilation in an ”International” city, like SF or NY or LA or Chicago, but St. Louis, MO （actually shot there）。 Really great acting, interesting story.

Gua Sha is a treatment in traditional oriental medicine in which a wooden board repeatedly slides across the patient’s acupuncture acupressure massage points. It works in similar principles like that of acupuncture acupressure massage. This method would inevitably leave bruise on the skin, and the story begins here, when the visiting grandpa who does not speak any English used this traditional practice to treat the grandson when both son and daughter-in-law were at work.

Sadly, in US, this is a story that repeats itself many times in the area where many oriental immigrants lives and all of these are due to simple misunderstanding between cultures.Gua Sha: Step-by-Step, by Arya Nielsen.If an acupuncturist is trained in Classical Chinese medicine, they will do this technique in their practice for pain, and for acute or chronic illness.

电影刮痧英文观后感（二）

Chinese immigrants struggle to hold onto their American dream after the husband's father （Xu Zhu） comes for a visit from mainland China and gives a si-mp-le Chinese Medicine therapy called Gua Sha to his grandson.

Da Tong （Tony Leung Ka Fai） is the father who is trying to integrate his Chinese cultural beliefs into his daily American reality, especially when dealing with his bo（Hollis Huston） and best friend, who is too quick to believe the worst about Da Tong's treatment of his son, Dennis. Da Tong's failures show his confusion about the differences between his original Chinese culture and his new American home. Even within his family there is conflict because Grandfather can't speak English and is excluded from many conversations because Mother （Wenli Jiang） wants only English spoken in her home for the benefit of her American born son. Da Tong and his wife are very well educated and understand that their child's best chances for succein America, and for him not to experience the same troubles they've had during the past 8 years, are to speak without an accent. They even go so far as to insist the boy use a fork and knife instead of chopsticks, even when it's obvious they are still eating Chinese style food, served in the normal way: communal dishes for the food and smaller, individual rice bowls for each person. Mother seems a bit inflexible in her insistence on being as American as possible, while Da Tong's cultural leanings are just as strongly Chinese, although not by conscious choice.

Da Tong's love for his son is tested severely when Da Tong tries to balance it against respect for his boss. When Da Tong's son hits his boss' son, Da Tong insists on an apology that seems

unnecessary and makes Da Tong look stubborn and uncaring. Da Tong gives his boy a light rap on the head when he refuses to apologize and the boy cries to his mother that the reason he hit his playmate was that the other boy called Da Tong stupid, one of many examples of doing the wrong thing to protect your family.

The conflict arising from doing the wrong thing out of love or respect for one's family or closest friends continues throughout the movie, and every way Da Tong turns, he finds failure and encounters both obvious and subtle forms of anti-Chinese racism.() Even Chinese folklore about the Monkey King, Sun Wu Kong, that Da Tong incorporates into a video game he designed is used to provoke his pride when he's vulnerable and fearing for the loof his son. Da Tong is misunderstood by everyone, family, friend, and foe, even though he has only the best intentions, and he carries the responsibility quite heavily, ma-ki-ng one wrong turn after another.

Gua Sha (Motivational model ) shows how a person's cultural beliefs are so deeply set within oneself that it is usually impossible to examine why you do most anything, from how you dreand talk to whom you love and respect and how you show it. The invisible nature of one's cultural beliefs also makes it difficult to impossible to explain yourself to others when questioned. Da Tong experiences an excruciatingly painful and difficult struggle while trying to protect his son, an ordeal that forces him to examine the validity of some of the most vital things he thought he knew about his identity, his Chinese culture, and the new American world he'd chosen as his home.

The movie showed me how normal it is for people to look for ways that their culture is superior to others' and how the misunderstandings arising from different cultural perspectives can seem very large, but can be nullified with si-mp-le, 2-sided explanations when people are willing to listen.

It appears this film is not readily available in the USA, but it's the best I've seen at highlighting the differences between American and Chinese culture. Parts of the movie's dialog are only in Chinese and I've yet to find a DVD with English subtitles, although it's easy to get the gist of what's going on during those short passages. The credits are a combination of Chinese and English, holding true to the integration of both worlds. I've noticed some important roles are not credited here on IMDb, such as Judge Horowitz, who was played by Alexander Barton.

第二篇：电影《刮痧》英文影评

Some birds aren't meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are just too bright... （有的鸟是不会被关住的，因为它们的羽毛太美丽了！）。

1.It takes a strong man to save himself, and a great man to save another. 坚强的人只能救赎自己，伟大的人才能拯救他人

2.Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. 希望是美好的，也许是人间至善，而美好的事物永不消逝.

3.some birds aren’t meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are just too bright...

有的鸟是不会被关住的，因为它们的羽毛太美丽了！

4.I find I’m so excited. I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

我发现自己是如此的激动，以至于不能静静地坐下来思考。我想只有那些重获自由即将踏上新征程的人们才能感受到这种即将揭开未来神秘面纱的激动心情。我希望跨越千山万水握住朋友的手，我希望太平洋的海水如同梦中的一样蓝：我希望??

5.Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. A strong man can save himself. A great man can save another.

懦怯囚禁人的灵魂，希望可以感受自由。强者自救，圣者渡人。

6.Prison life consists of routine, and then mort routine.

监狱生活充满了一段又一段的例行公事。

7.These walls are kind of funny like that. First you hate them, then you get u sed to them. Enough time passed, get so you depend on them. That`s institution alized.

监狱里的高墙实在是很有趣。刚入狱的时候，你痛恨周围的高墙；慢慢地，你习惯了生活在其中；最终你会发现自己不得不依靠它而生存。 这就是体制化。

8.There`s not a day goes by I don`t feel regret. Not because I`m in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then. Then a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try

and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can`t. That kid`s long gone and this old man is all that`s left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? It`s just a bull.......... word. So you go on and stamp your form, sorry, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don`t give a ...........

我无时不刻地对自己的所作所为深感内疚，这不是因为我在这里（指监狱），也不是讨好你们（指假释官）。回首曾经走过的弯路，我多么想对那个犯下重罪的愚蠢的年轻人说些什么，告诉他我现在的感受，告诉他还可以有其他的方式解决问题。可是，我做不到了。那个年轻人早已淹没在岁月的长河里，只留下一个老人孤独地面对过去。重新做人？骗人罢了！小子，别再浪费我的时间了，盖你的章吧，我没什么可说的了。

9.I guess it comes down to a simple choice:get busy living or get busy dying. 生命可以归结为一种简单的选择：要么忙于生存，要么赶着去死。

【关键词：黑暗】

在很多人的定义里，这首先是一部嘲讽美国司法制度和狱政制度的电影。因为如果不是因为司法制度上的错判的话，安迪是不会进入肖申克监狱；而如果不是因为狱政制度上阴暗腐败的话，安迪也不会成为诺顿的洗黑钱机器也不会有了后面的整个故事。然而在我的定义里，这部电影首先定义上应该是一部有关人性黑暗以及救赎的电影，如果把它定义在司法制度和狱政制度上的讽世之作的话反正局限了这部电影本身的那种更深一层的意义而让这部电影显得肤浅了。

在我看来，不论是司法制度上的漏洞或者是狱政制度上的阴暗腐败，其根本依旧还是人性上的阴暗和贪婪。如果说，安迪的错判入狱还仅仅只是因为司法制度上的错判，那么后来安迪得到了一个推翻错误回归到自由社会的机会，可是这个机会却威胁到了典狱长诺顿的安全和洗黑钱系统的整体流程的话，那么，这个机会被诺顿的彻底扼杀就完整地体现了这种人性上的黑暗。

人性是所有一切社会规则和法规的根本。不管多健全的制度最终依旧只能靠人去操作运转，而如果操持着整个制度的人本身依旧带着贪婪的欲望去观摩这一切的时候，他们总能找到可乘之机或者错漏之处。

安迪的入狱也许还能说是司法制度上的的漏洞以及客观证据的指证。可是他的出逃却只能是一种极其无奈的选择。因为除了这样的方式来完整他高洁的灵魂，他已经找不到其它的任何方式去完成本该就属于他的自由和梦想了。

可以说，所有左右这一切的仅仅只是诺顿的一念之善或者一念之恶罢了。当一个人身陷于冤狱而诉求无门的时候，我不知道他所面对的是一种怎么样的绝望。黑暗也许并不是最可怕的，而真正可怕的是这种绝望带来的对于人生一眼所

看到的没有光亮的前路。我也不知道在瑞德平静的语调里所讲的安迪呆在他狭小的牢房里沉默不语的第一个夜晚里他是如何度过的，他的思索中的那些又会是什么。他即将开始的是一种永远也没有光亮的生活，他即将在这个黑暗的夜里开始他漫长而没有前路的人生。

黑暗，无边无际的黑暗从此将他笼罩并且永远将他紧紧地包裹住了。希望和梦想从现在起都将离他而去了。他只是一个不善于表达爱意和情感的内敛男人，所以他永远失去了不知道如何向她表达情感的妻子，所以他在妻子出轨之后将她赶出了家门并且死在了情人家的床上。对他来说，这一切构建成了他心安理得地生活在牢狱里的心理基础，他在赎罪，对他来说他并没有杀害妻子可是他的行为间接或者直接地导致了妻子的死亡。

沉重的负罪感和胶着的漆黑沉沉地包裹着他。不再有希望和光明。我们看到的是一种多沉重的黑暗，也许，我们就能明白光明和希望带给我们的快乐。

【关键词：希望】

也许正如瑞德所说，希望是个可怕的东西；尤其对他们来说。他们不是死囚，所以他们必须抛弃任何希望地活着。一次或者多次的终身监禁让他们永远也只能生活在这四面高墙之内了。从一开始对高墙的恐惧到逐渐的适应，以及最后形成了对高墙的依赖，这样的一个过程其实就是一个逐渐摒弃希望的过程。

没有希望，他们可以心安理得地在这里面活着，一直到死去。所以托马斯会在离开监狱获得他50年牢狱生活之后的第一个假释带给他的那种有限自由感觉时感到一种不安和惊惶，然后自杀身亡。他说，他没有办法适应这个自由的社会，他小时候只看过一次汽车，而现在到处都是汽车。自由给了他的是希望，这一点是无须置疑的，然而却正是这样的希望带给他的却仅仅只是担忧和惶恐不安的生活。每次在半夜里做着恶梦醒来却还必须是想一想之后才能明白自己身在何处。这样的生活也许反而不如他在监狱里来得自由和安心。

在托马斯的心里其实一早已经忘却了自由的感觉。所谓希望，对他来说已经一早已经彻底死去了。虚妄地承诺给他一个自由的希望，他反而不知所以了。

相比之下，安迪体现了另外的一种心态。“要么忙着生存；要么忙着死去”；一句话道明了安迪对生存的渴望和那些从不曾熄灭过的对希望的热诚祈盼。电影用一种晦涩的表达故意让我们以为安迪会在得到希望以及失去希望之后自杀，这种表达方式非常巧妙地用了瑞德的角度，而因为瑞德正是这样以为的，所以我们也就跟着如此以为了。

瑞德以为将要用600年才能掘通的希望之路，安迪仅用了20年不到的时间就挖通了，至少让我们看到了他从不曾熄灭过的强烈渴望。没有尽头的牢狱生活太

过无聊，总得找点什么事来消磨时间。托马斯和瑞德等人选择了听之任之的绝望，而安迪则选择了希望和自由。

冤狱的错判赋予了他出逃的正义之名，他的希望并不是越狱逃避自己应有的罪责；相反他仅仅只是为了争取属于他的自由和梦想。他曾经以为可以用一种更光明正大的方式得到他的自由光明磊落地走出肖申克的四壁高墙，而且因为这样的希望而变得疯狂躁动，而当这种渴望被诺顿彻底地枪杀了之后，他唯一的选择似乎只有这种极端的方式了。

【关键词：救赎】

可以说，安迪的成功出逃成了整个肖申克的救赎。从他的第一次为了所有参加户外劳动的狱友们争取一瓶冰冻的啤酒，从他利用自己的特长获得了狱警的信任之后用监狱的广播室给所有的人们播放意大利音乐，从他每周一封信去为整个监狱争取几本图书馆退化的旧书，从他把一间破烂的小房间改造成一个硕大的图书馆，从他开始帮助一些刑期较短的囚犯们学习并获得学历以便他们出狱后的改造??所有的这一切都带给他们一种救赎的感知。

而这一切，归属于希望。因为安迪对未来抱着不灭的希望，于是他开始散播希望，开始救赎大众。每一个在肖申克里的人都是清白的，因为他们都被律师骗了。这样的自欺欺人的思想带给他们一种圣洁的光芒。就算他们真的是罪有应得，可是这个世界是否还应该给他们一点希望呢。救赎的寓意在于，安迪的存在净化了他们的灵魂和思想。

这部电影曾经被定义为现代版本的《基督山伯爵》；然而在我看来，大仲马也许并不比史蒂芬·金或弗兰克·达拉邦特伟大多少。毕竟《基督山伯爵》仅仅只是一个稍显复杂的复仇故事，而《肖申克的救赎》更多的是在于救赎。

我不知道多少人能在蒙受了不白之冤并被判两次终身监禁之后还能如安迪那样平静，那样思索并且那样有所作为。至少我们总会愤愤不平，总会想着如何去复仇，如何向那些让我们身陷囹圄的人们讨回公道。在安迪身上，我们能看到的更多的是一种宽恕的光，一种包容和逆来顺受。宽恕吧；千丝万缕，都宽恕了吧。

把希望隐藏在心里深处，在赎去自己心灵的罪责时争取自己应有的权益，与其把时间花在如何消磨光阴上，不如把这些时间都运用到自己应该去做的最本份的事情上。救赎，仅仅只会为了那些已经准备好了的灵魂。

瑞德也许是整个肖申克监狱里获益最大的一个。因为安迪在通往一条自我救赎的路上，带着瑞德一起通往了他最美的那个梦境。电影最后的那个拥抱给了我莫大的安慰，至少，在救赎了之后，我们可以看到提被实现了的希望和自由。而

所有的这一切，都只赖于一个人自我的选择和努力。

《肖申克的救赎》的影评

The story may sound simple, but the truth behind the words is remarkable. When I heard the name of the film first time, I considered the Shawshank to be a man’ name, but in face it is a jail——a hell in the world. Not only for the inhumanity of the jailors——they behaved brutally; but also for the jail gnawed at people’ heart by keeping them waiting and waiting as life passed. It seemed that only those utterly worthless people who gave up everything could survive. That’s where the story happened.

The part impressed me most is when Andy got out of the jai. He extended his arms in front of him in the heavy rain as if he were welcoming the fresh air and the freedom. At that moment, I saw the faith win the darkness, discharging light dazzling the eyes in the dark blue sky. Under the light, I could feel my recreant innermost being shivering as his voice said: “Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies!”

That’s why I like this film: it encourages people to fight to preserve the dignity of human beings, to appreciate the beauty of life, and the most important is to keep hope forever. He once that is born, that is die. Everyone is the same. The only difference is whether busy living or busy dying. The film tells me even a man can live once, but if he keeps faith, keeps hope and works his life right, then once is enough. The faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark, the hope is the chief happiness that this world affords, and the life should be full of the singing of the bird and the happiness hope brings. " What’s that do you think? It’s the trembling of the heart, the singing of the mind, the flying of the soul and the hope to be free.”

这个故事也许看似简单，但是其中的道理却是发人深思的。我第一次听到这电影的名字时，曾以为“肖申克”是个人名，但事实上它是一所监狱的名字--鲨堡。说它是人间地狱，不仅那里狱卒残暴，狱霸横行，而且它还侵蚀着人的心灵。生命在漫漫无期的等待中消逝，似乎只有那些行尸走肉般放弃了所有的人才能够活下去。

这就是故事的开始。最让我感动的是安迪逃出牢狱时候的情景。大雨滂沱之中他伸出手臂似乎在迎接新鲜空气和自由。此刻，我看见自信战胜了黑暗，其光芒照亮了深蓝天空中的眼睛。在此光辉下，我可以感觉到自己那颗怯懦的心在颤抖，似乎在说：记住，希望是好东西，也许是人间至善，而美好的东西永远不会消逝。 它激励人们为

类的尊严而斗争，为生命的美丽而感恩，最重要的是它让我们永怀希望。这就是我喜欢这部电影的原因。

有出生，就会有死亡，人人均是如此。唯一不同的是--忙着活，还是劳碌死。

电影告诉我们，虽然人只能活一次，但是如果带着信心和希望好好地活，一次也就足够了。信心就像在黎明前看到曙光的鸟，而希望则是这个世界给我们的最重要的礼物，生命应该充满鸟儿的歌声和希望带来的快乐。

你认为如何你呢？我想这是心房的跳舞，思想的歌唱，灵魂的翱翔，以及对自由的渴望。

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