《弱点》的英文影评3
This is a can't-miss family movie. After all, EVERYONE seems to like inspiring family films--especially when it's based on real people. And, not surprisingly, I had a thoroughly good time watching it--though I do recommend you see it with a box of Kleenex nearby.
The film is about a young man named Michael Oher--an extremely large black teenager who has bounced from home to home in the foster care system. Currently, he's in a new school and no one realizes that he has no place to live. Yet in spite of having a crack-addicted mother, a father who was killed in prison and every other reason to be an angry powder keg, he's a very gentle and sad soul---who is also enormous and has amazing potential to play football.
A nosy but very nice lady (Sandra Bullock) convinces her husband (Tim McGraw) to bring Michael home...at least for the night. But this one night turns into a permanent living situation and he becomes an important part of the family. However, despite this new living arrangement working out well, Michael is so far behind in school and his GPA so low that he hasn't a prayer to play football in college. That's because although many schools are now offering him athletic scholarships, his GPA is too low to allow him to accept these offers. So, with his new family's help, perhaps he can pull up those grades and have a future.
This film is super-inspirational and sweet--mostly because it's true. I am sure that some poetic license was taken when making the film (I especially wonder if the little brother could be THIS precocious and adorable), but overall they did a good job of sticking reasonably close the facts. While I loved Sandra Bullock's performance (she's great as usual), I was a bit surprised that she received Oscar for it--I did see a few performances in other films that year that I thought were a bit better (such as the leading young lady in "Precious"). Also, Tim McGraw, while a lesser role in the film, did a surprisingly good job--especially as he's really known as a country singer, not an actor. All around, a very good film and one that is meant to inspire.
第二篇：A repot of how to win friends2《人性的弱点》英文读书报告
A repot of how to win friends & influence
people
By Dale Carnegie
As the Leo Tolstoy said: All happy families are happy alive, all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way. How could you do if your parents are going to divorce? Part Six of this book gives us six rules as following. First, don't, don't nag. Something unhappy happened because of some details. Usually, a wife of an unhappy life was always complaining, always criticizing her husband, nothing about him was ever right. In his way, certainly, the husband regarded his unfortune marriage, and avoid her presence as much as possible. For example, Leo Tolstoy's life was a tragedy, and the cause of his tragedy was his marriage. His wife loved luxury, but he despised it. So he said the famous sentence which I have quoted in the first paragraph. In my opinion, a couple are gloriously happy when they were first married, but after a few years or several decades, one of them could hardly bear the sight of the other. My parents are the typical one. There are continous quarreling on thry begin to speak to each other. I feel upset and tired.
Second, don't try to make your partner over. As Leland Foster Wood in his book, Growing Together in the Family, has observed:" Success in
marriage is much more than a matter of finding the right person; it is also a matter of being the right person." I can not agree it any more. In a marriage, you should try to your soulmate be himself and give them more freedom to him. Furthermore, when he was in low mood, you also need to be his spirital support.
Third, don't criticize. As an integrity, every member of the family are willing to take care of the others. For instance, no matter how delicious and awful the meal is, you should not criticize directly.
Fourth, give honest appreciation. Most men when seeking wives are not not looking for executives but for someone with allure and willingness to flatter their vanity and make them feel superior. Hence, the woman office manager may be invited to luncheon, once. Men should express their appreciation of a woman's effort to look well and dress becomingly. Because almost every woman are interested in clothes. Besides, after your wife finishing cooking, please let her know that you appreciate the fact that you are grateful and happy. Exactly, if a woman is to find happiness at all in her husband. She is to find it in his appreciation, and devotion. If that appreciation and devotion is actual, there is the answer to his happiness also.
Fifth, pay little attention. Too many men underestimate the value of these small, everyday attentions. I believe that the majority of our mothers have not received any flower from our fathers since many years ago. In the
contrast, if our fathers do this ,our mothers are bound to feel happier and so will be our family. Only after paying little attention can a family become more warm.
Sixth, be courteous. Do you find that each of us is more polite to strangers than we are to our own relatives. It is a common phenomenon. Every man knows that he can kiss his wife's eyes until she will be blind. Every woman never knows whether to be mad at his husband with him, because he would rather fight with her and pay for it in having to eat bad meals, and have his money wasted, and buy what she loves, than to take the trouble to flatter her a litter and treat her the way she is begging to be treated.
In a conclution, I think every member of the family with a warmhearted, understanding and such merits can build a happy family together.