A review of One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s nest

There is a widespread anecdote : A frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.This story called The boiling frog .And One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s nest just demonstratses this phenomena.People in the cuckoo`s nest just like this frog who get accustoumed to the life that is schedualled and controlled by others and lose the courage to leave.And it takes a lot to go out this slowly heated water.

People in the cuckoo`s nest who are compelled to eat medicine and listen harsh music and are not allowed to watch the ball game are threated badly.Although they always complain about the Cuckoo`s nest ,it never occurred that they want to flew over this disgusting place .They has adapted to the life of being principled ,and their awareness of resistance has died out. When Memurphy comes to there ,he begins to resist the authority of nurse Ralched by claiming to turn down the music and change the schedual to watch the ball game and bring people outside to go fishing. At last , the chief`s awareness of resistence comes to be aroused and leave

this water that is slowly heated successfully.

第二篇：英文影评2

Will Smith is perpetually underrated as an actor because he rarely challenges himself: For every "Ali," he seems to make five or 10 movies like "Bad Boys II" or "Wild Wild West," which trade on his relaxed affability but don't require much more than a rakish grin. "The Pursuit of Happyness" (and yes, I'll get to the spelling in a minute) therefore comes as a pleasant reminder that Smith, when called upon, can deliver some rather more complicated goods. As Chris Gardner, a struggling single father in '80s San Francisco, Smith looks haggard and weary; you occasionally hear a bit of a tremble in his voice. He's on the verge of breaking down but is

determined to hold it together for the sake of his son.

The real-life Chris Gardner, on whose story the film is based, overcame poverty and homelessness to become a successful stockbroker. (His memoir, also called "The Pursuit of Happyness," was recently published. Some significant changes have been made between Gardner's real story and the movie version.) In the film, which begins with Chris' wife, Linda (Thandie Newton), on the verge of leaving him and their 5-year-old son, Christopher (Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, Will Smith's real-life son), we watch Chris — then a not-too-successful salesman of medical instruments — talk his way into a stockbroker internship at Dean Witter, only to find

that it is unpaid.

Determined to climb the ladder and make a better life for

Christopher, he accepts the internship, and we watch the father/son duo move from apartment to motel room to homeless shelter, with a few nights in a men's room in a BART station along the way. Throughout, Chris is haunted by a mural outside his son's day-care center, which includes the Declaration of Independence's phrase about man's inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It's misspelled on the mural as "happyness," which annoys him — he wants his son to learn things correctly — but also

seems to serve as a challenge.

Smith creates a palpable warmth with his son; his Chris is motivated by a fierce desire to keep the world safe for his precious child. Jaden Smith (now 8 years old, and a charmer) is a natural onscreen, even throwing a convincing tantrum at one point: This little boy is a nice kid but no angel. Their performances are the reason to watch the movie. We know exactly where "The Pursuit of Happyness" is going, and some of the plot devices created for the movie by screenwriter Steve Conrad (such as Chris constantly managing to lose — and find — the instruments he sells, and being a Rubik's Cube whiz) feel a bit

cute.

But director Gabriele Muccino finds the heart of the film in the bond between Chris and Christopher, and in Chris' realistically depicted downhill trajectory; poverty, here, is as close as a missed sale. Ultimately, the real Chris Gardner emerges as an inspirational American success story — and Will Smith emerges as a fine and

nuanced actor.

幸福的追求

迈克尔之前

我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的：人人生而平等，这 他们赋不可剥夺的权利，他们的造物主肯定

其中包括生命权，自由权和追求幸福的。 -为了保障 这些权利，各国政府才在人们中间产生的正义

管辖权力来自的同意-如果遇有任何形式的

政府成为这些目标具破坏作用，这是正确的民，

改变或废除它，以建立一个新政府，奠定了基础

在这些原则和组织权力的方式中，以他们的，必

似乎最有可能获得他们的安全和幸福。

Thomas Jefferson's famous phrase in the United States

Declaration of Independence of lists the three moral or natural rights (also known as unalienable rights) of the American people regardless

of law, custom or belief. The right to life, the right to liberty or freedom and the individual's right to pursue happiness.

The right to life and the right to freedom are both relatively straightforward statements, but much has been discussed about what Jefferson really meant by "the pursuit of happiness". The phrase does not suggest that we should be entitled to happiness alone, but instead, that we should actively seek it, therefore creating the

argument that this moral right is more about choice then it is about the right to be happy. Does this mean that if somebody actively chooses to seek happiness, then they have a greater right to it than somebody who does not?

The notion of happiness as a pursuit or choice can be found in several works prior to Jefferson's drafting of the Declaration of

Independence, from philosophers such as Richard Cumberland, John Locke, Gottfried Wilheim Leibniz, William Wollaston and political theorist Jean Jacque Burlamaqui, all of who mention "the pursuit of happiness" in their work.

Many great historical thinkers also echoed this notion of happiness as a pursuit, goal or choice. Socrates, against common thinking in Ancient Greece argued that happiness is obtainable through active pursuit, when it was widely believed that happiness

was something purely for the gods; Aristotle wrote "Happiness depends on ourselves", suggesting that happiness is a goal and Confucius believed that joy or happiness could result from practice and learning.

And so Jefferson's inclusion of the unalienable right to "the Pursuit of Happiness" is an echo and affirmation of the belief of

many who have gone before him. It offers not only the right, but also the suggestion of moral quest in the search for happiness, and suggests that those that choose to embark on such a quest, deserve what they find.