西方电影文化鉴赏.doc

《西方电影文化—影视鉴赏》 My Review on Matchstick Men 任课教师： 石姝 序号： 98 学生姓名： 学号： 联系方式： 2011-11-25 My Review on Matchstick Men This movie talks about matchstick men who are great cheaters. Roy and his partner Frank are this kind of people. They take good use of people’s psychology of taking advantages and got a lot of money. Roy is a great liar, he uses kinds of methods to cheat, and he has some words,“I never use violence, people always give me money willingly.” Roy suffers from spirit obsessive. One day, he drops his pills, so he finds a new doctor to ask for some pills, then he jumps in a trap unconsciously. From his doctor, he knows that he has a daughter Angela with his former wife. Roy’s heart is filled with family love. Angela shows great interest in his father’s job and implores Roy to teach her how to lie. Roy teaches her and Angela helps him to lie. In one case, Angela killed a person, Roy let her go and he was attacked. He told his password to his doctor to let him to tell this to his daughter. At last, he realized this was a lie, he was cheated by Angela and his partner. Now he is skint. But there is no much sad in Roy’s face, he realized that “wealth is advisable”. He got a job and didn’t revenge Angela when he met her again. As the saying goes, “Misfortune might be a blessing in disguise”. Roy got a job and work hard to get money, he will live a fulfilling life. Whatever, I don’t think getting money by cheating is a good way, even though Roy has no bad heart. And his love for Angela as a father I really can’t agree. He clearly knows that making money by cheating is risky, he should not draw Angela’s attention to cheating. But, this point that he prepares to give up his job is really good. Then talks about Angela, I think she really has given feelings to Roy because when she saw Roy again she chose to face him rather than run away. If I were Roy, I think I would forgive Angela. First, Roy’s mon