影视听力 第44期: Definitely, Maybe 绝对,也许

威尔（瑞安•雷诺兹 饰）的女儿玛雅（阿比吉尔•布莱斯林 饰）在学校学习了性教育之后，回到家中嚷着要父亲给她讲述关于自己的爱情故事。雅玛更想努力的从故事中找到母亲的形象，虽然她的父母已离婚。
　　
1992年，威尔暂时别离的女友艾米莉（伊丽莎白•班克斯 饰）独自来到纽约发展自己的事业，他是协助克林顿竞选总统的竞选战团的一员。威尔雄心勃勃，可是他的事业却不如想象中顺利。
　　
感情路也是如此，寂寞的威尔跟战团员工艾波（艾拉•费舍尔 饰）、新闻记者夏曼（蕾切尔•薇姿 饰）发展出若有似无的感情，最后他甚至与同样出轨了的艾米莉分手收场。
　　
即使到后来威尔在纽约站稳了脚，有了自己的公司，他还是兜兜转转在这三个女人当中，到底谁是他的真爱？

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Definitely, Maybe is a new film written and directed by Adam Brooks¹. And it's something of an exception to the rule I've been complaining lately about how bad most romantic comedies are these days. And while that's certainly true, I would make a partial exception at least for Definitely, Maybe which is an unusually smart, charming and insightful entry in the genre².

It stars Ryan Reynolds as Will Hayes. When we first meet him he is trying to explain the facts of life to his young daughter Maya who is played by Abigail Breslin from Little Miss Sunshine. And he is trying to tell her the story of how he met her mother. So a lot of the movie takes place in flashback. It starts in 1992 when young Will is going off to work for the first presidential campaign of Bill Clinton and leaving behind his college sweetheart in Madison, Wisconsin. Her name is Emily and she is played by Elizabeth Banks.

She is one of three different women who are unbeknown to themselves auditioning³ for the role of his wife and Maya's mom. The others are Rachel Weisz who plays Summer, a kind of mysterious femme fatale, and Isla Fisher, who plays April, a flaky red head he meets at the campaign office.

Now a lot of the charm of this movie resides in its conceit⁴ and in its structure. It flashes back and you don't know which of these three women is gonna end up being the one he ends up with. And there is an extra wrinkle which is that he’s recently divorced from Maya’s mom. So you know that the one who he ends up happily with is not necessarily the one he is gonna live happily ever after.

The other thing that sizes is that this movie is very honest and forthright⁵ in a kind of understated way about some of the difficulties and imperfections and frustrations⁶ that go with falling in love and falling out of love, getting divorced, trying to figure out who the right person is for you, while still maintaining the basic fairytale enchantment⁷ that's so necessary for a romantic comedy to be romantic. And it's also pretty funny. The writing is sharp and clever. There aren't a lot of big laugh-out-loud jokes, but instead, a kind of insightful observant humor. All in all, Definitely, Maybe is a movie that I would definitely recommend.

1 brooks   

n.小溪( brook的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Brooks gave the business when Haas caught him with his watch. 哈斯抓到偷他的手表的布鲁克斯时，狠狠地揍了他一顿。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Ade and Brooks exchanged blows yesterday and they were severely punished today. 艾德和布鲁克斯昨天打起来了，今天他们受到严厉的惩罚。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 genre   

n.(文学、艺术等的)类型，体裁，风格

参考例句：

• My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
• Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看， 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。

3 auditioning   

vi.试听（audition的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• She was auditioning for the role of Lady Macbeth. 她试演了麦克佩斯夫人的角色。
• Which part are you auditioning for? 你试音什么角色？ 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 conceit   

n.自负，自高自大

参考例句：

• As conceit makes one lag behind,so modesty helps one make progress.骄傲使人落后，谦虚使人进步。
• She seems to be eaten up with her own conceit.她仿佛已经被骄傲冲昏了头脑。

5 forthright   

adj.直率的，直截了当的 [同]frank

参考例句：

• It's sometimes difficult to be forthright and not give offence.又直率又不得罪人，这有时很难办到。
• He told me forthright just why he refused to take my side.他直率地告诉我他不肯站在我这一边的原因。

6 frustrations   

挫折( frustration的名词复数 )； 失败； 挫败； 失意

参考例句：

• The temptation would grow to take out our frustrations on Saigon. 由于我们遭到挫折而要同西贡算帐的引诱力会增加。
• Aspirations will be raised, but so will frustrations. 人们会产生种种憧憬，但是种种挫折也会随之而来。

7 enchantment   

n.迷惑，妖术，魅力

参考例句：

• The beauty of the scene filled us with enchantment.风景的秀丽令我们陶醉。
• The countryside lay as under some dread enchantment.乡村好像躺在某种可怖的魔法之下。