陈绍楠
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:5月9日的傍晚,肯塔基州某地燃烧的牛群狂奔过农场,一架飞碟腾空而起……美国政府很快探知火星人的飞碟已集结在地球周围,经过一番思量,美国总统戴尔(杰克•尼科尔森 Jack Nicholson 饰)决定向世界发布火星人到来的消息。在白宫中,总统夫人玛莎(格伦•克洛斯 Glenn Close 饰)和女儿戴菲(娜塔丽•波曼 Natalie Portman 饰)面对火星人到来像谈论一场寻常的访问活动;在纽约,从事新闻业的史东与娜塔莉正在筹备采访唐纳博士(皮尔斯•布鲁斯南 Pierce Brosnan 饰);在堪萨斯,瑞奇的哥哥即将担任接见火星人的守卫军人;在拉斯维加斯,昔日拳王拜伦如今为家庭生计苦苦工作。终于到了火星人降临的时刻,他们发出了和平的信号,但之后却是大开杀戒,火星人一再的戏弄政府高层,人们束手无策,然而,真正能战胜火星人的武器出乎了所有人的预料……
杨波
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:Marg Duffield (Lee Remick) is the Maine wife of Al (Joseph Sommer) whose daughter Peg (Marlee Matlin) is deaf. Peg's husband is killed in a car accident on the way to visit the Maine house, and the Duffield's take in Peg's six year old daughter, Lisa, while Peg recovers. Since Lisa is a speaking child, Marg thinks of her the way she wanted Peg to be, and seeks guardian custody.Remick's role is secondary to Matlin's, though she is presented as a tragic figure, particularly as Al refuses to help her plan to gain Lisa. Peg's deafness is said to be from a childhood case of spinal meningitis, and the teleplay by Louisa Burns-Bisogno, with story by Louisa and Tom Bisogno, reduces Remick to a textbook mother who is self-hating from guilt and therefore cannot love her own daughter. In a memorable scene, Peg angrily signs her exit to Marg, since Marg has refused to learn sign language, though Peg has learned to speak for her mother.The treatment uses the Tennesee Williams play, The Glass Menagerie, for therapy, to help Peg overcome her grief and also Marg `lose her unicorn horn' and embrace her daughter. Whilst Peg choosing to act in this play may seem an odd choice for someone grieving, what is more noticable is that Matlin is far too more glamourous to be believable as Laura. The Bisogno's include Michael O'Keefe as Dan, Peg's deceased husband's best friend and director of Actors Theatre for the Deaf, to offer Peg a new romantic interest, and thankfully she rebukes his protestations of love. Although his opinion may be influenced by his `crush', Dan tells Peg that being different is better than being normal, since the normal ones are as `common as weeds'. This philosophy reads as rather Nietzschean, on the level of artists not being restricted to the common moral code.Director Karen Arthur either has those signing also speaking or those signing being translated for the audience, though in one scene the sound of lapping waves drowns out the dialogue between Dan and Peg. She also gives Matlin some good moments, one being her scream of horror when she hears the news of the death of her husband, and another when she chases Remick down a flight of steps, hitting her.