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电影《fly away home》 英文影评700字

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What do we have, if we don't preserve nature's wonders? What do you do with a flock of Canadian goose eggs, after the mother has been driven away by subdivision builders? Why, you hatch them, raise them, build an ultralight that looks like a giant goose, and teach them to follow you south to North Carolina.

Amy (Anna Paquin) is living with her mother in New Zealand, when an auto accident kills mom and forces Amy to go live with her eccentric father (Jeff Daniels) in Canada. A 13-yr-old, she does not adjust well, but her life changes when she finds those abandoned eggs. She hatches them in the barn, with the help of a light, and they "imprint" on her. She feeds them, sleeps in the bathtub so they can have the bathroom, swim in the toilet, they follow her everywhere.

Warden tries to clip their wings, the law, but Amy hits him over the head with a pot, dad chases him away. Geese grow, learn how to fly, dad says they can't stay, need to migrate, hits on the idea that they will follow her in a plane. Being a handyman, sculptor, and inventor, he builds the goose-looking ultralight and teaches her to fly. The geese follow her.

They plan a 4-day route, 2 planes, first stop at an airforce base near Niagra Falls, NY, creates a "scramble" and a little havoc. Second day, their geese follow some wild geese and land in a pond, near where hunters are shooting geese. Next morning, Amy uses her special "call" to round up all hers, and they take off again. The news media catch on, start to track her route, and anticipate their next landing. Dad has a rudder problem, crashes in a cornfield, Amy has to continue alone, makes it to the construction site as they were ready to destroy it.

Although a fictional account, the story is based on real migratory patterns of geese, and the imprinting and following a vehicle is real. The real stars of this film are the geese, from pecking out of their shells, to following Amy all over, to their flight with the ultralight, to their playfulness in the water after they reach their destination. Seeing that wonder of nature, from egg to adult in such a short time, is extremely moving for me.

Anna Paquin is so perfect in her role, and seems so natural with the geese. Jeff Daniels' role as her father seems just perfect too. Mary Chapin Carpenter's "10,000 Miles", both at the beginning and at the end, is beautiful and haunting.

Caleb Deschanel's cinematography of flying geese is more than merely uplifting, like the film, it is extraordinary, and well deserved its Oscar nomination. This charming and delightful film is based upon the well-known fact that birds can 'imprint' on whoever or whatever is there when they hatch, and in this case it is the 14 year-old actress Anna Paquin. She was well worth imprinting on, as she is every bit as delightful as the film as a whole. Now that she is all grown up and glamorous, I wouldn't mind imprinting on her myself. - Give me an eggshell, quick! - The story is a wonderful fable about the girl who saves the goose eggs, hatches them, and becomes their Momma. They follow her around everywhere, but wild geese have to migrate, so she is faced with the dilemma: what to do at migration time? The girl's father is an eccentric, beautifully portrayed by Jeff Daniels. He is always tinkering with machines and likes to build what we now call 'micro-lites', tiny planes with engines that go 'put put' and carry a single person at low altitudes. So you guessed it, father and daughter get into their micro-lites and lead the geese south! Apparently, wild geese will follow a micro-lite if it is shaped like a goose. The story is a magnificent fable which is just believable, sensitively portrayed and with fabulous cinematography and special effects. It is what is called these days, amidst all the blood and gore and obsession with closeups of copulation, a 'family film', meaning no murders take place and people do something other than have sex all the time. (In a normal Hollywood movie it would be impossible to take the geese south because it would mean the director could not ask lots of actresses to take their clothes off.) Carroll Ballard directs this film really well. He is one of those rare directors who does not want to have all his characters mown down by machine guns or chopped to pieces by maniacs, and he does not want to invent unnecessary bath scenes where the girls show their tits so that he can get his jollies. He also likes animals a lot, and that is always a good sign that he might himself not be a monster like so many other directors are. Any normal person (and there still are some) would have to enjoy this film. It is what used to be called 'heart-warming'. In this era of cold hearts, we need that.