It has been a long time since I felt touched in U.S. until I watched this film tonight. I was kept in the mood of being in the cinema and I could stop myself from hitting on two Bengali-like strangers on the Cambus about the film. Unlike "Slumdog Millionaire", which stuffs flashbacks of the ghetto memories into a pastiche of TV quiz show clues with perfect beats and well-shaped structures, "The Namesake" drags its audiences into the story without a hint of formalism. Setups are non-detectable until they are reinforced again in the second half of the film. The story flows naturally, starting with the Father's encounter of a train wreck, the inspiration and encouragement to see the world that he got from the old man who is not lucky enough to survive, and his complex of Nikolai Gogol.

虽然是在两种不同文化下生活的两代人，但却在这两代人组成的家庭里，有着另人感动的情素。这个家庭里充满了爱，妻子深爱着丈夫和孩子；丈夫深受着妻子和孩子；兄妹相互爱着，并深爱着爸妈。在这样一种到处都有着爱的气息的家庭里有什么不能融和的呢？成长文化相异，但情感相同，虽然有着无限的压力，但能相互理解和支持。
这世界有了爱，什么都能解决。

This is a review that I wrote a long time ago. I was checking and recycling the trash from my old blogs when I found this article. So here we go again:

Jhumpa Lahiri 是个美籍印度裔作家。有点像华裔作家谭恩美。 2000年Jhumpa 出了她第一本书《Interpreter of Maladies》（中文大概可以翻成“把脉人”？但是书里需要把脉的大多不是得病的人，而是得病的婚姻）。这本短片小说集一炮当红，得了当年的普利次奖。《同名人》(The Namesake)是她之后写的第一个长篇。最近给拍成电影。今天去看了。
《把脉人》那个短篇集非常好。里面有好几个精品。《同名人》当年看书就觉得也还好，但也只停留在还好上，整体说没有《把脉人》好。今天看了电影，感觉竟然和当年看完小说一模一样，就是还好，仅此而已。
讲述印度移民家庭在美国的生活。两代人的代沟。和中国移民非常之像。电影里老一代的笔墨多些，也传神。印度人至今很流行的“包办婚姻”那场戏拍的很好看。印度传统的生活方式和街景都拍的极好。精致而且真实。新一代的笔墨少了很多，相比之下空泛了些，没有底气的样子。
《把脉人》里的短篇有的写老一代的移民生活，有的写新一代在美国出生长大的印度裔年青人的婚姻和苦恼。两种短篇各有各的精彩

喜欢《同名人》的五个原因
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