邵美君
发表于4分钟前回复 :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.
许玮伦
发表于8分钟前回复 :渡辺小五郎(東山紀之)の家では、義母のこう(野際陽子)が亡くなって以来、妻のふく(中越典子)が失意の日々を送っていた。妻の身を案じた小五郎は、同僚の同心・住之江彦左衛門(松尾諭)のすすめで義母の遺品整理を決める。渡辺家にやってきたのは弥吉(伊藤健太郎)という爽やかな青年。油問屋で手代として働くかたわら、人々の不要な品物を引き取っては、他の人の品物と交換する「橋渡し役」をしているという。持ち前の顔の広さで、経師屋の涼次(松岡昌宏)やお菊(和久井映見)とも付き合いのある弥吉だが、交換の橋渡しはすべて無償でおこなっているという。人と人をつなぐために汗をかく弥吉は、まさに絵に描いたような善人だ。商人の蘇我屋忠兵衛(近藤芳正)と上総屋清右ヱ門(西田敏行)から、交換の手間賃を受け取って商売にしろと誘いを受けても、きっぱり断った。そんな弥吉には将来を約束した許嫁のおたね(飯豊まりえ)がいる。病に伏せるおたねの母を見舞った弥吉は、近い将来おたねと祝言を上げたいと申し出た。ところが、母娘が暮らす長屋がヤクザ者に買い取られて強引に破壊されてしまう。騒乱に巻き込まれ、おたねの母も殺されてしまった。おたねの手を引いて逃げのびた弥吉は、商人の蘇我屋忠兵衛が黒幕だと知り、町奉行所に訴え出る。しかし、与力の増村倫太郎(生瀬勝久)は上からの圧力を受けて捜査に踏み出さない。晴らせぬ恨みを抱えたおたねは、リュウ(知念侑李)と瓦屋の陣八郎(遠藤憲一)から三番筋の存在を聞かされる。そこで弥吉は物々交換の手間賃をもらうことを決意し、集めた銭を頼み賃に「仕事」を依頼した。頼みを聞き入れ、的を次々と仕留めていく仕事人たち。蘇我屋忠兵衛を斬り捨てた小五郎だが、なぜか釈然としない。この一件の背後には何かウラがある……。一方、おたねを幸せにしたい一心の弥吉は、上総屋清右ヱ門のすすめで物々交換を正式に商売にしようと決める。老中の諏訪守忠悦(林家正蔵)ともコネクションを持つ清右ヱ門が後見人となったこともあり、弥吉の商売はあれよあれよという間に軌道に乗り、大金が舞い込んでくる。しかし、その背後には驚くべき陰謀が蠢いていたのだった……。