影視英語聽力 第44期：Definitely, Maybe 絕對,也許

威爾(瑞安•雷諾茲 飾)的女兒瑪雅(阿比吉爾•布萊斯林 飾)在學校學習了性教育之后，回到家中嚷著要父親給她講述關(guān)于自己的愛情故事。雅瑪更想努力的從故事中找到母親的形象，雖然她的父母已離婚。

1992年，威爾暫時別離的女友艾米莉(伊麗莎白•班克斯 飾)獨自來到紐約發(fā)展自己的事業(yè)，他是協(xié)助克林頓競選總統(tǒng)的競選戰(zhàn)團的一員。威爾雄心勃勃，可是他的事業(yè)卻不如想象中順利。

感情路也是如此，寂寞的威爾跟戰(zhàn)團員工艾波(艾拉•費舍爾 飾)、新聞記者夏曼(蕾切爾•薇姿 飾)發(fā)展出若有似無的感情，最后他甚至與同樣出軌了的艾米莉分手收場。

即使到后來威爾在紐約站穩(wěn)了腳，有了自己的公司，他還是兜兜轉(zhuǎn)轉(zhuǎn)在這三個女人當中，到底誰是他的真愛?

對話文本:

Definitely, Maybe is a new film written and directed by Adam Brooks. 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 genre.

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 auditioning 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 conceit 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 forthright in a kind of understated way about some of the difficulties and imperfections and frustrations 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 enchantment 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.