电影赏析|Léon: I am already grown up, I just get older
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Léon /The Professional
《这个杀手不太冷》
A perfect assassin. An innocent girl. They have nothing left to lose except each other.
这部剧设置了很多细小的矛盾和情感，从而使该影片从同类型影片中脱颖而出。 导演吕克.贝松说：“这是关于两个小孩的故事，一个女孩和一个男孩，在他们心里，他们都是12岁，他们都感到失落 同时他们又深爱彼此。”
It’s a very outstanding movie for a lot of plots of subtle entanglement and emotions. The director Luc Besson said, “This is a story between two kids, a boy and a girl, both of whom are 12 years old. They live in pain, and they love each other.”
Leon (Acted by Jean Reno)
Job: Professional assassin
Rule: No woman, no kids
Best friend: Orchid plants
He has a tortured soul and is never truly happy or at peace with himself. He lives quietly from kill to kill. He is a simplistic, childlike man. The one thing he seems to fear is change. But his life does change because of M’s coming. They fall in love and Leon died for saving M.
里昂是个冷静的杀手。他的信条是“永远保持最佳状态，永远保持清醒”。每晚，他戴着墨镜，手里拿枪，坐在沙发上睡觉。他的房间里永远那么简单，没有任何多余的东西，具有一种简单的力量、简单的美。他每天早晨会打开窗户，摆出那盆绿萝，这个细节频繁在影片中出现。他把绿萝当成自己的灵魂来培育，在任何时刻都不会舍弃这份灵魂之绿。
Mathilda (Acted by Natalie Portman)
Mathilda，a 12-year-old mature girl, is reluctantly taken in by her neighbor Leon who is a professional assassin. She lives with her father, step-mother, half-sister and half-brother. As unhappy as Leon, she lives in awe of the dark stranger, being unaware of his true profession. Beaten by her parents and sister, she has dropped out of school and instead spends the day watching cartoons and trying to escape from the real world.
她很小，只有12岁，可是，急不可耐地成熟，因为，童年这么苦。她的生父与继母倒在血泊中，还有与她有一半血缘的姐姐。她哭了，但不是因为他们，他们习而惯之地冷遇她。眼泪，也许是为了弟弟，一点点的温情在冷酷的童年里，是唯一的稻草，这稻草标志着职业杀手的方向，否则如何自处，她只有12岁，一个问题女孩通向职业杀手如此顺理成章。这十二岁的女孩，被“亲人”呵斥着忽略的问题少女，在楼梯上悄悄的吸烟，安静的掩饰那些青紫的伤痕,在楼梯拐角静静的流泪。
命中注定，玛蒂尔达闯进了他的生活。玛迪达具有超乎年龄的成熟与冷酷，而卖弄风情的外表却又掩不住她天真的双眸。两颗冷透了的心在相互接近中发出了微弱的光芒，互相温暖、互相救赎。他成了她的信仰，她却成了他的弱点。
It is destined that M met L. M who has the maturity that doesn’t belongs to her age. They find their similarities and attract each other. Finally, they fall in love and become an indispensable part of each other.
正如影片中玛蒂尔达对里昂说的话，成熟而坚定：
Mathilda: I hope you're not lying. Leon. I really hope that inside your deeper heart there's no love in you. Because if there is...just a little bit of love in there for me...I think that you'll regret you never said anything in a few minutes. I love you, Leon!
玛蒂尔达：我希望你没有说谎，我希望在你内心深处真的对我没有一丁点儿感觉。 你最好对我一点感觉都没有，因为只要有那么一点点，你将会后悔你什么都没有对我说。我爱你，里昂。
Plots in this film:节选剧情
At the beginning of the film, Leon was employed to kill a fat man. He killed all the protectors for this fat man before anyone could recognize him. He is exactly a good killer.
When Mathilda's family was murdered by a crazy policeman named Stan, her only chance for survival was to hide with her neighbor Leon.
After Leon saved M, M asked L to teach her to be a killer because she wanted to revenge for her litter brother. She asked over and over again and showed her talent on it. Finally, L promised to teach M.
Mathilda tried to revenge by herself but was caught by Stan. When L saved M again, Stan called up all his soldiers to kill they two, they are in great danger.
In the end of the movie, Mathilda lived alone with Leon’s orchid plants.
This movie has a message: Without love we are dead, even if we don't see it. Only true love gives meaning to our lives. The feeling in this film is art, subtle and beautiful.
《这个杀手不太冷》虽然有个灰暗的结尾，但是作为导演，吕克·贝松还是给了它以希望。最后，玛蒂尔达重新回到福利院过正常人的生活，放弃了当杀手的意愿，隐喻了她将会有个美好的未来。她将里昂的绿萝移植到土地里，延续了这个不太冷的杀手里昂的生命。
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