电影《老炮儿》：往回看是怀旧，往前看则是希望_大学英语阅读

电影《老炮儿》：往回看是怀旧，往前看则是希望

2015年末上映的《老炮儿》在国内引起了巨大反响。对这样一部有关于上一代人江湖道义的影片，两代人的感想也各有千秋。本文作者和父母在“家庭日”里一起去观看了这部电影。作为上一辈的父母对影片感同身受，在这部影片里看到的是曾经以道义为重的价值观在如今社会遭受的冲击，而身为90后的作者在这部影片中可以思考的是在金本位的现代社会中值得我们传承的传统价值观是什么。正如六爷的儿子所言，现代社会这个江湖光靠“混”而没有一技之长是行不通的，但全凭单打独斗而抛弃全部的信义道德也同样不可取。而这也是本片想要引起我们思考的地方——究竟是什么值得为之奋斗。

A trip to the movies with my parents usually turns out two ways: I’m both shaking my head and groaning as my parents say they didn’t get the movie, or it’s the other way around. This time it was no different. I was home for the holidays and we decided to go watch a movie together. Gritting my teeth in preparation for a long car ride home with me trying to explain the plot of the movie to them, I agreed. After all, family time came few and far between as I continued through university, and will only become less and less frequent as I enter the working world. But that night my parents decided to watch the movie that was all the rage in China: Mr. Six. Two and a half hours later, I walked out of the movie theatre confused, and not just because of the heavy Beijing drawl that slurred together the Chinese words. There was simply too much in the movie that I did not understand on a cultural and generational level. The car ride home, and many days afterwards, was filled with my parents and even my relatives explaining all the cultural and generation-specific references that were found in Mr. Six. And now, I think I’ve understood the movie, but not completely from the perspective that my parents and their generation see it.