这是美国历史上最伟大的喜剧之一。这一切都来自一位名叫弗莱泽的波士顿的精神病医生,在结束了自己两段不幸福的婚姻后,心灰薏冷的返回了自己父亲的老家西雅图,父亲从英国请来的私人女健康顾问以及同为精神病医生的弟弟共同住进了一所公寓,弗莱泽医生在当地的广播电台找到了工作,充当一个类似心理咨询栏目的主播,在这个岗位上,他可以借着电波为人们解决心理上的难题,也因此解释了很多朋友,也被迫天天面对着“热情”的女节目制作人。同时,作为喜剧,弗莱泽的后院也不会安然无恙。他的警察父亲倒不是最麻烦的,麻烦的是他弟弟深深暗恋着女健康顾问,经过弗莱泽和弟弟六年的努力,二人终于开始交往,种种复杂的情况带来了无穷的笑料。从8月中旬开始看到第一季的Frasier(欢乐一家亲),一直看到11月中旬,基本就是下饭片,每次吃饭的时候陪伴着下饭,还有一些不开心的时候,看看这个剧就能很简单的开心起来。
突然一晃眼,一连把十一季看完了,我只花了不到四个月的时间;而这一群演员从1993年一直表演到了2003年,我想这个十年之约也是剧组对影迷最大的情怀了。
一直把这个戏当作喜剧输出,家庭成员之间的生活,小摩擦,小欢喜,大家都很独立也常常能看到我们生活里的一些经历,电视剧里更多的是用喜剧的方式表达了,生活里依然会遇见一地鸡毛。偶尔遇见了,也会给自己宽宽心,用喜剧的方式来给生活舒心,过去了就是彩虹。
戏里历经了Niles Crane的住院手术,那个片段让我哭成一个泪人。人快要到中年,突然对生命有一种更直观的敬畏之心,日子过的一眨眼一天就没了,一眨眼可能几个月就过去了,2020年新冠病毒疫情爆发至今未迈过这个门槛,然而时间已经走到了2020年11月,再有一个月2020就是历史了。这一年里,每个人的生活或多或少被这一场病毒战役影响了,等度过这个坎,以后讲给小朋友听的时候,是不是长吁短叹,缅怀那些逝去的人和新生代。
最后引用一首诗,也是Frasier的全剧结尾,再见。
There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:
There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners,
Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me—
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads—you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil;
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
-Alfred Tennyson (English poet, 1809-1892)