Manchester by the Sea2016

Despite his draw to tragic subjects, Lonergan holds onto a sharp, dark, Irish sense of humor, and a feel for the absurd that comes out at the most unexpected times. A playwright's sense of what actors do, too. Affleck gives a career-best performance here.

不堪回看的历史带给人的痛苦，不一定彻底击垮一个人，而是让他冷漠、看似置身事外，却始终无法彻底摆脱。没人会将这个叫Lee的颓废修理工视作自己，却有多少人，曾经经历过心碎的时刻，然后隐藏起所有伤疤，一如往常地生活。我们看到的，只是他们“最正常”的样子。

It’s a movie where even seasoned cinemagoers who feel like or claim to have seen everything are likely to marvel at how director Kenneth Lonergan was able to achieve something new, interesting, painful, hilarious, or beautiful, or some combination of all these things, in every single scene. It’s the type of movie that makes a person reach for the nearest hyperbole to describe it.