你能原谅我吗？

五星好评呀，看了一半就忍不住赶紧写评论，电影拍摄风格，音乐，演员演技都非常不错，主人公的一举一动都很入戏。

而且，这是感觉最真实的电影，身在豆瓣混天天见的情景，豆瓣主力几乎都是女主角这样的人吧，蕾丝撸猫丁克社交恐惧，除了文艺无一技之长，交友圈都是gay，活在自己的世界里，目空一切。

造假这种事，中国人是老祖宗，外国人偶尔做一次就像发现新大陆一样，竟然没人去怀疑，而且造假过程，一点技术含量都没有，稍显遗憾。

这电影有几个人物冲突很有意思。

1 书商anna2 基友jack3 送猫友ellen看起来像是为犯罪粉饰太平的自传为何可以改成影片，这事本身很有意思。

书中提到的很多作家大多数人都不认识，在上流社会一张信就可以卖到好价钱。

国内的阿城 格非之流，不知道新生代还有多少人会看。

为猫看病的债务82美元，只需要偿还一半就可以继续看病。

女主人公只有14块。

看到这有点心痛。

美元叫刀，谁第一个翻译的太有才。

自打我有了“滞销作家”的自我认识之后，就陷入了对“落魄文人”的迷恋，所以对于《你能原谅我吗？

》这样的片子必定是不愿错过的。

这么说吧，打从一开头，我就被它迷住了。

已经入不敷出的女作家李坐在那边，一面校对文稿一面喝烈性酒，所有的年轻女同事都坚信“她比我妈年纪还大”，她松垂的面颊因为太久没有好好清洗过，长满了红澄澄的斑痕，圆鼻头宛如迟钝的猎犬，偶尔抽动几下，要干的事情全凭直觉和经验。

随后，就有早看她不顺眼的上司走过来，把她开掉。

李的人生，也是从那时候开始变得一塌糊涂，让她努力要逆境求生的——是她养的猫。

为了治好猫的病，付得起下个月的房租，她不得不向旧书店变卖了名人信件，从此食髓知味，开始伪造这些玩意儿。

伪造一个假古董需要技艺，而伪造名人书信却需要写作才能，以及一个码字者最深厚的文学知识，是的，这不是仅仅有“常识”就能做到的事体。

记得前不久，我公开跟人家讲自己对中国现代男诗人存在刻板偏见，而且永远不会消除这种强烈的鄙视。

但是很多年前，有位年轻的男诗人得意洋洋跟我讲过：“我拥有一种技能，想模仿哪个作家的风格都可以。

” 因为这一句，我认为他对自身才能有着特别清楚的认知，便也不太讨厌他，甚至至今还保持着君子之交。

他讲的那种技能，我太懂了，它有界于“耻辱”与“荣耀”之间最微妙的存在感，可能很长一段时间内，你都会沉浸于这样的游戏，我曾经也是。

深谙文学营销之道的台湾文人苦苓曾经讲过：“如果才华不能换成钱，它就什么都不是。

” 所以对于“过气传记书作家”李来讲，用一台古董打字机，把信写出来，放进烤箱里将纸张变成陈黄色，接下来的生计就都不用愁了。

相信我，要不是这事儿犯法，我也想这么干来着。

因她的这种技术能换成钱已经不是重点，重点在于骗过所有“行家”的那种快感，这些号称“鉴定专家”的人给她亲手打造的赝品贴上认证书，然后卖给完全不懂的傻逼收藏家们。

这对李来说，是一种安慰，怒刷了存在感的同时，也证明不是她没有能力写出好书，而是太多的读者压根儿外行，无法分辨优劣。

于是乎，出自李之手的上百封假信以精彩绝伦的杜撰内容，近乎诡异的“实在感”流传于坊间，甚至被登上了那些名人的生平史料之中；恐怕到现在还有部分被当成真货到处展示。

也许你觉得奇怪，可这就是一个作家的尊严所在。

法庭上，李坦荡荡跟法官讲：“对于所做的一切，我不会后悔。

” 在这里，不得不怒赞一下李的扮演者梅丽莎.麦卡西，跟很多人一样，我是从肥皂剧《胖子的爱情》里认识她的。

据说《你能原谅我吗？

》最初选的女主角是朱莉安.摩尔，因为对人物的理解与导演相背离，后来换成了麦卡西。

我得说，这决定特别明智。

摩尔扮演李的话，你可以想像她得努力把自己扮丑，假装素颜，拼命往脸上刻几道风霜，以便接近角色。

但麦卡西显然不用，天然丰厚的脂肪和年纪赋予她的沧桑感已然够用，往镜头前一站，脸上就写满了“失意”，那种绝境浑然天成。

说白了，我反感聪明刻意的演技，更喜欢电影表演特有的鲁钝。

人，都要生活，需要一份工作来赚取一份薪水。

前几天，我跟两个朋友一起吃饭。

我们三个人已经有快大半年没有领到我们的薪水了。

我还好一点，毕竟家里还有存粮，够吃。

另外两个朋友就惨一点。

我在饭桌上问他们这些日子是怎么过来的。

他们都笑笑不语。

其实我是知道的。

一个靠老婆的接济，另外一个估计就是光靠银行的贷款，然后信用卡、花呗什么的。

我相信再过一段时间，他们的个人信用是绝对不可能好的。

以前我不能理解这样的生活，在市场上打滚两年后才知道创业的人不都是这样的吗？

我这两位朋友印在名片上的头衔也是某某公司的总经理，在市场监督管理局去查一下，他们一定还都是法定代表人，俗称的老板。

可惜，表面的光鲜掩盖不了口袋里没钱的窘迫。

但是人都要生活下去的。

在没有办法的时候，不免就会做一些犯罪的事。

你要说这些人会因此后悔吗？

我觉得是不会的。

不这么做，他们就会饿死。

为了吃饭，人总是会突破自己的底线！

像朱自清老先生那样饿死不吃美国粮，有骨气的人终究是少数！

芸芸众生，都是凡夫俗子罢了！

说了这么多，那是因为这些感慨都是我看《你能原谅我吗？

》这部电影有感而发。

作家李.伊瑟列尔（lee Israel）算是一个知名传记作家，曾经也有一部作品上过畅销作品排行榜。

可惜，51岁的她，既写不出好的作品，又因为嘴巴坏丢掉了工作。

没有工作就没有收入。

人要吃饭，租来的房子要付房租，连心爱的猫得了病也要治。

这一切的一切都急需要她想办法挣到钱。

读书人，能想什么法子挣钱呢？

NO WAY!可怜她最后把自己的书拿去卖，结果人家书店还不收，对待她这一个知名的作家像对待一个叫花子。

有一个偶然的机会，她把著名作家写给自己的信卖给了书商，并从书商这里得到了一笔不菲的卖价之后，她开始觉得这是一条摆脱现在困境的法子。

于是她就开始伪造那些已经离世的作者的信件，然后把它们卖给愿意为它付费的收藏家。

据说，她先后伪造了四百多封这样的作品。

她用被伪造者的口气写信，冒充他们的签名，刚开始她还有一点担心被发现，后来她甚至喜欢上了这样被代入的生活，仿佛她就是他们，她沉迷于被伪造的人生之中。

LEE israel最后在法庭讲，她并不后悔，这个工作她真心的喜欢！

当然不是指她去卖信的这一段，而是她代入以作者的口气写信这一段。

纸从来包不住火。

时间久了，lee israel的诈骗罪行就曝了光。

她被判处有罪，受到了应有的处罚。

最后她的刑期在我看来法官真的是很仁慈，并不太重。

当然在美国那样的社会，一个人的信用破产了，那么因此带来的惩罚将远远比坐牢严重得多！

这个人将失去她所有的朋友，正如lee路过朋友的书店，只能默默地看着，无法再推门而入了。

最后lee把她的故事写成了本人的传记并出版，纽约时报评论她这一本新作是“最卑鄙而又精彩的故事”。

一个作者，甚至是一个算是小有名气的作家，原来也会如此落魄！

这对于有志于写作这一条上的年青人会不会是一大打击呢？

Rows of mansions,cubic office with rigorous work rules,old fashion jazz music.....you can make a decent guess about the location without seeing the actual neiborghood.And yes it's new york, again.From countless films depicting people living in this metropolis,This one is the newly update with similiar background but a memorable twist.New york is the epitome of big cities.In one corner,billionaire is drinking wine in Michelin restraunt,in another,charlatan is stepping on the bench hawking his wares.Everybody is busy surviving in this merciless capitalized junggle.Lee Isreal is this lady so ordinary that get no one's attention but made her own special story.When our protagonist Lee Isreal met her publisher,all she got were bitter words,"you can't success if you dont play the game","you can be an asshole when you're famous".A person have to work his ass off to climb the social ladder in this city or you be knocked out.Lee Isreal,whose books stood on the discount shelf,can hardly make a living after losing her job.But as the implication of her name and her unpopular interst on jewish writer,she would probably contrive some crafty ideas.And here it is.By selling her old letters,she explored a whole market of "originals".Her unfond skill suddenly became an advantage.Piece by piece,she started to make famous writer's letter that escaped the scrutiny of most people.Not everyone could imitate this.That's explain her cherishment of those fake originals and her anger when her friend Jack try to sell her letters arbitarily,"these are literature treasures!!"While revealling Lee's history of counterfeit,the story also shade light on her life and freindship.She is an lonely lady with a sick old cat,an alcholic with a gay drinking buddy, and a book writer with limited recognition.She share her secret fraud with jack and sharing became a bond of genuine freindship but when the bookshop owener want to extend thier freindship,the fraud become an obstacle.Just like she want to write book without concerning sales,she want to be a good neighbor but can't make her own room clean,all these contrary narratives somehow decriminalize her as a fraud but a midlle-aged poor lady who deserve some sympathy.When the final scripts rolls in,we know that her letters that personating other famous writers was so impressive that even some biography included them before knowing it's fake.Even an honest people may show a bit of admiration,at least i do.Another great story,wonderful music.Norah jones song describe new york city as a beautiful disease,this melancholy tone sing well with the story.When the film gives a few shots of new york city,it create not familiarity but a sphere of possibilities,you just don't know if the people walking by is a delicate criminal ,a talented writer or a cat lover,maybe all of them.

There are actually a lot of similarities between the main character and myself: cat lover, has a job as a writer, not that neat a person, hard on money... Though I probably would never achieve her level of success (she did get her books published), nor would I do anything criminal.Anyway, midway into the movie, when they entered her apartment and complained about the smell and flies, I thought for sure her cat was dead...The movie is superbly acted, by both McCarthy and Grant, and very engaging and I think quite realistic. Sometimes the lives of others, even those who are pretty @sshole-ish, are just fascinating to watch.

这位女作家浑身上下都是缺点，肥得油腻、言语粗鄙，工作能力差，不合群脾气大，为了生存还干起伪造名家手信真迹的违法勾当，最终上了法院。

可就是这样一位壳比肉厚的女人，却让人心生可爱之情。

有人说，如果她再理性一些选个好工作，生活不会这么艰难，有人说，她满身是刺肯定很缺爱。

不知道什么原因造就了如今的她，但是我确定她活得并不邋遢并不虚弱，反而比世上许多条件看似更优厚的人更加认真地对待生活、也更加期待未来的可能性。

通过她我仿佛看到造物主的智慧，因为这样鲜活有力量的生命不容易的生活着，让我们看到了人之为人生而不凡的模样，看到了光芒从裂缝穿透出的力量，看到了万花筒折射出的不一样的色彩。

仿佛一颗投入湖面的石头，激起内心深处的涟漪，唤醒内心沉睡着的老虎。

只不过她是真老虎，她有自己的武器，有自己的骄傲，有自己的信仰，而这恐怕是百分之八十的人都未必拥有的幸运。

感恩，世界上有着如此多不像我这样的人儿的存在，他们的故事都是我们每天观看的精彩电影。

李是个郁郁不得志的作家，50多岁，独居，不善社交，只有一只猫相依为伴，没钱没地位，因为特立独行、出言不逊被出版社炒了鱿鱼。

因为收入微薄，房租一拖再拖，从李的家就能看出些她的心境，先不说她为何这么多年还独居一人，但是满屋的杂物和苍蝇也能看出她的孤独，和对生活颓废的态度。

无奈之下只好卖掉自己的书和收藏品，却意外的发现伪造名人信件可以卖到不错的价钱，于是她通过对名人文笔和叙事方式的模仿，开始造假。

李在制作名人信件时，信件内容都是用打印机打上去的，落款加上名人的签名，可是奇怪的是，每个购买者在买的时候并没有怀疑这封信的真假，也不关注信件的内容，重点关注的只有最后那一个名人签名，这是李能够成功的主要原因。

可是问题来了，那些收藏家收藏名人信件真的是为了对文学的追求吗，还是对名人的崇拜，恐怕只是为了炫耀或是专卖升值罢了。

当收购书信的人捧着李写的信件爱不释手，并给出了不错的价钱时，给了李莫大的信心和安慰，自己的作品又何尝不能受到这样的优待。

其实李对生活要求的不多，有地方住，有猫陪伴，有酒喝就足够了，可是即便是这样基本的要求也需要她拼尽全力才能够得到。

李的性格注定不会有很多朋友，事实上她只有猫，可能不养猫的人或是没有独居的人不会理解猫给李带来的心理慰藉，在别人眼里猫是宠物，在她的眼中，猫就是她所有温暖的来源了，因此，在猫死的时候，李跪在地上崩溃大哭，残酷的生活都没有让她如此难过过。

可是到后来她遇到了一个和她有相似处境的男闺蜜，生活一地鸡毛，两个人经常一起喝酒，相互抱怨，只有孤独的人才知道这个世界上有个能相互倾诉的人有多重要。

最后李的事情开始败露，不仅要受到法律上的制裁，而且还面临别人的敲诈，男闺蜜为求自保把所有的责任都推到了她的身上，生活又一次跌入谷底。

李的所作所为虽然触犯了法律，也可以看出这次造假事件产生的影响，因为李作假的信件已经被一些作者引用到了自己的书里，值得人们深思，难道别人说的真就是真的吗？

结尾处，当男闺蜜病入膏肓，拖着病体和李见面时，要求李在回忆录里把自己写成29岁，至少没有那么讨厌。

影片最后告诉我们李一共模仿了400多封名人信件，在她的一生中，从未有过像这段时间一样过得充实、快乐，违反法律是真，可是却能够看到一个孤独的人被别人认可时的喜悦。

A pet project for Nicole Holofcener for years (who was set to direct it with Julianne Moore and Chris O’Dowd heading the cast), the final fruition of a biopic about New York biographer-turned-literature-forger Lee Israel (1939-2014) shifts its director chair to her fellow female director Marielle Heller, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? becomes the follow-up of her Sundance darling debut feature THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL (2015), with Holofcener and Jeff Whitty taking the writing credits, Melissa McCarthy starring as Israel and Richard E. Grant as her partner-in-crime Jack Hock (all received their Oscar nominations except Heller).Scarcely there is anything exciting in Israel’s criminal peccadillo (apart from a tense letter-purloining episode inside the library of Yale University), who forges letters written by deceased celebrities (from Fanny Brice, Noël Coward to Dolly Parker, and the key is to fake their signatures, that’s when an Xerox machine comes quite handy if you have a pair of deft, steady hands), often inputting her own wits into the contents to raise the appeal, then sells them to antique bookshop owners to earn fast cash, yet, it is a fiendishly ingenious idea, because as long as these memorabilia can attract potential collectors, most of these buyers don’t give a toss about its authenticity, but there is also a catch, sometimes, it is difficult to fool a connoisseur who pays handsomely for their collection, also, you cannot sell too many items without rousing suspicion (that “avuncular” slip-up is really embarrassing). From the start, in the early 1990s, 51-year-old Lee is dead strapped, fired from her wage labor, once a New York best seller, her upcoming biography about Fanny Brice cannot secure an advance, living alone in her cluttered apartment with a long-in-the-tooth cat, her misery should arouse sympathy but any commiseration dissipates vanishingly whenever she talks. A curmudgeon who unabashedly professes that she likes cats far more than her own kind (and later duly proves that with her action), and apparently has no family or friends, Lee belongs to that rarified group of movie protagonists who is not equipped with any modicum of charisma, but that doesn’t make her less human, conversely, among others, McCarthy’s vastly lived-in performance makes every aspect of her humanity coruscate and bubbling with intensity and veracity, we might not want to meet a character like her, but nonetheless, she is there, indomitably represents the unglamorous, unsympathetic side of ordinary beings which narrative cinema often intends to overlook. The friendship between Lee and Jack, gels naturally from their common propensity of libations. But sex is definitely off the table because of their similar queer orientations, Jack, a small-time drug dealer who seems to sleep rough without a permanent residence, much balances off Lee’s cynical nature with his unapologetic flamboyance, and Grant has a whale of a time in inhabiting his idiotic, happy-go-lucky persona to the hilt, even in the final reveal of his impending fate, Jack is Jack, nothing sentimental or phony is doctored into their tenuous, but unalloyed bond chiefly borne out of a mutual necessity, once that phrase passes, Holofcener and Whitty script makes sure nothing wishy-washy remains. Many a supporting female performance scintillates with their own strength, Dolly Wells as Anna, one of the bookshop owners, is extremely eloquent in conveying the trickiest part to elicit a tangible romantic feeling towards a dumpy Lee because she peers through her prickly carapace and intuits something tender underneath, but their romance is better not ignited (which Lee snuffs it roundly), as not everyone in real life is prone to act against one’s best judgement. Jane Curtin simply kills it as Lee’s pragmatic agent Marjorie, who does not mince words to pinpoint Lee’s problems with sharp asperity, and Anna Deavere Smith, appears only in one scene as Lee’s ex-lover Elaine, totally shatters our expectation of a comforting figure when Lee seeks out her help, instead, she rams home her mixed feeling of bitterness, weariness and insouciance that persuasively speaks volumes of why their relationship has fallen through. Carving out an engrossing narrative and teasing out compelling performances out of an assortment of un-cinematic elements, Heller’s CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? not just ushers in a new era of female filmmakers strenuously and felicitously tackling thorny issues like their male counterparts, but also brings a new form of character study to the mainstream audience, if we don’t want other people’s sympathy in real life, likewise, cinema needn’t desperately bank on compassion-inducing characters to make for a rewarding viewing experience, as this film beautifully attests, for what it is worth, humanity is a many-faceted creature.referential entries: Björn Runge’s THE WIFE (2017, 7.0); Hirokazu Koreeda’s SHOPLIFTERS (2018, 8.4/10).

你能原谅我吗？

通过她我仿佛看到造物主的智慧，因为这样鲜活有力量的生命不容易的生活着，让我们看到了人之为人生而不凡的模样，看到了光芒从裂缝穿透出的力量，看到了万花筒折射出的不一样的色彩。

仿佛一颗投入湖面的石头，激起内心深处的涟漪，唤醒内心沉睡着的老虎。

只不过她是真老虎，她有自己的武器，有自己的骄傲，有自己的信仰，而这恐怕是百分之八十的人都未必拥有的幸运。

感恩，世界上有着如此多不像我这样的人儿的存在，他们的故事都是我们每天观看的精彩电影。