This Is Us is about the family lives and connections of several people who all share the same birthday and the ways in which they are similar and different.The series follows siblings Kevin, Kate and Randall as their lives intertwine. Kevin and Kate were originally part of a triplet pregnancy. Their due date was October 12, 1980, but they were born six weeks early on August 31. Their biological brother was stillborn. Their parents, Jack and Rebecca, intent on bringing home three babies, decide to adopt another newborn: Randall, a black child born the same day and brought to the same hospital after his biological father abandoned him at a fire station.
故事以四个年轻人在36岁生日这一天的不同境遇为起点,为观众呈现了四个人不同的生活样态,展示出生活的琐碎、细微和淡淡的幸福与满满的感动。
《论语》中说:“三十而立,四十不惑。” 36岁,一个不上不下的年纪,已过而立之年,对世事有了体察和洞悉,但还没达到不惑或成熟的程度。生活中,危机四伏,各种压力迎面而来。该如何面对这些问题,并想办法解决,这就是这四个年轻人要面对的问题。这四个人分别是爸爸Jack和三个孩子:Kevin、Kate和Randall。所以,这部剧其实是一个家庭的两代人如何面对生活危机的故事。
爸爸:Jack
Jack 36岁生日这天,他和妻子Rebecca的三胞胎宝宝即将出生,新的生活即将拉开序幕。
对Jack而言, 36岁生日这天,妻子Rebecca给了他最好的生日礼物,那就是即将出生的三个孩子。但生完两个宝宝后,妻子的情况不好,最终医生没能保住第三个宝宝。剧中的Jack悲痛欲绝,他悲伤落寞的神情,让人眼眶湿润。因此有了主刀医生安慰Jack的一段情节。他对Jack说将生活带给你的柠檬般的酸楚酿成犹如柠檬汽水般的甘甜"take the sourest lemon that life has to offer and turn it into something resembing lemonade"。也许是命中注定,Jack恰好在此时碰上了一个送到医院来的弃婴,于是收养了他,取名兰德尔。
不管是在家里还是出去玩,杰克都表现出了一个父亲的智慧:他会机智的安慰因为胖而被嘲笑的Kate,他会向因没有得到父母关注的Kevin道歉并且专门抽时间和Kevin做模型,他会和Randall谈心让他尽情的展示自己的才华而不要担心受到哥哥和姐姐的嫉妒并把他送到更好的私立学校去上学。
在一次感恩节,杰克和瑞贝卡带着三个孩子准备去外婆外公家里过感恩节,凯文把瑞贝卡的果酱打破之后他们不得不花时间去商店里买耽误了上路时间,在路上车却突然爆炸把大家吓一跳。爆胎在这荒山野林里距离加油站还有5.5公里,瑞贝卡鼓励大家走过去,而每到感恩节就去远足也变成了她们一家的传统,在路上小兰德尔直言不喜欢过感恩节这让瑞贝卡很伤心。到了加油站瑞贝卡决定不去母亲家了,不想再让孩子们不开心,一家人在林中小屋里度过了感恩节,可是简陋的小屋和一些零食显然并不能满足孩子们。但是杰克用自己幽默和风趣化解了这一场危难,在这个节日里今天发生的每一件事情,都成了以后的感恩节传统项目之一。在林中小屋的房间里兰德尔说自己改变了想法,以后的每一个感恩节自己都要这么过。这是我最喜欢的部分,充分的描绘一幅一家人温馨的生活画面。
大儿子:Kevin
Kevin是个二流演员,在36岁生日这天,他意识到自己生活的无趣,放弃了自己一直演的剧集。他放弃了自己的热播电视剧《奶爸》,而转战纽约演戏剧,希求有比较大的突破。
凭借曾经主演的“奶爸”所带来的声望,Kevin如愿的得到了戏剧的主演。他的搭档奥利维亚为了让他体会悲伤而把他带到了一场陌生人的追掉会上。在会上,Kevin想起了去世的父亲Jack。后来Kevin和奥利维亚一起度过了一次感恩节,但在林中小屋两人又了比较大的冲突,而后奥利维亚开车走掉之后就人间蒸发了,这让编剧斯隆分外难过,斯隆的父母一直说她不能依靠编剧过日子,现在女主角走了剧演不成了更加印证了斯隆父母的话,斯隆要求凯文假装男朋友跟自己回家吃饭,在父母面前挽回一点面子。在吃饭的时候斯隆在家里怨气冲天,因为家人从来就没有来看过自己编排的戏剧,在斯隆家里的光明节上斯隆例行在晚餐上说着故事,凯文突然发现了她的演出天分,强烈要求她出演自己的女主角,一番激烈斗争之后斯隆同意了。
女儿:Kate
Kate是个胖女孩。36岁的年纪,没有成功的事业,没有爱情,整日在为自己体重而发愁。她在称重的时候突然从秤上摔了下来,于是她感觉很沮丧,下定决心要开始减肥。在互助小组上,她结识了一个风趣幽默的男人托比。在随后的剧情中,小Kate会嫉妒妈妈的苗条身材,因别人的嘲笑而伤心。凯特小时候很喜欢表现自己,但是随着年龄的增长,她感觉到周围人的异样眼光。在托比的帮助下,Kate找回了自己的自信。Kate因为托比轻易的减肥成功而自己辛辛苦苦却没什么效果而苦恼,于是接口托比可以毫不顾忌的吃高热量食品而自己减肥的意志可能受到削弱提出了分手。在圣诞节上,托比坐飞机来到了Randall家和Kate一起过圣诞节。在半夜,托比突然晕倒,后被送到了医院。Kate因为看见托比做心脏手术有些痛苦,决定不做胃分流手术了。凯特在减肥训练营一直坚持着,托比前来看望她,给她鼓劲。托比打算带着凯特出去住一晚,但由于凯特课程紧张不得不放弃这个想法。
小儿子(养子):Randall
Randall是父亲Jack在医院领养的黑人孩子。Randall可谓事业有成,家庭美满,有两个可爱的女儿,可是他也有自己的烦恼,那就是他的身世之谜。36岁生日当天,他找到了生父,准备大骂他一场,骂他当年的冷酷无情,骂他把自己丢给了别人,但却鬼使神差地把生父(威廉)领回了家。他应该算是家里小孩最功成名就的一个。Randall刚出生时就被父母遗弃在消防局,后被送到了医院,恰好碰到了刚失去三胞胎中的第三个的Jack,于是成为了Jack家庭的一员。小Randall具有数学天赋,并且其他方面也很出色,同时可能因为是收养的缘故,他深得父母的关爱,导致了和哥哥Kevin的关系一直很紧张。Randall一直嫉妒别人有自己的亲生父母,以至于碰到黑人成年人就问自己是否是他们的孩子。
Randal在抱怨他父亲黑人敏感的眼神和态度,他作为一个白人家庭的黑人孩子,这么多年,经历这些,既有着纠结,又有着愤恨。但他选择无视。他明白这些,他不会忘记自己是一个黑人,这不需要他的黑人父亲用眼神来提醒。尽管美国社会一直在为种族平等做着巨大的努力,但是不可否认,种族歧视仍然很严重。即使再成功,也是个成功的黑人。
经典细节:
1.凯文和自己的两个侄女解释死亡的意思
And life is full of color .And we each get to come along and we add our own color to the painting.You know? And even though it's not very big, the painting ,you sort of have to figure that it goes on forever, you know, in each direction. So, like to infinity, you know? Cause that's kind of like life,right?
生活充满了色彩。我们每个人一边走着, 一边在这画上加上属于自己的颜色。嗯,这画也许不是什么大师级作品,你得想办法让这颜色向各个方向延伸,一直延伸,无限延伸。因为这就是所谓的生活,你说是吧?
And it's really crazy, if you think about it, isn't it? A hundred years ago, some guy that I never met came to this country with a suitcase. He has a son, who has a son, who has me. So, at first, when I was painting, I was thinking, you know that was that guy's part of the painting and then, you know,down there, that's my part of the painting. And then I started to think, well, what if we are all in the painting, everywhere? And-and what if we are in the painting before we are born? What if we are in it after we die? And these colors we keep adding, what if they just keep getting added on top of one another until eventually, we are not even different colors anymore?
你好好想想,真是不可思议。 一百年前,一个我不曾相识的人拖着行李箱来到这个国家。 他生了个儿子,儿子又有了儿子,然后有了我。所以,一开始我画这幅画的时候,我在想啊:画里的某个位置就是这个人人生的开始 下边那个位置,是我在这画里所处的位置。然后,我开始思考。假如说,我们都在这幅画上呢? 如果出生以前,我们的人生轨迹就已经在这画上画好了呢?如果我们死了,才能在这画上出现,又会是怎样呢? 如果我们一直在添加的这些颜色,只不过是简单地覆盖在别人的颜色之上,到了最后,每个人的颜色都没有什么不同,会是什么样呢?
We are just... one thing.One painting. I mean, my dad is not with us anymore. He's not alive, but he's with us. He's with me every day. It all just sort of fits somehow.And even if you don't understand how yet, people will die in our lives, people that we love, in the future. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe years from now.I mean, it's kind of beautiful, right?If you think about it, the fact that just because someone dies, just because you can't see them or talk to them anymore, it doesn't mean they are not still in the painting.I think maybe that's the point of the whole thing.
我们都是一体的,一幅画而已。我爸已经不在我们身边了。他虽然离开了人世,但它仍与我们同在,每天都和我同在。 一切都像是安排好了一样。 尽管你不知道是以怎样的方式,我们生命中的每一个人,终有一天会死去。未来的某一天,也可能就是明天。也许几年后。你看,细细想来,这也是件美好的事情,不是吗? 你仔细想想,就因为他们死了,你再也不能和他们说话, 他们就不在这画里了吗? 我想可能一切的意义就在于此了。
There's no dying. There's no you or me or them. It's just us.And this sloppy, wild, colorful painting that has no beginning, it has no end. This right here, I think it's us.
没有所谓的死亡。没有你、我,他们这样独立的存在。只有“我们”一起。这幅混乱的,狂野的,缤纷的画,没有起点,也没有终点 你眼前的这幅画啊,我觉得就是我们的人生。
2.威廉向奥利维亚解释知道自己快要死了是什么感觉
How does it feel to be dying?知道自己就要死了,是怎样的体验
It feels, like all these beautiful pieces of life are flying around me and I'm trying to catch them. When my granddaughter falls asleep in my lap, I try to catch the feeling of her breathing against me. And when my made my son laugh, I try to catch the sound of him laughing. How it rolls up from his chest But the pieces are moving faster now, and I can't catch them all. I can feel them slipping through my fingertips.And soon where there used to be my granddaughter breathing and my son laughing, there will be nothing.
那种感觉,就像是生活里大大小小的美好的事情,在我身旁环绕,我努力地去抓住它们。去抓住我孙女儿于我腿上熟睡时的呼吸,去抓住我儿子被我逗乐时发出的笑声。那发自内心的笑出声的样子。但这些美好的人事物开始飘得越来越快,我已经不能全部都抓到了。我能感觉到,它们正从我指尖溜走。很快,曾经存放我孙女儿熟睡的呼吸和我儿子开怀的笑声的地方,将会空空如也。
I know it feels like you have all the time in the world. But you don't.So stop playing so cool. Catch the moment of your life. Catch them while you're young and quick. Because sooner than you know it, you'll be old and slow.And there'll be no more of them to catch.
我知道,你觉得自己还有大把的时间在这世上。但事实并非如此。所以,别再一副高冷的样子了。把握你生命里每一个瞬间,趁你还年轻,趁你还敏捷。因为,当你还没弄明白这些的时候,你就老了,走不动了。那时,不会再给你把握这些的机会了。