风雨哈佛路

她让人唤她作LIZ，因为她妈妈只有发狂的时候才会唤她全名——ELIZABATH。她的背景令人苦恼。那是一个如垃圾般的地方。过期的食物，过期的浴室，过期的针头，过期的宁静，过期的童年，过期的母亲，过期的家庭……也许只有一样不会过期——她说:”I love you, mum.”"I love you, dad."

生活在最底层的悲哀中，已不是忧愁可以解决的，那是自我了断的绝望。如同人，抛弃一切，剩下的只是求生的本能。当生命被剥的如此赤裸裸，索性，无畏面对一切。

那些让我们每天费劲唇舌，绞尽脑汁的烦恼，在生命这个大课题里，什么也不是。除了爱和死亡，没有什么是深刻的。

LIZ一头蓬发，有成人般深省镇定的表情。生活把她逼的太紧，她的成长不由自己。她说"She is my baby.” 这样的成长往往异常疼痛也异常牢固。她抱着一种"Nothing is worse.”的信念，在混沌中勇往直前。因为她知道上帝给她的，从来只有向前这一条路。

没有退路的人生。

久违的感动。她对生活的不放弃，她总说"I just need a chance.” 这样决心和信心，来自于一个随时可以绝望到谷底的灵魂。

人性如此相通。我总不明白世上何来坏人，他们不懂切肤之痛和感同身么？对于这个一个伟大的灵魂，我只能说：You deserve Harvard.

"I didn't ask why, why is this; I knew why. I accepted it. I just put all my energy to get out." ---Liz

曾经一度的茫然，不知道要成为什么样的人，该如何的生活。
心里渴望成功和幸福，可是长路漫漫，却不知如何到达。

把对生活的种种不满都化为满心的不在乎，笑对一切风雨，看轻挫折与不顺。然而，在这不恭的心态里，忘记了去反抗，忘记了努力去争取，以及改变自己可以改变的。只是默默的承受着一切，内心纠结与找寻一切的真相。
渐渐中了生活的圈套。

而今发现，
自己一直以来都错了。
挫折和逆境不是用来看轻的。不要因为自己可以承受就沾沾自喜，以为自己有多么悲壮，有多么伟大。

其实，它们都是自己生活的一部分。
接受它们，然后尽自己的最大努力走向更好的生活。

Believe there is something better waiting for me.
Focus on what I can do to make it happen.

Murray 的故事被搬上大银幕. 感人肺腑~
刚才看完Murray April 6, 2005 在DePauw University的演讲~她的坚强 乐观 让我感慨并会一直记忆犹新


Liz Murray在DePauw University的演讲实录 　
　　
　　April 6, 2005, Greencastle, Ind. - "It's not about Harvard, it's not about a prestigious school," says Liz Murray of her incredible and uplifting life story, which she shared with an audience at DePauw University tonight. "It's not about that. It's about learning, about educating yourself and gathering enough knowledge to find your way through any little crack or crevice you possibly can so you can move up and escape from that trap you were born into."
　　
　　The 24-year-old Murray, who went from living on the streets of New York City to winning a scholarship to Harvard University, delivered The Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture, "Homeless to Harvard: A Remarkable Journey," in Kresge Auditorium of DePauw's Performing Arts Center. Working without notes and addressing her audience from the edge of the stage, Murray detailed how she was born to drug-addicted parents, and how as a child, living in squalor, her parents and everyone she knew was living month-to-month on government checks.
　　
　　 "I didn't even know that people worked when I was younger, 'cause you have to think about -- what does a kid seeing when they're little. I saw that people cashed welfare checks... they were happy to see the mailman, he was like Santa Claus or something or some celebrity -- and we'd go to the check cashing store and there would be a line wrapped around the block for an hour-and-a-half" on the days checks arrived, she remembered. Her parents would spend the bulk of the money on drugs; about $30 a month was all the family of four spent on food, and Murray's parents would go without food for several days at a time.
　　
　　Despite the tumultous environment in which she was raised, Murray says she has always loved her parents. Her life, already in disarray, unraveled quickly when her mother was diagnosed with HIV. Her mother moved out, her father went to a homeless shelter, and Murray, then a young teen, was sent to a group home. Her unpleasant experiences there led her to run away and she lived on the streets of New York City, eating out of dumpsters and sleeping at friends' houses or on subway trains, but in her own words, "going nowhere." The year Murray turned 16, her mother died, and her view of life changed.
　　 "I got the sense that my life was in my own hands," she told her DePauw audience. "And I knew that already, but it's different when a parent dies; maybe some of you know what I mean. You look around and strangers become more strange, big institutional buildings look scarier, everything looks more alien, nothing is friendly. There's no person to think about yourself through. It truly is yourself in the world, and that's it. I realized my own isolation and I realized there never would be somebody to kind of filter me in the world. And I went back with my friends, and without having her to think about anymore -- I mean I did, but not the same way -- I sat with them and I realized that I had been falsely relying on my friends. I realized that, at the end of the day, whatever I did or did not do with my life would stick to me, even if I hung out with them."
　　
　　Murray, whose story is chronicled in the Lifetime Emmy-nominated movie, From Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story, enrolled in an alternative high school at age 17; when most of the people her age were graduating, she was starting. Guided by an understanding teacher/mentor and fueled by a desire to make something of her life, Murray finished high school in two years while still sleeping where she could find a place to lay her head at night. When she visited Harvard on a school trip, a seed was planted. Murray applied for a New York Times scholarship and was one of six students selected out of the thousands of applicants. A story profiling the scholarship winners was published on the cover of the Times' metro section.
　　
　　 "I really didn't understand the power of the media before that, but I found out," Murray said with a chuckle. "You know [that] New Yorkers have this reputation for being really cold, right? Well, the readers of the newspaper came out of their houses around [the school] and brought me sweaters and clothing their kids weren't using anymore. Some lady came just to give me a hug! Another came just with some cookies, then she said to me, 'I don't have any money, Liz, but I have a stationwagon and a house. Do you have any laundry?,' she asked me. 'I just want to do your laundry.'"
　　
　　Murray's story was featured on ABC's 20/20 and she was a guest of Oprah Winfrey, becoming the first recipient of the talk show host's Chutzpah Award. Murray transferred from Harvard to Columbia University to be closer to her father, who is ill. She had been studying film, but after talking about her experiences in front of audiences around the nation and the world over the past few years, [Download Audio: "Reaching Out" - 175kb] "My interests broadened because I realize that I have certain insights based on what had happened to me, and I had this opportunity to share with people and go back-and-forth and maybe draw some meaning out of it." She now has her sights set on a masters degree in sociology and psychology hoping to "understand what creates motivation in a human being and how to apply that in society. Is there a way to create upward mobility? Is there a way to break class differences?," she asked. Murray's ultimate goal is to create a coaching and seminar company that will work with groups, perhaps specializing in inner-city schools. [Download Audio: "The Future" - 66kb] "Instead of just speaking about my life, I want that to be a footnote, and I want to offer strategies to people."

首先我承认这是一个很好的故事
很励志 告诉我们努力是会获得相应的收货哪怕你一无所有 同时也很适合天朝的老师向他的学生们炫耀教育的重要性 乃至帮助一个处于社会最底层的孩子跻身Ivy


这是一部矛盾的片子

片子的开头导演先向我们展示了社会的无情冷酷和现实 却给了我们一个童话一样的结局 既然如此 何必自己树立一个观念在自己推翻？同时再喊一些莫名其妙的口号和故作深沉的名言警句？

整篇不知所谓的用极为低级和没有技术含量的手法描述这个故事 平铺直抒 没有起伏 没有高潮 甚至没有商业卖点

它的感动和好 仅仅是建立在一个好的剧情上 却没有一个好的讲故事的人


其次说演员

妈逼的！面瘫的小姑娘可不是悲伤地小姑娘！你他妈的有个面部表情会死啊会死啊！


最后为啥它的评分如此的高？

估计是各位孩子 在内心深处 莫不有一点对Ivy的向往和期待

结果这就成为了意淫的法宝