On a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors in her residential building about the affair that Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey are having. When the rude and unfriendly Mr. Frank Maurrant arrives, they change the subject. Meanwhile, their teenage daughter Rose Maurrant is being sexually pressured by her married boss Mr. Bert Easter. She does however very much like her kind young Jewish neighbor Sam, who has a serious crush on her.
The next morning, Frank Maurrant tells his wife that he is traveling to Stamford on business. Mrs. Maurrant meets the gentle Sankey in her apartment, but out of the blue Frank comes back home. He realizes his wife is upstairs with Sankey, and runs upstairs. We hear shots and see the two men struggling as Sankey tries to escape through the window. Maurrant runs out with a gun. He has killed Sankey and fatally wounded his wife.
Maurrant is apprehended and is led away by police. He apologizes to his daughter Rose, who will now have to take care of herself and her young brother without either parent. Rose's boss offers once again to set her up in her own apartment, but she refuses. Then she sees Sam, and tells him she wants to leave the city. Sam pleads with her to let him go with her, but she tells him it will be better for the two of them to have a couple of years apart before they consider becoming a couple. Rose walks off down the street by herself.
这部电影最出色的还是家庭生活的细节和情感，代入感和共情力都很棒，每个人都诠释出面对病痛的脆弱和无奈，编导太善于捕捉生活的瞬间，每个细节都随时可能击中你，最终落脚点还是生活、家庭还有亲人。
本片中心思想：不要生小孩,小孩会带来不幸。
情绪的爆发和关系的转变都好生硬，尤其没懂女儿怎么从逃避到接受。
妈妈真的又温柔又坚韧😢从这部电影你就能看到普通台湾家庭和大陆家庭的区别，尽管大家都受到传统的亚洲文化的影响，但她们能很坦然地说出“妈妈爱你”。
年度最佳台湾电影，阮凤仪初出即惊人，有许鞍华和河濑直美的感觉
导演的才华够不上她的雄心，说实话，现在这群创作者似乎只会在某种框架下创作。那你写得再好，也散发着腐朽的八股文的气息。
林嘉欣真是太可惜了，一代港星女神里少有演技好的，却错过了整个黄金时代。
很好理解的小故事，说不出哪里好，但看完的确会被感动。
她的恐惧会成为我的恐惧 她的软弱会使我软弱
精心设计的剧本，从细到大处处皆冲突和困境。但感觉女孩对文化和自身身份的认同的展现太过执着，反而忽略了女孩与家庭间关系的更丰富的变化，一直感觉在围着一个问题争吵。而母亲的形象刻画得略表面，希望看到更丰富，反而着墨不多的父亲比较出彩，当然也可能因为他不是那个比较沉的角色更容易有张力。幸好母亲的弱倒是被林嘉欣的美忽略了。感觉不够喉。
从故事到表演都没有留下太深印象的小品。“同龄人电影”这个属性这一回没有加分。
琐碎的生活对话和冲突没有表现人物更深层的心理变化，对社会问题探讨也是浅尝辄止，这点不如《瀑布》，少女恋马的情节和《鱼缸》里很像，p.s.林嘉欣还是好好看哎
片中最为恐怖的是母亲的处境，可以发现直到影片末尾一家人都没有人给她提供任何层面的情绪支持，在拍的极为令人不适的逼仄家庭戏中宛若绝望的困兽。导演推翻了一个顺拐的母爱演讲解法，却给出了一个并没有好多少的出口，关于母亲和女儿的困境给出的答案是如此浮皮潦草，就和这里面对于周杰伦蔡依林歌曲单调的使用一样令人遗憾。
错置时空到2003年，以过去的疫情映照现在的疫情，家庭内部的情感内涵总是相似。只不过就电影展现的故事而言，我们看到了隔阂与争吵，但也仅限于隔阂与争吵，而没有进一步的发展，看似和解的结尾也可能只是反复争吵的中间状态。
梁方仪的角色像《牯岭街》小明和《一一》中婷婷的混合体。
爱与恨，就在一念之间。和《瀑布》有一点点像，都有冲突，结尾有点戛然而止了。
3星半。观看的过程突然就想到了《小伟》，同样是亲人罹患癌症的家庭背景下，同样的美国梦，《美国女孩》优在独特的故事题材无可取代，但是《小伟》的结局处理方式让人更加惊喜。不过，阮导在《美国女孩》里展现的平稳叙事和成熟稳重，加上台湾语境下表达的自由空间，让人非常期待导演的下一部，未来可期。
当代台湾电影困境，有底蕴没故事，一点点故事容量拉得老长，显出做作，难得这部演员还不错。
最喜欢的一段剪辑是从splash的马蹄铁切换到离家出走公车上的吊环把手。她爱马的自由，却未曾想过马也爱自由，每个人其实都是一样的孤独和自私。
香蕉人很可怕，中二病也很可怕，香蕉加中二更是，唉
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