城堡

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Nicolas Cage主演的《天气预报员》（the weather man），中年危机，小人物的黑色喜剧。令人抑郁。

步入正题，我要说的是电影的一首主题曲。

大卫知道父亲患了癌症，很难受，无以表达自己的感情。在父亲的生日会上，他精心准备发言，希望以一首歌来表达对父亲的感觉。运气差了喝口水都塞牙，当这个事事背运的无奈男人刚刚上台说了一句：“想到父亲我要说一首歌，Bob Seager的like a rock，我……”话刚至此整个房间突然停电，人们议论纷纷无心理会他。大卫十分沮丧。

之后很久，电视台门口遇见父亲。父亲执意要他坐进车里，给他放了这首like a rock，父子对话：

  F：It's just what I do,David,I've practiced and I've gotten good.Like you and the weather business.

  D：But I don't predict it.

  F：Nobody does, 'cause it's just wind.It's wind!It blows all over the place!

  D：What the fuck....I have to go to work.

  F：David....This shit life...we must chuck some things.We must chuck them...in this shit life.There's always looking after.....You have time.
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在音乐声中，David早已忍不住泪流满面。他心目中的父亲，坚如磐石。

Like a Rock                    by   bob seger

Stood there boldly
Sweatin’ in the sun
Felt like a million
Felt like number one
The height of summer
I’d never felt that strong
Like a rock

I was eighteen
Didn’t have a care
Working for peanuts
Not a dime to spare
But I was lean and
Solid everywhere
Like a rock

My hands were steady
My eyes were clear and bright
My walk had purpose
My steps were quick and light
And I held firmly
To what I felt was right
Like a rock

Like a rock, I was strong as I could be
Like a rock, nothin’ ever got to me
Like a rock, I was something to see
Like a rock

And I stood arrow straight
Unencumbered by the weight
Of all these hustlers and their schemes
I stood proud, I stood tall
High above it all
I still believed in my dreams

Twenty years now
Where’d they go?
Twenty years
I don’t know
Sit and I wonder sometimes
Where they’ve gone

And sometimes late at night
When I’m bathed in the firelight
The moon comes callin’ a ghostly white
And I recall
Recall

Like a rock. standin’ arrow straight
Like a rock, chargin’ from the gate
Like a rock, carryin’ the weight
Like a rock

Lihe a rock, the sun upon my skin
Like a rock, hard against the wind
Like a rock, I see myself again
Like a rock