似是故人来1993

        唐豪里和白娜拉温存甜蜜的生活象征着超越一切善恶、真假、是非判断的爱情。影片中法庭审判沈泽克是真是假之时，也就是审判着爱情与婚姻孰为优先的争讼。
        诗人永在天上奋翮飞行，追求自由也追求灵感，而恋爱乃是自由之极品、灵感之火炬，哪有舍弃之理？于是，自启蒙时代以来，人们相信“没有爱情的婚姻是不道德的婚姻”、“爱情是婚姻的基础”、“婚姻解除（离婚）的标准也应该是感情破裂。（爱情鸟飞走了）”（这也是现行中国《婚姻法》的法定离婚标准）
        婚姻责任之产生乃因生活之沉重，而非因爱情。
        诗人有自己的伦理准则，且往往超凡脱俗、我行我素，而法律家考虑最多的还是你我一样的俗人。
        人有时候会激情的一塌糊涂，不仅骗了别人，连自己都骗。好笑的奇闻背后往往是揪心的悲痛。
        你若抱我，便在以后的日子里永远抱我，你若爱我，就拿出证明。我从来没有像爱他那样爱你。
        生命中之极美处则欲仙欲死。难道唐豪里相信其此生至美之时刻已一一实现，就此死了也够本了？天底下最浪漫的激情能维持多久？激情经不起岁月的流逝。即使他与白娜拉的激情之爱再持续十年，那十年之后呢？十年之后，物是人非，夫妻间偶有争吵又重翻旧年老帐，互指不是，白娜拉是否也会觉得对不起客死多年的沈泽克呢？
        人们总是相信他们认为会发生的事情。真实的生活往往如此，许多人以为已经胜利的时候，问题才刚刚开始。他过去对不起的人不会因为他今天对另外一批人施惠而原谅他。
        长大了，变老了，就开始喜欢追本搠源。时间流逝，浮生若梦。
        《燃情岁月》中崔斯汀的男人本色是让女人痛苦一生的男人，而sommerceby是让女人温柔一世的爱人。
        她仿佛是第一次恋爱的女人，第一次发现原来在爱里面，自己可以这样的被人疼惜爱护和爱恋珍惜……
        有些人，可以把爱看得大于一切，不是因为幼稚，天真，只是他们明白，两人在一起，有愉悦的内心，时常满足于每天的日子，这样的生活，并不是每一个人都可以拥有的。

John "Jack" Sommersby left his farm to fight in the American Civil War but has not returned home afterward, and is presumed dead. Despite the hardship of working their farm without him, his apparent widow Laurel (played by Foster) is quite content in his absence, as Jack was an unpleasant and abusive husband. She even makes remarriage plans with one of her neighbors, Orin Meacham (Pullman), who despite his own hardships (such as a wooden foot, which he wears to replace one that was lost in the war) has been helping her and her young son with the farmwork.

One day, Jack (Gere) seemingly returns with a complete change of heart. He is now kind and loving to Laurel and their young son. In the evenings, he reads to them from Homer's Iliad, which the old Jack never would have done. He claims that the book was given to him by a man he met in prison, and that "War changes you; makes you appreciate things". Jack and Laurel rekindle their intimacy and Laurel soon becomes pregnant.

Displaced from his courtship of Laurel, Meacham immediately suspects this "new" Sommersby as an impostor. The town shoemaker also finds that this man's foot is two sizes smaller than the shoe template which had been made for Sommersby before the war.

In order to revive the local economy, Sommersby suggests Burley tobacco as a cash crop. He raises the seed money by selling parts of his own farm to people who will then work the land to grow tobacco. This raises further doubts in his old neighbors who believe that the "old" Jack would not be so hasty to give away his beloved father's land, as well as resentment among Confederate veterans about the inclusion of former slaves.

One black freedman living on Sommersby's land is brutally attacked and dropped at Sommersby's door, by men proclaiming themselves the Knights of the White Camellia (one of them is Meacham, distinguished by his wooden foot). Jack is threatened in an attempt to force him to exclude Black people from the landowning but he refuses, saying that they can "own what they pay for".

Upon taking the townspeople's money, he sets off to buy the tobacco seed claiming that the crops will raise enough funds to rebuild the town church. Great suspicion and skepticism falls upon him (and by association, Laurel and their son) when he does not return at the expected time. He does, however, return. All those that bought in on the deal set to work, transforming the dull and lifeless plantation into a breeding ground of promise and prosperity. Laurel gives birth to a daughter, Rachel.

Shortly after Rachel's baptism, two U.S. Marshals appear in town to arrest Jack Sommersby. He is charged with murder, which carries the death penalty if convicted. Once the trial begins, Laurel's attempts to save her husband quickly focus on the question of his identity: whether this "Jack" is who he claims to be, or a look-a-like who met the real Sommersby whilst in prison for deserting the Confederate Army.

Laurel and Jack's lawyer agree to argue that her husband is an impostor, not the same man who left Laurel to fight in the war. This would save her husband (or supposed husband) from hanging for murder, although he would still be imprisoned for several years for fraud and desertion. Meacham devises this plan in exchange for Laurel promising to marry him upon "Sommersby's" imprisonment.

Jack fires the lawyer and sets about re-establishing himself as the real Sommersby. Several witnesses are brought up to discredit this Sommersby as a fraud, and show that he is in fact Horace Townsend, an English teacher from Virginia.

One witness says that the man currently posing as Jack defrauded his township of several thousand dollars after claiming he wanted to help rebuild the schoolhouse there. Sommersby quickly discredits the man's testimony by identifying him as one of the Klansmen who had threatened him earlier. Jack also points out that Orin Meacham was another of those men, and that this is all a set-up to try and rob the new black farmers of the land they have bought. When the black judge confronts the witness on this charge, the witness snaps, "When the Yankees have all gone you'll be back in the field where you belong!" The judge silences him and sentences him to 30 days for contempt, increased to 60 days upon the man's protest.

As the drama unfolds, Jack asks Laurel to give the reason she knows he is not the "real" Jack Sommersby; she replies (after some berating) "…because I never loved him the way I love you!" With this her charade ends and she says that she believes the Jack before her to be her real husband.

The judge calls Jack to his bench to ask whether he wishes to be tried as Jack Sommersby even if it will certainly mean death by hanging. Jack glances at the freed blacks who have been farming his land, and then he glances at his wife and his daughter, who would be respectively condemned as an adulteress and a bastard child if he claimed the identity of Horace Townsend. He calmly states that he wants to be tried as John "Jack" Sommersby.

Jack is convicted of first degree murder and is sentenced to death by hanging. While awaiting death, he is asked by Laurel to tell the truth. She asks, "Are you John Sommersby?" Laurel mentions the book on Homer's works that he holds. Jack tells her the story of how he met a man who looked like him whilst in a prison and how he gave him this book. They traveled together until his friend died. He claims that he buried him under a pile of rocks on a hill top in Virginia. Laurel asks, "You mean you buried Jack?", to which Jack replies, "I mean I buried Horace."

Just then the jailers enter to transport Jack to the gallows. He asks Laurel to be amongst the crowds as he cannot "hang alone". She says she can't watch him die. As Jack Sommersby is fastened up ready to hang, Laurel makes her way to the front of the crowd. Jack calls for her, claiming to the executioner that he "isn't ready". She then calls back and the two see each other. The hood is pulled over and a trap door can be heard opening.

The closing scenes show Laurel walking up a hill with flowers. She then kneels by the grave of "Jack Sommersby" and lays the flowers down for him. It is revealed that work is being done on the steeple of the village church, as Jack had wished.

   是Jack.sommerceby,不,是汤森,不，是Jack.sommerceby."你怎么知道,你怎么知道,你怎么知道,因为我从来没有向爱他那样爱你.”
    这就是《似是故人来》，我是在一次次否定和肯定中看完了此片。到头来，他究竟是谁？我宁愿相信他是她所爱的人，不管你是谁。只因我爱你，不管你做过什么，我知道我爱你。这才是爱情，只有女人愿意相信的爱情，与现实功利的、交易的、目的性的爱情格格不入。
    真的再一次被Richard.Gere那绅士而儒雅的风度而折服。让我看到了他的另一面，三次拍着桌子问劳拉，你怎么知道，你怎么知道，你怎么知道。野性，男人的本色。而同是男人的本色，《燃情岁月》中崔斯汀的男人本色又是另一种。崔斯汀是让女人痛苦一生的男人，而sommerceby是让女人温柔一世的爱人。这就是Richard.Gere诠释的sommerceby

似是故人，不是故人，胜似故人；
执子之手，却又分手，相聚苦短。
俗世渺渺，天意茫茫，生死两隔；
恨台上卿卿，羡台下我我，不是你共我。
有缘无份，回忆不断，生命只恨长。
岁月深渊，终我此生，相思说不尽。