The story is a simple but warm one. A Frenchman, Jorge, wants to get green card trough marriage, and an American girl, Bronte, who loves plants so much that she would marry a stranger in order to get a greenhouse. For mutual needs, they get married, and have to face the inspection from the USCIS together, which is a process from clashes, conflicts to reconcile and understanding, and finally to love. From this story, we can see that in a way it’s through clashes that two strangers get to understand each other and two cultures begin to accept and appreciate each other.

At the beginning of the film, there is the drum performance by a black child on the street, and I think the rapid and pressing rhythm symbolizes the beginning of the clashes between the two people and different cultures they come from. The restaurant “Africa cafe”they meet is also a place of cultural integration, where black waiters work together with their white colleagues. Just like the lie they make for how they have known each other: they clashed into each other.

The two are very different people. Bronte is a quiet girl, she has peace in herself. The first time she appears in the film, you heard a very tranquil voice pass through all the noises and chaos on the street.——“How much is it?” When she tells the landlords how she would take care of the greenhouse, she speaks out all those names of plants in a way like she’s reciting a poem. But Jorge’s life is just like his appearance—disorders, fighting, conflicts. He is fired from the restaurant because he makes troubles and he even has been in the jail. I think this is one way she’s different from Jorge, she’s quiet, but he doesn’t make peace.

One of the crashes is about Bronte’s love for plants. When Jorge plants a tomato tree for Bronte, she got quite angry because she thinks he destroys her greenhouse. And she tells him to stay away from her place——the greenhouse. And Jorge thinks that she loves plants better than people. Then they argue about her gardening group——a group that tries to plant trees voluntarily for the children in the slums of the city who don’t have trees to climb. Jorge thinks that’s useless, because he’s the one that comes from the slums, he knows how trivial significance those trees would make to those children. And he thinks that Bronte does this only to amuse herself, which is quite untrue from her point of view. The first time she entered into the greenhouse, it seems she has entered some fairy lands. She’s so happy, just like she has met an old friend. From this we know how deeply she loves plants. She thinks this is one way to help those children who live in chaos and despair.

And that’s another difference between them: Bronte knows quite well what she can give to other people and she takes giving as a basic principle of life. She’s kind to people and holds an attitude so gentle to the world around her. While Jorge has had a hard life and in some way he hasn’t learned to give, even he has got so much to give. He thinks Bronte’s kindness to others is unnecessary, and he doesn’t trust people.

Why there are such differences? That has something to do with their sharply contrast family background. Bronte has been well-educated; her father is a writer and wants her to be an artist. She’s a typical urban woman. She has friends and families, so she learns from birth how to care for people and sympathize with them, especially to those that have an inferior social class. But Jorge has no formal education and left school when he was ten and home when he was 12. His father has always dreams about being a gypsy——a tramp, and that’s exactly what Jorge was before he meets Bronte. And it’s hard to expect a tramp to care about someone else. Jorge’s not bothering about small matters and loving of being a tramp could be seen from his sloppy appearance and this do have a family origin.

So Jorge is quite free of all constraints and attachments in the world, while Bronte has families and friends and a boyfriend to care and hide from. She’s not free as he is, that’s why their attitudes towards life are so different：She wants the inspection over so that she can continue her life as before, a tendency to maintain what life already is and welcome no change; he’s always waiting his life to begin. Change is good. To live is to enjoy your life. “He has passion, he eats life”, as Bronte says.

Another crash we can see from the film is the crash of French culture and American culture. Jorge is a French man, and to be French is to be romantic, careless and sloppy. While Bronte is an American, her way is direct and simple. When Jorge and Bronte meet at her house and the USCIS is coming to ask questions, Bronte gets very panic, feeling rushed inside, but Jorge seems not worry about it at all. He asked for a cup of coffee, walked around her house and looked at her photos, humming still. Americans like to cut to the chase right away, while French want to create some atmosphere before really talk the issue at hand.

Jorge and Bronte know each other better though their study of each other’s habits. And the more they know each other, the more they are able to tolerate the other’s difference. And each crash and crisis makes them shift attitudes towards each other sharply. The same goes with two cultures, when a culture is alien to another, it is very likely that they “hate” each other because of misunderstanding. People are too apt to blame what they don’t know. The key to resolving conflicts is first to understand, and the way to understand is to clash. For through clashes, we see the differences and the reasons, and then there are possibilities for reconcile and a step forward to appreciate the differences of each other.

這是很早的片子了，故事大致情節(jié)了解，也成了電視臺反復(fù)重播的經(jīng)典影視，但從來沒有完整看過，最近才仔細(xì)的看了一遍，看完之后不知為什么不愿意把它從電腦中刪掉，好像總想著什么時(shí)候可以再次重溫。
其實(shí)大約是不會了，情節(jié)的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)都已歷歷，再次重溫反而顯得多余。
這也許就是一部好的電影所在吧。作為一個(gè)情節(jié)不難想象，似乎有些落于俗套的愛情電影，《綠卡》比更富盛名更精于制作的《諾丁山》、《廊橋遺夢》之流要給人更難抹去的印象。
如同其他的俗套愛情電影一樣，一開始，我們就已經(jīng)知道電影即將發(fā)展的方向，非?？隙▋蓚€(gè)完全不相干的人之間一定會發(fā)生奇妙的化學(xué)反應(yīng)，問題只是如何發(fā)生，又如何解決差異不同的問題?？墒菒矍橛炙坪醪皇请娪暗闹黝}，它總在若有若無之間，沒有喧賓奪主，卻又隱隱存在，不可忽略。
其實(shí)看到最后，我倒不確定認(rèn)為這段感情還可能會一直持續(xù)，但那一瞬間，彼此的感覺是對的似乎更為重要。
也許這正是電影的特別之處，它沒有讓愛情成為解決一切問題的方法，使其以一種被信仰的姿態(tài)出現(xiàn)，而只是讓它成為生活的一部分。

已經(jīng)不記得是那一年聽說有綠卡這樣一部電影了，只是記得它是一部很好的片子。所以一直對那個(gè)大鼻子情圣很有好感，雖然也沒有怎么看過他的電影，這也許就是潛意識中的群體壓力吧，呵呵。現(xiàn)在的那個(gè)壯漢也已經(jīng)老的讓人想不起來他年輕的樣子。
故事很簡單，一個(gè)是為了能夠留下來而需要綠卡的人，一個(gè)是對植物十分熱愛而想要自己的花園的美人。然后他們因?yàn)楸舜四茏寣Ψ綄?shí)現(xiàn)想法而走到一起，然后實(shí)現(xiàn)之后在離開對方，看起來是多么簡單的事情。
但總有一些工作認(rèn)真而且死板的政府人員--呵呵--被造假的人騙的太多了，所以要調(diào)查一下這兩個(gè)人的婚姻的真實(shí)性--而不是為了一張綠卡而假結(jié)婚，誰知道他們還真的只是為了綠卡和花園。麻煩就緊跟著來了，大鼻子要在女主人公家假裝是男主人，他拿著報(bào)紙?zhí)稍诖采洗蟠檀痰目粗?，很有一家之主的樣子。一看就知道他的演技很高，是個(gè)生活中的多面手，可是他那個(gè)樣子卻吧女主人下一跳。于是他們并排坐在沙發(fā)上，回答檢察人員的問題，一個(gè)一個(gè)的細(xì)節(jié)問題，包括怎么認(rèn)識，怎樣相愛...
事情還算順利，一一過關(guān)了。可是檢察人員卻要上洗手間，其實(shí)我倒是覺得他是想看看他們家浴室的擺設(shè)和用品，結(jié)果大鼻子一下子就有點(diǎn)蒙了，他坐進(jìn)這個(gè)家的時(shí)間其實(shí)不必這兩個(gè)檢察人多幾分鐘......
沒辦法，只有留下來，好好增進(jìn)了解來應(yīng)付第二次的專門檢查了。

很簡單的故事，鏡頭明快，光線舒適，人物簡單，卻很讓人印象深刻。

總體感覺兩人感情變化太快，太戲劇化，但是最后的結(jié)尾很感動，不是因?yàn)榇髨F(tuán)圓，而是那個(gè)大鼻子說的一句話：i'll write everyday,with the same thing,when will you come.cherie?
可能聽上去有點(diǎn)花言巧語，但卻是一個(gè)可以兌現(xiàn)的諾言。

因?yàn)檫@部片子喜歡大鼻子了。一對兒冤家，但是生活還在繼續(xù)，誰知道以后呢？電影總停止在轉(zhuǎn)身瞬間，擁抱之后呢？