神迹

这个片子是一个传记式的真实故事改编，这个题材本身就已经代表了，它会是一个以人生为主题，不会有太多光怪陆离的情节，但却充实着人生的复杂与选择。
主人公在一个黑人从没有权利到慢慢受到平等待遇的时代，他的一生也伴随着所有人一生都需要面对的问题，在人生方面：事业与家庭的矛盾，家庭的支持位他提供了追寻梦想的坚实后盾，但这并不意味着很轻松，内疚与被歧视是尖刻的；事业方面：他遇到了一个有着开放思想，大度的怪老板，他集优点缺点于一生，他们之间也经历了信任和信任的危机；伦理方面：黑人被歧视，黑人银行倒闭造成他读大学的梦破碎，在医学院担任了最突破性的手术的主刀者和发现者也并没有获得了应有的尊重。 这一切都是真实人生中的真实之路，这就是这个剧本好的地方，它从各个角度都同时表现出了人生的复杂性，这也是一个好剧本必须具备的。
观看片子时我一直比较注意镜头，它分为两种镜头，一种是：人物或景物都出现在画面的偏左或偏右的黄金分割线上，这时人物表现出一种平和和生活化的柔情。当剧情表现人物焦虑，或者严厉时，导演就选用了直的镜头，人物或景物都比值的出现在画面中，空间感觉骤然伸缩，给人严肃焦灼的气氛。我想这也是成熟导演必修的空间的运用。
音乐，这部影片并没有很特别的音乐，但合宜气氛的音乐响起时，它迅速带动了你的情绪，也就是被煽情了，你会感觉一切恰到好处，情被煽了起来！电影真是视听的契合，视觉和声都通通把你带入了那个情境，你被融入其中，有时甚至是不可抗拒的！
它的结尾很励志，薇薇安这个有着女人名字的男人，通过自己几十年的投入和专注，吞下所有的不公和委屈，他终于被大家所承认，他获得了荣誉！人的一生说长不长，说短不短，在这个快餐价值的时代，我们很容易被迷失在一堆想要获得的事物或理想之上，很难去沉静的安心对一件事付诸行动，慢慢的积累前进，但这点又是那么的重要，浮躁的理想带来了更多的焦虑和空虚，让我们更加难以沉静下来专注于一件事。而那些付出了时间的人，我往往看到了他们最后赢得了成功，即便这个结果已不再是他们最关注的了，可这令人欣慰的结果还是到来了。就像人类灵魂中存在着的渴望有更好的未来的本能一样，这些结果就像一个在接受了人类命运之后自然而然带来的褒奖，它给你一个信息：贪婪的本性无法让你得到满足，只有接受了作为一个人的命运时，才能带来整合，这比幸福快乐更加重要美好。

故事叙述得极其精彩，每个场景都紧紧抓住你，同时又能把故事往前推进。
影片也展现出男人巍峨成功所需付出：忍受非议、和最合适的人合作、找到自己的专长、激情、勇往直前。

背景资料：
维文·托马斯得到的是荣誉法学博士，但霍普金斯医院许可员工和学生称维文为医生。
In 1976, Johns Hopkins University presented Thomas with an honorary doctorate. However, because of certain restrictions, he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws, rather than a medical doctorate, but it did allow the staff and students of Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to call him doctor. Thomas was also appointed to the faculty of School of Medicine as Instructor of Surgery.
阿尔佛雷德·布雷拉克在霍普金斯医院：
When Blalock was offered Chief of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1941, he requested that his assistant Vivien Thomas come along with him. They formed a very close relationship that would last more than thirty years. Together, they developed a shunt technique to bypass coarctation of the aorta. While they were working on this, Helen Taussig presented him with the problem of the blue baby syndrome - a congenital heart defect known as Tetralogy of Fallot which results in inadequate oxygenation of the blood. The shunt and operation they developed not only directly saved thousands of lives, it marked the start of the modern era of cardiac surgery, as it was the first successful surgery on the human heart of the modern medical era. As of 2004, doctors in the United States alone perform over 1.75 million heart operations annually.

Blalock retired from Hopkins in 1964, just two and a half months before his death.
维文·托马斯和·布雷拉克的关系：
Blalock's approach to the issue of Thomas's race was complicated and contradictory throughout their 34-year partnership. On the one hand, he defended his choice of Thomas to his superiors at Vanderbilt and to Hopkins colleagues, and he insisted that Thomas accompany him in the operating room during the first series of tetralogy operations. On the other hand, there were limits to his tolerance, especially when it came to issues of pay, academic acknowledgment, and his social interaction outside of work.

After Blalock's death from cancer in 1964 at the age of 65, Thomas stayed at Hopkins for 15 more years. In his role as director of Surgical Research Laboratories, he mentored a number of African-American lab technicians as well as Hopkins' first black cardiac resident, Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr., whom Thomas assisted with his groundbreaking work in the use of the Automatic Implantable Defibrillator.

Thomas' nephew, Koco Eaton, graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, trained by many of the same physicians his uncle had trained. Eaton trained in orthopedics and is now the team doctor for the Tampa Bay Rays.

HBO 电影SOMETHING THE LORD MADE 是纪念 Blue baby Operation pioneered at John Hopkins launched the field of cardiac surgery. DR Alred Blalock 和DR Vivian Thomas. 后者是一个没有上过医学院得黑人，以前做木匠，可是当医生是他得理想。在那个年代，作为一个黑人做外科医生只是一个梦。他存了7年念医科得钱，可是银行倒闭了他没有钱去念书了。他为BLALOCK打工，当助手，类似“偷拳”一样得杨舍命。他的超人天分和勤奋给他从拖地工直到留在手术台边和真正的医生一起工作的机会。如果没有他，那个著名的手术无法成功，可是作为一个没有学历的人，荣誉一点也不属于他。所有的荣誉都是Alfred独占了，他觉得受到了侮辱，一度离去当了医药代表。可是因为对工作的热爱，他最后还是回来了，因为面子固然重要，可是我热更爱站在手术台边上。他用行动证明了他的信念。而Alfred到死都很遗憾没有能给Thomas一个说法。
一直到Vivien的老年，Hopkins授予给他医学博士学位，承认了他虽然没有一天正式在医学院学习过，一天没有站在讲台上给大家上课的他，是当之无愧是心脏外科学的创始人之一。

斯内普教授终于绝望了。他知道在那个老奸巨猾的校长手下，自己永远也不可能当上黑魔法防御术这门课的老师了。怎么办？转行吧。幸亏还有一点魔药学的老底子，去麻瓜世界干个医生什么的还是有把握的。到了麻瓜世界之后教授才发现事情没有这么简单。麻瓜的病不能用魔法治，所以很多原先只要轻轻挥下魔杖就能治好的外科病反而是最麻烦的，而那些用的上魔药的病麻瓜压根得不了——体质对不上号。所以教授就开始腆着丫那张木了吧唧的脸开始在麻瓜世界研究不用魔杖做手术的治病方法——其实教授每次开刀都会用神锋无影咒，没别的，顺手。斯内普还顺手发掘了一助手，你看一高中水平的黑鬼都能叫我调教成医术高手，可见哈利波特这小子压根就是一白痴，净随他白痴老爹了，他妈的好处一点没随上。斯内普最终功成名就，魔法界失去的，麻瓜界补回来。可见树挪死人挪活的话说的没错~