《拼字比赛》观后感精选
《拼字比赛》是一部由Jeffrey Blitz执导，纪录片主演的一部美国类型的电影，特精心从网络上整理的一些观众的观后感，希望对大家能有帮助。
《拼字比赛》观后感(一)：拼字比赛
这是一部讲述1999年全美拼字比赛的记录片，追踪报导了8个不同地区、不同家庭背景的小孩的参赛过程。 不知道制作方最初跟踪了多少个孩子和家庭，才完成这样一部纪录片？没有任何花哨的机位、手法，平实如家庭摄像机拍出的生活笔记。最感动人的，是那无法排练更无法掩饰的语言和表情。 比赛方式也非常残酷，选手们轮番上阵，每次拼读一个随机选择的单词，一个字母拼错就被淘汰。一些被淘汰的小孩在失望之余，也有如释重负的解脱感。
《拼字比赛》观后感(二)：Spelling Bees
National Spelling Bee是美国一项全国性的中学生拼字比赛。每年数以万计的孩子孜孜不倦地背字典，啃词根，来挑战这个高难度的比赛。比赛从学校的选拔赛开始到区的选拔赛，市的选拔赛，州的选拔赛，一直到在首都华盛顿特区举行的全国性的决赛，每个州只有三名选手能参加全国比赛，可谓竞争激烈。每个有幸参加决赛的选手都是过五关斩六将，水平非同寻常。英语是世界上词汇量最大的语言，其词汇包含大量外来语，比赛所选的词对很多人来说闻所未闻，拼法又及其古怪异常，如果你不懂英文单词的词根来源，你很难找到拼写规则，因此每个学生都有武功高强的师傅精心培训，通晓英文中来自拉丁文，希腊语，法语，德语等各种外来语的词根词缀。但是比赛规则残酷，你只消拼错一个词就下台了。一轮一轮的淘汰，最后剩下几强在台上继续拼杀，气氛紧张；能一路不出错撑到最后就胜出为冠军。很多孩子屡败屡战，每年磨枪上阵，直到中学毕业失去比赛资格。
2002年出品的电影Spellbound是Jeffrey Blitz导演的一部关于进入八强的spelling bees的纪录片。影片以采访的方式进入每位选手的生活，对其家庭背景，兴趣爱好，学习方式娓娓道来。镜头的一部分给了孩子的父母，父母的态度大相径庭，有的望子成龙望女成凤，比孩子还要重视比赛，比如一位父亲花了大量本钱给儿子请老师，甚至在比赛当日请来很多法师为他儿子祷告；有的顺其自然，只要孩子参与了父母就跟着高兴。仔细观察的观众不难发现最后能进入决赛的孩子不少来自移民家庭，这些父母十分重视孩子的教育，希望他们孩子能受到良好的教育并出人头地。每个孩子各有特色，有的坚韧不拔，有的机灵活泼，有的少年老成，但都不失可爱。我最喜欢的是一个叫Harry Altman的孩子，他是那种天资非常聪明，学起来不花力气的小孩，当然他也很努力。他有独特的幽默感，每次他在台上只一个表情一个小动作就能把你逗乐，让你能爱他到心里。只可惜他拼错一个词没能乐到最后，一向轻松应战的孩子泪流满面，其实他轻松的只是态度，心里还是渴望成功。
《拼字比赛》观后感(三)：Spellbound is a wonderful little documentary
Doesn't it matter what the words mean more than the letters in them？ Wouldn't it do a precocious kid more good to pour over Shakespeare or Jane Austen or Hemingway or even Harry Potter than to turn the pages of a dictionary or be drilled by a parent on how to spell obscure words like "lycanthrope" and "cephalalgia" (or the supremely ironic last word in the final shown here, "logorrhea") which the parents themselves can't even pronounce？ When little showoff Harry Altman stumbles and comically grimaces over the word "banns," it seems to me he might be doing better – not in the contest, perhaps, but in life – to read more books, so he'd become familiar with the custom of "posting the banns," which isn't so obscure as the film and Harry make out, if you've gathered a wide acquaintance with marital customs through reading.
But there is after all a higher significance in all this. America is a self-made country and English in some queer sense is a self-made language, and these general points play into the significance of this surprisingly moving and thought-provoking little film. It's not only the suspense and emotion Spellbound evokes or its fairly tight documentary organization but such more general themes as social mobility and the accessibility of certain sports that make this otherwise conventional movie rise above the ordinary and explain why it's worthy of theatrical distribution and not just a slot on PBS. What would this be like in Italian？ That's a language, like some others, whose spellings are so phonetic that a contest like this wouldn't make much sense. But English spellings really don't make much sense. English poses unique problems. The Italian columnist Beppe Severgnini is wrong to have written that it's because we're terrible spellers that spelling bees excite us. An Italian just can't understand. If you say an Italian word, ninety-eight percent of the time (if you're Italian) you know how to spell it. In English, we've got all those tiny vowel differences and remnants of Germanic gutturals and all those endless words from Arabic and Persian and Greek and a hundred other languages that we've transliterated by a hundred different unrelated systems. Why should `Darjeeling,' which so ironically almost stumps the Indian-American Neil Kadakia, be spelled that way and not darjiling or dardjeeling, or who knows what？ It's because English spelling had no strict rules till the late nineteenth century; English went through so many growing pains from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Dryden to Jane Austen; because we still have no consistent phonetic system; and because our language has all those endless half-assimilated loan words from other cultures and tongues, that spelling in English is a nightmare and a kind of art, and a truly expert young speller is a real entity worth the chimerical task of seeking him or her out each year.
Spelling bees are a matter of rote knowledge, but success in them can sometimes involve some inspired guessing, and this is shown by the fine tuning contestants are allowed in the DC competition when they ask what language or culture the word comes from. Despite the strong element of memorization, the event attracts and finds ambitious, bright, even rather intellectual kids: lots of hard work maybe, but also some kind of raw brainy talent we don't by any means all have: inspiration and perspiration, the old combination.
The new immigrants in Spellbound are a major force. There are not one but two Indian-Americans in the eight the filmmaker has carefully singled out for special focus, and one of those wins. There's the Mexican girl whose father (so movingly) feels fulfilled, his whole life's journey made worthwhile, just because she has qualified; and he can't even speak English. And there's Ashley, the Black girl from the DC projects who didn't get a trophy or much recognition but dreams, nay prays, to be the winner. And even the boy from rural Tennessee who says there are hardly any other smart kids in his school qualifies as some kind of outsider who magically comes home, and gets put in his place in a complex way, like an Oklahoma valedictorian in the freshman class at Harvard, when he gets to compete in the national spelling bee. .Spellbound itself isn't a profound movie, but it has heart. Like the German WWII film Die Brucke (The Bridge) it shows a group of kids up close and personal and then follows them into battle where one by one they fall, till the last remains, and gets "logorrhea" right (I didn't -- I had to use Spell Check again even though I guessed it right the first time), and becomes champion. And in the emotion of trying so hard and then getting knocked out by one wrong letter, Spellbound illustrates sportsmanship and being all you can be and the joy of competiton and the agony of defeat. It's about poise and maturity and just being a kid. And it's a close, intense analysis of an event – a phenomenon, really – with more ramifications than we ever realized, till we see it. Spellbound is pretty universal in its appeal and by any accounts it's a wonderful little documentary.