又一部中年大叔应对中年危机的电影，依然英式幽默。这次是大叔们进入另一个女性传统项目--花样游泳队的故事，片中呈现了英国各式各样的大叔肥肥的肚腩，有点褪色的纹身，深深的抬头纹，熟脸很多，看着也特别情切。成员们各自有各自的生活，在这个club里抱团取暖，一起面对中年危机。用大叔们原话就是，他们展现的是力量以一种优雅的方式逐渐凋谢的过程。
同样的中年危机，同样的害怕变老，害怕失败，团体的力量让男主学会如何停止逃避，教学了珍惜生命中所拥有的东西，教会了不要为我没有的东西而后悔。
英国男人也是很会组织club文化的了，这个大叔花样游泳队也有5条队规，感觉挺适合工作和生活中加入的各种群和组织用的。如下：
Rule one: No one talks about swim club.What goes in the pool, stays in the pool.
Rule two: For one hour a week, we swim together as a unit for each other. All reasonable endeavor should be made to ensure attendance.
Rule three: Your private life is that. Leave it at the door. no asking, no telling.
Rule four: The club shall actively promote the sport as a doping-free activity.
Rule five: We're as strong as our weakest member. That is strong enough.
这次采用的高清水下摄影，展现男主在水下释放压力和沉浸自我的状态，这是第一个让我产生想要学游泳冲动的镜头了。
大叔们参加世界锦标赛时用的音乐也很有劲，James Brown的It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World，歌词如下：
This is a man's world,
this is a man's world But it wouldn't be nothing,
nothing without a woman or a girl
You see, man made the cars to take us over the road
Man made the train to carry the heavy load
Man made electric light to take us out of the dark
Man made the boat for the water, like Noah made the ark
This is a man's, man's, man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl
Man thinks about our little bitty baby girls and our baby boys
Man made them happy, 'cause man made them toys
And after man make everything, everything he can
You know that man makes money, to buy from other man
This is a man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing, not one little thing, without a woman or a girl
He's lost in the wilderness
He's lost in bitterness, he's lost lost
2010年瑞典拍过一部名叫Men Who Swim的纪录片，就是记录世界锦标赛里的冠军队瑞典队的故事，2018年法国也拍过一部同类题材的电影：大浴场 Sink or Swim 。据已经看过法国版的豆友评价，“英版的中年危机和丧更直接，法版则多了许多天真和理想化”。
之所以这么受关注，原来男子花样游泳已经不是小打小闹的事情了，是经过一段时间的争取，2015年国际泳联已经批准里由一男一女组成的男女混双的花样游泳比赛项目，并且在2020年东京奥运会上就能看到这项比赛的国际队竞争了。打破所谓传统，创造多元化世界，改变观念改变体育项目，很有意义。可以欣赏到倒三角身材的男子在水里与女子游泳运动员一起起舞造型，简直是海王里的镜头，可以期待一下。
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