Saturday, August 13, 2005

DVD: Talk To Her

Bnig and Alicia; Marco and Lydia

好电影总是有很多看法和读法。向来喜欢“帅哥”电影,这部片子里的第一男主人公却是“帅哥”的反面,不知是否故意。Alicia 青春,美丽,优雅,是青少年时代B倾慕的偶像, B & A 故事是少年的故事;Lydia 刚刚和男朋友分开,Marco 也刚结束和Angela 的关系,他们的故事,是成年人的故事。

1。最动人的,是B的爱情, 尤其是他对爱情的(近乎盲目的)信仰。Talk to her. Alicia likes it. 他的爱情战胜了医学上的不可能,A 终于醒过来了。

2。用天真的态度去拥抱别人的生活,用代入的态度体验别人的生活。B 在A昏睡之后,去看她看的电影,做她做的事情,结果发现自己不仅更容易理解她,而且更重要的是,自己的生活也分外丰富起来。在监狱的时候,他阅读M写的旅行指南,在想象中周游列国。

3。影片多次展现A年轻的裸体,却没有丝毫淫秽的成分,首先当然是因为这些人是照料她的医生护士,其次,是因为他爱她。他象一个好丈夫那样照料着她,we get along better than most married couples.

4。但是,happily after 之后却不一定永远是 marital bliss. 成年人的世界是复杂的,不确定的,只要看看 Marco & Lydia 的眼睛就知道。西班牙人(和其后裔阿根廷人)的眼睛本来就带着深深的忧郁,这两个成年人,在感情世界里经过风雨后,更是增加了疲惫,厌倦和无奈。相形之下,B的眼睛带着儿童一般的清澈,信任和信心。

5。M 哭了很多次。谢天谢地,他没有长着B那样胖胖的娃娃脸,所以他哭虽哭,却依旧是个男人。:)因为他哭,L 引出了他和另外一个怕蛇的女子的故事:男人不爱示弱,他也不知道怎么表达自己的感情,于是便通过别人的艺术,释放自己压抑的感情;而在他打开心扉的一刹那,L说:“你还爱她?我嫉妒!”他的推心置腹反而成了两个人感情往前推近的契机。

6。他对L的恢复没有信心。他从医生那里寻找答案。医生说得很清楚,not scientifically possible; you have to believe in something else.宗教。B的宗教就是爱情。

7。L 死了。她死之前,她的男朋友已经回到她的身边,M “我又成了孤身一人”。等她死后,他才得知,原来在她出事前一个月,她就已经和前男友回到一起,她一直想告诉他,却一直没有开口。

8。B 对 A 的爱情是美丽的,然而他的阻力比罗蜜欧和朱丽叶的还要大。最大的阻力,并不是警察关于强奸的指控,不是房东们的嚼舌头,也不是同事们的鄙弃,而是A本身。按照正常的生活逻辑,她和他不是一个 league, she is far beyond him. 她似乎并不知道自己是怎样醒来,她的老师处心积虑地要瞒着她;而且即便她知道她的苏醒是因为他,知道他在自己昏迷的时候爱过她,让她怀了孕 - he has no chance. She will not forgive him even if he were her lover before her coma.

Quote: Love is saddest when it is lost. :(

9。B 不知道A已经醒来,他只是说,A 没有了,我也不想活下去。这样,他就是为爱情死的,是在爱情中死的,而不是死于爱情的绝望,不是残酷的现实 -- 她并不爱他,他的所有感情都是单方面的。(不仅仅是社会地位的差异,在人类解决了温饱问题之后,人们好象倒真地不象从前那样关注对方的固定收入。)殉情,虽然是单方的徇情,但在他的心目中,他和罗蜜欧是一样的,所以他的死,是导演们的仁慈。

在监狱里,B的娃娃脸上长出了胡子。他已经长大了,必须面对残酷的不美好的现实,于是他选择了逃避。自杀在天主教的西班牙是不可饶恕的罪恶,而为了他的新宗教 - 爱情,他死了。编导们原谅了他,我们也只好原谅他。

10。但是影片也给成年人留下了希望。B 不仅唤醒了A,还给了M生命。他让M住进了自己的家,这样M就成了他。从此,M带着A的眼光去看世界,世界在他面前重新美丽起来。影片最后的字幕是 Marco and Alicia. A 从生理的昏睡中醒过来,M 也从心理的和感情的昏睡中醒了过来。都是B的功劳。苏醒过来的M和A之间会有一个故事。

11。音乐、影片中的影片和插曲:所有的一切都烘托了主题。那首令M泪如雨下的歌,男声,低得似乎听不清楚;Anglo-Saxon民族不会这样表达自己的感情,中国人哭就总是让人觉得失去了脊梁,只有拉丁民族,好象知道什么是真正的永恒的忧伤,用歌曲来倾诉这种忧伤,成了他们的专利。

12。芭蕾舞教师。有点象卓别林的女儿。有点太平常,好象所有的芭蕾舞教师一定都被塑造成了这个形象。:) 但她描述她对下一个剧目的设想时,确实很有魅力。

13。四双眼睛,两双天真清澈,两双疲惫忧伤,理想啊,现实啊,爱情啊,blah blah. ;) 我喜欢大团圆结局,只要有一点点希望,我就没有浪费我的时间和感情细胞,也没有让我对爱情宗教的信仰一点一点让现实磨灭。

We choose the way we live. We choose the way we love. Life is how we live it, love is how we feel.

The rest is just reality.

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1。 图书馆有许多很优秀的影片,但从来不特意去找什么,一是不知道要看什么,二是即便你要看什么,他们又不一定有,所以向来抱着无可无不可的态度,碰到什么便是什么。Life is a box of chocalates, you never know what you are going to get. ;) 碰到一部好影片,惊喜。

2. 声道和字幕:花了一段时间才将DVD Player的声道和字幕搞定。声道有一道只放电影里的音乐,有一道专门只有对话的,还有导演谈拍摄过程的,字幕有英文和法文的,可以交叉进行。看完电影,才发现这就是这部影片的特色。:)))

3 comments:

菊子 said...

But the pregnancy is the result of love - we women like to think that way. ;)

B (the nurse) was the man who made her pregnant, right? He was a virgin but the B/W movie with the giant vagina awakened his sexuality. At the end of that scene there was red liquid flowing... He made love to her. Wait, it couldn't have been Marco the Writer who impregnated her, could it? If yes, then the movie took yet another turn. :)

Yes, Alicia's eyes lit up when she saw Marco in the hallway ... she recognized him. Not necessarily physically and tangibly, but emotionally and subconsciously. Reminds me of the last scene in "Heaven Can Wait".

No matter. I like the style. slow and heart-warming. It was moving but it didn't have to make me cry. ;)

菊子 said...

You already talked about this in 玛雅咖啡? I'm always behind in everything. ;)

Could you give a link?

菊子 said...

Come to think of it, the movie is actually pretty pessimistic. The nurse was happy and content with his situation until he awoke her thru impregnating her. Isn't this an anti-climax? His "talking to her" was only a monologue, not a dialogue. The death of the baby symbolizes the death of his Platonic love. He had no lust for her youthful, proportionate body until he saw that movie.

He talked to Alicia but she was unaware of it; Marco talked to the other woman but she was actually in love with somebody else. Everything is 阴差阳错 after all. :(

Guess I'm reading too much into the movie. Time to move on to sports. ;)

Boy it was hot outside. Went to the carnival but it was too hot to have any fun. :) Or to believe in anything. ;)