dios mio: MOVIE

Lost in Translation

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:11:45 GMT

2003年的Coppola电影，Sofia，不是她老汉儿——那个拍Godfather的。

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Lost Souls

Author: Steve,from Dallas

It's been a long time since a movie has made me hurt the way this one did. Perhaps "hurt" isn't the right word. "Ache" is more like it. I could so completely identify with both characters.

Bob is a middle-aged actor caught in a life which has lost its zest and purpose, doing what he "ought" to be doing (making money doing whiskey commercials) instead of doing what he WANTS to do (plays). And then a young, beautiful, intelligent woman enters his orbit. On that level alone, with its mute longing and sexual tension, I can identify with him.

And then there is Charlotte, a student of philosophy seeking herself, her soul lost and adrift. She doesn't know who she is, doesn't know what she wants. Her life is a quest for authenticity of self. And I identify with her because so much of my life I have been seeking the same thing.

This movie isn't for everyone. They will call it boring, lifeless, limp. There are people, I realize, who have never experienced that kind of longing, who had never sought meaning in their lives, and searched for their own lost souls. They live for the here and now, without giving a thought to the spiritual aspects of life.

A friend said introverts will love this movie, extraverts will hate it. I think that is a fair surface assessment. This movie is all about the inner lives of two people whose souls connect for a brief time in an alien city. It is a love affair not of bodies, but of minds and spirits.

Some this movie will make angry. Some this movie will make weep.

And here I am, lost in translation:

Isabella们

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:09:43 GMT

那天和Nora聊到Isabella这个电影（主要是讲父女之间嘞感情），然后很巧嘞是黄叔叔就打电话来问候我了，从拉萨。

基本上黄叔叔是个另类嘞老汉儿，比如小学3年级带我出去耍时给我介绍他嘞外遇对象；小学开始每个星期带我切看美国大片，泡吧（安静嘞那种），吃很晚很晚嘞那种夜宵；不晓得我读几年级；我发烧了还睡懒觉并说“我起来未必她就退烧了嗦”；半夜我耍了回来还给我煮脆绍面；在家庭会议时反驳姑姑（家头最权威嘞，啥子都是她说嘞就是对勒）给我说“不要听他们嘞，年轻嘞时候不耍老了就耍不动了”；晓得我不做作业、翘课但是成绩还是可以，笑得只开心，说“在这些方面结果比过程重要”；还有想当年拿“全兴队”球迷嘞旗杆棒棒打我，还把棒棒打断了……只多。

Nora说她不喜欢她爸，但是她有个貌似完整嘞家；听Lin说小徐很喜欢老大，我想应该是徐叔叔虽然没有给她貌似那么完整嘞家，但是让她了解了责任这个东西？；Lin也很喜欢她们奶奶嘞儿，好像是安全感？冷静？睿智？我咋个总结得来嘛；Vivid谈不上不喜欢黄叔叔，虽然他做了很多我永远都不能let go嘞事情，但是他也给了一样东西：生活态度。好嘛，虽然前面提到嘞这些都没有Isabella长得漂亮，你们还是Isabella们嘛。

It‘s only the last song if we let it be。

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:01:44 GMT

they say it's the last song
they don't know as you see
it's only the last song if we let it be。

这是DANCER IN THE DARK的最后。没有音乐，没有舞步，只有心在跳动，就像她说的一样listen to my heart.在眼泪肆无忌惮地往外涌时，最初的感觉是释放，不是眼泪
是感情和防卫。
有母爱，友谊，以及爱情。虽然都只是含蓄的表露着。
同时让我思考：人生究竟是要对一件事情认真？还是应该对自己随和一点？或者是就像所有的谈人生的说教上讲的，凡事都要讲究个“度”？其实我喜欢第一个问号的执着，就像片中的BJORK。欣赏第二个问号的洒脱，有时也不得不照着第三个去做。上个月香港的枪战大案中，主角也是第一类。警队神枪手踌躇满志，但升职试却屡考不中，最后发展到抢枪杀同僚。有时自己就是第二类人，早上赖床时常安慰自己“随意”，对自己催眠“有些事情不是要非要得到结果才去做，只要想做就可以去做。理智的讲，前两者都不对，呵呵，又回到了第三个“度”，再次无奈的呵呵。
这是一部很好的“歌舞片”，如果可以这样定义的话。歌舞和故事以一种极有创意的方式密不可分。主人公的内心、画外音甚至是fairness，都是通过BJORK的完美vocal表达出来的。这提醒了我去年的“如果爱”，我只看到了金城武的帅，然后听到张学友唱歌后就觉得其它人在嚎。再联想远一点眼前就浮现除了鼓捣年轻的赵雅芝演的白娘子：演倒演倒就非要开始唱歌，弄得观众根本不晓得发生啥子事情了。所以说如果他们一定要把拍的电影叫歌舞片，不如先去跳海，免得遭买票看电影的人推下去。
死刑？！可能很多社会主义大环境下成长起来的朋友根本就没有想过后面居然可以加个问号。其实我也是不久前才开始想这个问题的。Jesus said, neither of us irrescuring.我没有办法把这个问题更深入，但是我可能是个反死刑的成年公民。it's just better to forgive.最近的热片CAPORTE也是涉及的这个话题，不知道我们的电影何时才会从“主旋律及说教强迫症”里挣脱出来。
讲的零零碎碎，还是可以总结的：it's only the last song if we let it be.
i swear to Jesus if u up there keep me ever close to u, as i'm stumbling stumbling stumbling through.