“我并不痛苦,我是在努力挣扎,挣扎着融入、挣扎着和曾经的我保持联系。”
这是《依然爱丽丝》(Still Alice)里面,爱丽丝在演讲的时候说的一句话。
当时电影看到这一段的时候,魔兄并没有很特别的感觉。现在写下这些文字,心里却突然体会到了那种充满无奈的辛酸。一场必败的角力,输掉就是输了整个世界。
为避免剧透,魔兄还是不打算介绍剧情。
《依然爱丽丝》2014年上映,2015年获得第87届奥斯卡最佳女主角。在魔兄看来,朱利安·摩尔实至名归。得到这座小金人,加上威尼斯、戛纳、柏林三大电影节影后,欧、美重要的电影奖项全部收入囊中,成为三大电影节影后加奥斯卡影后大满贯第一人。这份殊荣让魔兄每每念及,慨叹不已。
当时在电视上看《依然爱丽丝》的时候,魔嫂在旁边很平淡地说了一句:“这个不错,朱利安·摩尔,演得很好。她因为这个得了奥斯卡。”
魔兄:“这女的很面熟啊,演的什么电影来着?”
魔嫂:“你能记得的,应该是《时时刻刻》吧?朱利·安摩尔年轻的时候,是著名的大花瓶。”
大花瓶?魔兄眼前闪过了梦露、塞隆、约翰逊、王祖贤、关之琳、李嘉欣、杨幂……,这些中外大花瓶都是魔兄曾经喜欢或正在喜欢的。虽然魔兄对花瓶一向极有好感,也知道欧美花瓶女星多有转型先例,但做为一个曾经的大花瓶,居然可以在表演方面取得如此成就,这已经远远超越了花瓶的境界。群众们都知道,要收获欧洲的威尼斯、戛纳、柏林这三大电影节影后有多难,更别提还要再加上风格和标准迥异的奥斯卡影后!
朱利安·摩尔成功做到了绝大多数人都做不到的事情!
再说了,《时时刻刻》魔兄的印象很深,那里面哪儿有什么花瓶,分明只有演技几乎跟梅姨不相上下的女人。
《依然爱丽丝》全片以生活视角徐徐展开。朱利安·摩尔和鲍德温以一种润物细无声的方式,将围观群众缓缓拉入美国白领家庭生活。
清新宜人的天空,绿树掩映整洁的街道,宽敞明亮的独栋庭院,稍显凌乱却又充满温馨生活气息的卧室、起居室、客厅,美国家庭常见的开放厨房、餐厅,家庭聚会,美国餐馆,开放式的大学园区,行色匆匆的大学生,典型的大学课堂,互助团体,美国的医生、医院,演艺圈潜规则 。。。。。。几乎你能想象得到的关于美国生活的一切,都可以在这部影片里一窥其貌。
影片中一个很普通细节,让魔兄摇头不已:刚刚确诊的爱丽丝在厨房吃药,随手取了只玻璃杯,就着水槽上的水龙头接了一杯水,仰头一口把药送了下去。
厨房水龙头直饮,在魔兄的记忆里,只有在很小很小、上小学和初中的时候,曾经在校园里喝过自来水。现在嘛,连用自来水漱漱口心里都打鼓。魔兄为了养鱼,曾经检测过家里的自来水水质。按照中国标准,TDS的检测值在0~50之间的水才能够直接饮用。魔兄家里自来水的TDS值稳定在450~480之间。如果单从指标来看,魔兄敢直接用自来水漱口,已经勇气可嘉了。
整部影片的剧情没有特别剧烈的冲突。导演理查德·格雷泽没有使用上帝视角,而只是让摄像机藏身一旁,细细地记录爱丽丝的病情发展给这个家庭的所有人带来的情感冲击。
相比较而言,魔兄不怎么敢想象同样的事情发生在中国家庭会是什么结局。类似的可能性,魔兄曾经跟魔嫂讨论过。魔兄当时很坚决地表态:“如果是我,我肯定不会在家里待着给人添麻烦。”魔嫂当时的表情很古怪:“要真那样,你根本不会知道自己是个麻烦。”稍停了一会儿,又说:“你可别那样啊,别给我找事儿,想想得每天伺候你就难受。”
《依然爱丽丝》从剧本、摄影、制作水准到男女主演和一众配角的演技,在魔兄看来均属上乘,但最终仅获得一大堆最佳女演员的奖项。这让魔兄很有些费解。不过,这至少能证明各大电影节和奥斯卡至少有一点是相似的:描述正常家庭生活的影片,将很难获得评委们的青睐。
影片之外,还有两个值得重点关注的内容。
一是片中爱丽丝的演讲词。质朴、简洁,直指人心。建议所有学习英语的群众收藏诵读。
二是片尾曲《If I had a boat》,动听处可比孔子闻韶乐,不可多得。
总体推荐指数:88(满分100分)
适合观影人群:吃瓜群众;文学爱好者;艺术爱好者;美术爱好者;电影研究者;表演爱好者。
画面美感:9
主演颜值:9
放松指数:8
故事情节:8
制作水准:10
观后情绪:9
荷 尔 蒙:8
整体节奏:9
影响持久力:9
看了又看指数:9
附演讲词(来源于网络)
Good morning, it’s an honor to be here.
The poet Elizabeth Bishop once wrote:
The art of losing isn’t hard to master. So many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their lost is no disaster.
I am not a poet. I am a person living with early onset Alzheimer’s, and as that person I find myself learning the art of losing every day. Losing my bearings, losing objects, losing sleep, but mostly losing memories.
(Then her speech papers fell on the ground)
Em, I think I will try to forget that just happened.
(She joked after picking up the papers)
All my life, I’ve accumulated memories; they’ve become in a way my most precious possessions. The night I met my husband, the first time I held my textbook in my hands, having children, making friends, traveling the world. Everything I accumulated in life, everything I worked so hard for, now all that is being ripped away. As you can imagine, or as you know, this is hell, but it gets worse.
Who can take us seriously when we are so far from who we once were? Our strange behavior and fumbled sentences change other’s perceptions of us and our perceptions of ourselves. We become ridiculous, incapable, comic, but this is not who we are, this is our disease. And like any disease, it has a cause, it has a progression, and it could have a cure.
My greatest wish is that my children, our children, the next generation do not have to face what I am facing. But for the time being, I’m still alive, I know I’m alive. I have people I love dearly, I have things I want to do with my life. I rail against myself for not being able to remember things. But I still have moments in the day of pure happiness and joy. And please do not think that I am suffering, I am not suffering. I am struggling, struggling to be a part of things, to stay connected to who I once was.
So living in the moment I tell myself.
It’s really all I can do. Live in the moment, and not beat myself up too much, and, and not beat myself up too much for mastering the art of losing.
One thing I will try to hold on to though is the memory of speaking here today. It will go, I know it will, it may be gone by tomorrow. But it means so much to be talking here today like my old ambitious self who was so fascinated by communication.
Thank you for this opportunity. It means the world to me.
Thank you!
(为避免剧透,请原谅魔兄不把这段演讲的中文贴出来。有需要的群众可自行搜索。)