一部笑中有泪，苦涩和温馨交织的电影，性格造就了巴尼各种出格行为，这些行为的后果又进一步把巴尼的性格夯实得更加又臭又硬。在这些各种劣迹包裹下又是一个异常真诚、顽固的灵魂。他的生活中错过了很多，又收获了很多。这如同每个普通人的真实人生写照：自己所承受的都是自己所选择的。
曲目：Dance Me To The End Of Love
选自Leonard Cohen 1989年专辑【Various Positions】
接近5分钟的全曲在一种轻快的节奏中进行，但是忧郁的情绪却一直萦绕在旋律中，而Cohen的平静唱腔又注入了淡然。巴洛克古典式的怀旧感消解了轻快甚至轻佻的节奏，这是属于一份睿智老人的情怀，也许他已经无法起舞，但是当小提琴燃烧着旋律时，恐惧在爱和时间的尽头也已消失。
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
初看这部电影时就四个字：云山雾绕，基本认定这不是一部纯正的漫画英雄电影，更像一部文艺片，或者至少是一部反传统、挽歌式的漫画电影。犹记得看了某漫画大神引经据典的解读文，才有些不清不楚的了解，不过这部电影的整体色调依然是我非常喜欢的。
曲目：Hallelujah
选自Leonard Cohen 1989年专辑【Various Positions】
这也许是Cohen老爷子在中国最有知名度的一首歌吧，从低沉的开始再到情绪高亢的大合唱副歌，简单而流畅，诚挚的情绪一路充盈在歌曲中。Cohen巧妙的引用了圣经故事中最能代表多面人性的大卫王、以及悲剧收场的英雄大力士参孙，宗教意味，宽恕的主题又和电影不谋而合。副歌中反复唱出的“Hallelujah”，一面是人的悲恸，一面又是神的宽恕，无论感受到哪一面都让人无不动容。
Now Ive heard there was a secret chord
That david played, and it pleased the lord
But you dont really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew her
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
You say I took the name in vain
I dont even know the name
But if I did, well really, whats it to you?
Theres a blaze of light
In every word
It doesnt matter which you heard
The holy or the broken hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
I did my best, it wasnt much
I couldnt feel, so I tried to touch
Ive told the truth, I didnt come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
Ill stand before the lord of song
With nothing on my tongue but hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah
关于Cohen的纪录片有太多，而这部因参与者众多而且份量十足，所以显得特别有纪念意义。今年刚好是这部音乐片/纪录片的十周年。到今天，U2依然不紧不慢的发行着新专辑；而Nick cave似乎越来越内敛同时保持旺盛的创造力，除了自己的专辑，还投身在电影原声的创作中；Jarvis Cocker不再是那个pulp乐团外露、风头十足的主唱，而有向着探索实验音乐的可能。而这些独当一面的音乐人当时确都是怀着一颗雀跃的心向Cohen老爷子致敬。到今天，这部音乐纪录片如果再重现，那是怎么也免不了哀伤的情绪了。
曲目：Tower Of Song
选自Leonard Cohen 1988年专辑【I'm Your Man】与U2合作重新编曲、录音。
对比1988年的原版，U2编曲版的层次更加丰富，加入的打击乐丰富了更多的低音和节奏感，钢琴的爵士化处理增添了华丽的感觉。而Cohen的沉郁嗓音如故，只是比原版的黑色幽默和悲伤之余，更多了几分从容不迫，而曲中U2的人声如同连接了两个时代，将属于Cohen的优雅、厚重以一种飘逸的风格来继承。
另外单独提一句，这首曲子在Cohen2014年的现场专辑【Live in dublin】中的演绎更是一绝，苍老的人声有一种无视时间的自得其乐和韧性。
Well my friends are gone
And my hair is grey
I ache in the places where
I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but
I'm not coming on
I'm just paying my rent every day
Oh in the Tower of Song
I said to Hank Williams:
How lonely does it get
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
A hundred floors above me
In the Tower of Song
I was born like this
I had no choice
I was born with the gift of
A golden voice
And twenty-seven angels
From the Great Beyond
They tied me to this table right here
In the Tower of Song
Now you can say that I've grown bitter
But of this you may be sure
The rich have got their channels
In the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgement coming
But I may be wrong
You see you hear these funny voices
In the Tower of Song
I see you standing on the other side
I don't know how the river got so wide
I loved you baby
I loved you way back when
And all the bridges are burning
That we might have crossed
But I feel so close to everything
That we lost
We'll never We'll never have to lose it again
Now I bid you farewell
I don't know when I'll be back
There moving us tomorrow to
That tower down the track
But you'll be hearing from me baby
Long after I'm gone
I'll be speaking to you sweetly
From a window in the Tower of Song
I'll be speaking to you sweetly
From a window in the Tower of Song
Yeah my friends are gone
And my hair is grey
I ache in the places
Where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm just paying my rent every day
Oh in the Tower of Song
I'm just paying my rent every day
Oh in the Tower of Song
Mel Gibson亲自担纲编、导、演于一身的【耶稣受难记】于2004年上映，引起的巨大争议到现在都还记忆犹新，关于运用如此写实残酷的画面来讲述耶稣的故事是否合适，个人觉得是一个见仁见智的问题。如果是一个神学研究人员或者狂热的神学爱好者，或者喜欢尝试不同观影体验的电影迷，那这部电影是值得一看的。个人甚至觉得这部电影比【勇敢的心】更震撼，在技巧上也更优秀。
曲目：By The Rivers Dark
选自 Leonard Cohen 2001年专辑【Ten New Songs】
这部电影的原声歌曲选曲的又是非常有品味，特别是选择Cohen的这首By The Rivers Dark，以及Bob Dylan的Not Dark Yet，相互呼应，又与电影的情节形成默契。
而这首曲子出自Cohen离开唱片业达9年之久后的复出第一张专辑，9年隐士般的平静生活，也许这张专辑的歌曲都是来自3000多个日夜、无数个瞬间的顿悟，深邃的歌词配上优雅而内敛优美的旋律，除了招牌式的吉他，加入更加丰满的配器以后，一张更有时代感而又保持了Cohen自身音乐魅力的曲子就一首首这样诞生了。
By the rivers dark
I wandered on.
I lived my life
in Babylon.
And I did forget
My holy song:
And I had no strength
In Babylon.
By the rivers dark
Where I could not see
Who was waiting there
Who was hunting me.
And he cut my lip
And he cut my heart.
So I could not drink
From the river dark.
And he covered me,
And I saw within,
My lawless heart
And my wedding ring,
I did not know
And I could not see
Who was waiting there,
Who was hunting me.
By the rivers dark
I panicked on.
I belonged at last
to Babylon.
Then he struck my heart
With a deadly force,
And he said, 'This heart:
It is not yours.'
And he gave the wind
My wedding ring;
And he circled us
With everything.
By the rivers dark,
In a wounded dawn,
I live my life
In Babylon.
Though I take my song
From a withered limb,
Both song and tree,
They sing for him.
Be the truth unsaid
And the blessing gone,
If I forget
My Babylon.
I did not know
And I could not see
Who was waiting there,
Who was hunting me.
By the rivers dark,
Where it all goes on;
By the rivers dark
In Babylon.
2003年【再见列宁】上映引发如潮好评后，男主Daniel Brühl携带着新作品【替天行道三人行】在2年后重新登场。这部电影也选择了Leonard Cohen的歌曲作为电影插曲，同这首歌闪耀的理想主义色彩一样，这部电影比【再见列宁】相同的是戏谑，但多了更多的理想主义色彩，以及更青春的无政府主义色彩。如果说【再见列宁】是嘲讽一种集权的话，那【替天行道三人行】就是向另一种同样让人无法获得安全感的意识形态进行调戏。如果喜欢一些别样的青春片，那这部部冷场，又犀利的电影肯定不应该被错过。
曲目：Sisters Of Mercy
选自 Leonard Cohen 1967年的首张个人专辑【Songs Of Leonard Cohen】
这又是一首选自Cohen33岁发行的首张专辑的歌曲，清脆的吉他以外，加入的手摇铃、小型打击乐、悠扬的笛子、活泼的风琴，无不在还原一个当时不乏阳光气息而纯真的Cohen,而这样的青春气息出现在一部描写新时代青年故事的电影中，毫无违和，只因这首歌中的怀旧意象，如同那些寻求出路的青年的勇气一样—— 不合时宜，但却能打动你的心。
Oh the sisters of mercy
they are not departed or gone,
they were waiting for me
when I thought that I just can't go on
And they brought me their comfort
and later they brought me this song
Oh I hope you run into them
you who've been travelling so long
You who must leave everything
that you cannot control
it begins with your family
but soon it comes round to your soul
well, I've been where you're hanging
I think I can see how you're pinned
When you're not feeling holy
your loneliness tells that you've sinned
They lay down beside me
I made my confession to them
they touched both my eyes
and I touched the dew on their hem
If your life is a leaf
that the seasons tear off and condemn
they will bind you with love
that is graceful and green as a stem
When I left they were sleeping
I hope you run into them soon
don't turn on the light
you can read their address by the moon
and you won't make me jealous
if I heard that they sweetened your night
we weren't lovers like that
and besides it would still be all right
we weren't lovers like that
and besides it would still be all right
2000年上映的【奇迹小子】的台前幕后阵容都显得有噱头，原著出自普利策小说奖得主Michael Chabon，导演是刚拍完那部经典警匪片【洛城机密】的Curtis Hanson，演员方面，Michael Douglas自不用说，还有后面成为拯救世界的英雄的蜘蛛侠和钢铁侠，三个男人戏份有轻重，但是都贴有wonder的标签，只是他们都遇上了麻烦，而电影就围绕着这些麻烦造成的冲突，讲了一个诙谐又不失温暖的故事。
曲目：Waiting for the Miracle
选自 Leonard Cohen1992年专辑【The Future】
这又是一张值得收藏的电影原声歌曲专辑，可以说这张原声专辑的阵容就是一部封神榜，除了Leonard Cohen以外，还包括John Lennon、Bob Dylan、Neil Young、Van Morrison等。而且这张原声中Bob Dylan的Things Have Changed 还获得了73届奥斯卡的最佳原创歌曲大奖。不过Cohen的曲子却依然有他独到的魅力。
Waiting for the Miracle 不是第一次出现在电影中，在这部2000年的【奇迹小子】之前，还出现在了Oliver Stone的【天生杀人狂】之中，不过在和不同电影故事，以及不同电影风格的混合后，被赋予了不同的解读，或者产生了不同的效果。在这里的Waiting for the Miracle，旋律中深深的颓唐和无力，正是男主的写照，不断起伏的贝斯如同生活中的暗潮来袭，而清脆美丽的吉他solo也一直贯穿整个旋律，加上偶尔浮现的轻快口哨声，似乎又在预示男主最终会等待生活的奇迹到来。有时候真不知道是歌曲成全了电影，还是电影又解读了音乐的另一层状态。
到此，2000年以来的影视作品中出现过的，我有印象的Cohen单曲回顾就算完结了，第Ⅲ篇就是回顾一些90年代影视中的Cohen歌曲了，希望自己的记忆还能靠得住。
最后，当然是更新了的网易云歌单：Leonard Cohen Songs on Camera
