20120405

早熟的口味

兒子還未到十五歲,但思想早熟,從他看電影的口味可見一斑。他十一、二歲時已開始看一些「成人電影」--- 一般青少年不感興趣和看不懂的電影。我還記得他看的第一部「成人電影」是 Run Lola Run ,一看便十分喜歡,後來還重看了兩三次。另一次我有較深刻印象的,是兩、三年前和幾個同事看 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford兒子那天沒有功課,我問他有沒有興趣跟我們一起看,他沒有問電影是關於甚麼的,便說有興趣,看完後還參與討論。

上星期我和他看了兩部我心愛的電影:《花樣年華》和 Magnolia。兒子喜歡《花樣年華》,我不覺得出奇,但 Magnolia 情節簡單,內容複雜,而且片長三小時多,他也看得津津有味,我就有點意外了。

Magnolia 裏有一場「唱歌戲」,背景播著 Aimee Mann “Wise Up”,鏡頭由一個角色和場景,移到另一個角色和場景,每個角色都在低聲而憂鬱地唱這首歌,我和兒子都覺得這場戲很有感染力:



我對兒子早熟的口味還有個「終極測試」,就是蔡明亮的《不散》(也是我心愛的電影)。此片非常緩慢,只有十來句對白,最要命的是片末那個五分多鐘的定鏡,是耐性的大考驗:



19 則留言:

  1. 不好重口味就得了。

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  2. 對不散,我沒有那個耐性

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  3. 字裡行間,看得出先生寬慰得很^^

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  4. I like Magnolia too. This may be the only movie we both like. LoL --zpdrmn

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    1. Name a few movies that you like.

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    2. I couldn't. That's the problem.
      All the movies I watch these few years are picked by my kids and wife. Shrek...Marley And Me... I don't have time for other movies. I can't remember most of the movies I watched before that.
      An old movie I don't really like but think it is good enough is Breakdown, partly because I don't find anything that doesn't make sense in it--one of the two movies without such flaw out of many in the same genre I've watched. (I can't remember the other one; it's not very good anyway.) --zpdrmn

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    3. Another movie I don't really like but is good enough is a movie about the artist Pollock. (The name of the movie may be Pollock?) For a movie like that one can't ask for much. I like the part which is the reenactment of how he created some of his artworks. I am biased here since I have some visual art background. -zpdrmn

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    4. Hey Spidey: Its "Pollock" as in Jackson Pollock the abstract expressionist drip painter. Visual art background huh? :D

      -49er

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  5. 無看過不散,但也很喜愛in the mood for love and magnolia!

    Howard

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    1. Magnolia 有沒有在香港放映過?

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    2. 有(from imdb),中文片名人生交叉剔
      但當時太細個,無入到戲院睇,所以我都係買碟。

      Howard

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    3. 那中文譯名很糟。

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  6. 曾跟博主推介看過Blade Runner 和Vertigo,早兩天看了Run Lola Run,看後有點鬱鬱,因為我看這些經典/非商業電影總是不得要領。我一直以為是心年齡、閱歷不足所致,這篇是一個反證...也許原因是我吃慣商業片的奶水。

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    1. 那可能是像看慣漫畫,初看文學作品便不夠耐性吧。如果你真的對電影有興趣,那耐性是可以慢慢培養的。

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  7. 人仔細細睇埋D咁嘅戲﹐真係大鑊
    現今世代﹐膚淺才是王道。
    你都係鼓勵個仔睇多D王晶啦~~(閃)

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