Sunday, February 10, 2008

與你分享 2 Days in Paris

記得高中導師對大家說過,當心情不好的時候,去看一本書,去看一場電影,去欣賞一場音樂會。其中電影對我特別有其效用,雖然不見得每次都能喜劇收場,但都能令我稍忘原有的煩惱。這陣子被分派到的工作使我得到前所未有眾人的肯定,但卻是25%成就感加上75%的鬱悶。同事憐憫地對我說,It’s a torture.

Two Days in Paris 是前兩天為了逃脫下班之後煩悶情緒而看的,由Julie Delpy 自編自導自演。自從看過Ethan Hawke 跟她合演的 Before Sunrise Before Sunset,就對她有一種好感,如果我是男人,肯定會拜倒在她石榴裙下的好感。第一次看到片名的時候,覺得又是舊調重彈,想必又是跟兩部Before片一樣,在歐洲街道上不停地對話,但其實這部片跟它們是不同調的。每次看完Before Sunrise 或是 Before Sunset,都有種赴了一場甜蜜約會的感覺。而這部片在浪漫的城市裡,卻意外地呈現了無可浪漫的辛苦現實,不是Will Smith The Pursuit of Happiness 的那種現實,是兩人關係中無法避免的爭執和妥協,太多片段都似曾相識而引起自己難過的回憶,不浪漫到使我一度覺得這片一點也不好看,甚至不想看完。但是到了最後十分鐘,Julie Delpy的自白卻令我心有戚戚,重複看了幾遍,現在仍忍不住想在此引用:

“Always the same for me. Break up, break down. Drunk up, fool around. Meet one guy, then another, fuck around. Forget the one and only. Then after a few months of total emptiness start again to look for true love, desperately look everywhere and after two years of loneliness meet a new love and swear it is the one, until that one is gone as well. There's a moment in life where you can't recover any more from another break-up. And even if this person bugs you sixty percent of the time, well you still can’t live without him. And even if he wakes you up every day by sneezing right in your face, well you love his sneezes more than anyone else's kisses.”

好險最後是喜劇收場。兩人在一起其實很容易,只要你有冒險精神。但是要找到一個能夠願意共同面對問題,堅持到底的人很難,大部分的人都無法通過考驗,還有一些尚未考驗就不見的,就更不用說了。如果真的是愛,應該不會這樣輕言放棄吧!劇終人散,我陷入另一種鬱悶,想想這樣也好,倒是忘了不少工作上的煩惱。