死之谜

在结课表演展上Lauren没有按照预期的安排完成压轴独唱，而是让指挥、伴奏停了下来，清唱了Chris在David死后继续完成的歌。上级对此感到不满，但校长Leo表示不会再听他的话了。场下的人纷纷起立鼓掌，Chris上台和Lauren相拥。之后镜头切到海边悬崖，学生们在安全线内闲聊或发呆，Lauren决定把她自己的经历写下来，Chris隔着新装的铁丝网凝望大海。几乎所有同伴都决定翻过David死亡的一页继续生活，只有Chris仍在想念他最好的朋友。

大概是为了赶着能在学期结束的那场表演上完成大家对David的纪念仪式，所以编导决定让Chris迅速完成David遗留的作品。从影片来看，David死亡到结课表演展可能只有一个月不到的时间，在这么短的时间里，人其实是很难处理好最好的朋友自杀这样的事情的，更别说继续完成他留下的作品。基努在一些采访中表示对这部电影结局的不满，认为最后大家起立鼓掌很荒诞，使电影对自杀问题的处理变成老套的、好莱坞式的胡说八道（1），用一种矫情的方式减少了电影的影响（2）。

青少年的自杀、如何面对同龄人的死亡都是需要被郑重对待的问题，但讨论甚至面对这样的问题都非常困难。人与人之间的经历、对死亡的态度千差万别，因此在这些问题上很难达成共识的（或者其实无需共识）。就像该不该传播遗书，我也很难说清。对我来说思考死亡就像考虑下顿饭吃什么一样，我会主动去看这方面的信息、书籍、电影，但不是所有人都这样的，讨论与此相关的问题就需要很大的精力，也很难说清，但思考这些仍是必要的。

（1）记者表示喜欢Permanent Record后基努觉得难以置信。

原文："Really, you liked it?" he says incredulously. The smoke alarm goes off again. "No way, Man! Even at the end when they all clapped and shit?!"

Reeves thinks Marisa Silver, the film's director, sold out. "That movie depressed me," he says. "Making it was hard. They hired great people — every actor in that film I think is really good — and the issue that we were doing of suicide was a pretty heavy thing. And I think they pulled the rug out from under us. People stand up at the end and clap. It becomes absurd. It becomes corny, absurd, Hollywood bullshit. And I know the way it was shot and the way we acted it was very dramatic, but they f---ing yanked it, We were told to smile all the time. I'm singing my best friend's song, and I'm smiling?

"I've never had as much fun making a movie, in terms of what happened outside of the movie, like with the other actors and stuff. We had fun, I mean we really did. But that movie f---ed me up. It's a good movie for what it is, for how Marisa wanted to direct it. But what they made depresses me, and that I was a part of it and was good in it, depresses me. But it's my job."（Reeves' Edge, t&b (US), January 1, 1989）

（2）原文：On the face of it, 1988's Permanent Record was struggling against some highly unpromising subject matter — teenage suicide. The plot centred round how a group of students tried to deal with the sudden and unexpected suicide of the most promising member of their highschool class, Keanu's character's best friend.

The story of how the kids, and Chris (Keanu) in particular, come to terms with David's senseless plunge off a cliff actually comes off better than might be expected. Keanu's character was an aimless, irresponsible type who had idolised his pal (played by Alan Boyce) and was forced to re-evaluate his life. Keanu was unhappy with the ending of this film which he feels reduced its impact with a schmaltzy message.（Keanu Reeves — A Tear Out Photobook, Oliver Books, London (UK), Autumn 1994）

PS这篇稿子里接着上文后一段还写了句：With hindsight, the story was an eerie prediction of things to come with River Phoenix's demise in mind. 我看电影的时候也一直在想River，太巧合了，电影里的故事几年后在现实中真的发生，而现实中River同样也有一个自己的乐队、有未完成的歌，虽然Keanu不是这个乐队的成员，但是River的妹妹决定完成音乐的制作发行是在River去世后25年。

另外，电影的片尾曲很好听，歌词写得很好。

https://y.music.163.com/m/song?id=1817040631&uct=ZEfP+EXuvu8bi4lV/QpeHQ%3D%3D&app_version=8.2.0

Wishing On Another Lucky Star

by J. D. Souther

Your friends may lie

The truth can come from strangers

If I knew why

We wouldn't be in this danger

Leaning out the window of my car

And wishing on another lucky star

Life is long

It is not made to measure

You will go on

The same in pain and pleasure

Wondering how we ever got this far...

And wishing on another lucky star

Life goes on

As sure as the sky

It's come and gone

In the wink of an eye

You leave your home

In the wings of the night

You will never die

The world is cold

The heart gets torn and tattered

The one you hold

It can be dropped and shattered

Leaning out the window of my car

And wishing on another lucky star