---I can see that you've all come toinspect the damage, to take a picture, write a story. Perhaps you'd all like a word from the bereaved widow. Is that what you've come scavenging for? Yes?
---Yes, please.
---All right, well, write this down. I don't know if my husband slipped and fell, or if he jumped…as you're now saying. But I would like you to rest assured, that if he did jump, he was pushed. And each and every one of you here had a grubby hand on his back. Every photographer, every sponsor, every reporte, every sad little man who stands at a newsstand to feast on the scraps of another's undoing. And once he was in the water, you all held him under with your judgement. Last week you were selling hope, now you’re selling blame. Next week you’ll selling something else. But tomorrow and every day after, my children will still need their father, and I will still need my husband. I’m afraid that doesn’t make a particularly good story, but then I suppose the truth rarely does. Thank you very much.
虽然观影中也有预料可能是个悲剧。但真正看到结局,还是有点意外。因为从镜头叙事的角度看,时间上是存在交错的,既有他在船上的描写,也有对他航行前的交代,还有几个他妻子穿着优雅的镜头。一度让人怀疑,他最后是不是赢得了大奖,只是带着谎言生活。并不是这样。
剧中有个毫不重要的路人说了这样一句很重要的话,“这些上了船的男人都怎么了?”
是啊,这些参加航海比赛的人都怎么了?无论他们出发前的目的是什么,当在海上漂浮了几个月后,都不同程度地发生了各种奇奇怪怪的变化。
可见,并非人人都可以成为“鲁滨逊”。如果没有成为鲁滨逊,那所有的变化就是毫无意义的吗?
不见得。
发起这次比赛的人曾说:
A man alone on a boat is more alone than any man alive.
独自航行的人,比世上任何人都要孤独。
就本片的男主而言,如果从“社会责任”这一块看,他的行为自然是不值得肯定的。抛妻弃子啊!
但从“精神超越”这个角度,就觉得他可能是“得道”了。他在生命的最后时刻,一直在不断拷问内心,向上帝认罪。
他在留给世人的航海日志中写道:
During his life time, each man plays cosmic chess with the devil. It’s difficult to know who’s winning, because God plays with one set of rules, and the Devil plays with the other exactly opposite set of rules. But one thing is clear, the only real sin is the sin of concealment.
在人的一生中,每个人都在和恶魔下一盘大棋。很难说谁赢谁输,因为上帝用着一套规则,而恶魔的则完全相反。但是有一件事显而易见,唯一真正的罪孽是谎言之罪。
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在观影过程中,男主一开始的气势总让人联想到这两年很火的Le视Jia某。同样是满怀激情地讲故事、拉媒体、找投资。但好像就是有些东西立不住脚,野心似乎有点太超过能力。不过电影并没有按照Jia的套路走。如果后面也是开撕,那真是应了“如有雷同,纯属巧合"。
再往后面,又莫名想到《阮玲玉》。人言可畏啊,人言可畏。如果男主真的生还,怕是终有一天要被唾沫淹死。即便已经是如此悲惨的结局,还是躲不过记者的追问。还好他老婆足够“勇猛”,给了那些无情的记者们一记斩钉截铁的耳光。
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