Wednesday 27 June 2007

Curable

抱着S大叫一声
还是你回来,我才能好
病在床上24小时
很开心听见关门后S的傻笑
Two minutes agao:
---你顶着个什么鸟巢啊
---嘿嘿,不能传染

Monday 25 June 2007

Alternative Eye

去了鼓浪屿,被人说当了一次独行侠,而这样的生活本就应当是一个人的享受。在人群中独步,再怪异的行为,没有人知晓你的思路,步入众人不入的小径,眼睛里黑白的画面,我仿佛成了另一个人的影子。最后,逗留的愿望被拥挤的游客冲散,看来人人的生活都是有计划的。谁象我一样,天一亮就说一句:“我要去鼓浪屿”(于是就如“I'll buy the flowers myself”一般),拧上一个相机,抓一把钱,走路去了。路途不遥远,几分钟的航程便到。在渡轮上,旁边的那位和几个妹妹在一起的大叔问:“一个人出来?”“嗯”他用一种我很是不解的眼神结束了没有意义的问话,象是他也希望一个人但又怕一个人。其实岛上的导游很廉价的,10元而已。可我还是说:“不用了,我一个人来的。”不是我对外人抗拒,也说不清我对“一个人”的理解,但请明白这样的浮生半日闲的生活,是属于making a memory for oneself。岛上的人把这里当成每日必归的家,日常的旅游者把这里当成厦门的必游地,导游把这里当成赚钱的必然之选,而我希望自己属于某一类visitors,来这里寻至自己可致的地段,选一家cafe坐下,看窗外浮光掠影,屋内broad上贴满的notes,于是我也写了那么一句:Hello! Say Goodbye to me!



Not Transpassing, No Disturbing


Sense of Living

Friday 22 June 2007

Baby-loved Game

最近写东西就像蜗牛移步一般,挪一寸再一寸,三寸后就停滞踱步了。
某人的FACEBOOK上, 随意地Hug随意地Kiss,还可以随意地装下深沉
问hotmail, "IS IT NECCESSARY?"
问facebook,"SELDOM USE IT."
一个只剩8小时实效的电话号码如常被扔掉
最终12:15,"D!走吧,这个地方又下大雨了"
现在,某个南角应该很热闹

Monday 18 June 2007

A City of Sadness


我现在乐观地认为生活的形状是可以自我掌控的。最近盲目地忙于写paper, 黑眼圈一层又一层都盖不住,自己还丝毫不屑,“管他呢,反正我不在乎”。不过,看电影还是要的,一天一部(如同有人一天一张photo一样),从习惯变成任务再不单纯地变回为习惯。


最受震撼的一幕也是最值得回味的一幕:一个从八岁开始又聋又哑的人,当在回乡的车上被人盘问是哪儿的人时,情急无奈之下竟冒出了三个字“台湾人”,他后半生所说的唯一三个字。台湾人逼迫台湾人,本省人逼迫外省人;而说出这三个字的演员却是一个真正的外乡人:梁朝伟,来自香港,一个同样面临着change in sovereignty from a British colony to SAR of China的政治社会变迁的地方,people's nostalgia and anxiety and uncertainty for the future characterized both areas,不知这是不是侯孝闲的有意为之。


今年刚好是228事件的60年(香港回归10年),最近再次重温了《悲情城市》,安静的侯式长镜头,突出了人物生活的“波澜壮阔”。背景设置为1945年国民党从日本手中收复接管台湾后,以林家为主线讲述了当时的社会上的白色恐怖。

看完全片,甚是被侯式的镜头力量所震撼。以前,总认为长镜头过于安静,节奏过于缓慢。但是,在《悲情》中,镜头常常是已经设置在场景之内,静止不动的,动的只是戏里的人物;镜头里的人物可以是张望窗外,可以是在山间小径上争斗,也可以是在酒桌上高谈阔论,等等,侯似乎企图用类似于记录的形式,以旁观者的角度,用客观镜头来讲述故事,突出生活在那个时代那个特殊背景下的人:人应该是生活的主体。可是,这个故事中却明确的讲述了人是如何被时代所左右,人如何成为社会变迁中不同力量冲突的牺牲品。

全片中一共有6种不同的语言出现:闽南语,粤语,日本语,上海话,客家话。语言的大汇聚却不代表文化的大融合,相反却是不同文化与政治经济力量在斗争。处于shortly after takeover的台湾,就是一个政治身份模糊,文化混杂冲击,社会动荡的一个岛屿。林家大哥说过:“我们就像是阿猫阿狗,没人亲,没人要”;一群人在酒馆讨论KMT的青天白日旗,说还不如日本的太阳旗好挂,不用分正反;片头出生的小孩理应代表台湾的新生,但是此小孩却是由一个日本老妇人接生,原来新生是摆脱不了以前殖民痕迹的,原来过去不是可能被遗忘的,而未来也不是完全光明的,即使人为地命个名:“林光明”。

发现自己对于电影的理解更象是一个学社会学的,最近又总是陷入对于identity的不断纠结中。对于一个城市而言,政治认同是它自我身份定位的根基。在一个政治力量混杂交替的环境中,人心惶惶,个人无法立足更无从寻找,在挣扎中原来自身已经走向一个既定的结局。
而PTU里的Sergeant Lo倒是经历了身份的遗失,身份的交换,身份的回归,身份的最终明确几个过程。这是属于HK的一个身份危机,一个还没有解决的危机。
现世安好,人心惶惶。

Thursday 14 June 2007

一张poster引发的狂想1b

其实,我得承认最近两次看PTU都是满有功利的成分的,因为要写paper。还记的上次看这片子时,HK下了好大好大的雨,为了赶着去和L吃饭就扫过了后面的special features(今天有点遗憾,买的盗版好到一切都不盗,偏偏feature给剪了)。打电话时L很冷静地说"so you woke up"。那时的我还知道要快点睡醒了去工作,而现在的我总是宁愿无限期的延迟合眼的deadline,总是要狠狠地让自己睁着眼直到很累很累,于是那些沉睡的文字与画面就没有机会苏醒了。吃饭时,L很惊喜为什么我会知道Mr. Holut 是Tati自己演的,L说自己没有告诉过我呀。可我一句实话就把L的喜变成了汗。L说自己看电影更注重自己的感觉,去感受这部电影对一个个体最初的感动与震撼,别人说的只能是别人说得。而我只好protest地辩解:这就是为什么一个学ARCHE一个学FILM的原因。后来想想,我是什么时候开始看一部片子一定要在网上去搜搜它的background, reviews,etc. 其实,以前的我也和L一样就那么单纯地去感受影像的魅力与文字的力量,不过L脑袋里面装这Lacan, Freud, Deleuze, 而我好象借了本Lacan从第一页看到第五页,几天后又从第一页看到第五页。我现在是没机会读L那本的最爱 1984. 我想也许从此我会害怕XM下大雨,因为我告诉过L那天的雨就像是台风过境XM一般,淋湿了我的衣服,浸透了我的鞋。唯一一次L对雨伞不那么抗拒,我也只是装做礼貌地先询问了一句May I。那天我们分开时,我说的话都应验了,尽管L一开始自信地否认。而L曾经说的,我也在努力实现,但是不能一个人完成,所以一切TBC...

一张poster引发的狂想1a



This poster is the one I like most of PTU, with a little bit mysterious and uncanny climate, in the meantime compromising the core elements of the film and providing the audience possible ways to analye the film.
(如有超读嫌疑,敬请原谅,并慷慨指出)
An unknown PTU-dressed male body's black outline takes the dominant proportion of the background, which implies the overwheliming masuclinity and the brotherhood in a specific masculine world-police crew. (The speaker of the masucline world in the film is Mike: a typical cop in HK gangster&cop films, dealing well with the gangster with a identity as a cop. Somehow, he is also a figure of authority as he can suppress the dissension among the crews and force the triad to follow his order---PRC?)The picutres below serve as signifiers of the film: a running crew---people in the film are always running for something; Sergent Lo's markable screaming in the end of the film, an enternalized outburst of inner conflict, even the schizophrenia. (He may not be schizophrenia at first, but through hislooking for the gun, the schizophrenia develops onto the surface. He embodies the situation in HK when it's facing losing an old identity but to post into an unsecure new one. The paranoid and panic before and during the Handover) Below him are the only two female figures appearing in the film. Both of them wear emotionless faces; however, they stand for different powers and with different identity characteristic, and also end up diferently. (There's also a conflict between the feminine force over male, but also the rejection of women into a masculine world and their inevitable failure) The most masterpiece-like and creative scene as I see it is presented at the left corner of the poster: Four punks following Ponytail are stripped to nothing, shaved all over bodies and locked in small iron cotages by Ponytail's father Bold Head. (Actually, I'm unable to articulate the exact symbolization of such a mise-en-scene, but it leaves me feeling a kind of returning to the very primitive insticts: both the vunerablity vs. cruelty of humanity with no evovlution, let alone education. Is it a sign of man's degradation? But what's it relation to the theme?)

This is alreadythe 4th time I watched PTU. The first two times I didn't understand it well, let alone appreciatng its deeper connotations. The other day, when discussing the handover films in HK after handover, it suddenly occured to me maybe the searching for a gun in PTU is a metaphor for searching for identity of HK. In spite of it, PTU is really a complicated film with various story lines developing simutaneously and so many symbols and implications in the film:
1.
a. The handover: gun. The dramatic losing and recovering the gun may imply the relocation of identity facing the handover and searching for a sure identity. The schizophrenia: unable to identify with past and have no future...
b. Identity crisis:cellphone---several scenes in which different cellphones rings simutaneously, people recieving orders from the technical devicethe mistake of taking the wrong phone, keep asking each other "who are you", but offering no answer, in the end of the film, all protagonists begin their report by identifying themselves. (postmodernism and postcolonism in HK culture: Fredric Jameson)
3. The masculine brotherhood vs. feminine "failure" in men's world: In Johnnie To's gangster/cop films, there rarely any female figures. In PTU both seem emotionless. Qi Jie is the only woman in PTU B2 Unit. It seems she has be harmonious with the other male partners. However, when it comes to how to deal with Lo's losing gun incident, it reveals that she is still outside of the masculine world. She is supposed to make different choice to report the truth, which goes against the unspoken rules and brotherhood in the masculine world. It is also a "JiangHu" among the cops although their representation is clear but identity is ambiguous. We should also notice that as the story goes on, Qi begins to comply with the rules. She shows the way when Lo's chased by the CID, which is led by Madam Zhang. As for Madam Zhang, dressed in a boyish way, she is the leader of the CID crew, and rather tough. She acts as the absolute authority and controls the other two crew in a dictatorial way,hiding or ignoring her weakness and insecurity as a woman. When she is investigating the mudur of Ponytail, she unconsciously shifts her aim to Lo, and attempts to surppress Mike and Lo in the same way. However, at last she is the one who loses all her pretension to the male world and reveal her characteristic as a natural woman. Her gender identity and role is still a women rejected by the male world. (Compared with the female figures in Mission and Exile; Judith Butler)
4. The posters: JAY CHOW: Back To the Past (a wish for returning to the coloinal situaltion); The mies-en-scene of the climax gunfire is set with a poster in which a sexy lady in Bikini lying down (female alleogry?)
5. The mise-en-scene in the film: specific light focuses on cars, and several spots on the empty street
6. The usual dipiction of cops in HK / Milkyway Image's gangster/cop films: Longest Nite (people's to the city's Schizophrenia).
TBC...

Wednesday 13 June 2007

Wondering

"Dimanche 27 mai 2007" for 5 days. What happened ? The first way, the last way, the only way?Or no way...

Sherry told me to try as hard as I can until I am tired and bored as she is now.
I miss her but I couldn't fly to see her as something important detaines me. But what are they? They are still floating in the air. I'm the person hanging in the air, strangling on something visible but someone invisible. She will be back on 22nd, and I know I will be much better then. Reunioning with a friend like her is the very consolation I'm hoping for.
Wish you good luck. As you already has reached to this level, why not to do it better? Unless you don't give a s**t.

I promise if the silence goes on till her arival, I will dive.

response to MSN-FRIENDSHIP

请允许我今天多写一些文字,我的思想就这样地游离,如我突然平静得慌乱的生活。跳跃着,跳跃着,我好累,未来的不确定,我却好像抓住什么东西依靠,可有什么可以靠呢?原来这个时期我只有我自己,你们在哪里?



我想告诉N我是真的爱吃苦的,就像我以前只喝expresso。虽然有一天我开始喝加巧克力的摩卡,也只是为了让日子可以稍稍因此有一点甜,心里想还是坚持咖啡的苦味。这似乎有点我的生活观的写实反映。
我其实不是最喜欢WKW的,只是在某个时间某个地点他那么让我心醉也让我心碎。就像是今年前第一次看见两个男人在一起也是如此的协调,几年前看见两个人不停猜测演绎别人的生活却将自我投入太深而近乎遗忘,那几天我拧着钟跑,却也追不会,只是一遍遍重组记忆的碎片。
拍了一部DV,本来是为了一个伸手不可及的一个人,却成就了MSN难得的友情。回想起大家澌混在一起的没白天没黑夜,没分工没身份,耳边突然又是不停的碰撞,眼前又是时晴时阴的面孔。我想真得停止NOSTALGY,因为我相信不久我们还会“混在一起”!

请继续我们的MSN PRODUCTION!!!
为了我们自己,纯粹的纯真一次!!!

看见生活

今天去淘碟了,和老板一来一往地狂侃现如今国内某些有价值的盗版碟的走势。她不停地抱怨说有些人就是没脑子,把“小众电影”都打包退回去了(毕竟不是每个人都有想探询中心敏感区域的兴趣和深入薄弱环节的胆量,我今天感觉就像是为自己几年来得沉默好生说了一句话)。她还说要卖/买那些台湾、欧洲名导演包括第六代导演的片子都要靠时机的,而我偏偏就来得不是时候。昨天走的货,今天没来得及补上;一向走的好的也早已清空,一句“我的客人抖过了这个阶段了”无意识地道明我生活的窘境,一个不争的事实, 我的成长永远是处于一个dilemma的。缓慢盲目地前进中不断滞后,当真有机会冲破时,又固执的踱步疑惑。当人家12岁就抱着Deleuze啃时,我们还在操场上做第8套广播体操。于是,我就安静地听着,专注地看着,努力地思考着,企图顺藤摸瓜。可是,生活是无法被模仿的,生命是不能被重复地,因为他永远是他,我永远是我。

But, What has become of me? What will become of me? Where does myself lie?
过去已经过去,能否让我短暂失忆,为了沉埋某段时间的自己。强迫自己抬头看看,远方
一直以来,我都认为成长是来源于脚下地,在空间与时间的交替和前进中去寻找,这个寻找的过程本来就是成长;
可长久以来,我却将自己困住,只能去羡慕那些背上行囊,似乎是去无根寻找的人。其实他们不是无根,只是选择重新寻找,满世界地去寻找一种生活状态,即使误入小径,也是一种享受。

于是大家在这个时期,寻找到同一个地点,HK & HKU。但HK是不同与HKU的。前者是一片死海,而后者更像是海中难得的一个人气蓬勃的高速中转站,每个人都来到这里,却没有人永久的属于这里。(如果联系上HK's identity,那就是又一篇essay。但是我想 focus的却是这个流动站对路人心里上的无形无影的冲击)但我怀念不同地方的人用同一种语言放肆地交谈放肆地笑,正因为我们无所防备,所以我们恣意任性,真因为我们注定要分离,所以我们才无所顾忌。但离开了这个客栈,我却迷失在一片汪洋。

曾经一直以为HK是一个多元化的大都市,可是被一个MANCHESTER的同学批:当他一个人走在Mongkok的大街上时,发现自己是那个地段唯一个白人(而在学校里他却只是ONE OF N)。虽然他这样形象的解释有点过于specific,也“未能上升到culture的程度”,不过我们这种temporary outsiders in HK & HKU倒是很符合盐与水的说法:一把盐融于一江水是淡的,而融于一杯水却是浓的化不开的。我们就在这样的两个极端游弋着,forming ambiguous feelings and being unbalanced-shaped identity.

以前一直害怕自己被这个城市改变,所以总是带着拒绝甚至抵触的情绪背离这里繁华浮躁地人声鼎沸与夜色明媚,固守一份莫名地矜持。而现在我最美好地回忆却徘徊与LKF那条喧闹地斜巷上,那间PUB吱呀作响的木楼梯上,在那栋拥挤的大楼的某个狭窄的房间内。于是我现在明白原来改变我的不是这个城市,也不是这个城市的locals,甚至不是HKU, 而是来到HKU的旅客中的背包族。我虽是旅客之一,却缺乏背包族的那种为了寻找的洒脱。

不喜欢NOSTALGY,可如果相聚是为了离别,那为何又要相聚呢?但正因为相聚是短暂的,离别是永恒的,所以,相聚才是需要珍惜的,才是意义非凡的。我们在相聚关注彼此:他不只是单一的一个人,他带着他的过往来到这里,带着他所有的积垫来到这里,带着他对未来的设想来到这里,与我相识,与我交谈,与我拥抱。在我们分开时,就已经不再是过去单一的自己,我们也收留了对方的言语,对方的思想。我看这个世界有他的角度,我的路上有他的足迹,甚至我的思想也会有他的印记。所以离开,我已是另一个多层面的自己。当然,这只是一个他,还有许多个他和她要在我的生命中出现。这个世界大得让他们离散行走于各个角落。所以,为了遇见,我需要行走;为了包容更多,我需要离开。这是否就是为了相聚的离别呢?相聚与离别就象时一根轴上已经既定的时间点,而每个相聚与离别,离别与相聚相隔的时间段就是我们在成长,我们在行走。于是人一生就没有停歇。

人一生就没有停歇了吗?难道所遇到的每个人都要离别吗?难道我的生命就留不住某些人吗?还是相聚与离别的对象已如它们的时间般也是既定的?而我是无能为力的。
可能还是说,我没有学会成长与寻找的真谛,就是洒脱的选择,原来他们是在选择,而我却认为既定也是一种选择。。。

算了,今天就着样吧,我很累。想了很多天,未来的生活,是可怕的。不想面对人们询问的眼神,因为我无话可说。我的话,只能对他们说。

希望有朋友陪我一起远行。