一.茉莉花之戀味 Talentime
導演:Yasmin Ahmad 國家:馬來西亞 年份:2009

也不是第一晚了,要不徹夜造夢,要不夜半醒來好幾小時。昨晚睡得特別差,心掛掛六時多起來做原文釋經,腦海還不時想著另一個將要交的書評,心身靈絞作一團。在最stress的日子,聽了李傳道的話:去睇戲。
謝謝天父,在我需要的時候,賜下眼光獨到的同伴,選來一齣好電影。
一開始就認出昔日曾彈得滾瓜爛熟的clair de lune,月亮、茉莉花、音樂,一直貫穿整齣電影。不是最refined的零瑕疵製作,卻像一份很「人」的手作小禮物,就如teddy姐送的小禮物一樣,genuinely handmade。

喜歡這位有heart的導演,也因為之後讀了她的文字;回看別人對自己的批評,Yasmin不忘同伴給她的鼓勵,也節錄了畫家Andrew Wyeth的話:"I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died."
對後來的人,她如此說:Today, after making about 50 television commercials and six feature-length films, after winning 11 international awards, I often feel like I don't know the first thing about filmmaking. But I know this much: If your intentions are pure, if you apply your craft with a view to observe humanity and, ultimately, God himself, very often something powerful will surface. And the next thing you know, hordes of strangers from all around the world are stepping forward to tell you "the story of their life or how their father died."
愛聽觀眾故事的導演,在短短的對談中握著我的手不放,叫人心裡溫暖。
(延伸閱讀:Yasmin寫在Sunday, November 09, 2008的文字)
二.大絕食 Hunger
導演:Steve McQueen 國家:英國 年份:2008

沉重的題材,散場後要到外面吹吹風才能定過神來的電影;看於受難節。
對愛爾蘭歷史一無所知的人,終於開始明白U2的音樂為何總是那麼「血肉模糊」。看來今年暑假還得惡補一下我貧乏的世史知識。前天才看的電影,現在還在組織每一幕對我的意義。是不是想得太多了?
我想,今年再去六四燭光晚會時,會有另一番體會;因為想多了。
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