緣分的二見鍾情:【愛在日落巴黎時】 &【愛在黎明破曉前】 - 電影
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緣分的二見鍾情:【愛在日落巴黎時】 &【愛在黎明破曉前】
“If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be
in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something.”
--- Celine in "Before Sunrise"
你相信緣分嗎?
「緣分」這個詞要翻成英文還真不容易。約翰庫薩克和凱特貝琴薩
曾演過一部名為”Serendipity”的愛情劇,中文翻成「美國情緣」。可
是serendipity這個字跟緣分實在是沒什麼太大的關係。查一下英英字典
,它的定義是” the lucky tendency to find interesting or valuable
things by chance”,有點兒像是尋得寶物的好運道。可是緣分雖說與
運氣有關,意境上似乎高出許多。
緣分是什麼,中國人不試著去解釋清楚,似乎那一點什麼的(the poe-
tic),一旦說穿了,詩意即失。似乎你越要去定義緣分是什麼,緣分就顯
得強加,一點也沒有「天生」(natural)良緣的奇妙感覺。舉「電子情書」
(You 've Got a Mail)來說,這緣分似乎太過鑿斧,雖是美麗的的童話,
引人入勝,散場後的人生電影,卻未必總能有這種尋得寶物(愛情)的好運。
現實的人生是什麼?現實的人生是,你很可能遇到一個夢想中的完
美情人。驚鴻一瞥,愛情卻在轉身中溜走。抑或你努力抓住,緣分卻纖弱
的緊,一捏即碎。【愛在日落巴黎時】(Before Sunset)就是一個現實人
生中的緣分命題。這部電影有多真實?形式上,它的電影時間是所謂的
”Real Time"(真實時間)手法,也就是螢幕的時間,與你手錶上的時
間完全一樣:劇中人走了五分鐘的路,現實人生(觀眾所處的時空)也就
真過了五分鐘。劇情上,更是完全的寫實主義(Realism)風格。在前作【愛
在黎明破曉時】(Before Sunrise)中,兩個偶遇的人,Jesse(伊森霍克)
與Celine(茱莉蝶兒),沒有交換電話,不知彼此住址,就連名字可能都是
假的,半年後再相遇的機率能有多大?錯過了?還可能重來嗎?
時間一晃就是九年。屬於緣分的,終究相遇。
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Jesse: What do you think were the chances of us ever meeting again?
你認為我們再度相遇的機會有多大?
Celine: After that December, I'd say almost zero. But we're not real anyway,
right? We're just, uh, characters in that old lady's dream. She's on her
deathbed, fantasizing about her youth. So of course we had to meet again.
過了12月,我說大概是零。但是我們根本不是真實的吧?我們不過是那老女人夢裡的角色
。她躺在床上快死了,幻想過往的青春。所以我們當然會再度相遇。
Jesse: Oh, God, why weren't you there, in Vienna?
天哪?你當時為什麼不在維也納呢?(按:你為什麼沒來赴約哪?)
Celine: I told you why.
我告訴過你原因。
Jesse: Well, I know why, I just - I wish you would have been. Our lives might
have been so much different.
好吧,我知道為什麼-我只是但願你那時能赴約啊。我們的生命原可能大不相同。
Celine: You think so?
你這麼想?
Jesse: I actually do.
真的啊!
Celine: Maybe not. Maybe, we would have hated each other eventually.
也許是,也許不是。反正我們遲早會討厭對方。
Jesse: Oh what, like we hate each other now?
就像現在你討厭我,我也討厭你?
Celine: You know, maybe we're - we're only good at brief encounters, walking
around in European cities in warm climate.
也許我們只是- 我們只適合短暫的邂逅,在和煦的天氣,在歐洲城市偶遇。
Jesse: Oh, God, why didn't we exchange phone numbers and stuff? Why didn't we
do that?
天哪!為什麼我們當時沒有交換電話什麼的呢?為什麼沒有啊?
Celine: Because we were young and stupid.
因為我們年輕而且愚蠢。
Jesse: Do you think we still are?
你覺得我們現在還是?
Celine: I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people
with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a
few times
我想當你年輕時,你以為總會有許多能夠心靈相契的人。年歲大了以後,才發覺那是少之
又少。
Jesse: And you can screw it up, you know, misconnect.
而且總可能把事搞砸。你知道的,無法契合,搭不上線(misconnect)。
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九年後,他們真的相遇了。Love at first Sight也許太過虛無飄渺。
然而「緣分的二見鍾情」似乎打破了什麼,那關乎宿命論(fatalism)與機
遇(chance)間的永恆二元對立(binarism)。也許這許電影一直強調的conne-
ction(心靈連繫)有關。Connection超出言語的管轄,能夠解構所有看似水
火不容的對立。寂寞芳心,只要搭上線,一個眼神,一陣愛的呢喃,輕吹一
口氣,都是緣分的真實存在;偶然也好,必然也罷。前集【愛在黎明破曉時】
,Celine早已註解了什麼是緣分的魔法:
Celine: I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not
you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic
in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing
something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really?
The answer must be in the attempt.
我覺得如果任何形式神力(God)如果存在的話,它不存在你身上,也不在我身
上,而在我們之間這小小的距離。假如魔法是存在的,它一定存在於嘗試理
解他人分享事物的企圖裡。我知道,幾乎不可能去真的了解另一個人,但那
又怎樣呢?答案在那企圖(attempt)裡。
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答案,早在那企圖中。
原刊於{放映週報}(Funscreen)112期
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